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The New Gallery Feature in Wordpress 2.5

The gallery feature in Wordpress 2.5 is my favorite new feature.
The ability to upload multiple photos at one time is very nice, but it’s the “gallery” feature illustrated below that I really like. I’m sure there will be a slew of plugins coming that will take full advantage of this new capability, but for now, [...]

TrackThePack - Perfectly Simple

I love some of the new sites being developed that are highly targeted and ridiculously simple. TrackThePack.com fits that description.
Thanks to Joel Burslem over at FOREM for pointing this one out via Twitter last night. It does one thing, track packages sent via UPS, FedEx, DHL and USPS. That’s it. And it has a Google [...]

Let’s Try BubbleGuru.com Again

The last time I tested BubbleGuru.com was in May of 2007 on ActiveRain. “If You Can’t Be A Real Guru, Be A Bubble Guru” generated some interesting conversation, but I had to take it down almost as quickly as I had put it up. My message then:
“I HAVE TAKEN THIS OFF, SINCE IT APPEARS TO [...]

ScreenFlow: Mac Only And Rockin Good

The video below should speak for itself.
I’m in love with ScreenFlow from Vara. Every effect you see in the video is done inside ScreenFlow after recording. It’s a truly amazing application and I’m up at 2:45am as a result. I’ve never seen a better screen capture application.
Not ever.
Simply Amazing: Screenflow from Vara Software from reshows [...]

is.gd URL Shortener - The Shortest URLs Around

is.gd URL Shortener - The Shortest URLs Around :: They’re not kidding. Here’s a test link for you. http://is.gd/qh and here is the preview page link http://is.gd/gh-
You just can’t get shorther than that. Can you?

No Flash For The iPhone

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Kindling | PBS : : "One product I believe WONT be coming soon from Apple is a Flash plug-in for the iPhone." 
This just pisses me off. That's all I have to say about that.  

Using Viddler To Attract Seesmic Invite

Viddler is a great video blogging website that allows you to post video comments right in the time line. Maybe this will get Loic Le Meur’s attention over at Seesmic. Click here to watch me beg for a Seesmic invite on Viddler.

Live Documents enters the Office suite ring

Live Documents enters the Office suite ring | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com : : “We are just a few years away from the end of the shrink-wrapped software business. By 2010, people will not be buying software. This is a significant challenge to a proportion of Microsoft’s revenues.”
I’m not sure why the end of [...]

This Is One Way To Claim A Blog On Technorati

You post a link to your Technorati Profile

A Commentary On Amazon’s Kindle

The Future of Reading A Play in Six Acts : : some harsh analysis and criticism of Amazon’s Kindle, presented in a very unique format.
Excerpt:
Act I: The act of buying
“When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if [...]