Everyone’s favorite DIY Web 2.0 site builder, Ning, just relaunched with new features that make setting up your own social networking site easy as pie. Thanks to Gina’s handy walk-through, I was able to whip up a community site for my own hometown in just about no time at all. The initial features in my […]
“SeisMac is a Mac OS X application that turns your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs. Version 2.0’s enhancements make SeisMac an even more valuable tool for classroom demonstrations of seismic concepts and techniques.” –Link.
Via the Hacks Authors’ Blogs feed, we find Jim Bumgardner’s Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube mashup news ticker: Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are fed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click on the spinning newspaper to read the story in full on the original website. This widget […]
Writing wonks and anal editors rejoice! Gina Trapani just released her Ly Detector as a Greasemonkey script! If you’re at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs – words that end in -ly – isn’t a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening generally’s and […]
Over at Parent Hacks, Asha Dornfest points to Listpic, a “visual Craigslist browser” that lets you search your city’s Craigslist listings by keyword or category and display the results as image thumbnails. Price and location are included with the photo, mousing over reveals some details on the item, and clicking the image opens a pop-up […]
Google Maps has added traffic information for more than 30 U.S. cities. If available in your area, real-time traffic conditions will be displayed over the highway as color coded lines. Each color represents how fast the traffic is moving: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per hour Red: less […]
Click To Play Since its beta release, Parallels has let Mac users run Windows simultaneously with Mac OS X on any Intel Mac, which is a real boon whenever you need that one Windows-specific program you just can’t avoid. But the recent Official Update (free for all registered users of Parallels Desktop) offers the ability […]
