by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 4, 2004 | Usefull Things
I came across Furl via blog.org. Furl is a fantastic tool for storing bookmarks on-line, you simply drag a bookmarklet onto your browser and any site you come across you just hit the “Furl It” button, this creates a popup window that lets you file the url into your bookmarks list.
The bookmarks list can be shared in many ways, people can view it directly on the Furl servers via the web, you can send e-mail updates and you can even subscribe to a RSS feed of someone else’s links. Excellent, I am hooked!
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 25, 2004 | Usefull Things
I noticed this on voidstar.com, a document containing instructions for turning off HTML email sending in about a zillion mail clients, excellent!
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 17, 2004 | Usefull Things
I first noticed this via Roland Tanglao but I think he has a misshap with the link, some googling soon found the right url, it is a quick annotated checklist on how to run a secure windows machine at home, useful to give to some people who run ADSL connections on their windows machines and such.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 11, 2004 | Usefull Things
Robin Good has a piece called RSSTop55 – Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites.
It is a good selection of sites for submitting RSS feeds to and weblog URL’s that can be used to maximize your visibility, reach and exposure.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 7, 2004 | Usefull Things
A co-worker mentioned the RIAA Radar, it helps you quickly and easily discover if you are sponsoring RIAA or if you are targeting your ripping at the right people. Nice.
From their frontpage they have a quick overview of how it works:
When you run the RIAA Radar, it uses Amazon Web Services to get the album information. It then checks the record label data given by Amazon against a local database based on the official list of RIAA members (but heavily added to beyond that), and returns the result based on a match.
by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 2, 2004 | Usefull Things
Someone pasted a link to their DVD collection today on IRC, turns out they used a on-line service called DVD Profiler.
It is a windows app that has a ad supported freeware version with the option to pay $20 registration to remove them. You enter DVD’s into the system by bar-code and it has a database of bar-codes, you can also search based on title and so forth. It can sync with their on-line database and store your profile there for a convenient off-site backup and you can view your DVD list on-line, mine can be seen here.
It supports maintaining a wishlist, various filtered searches and can run a number of reports on your DVD collection. For each DVD there are reviews, cover images, zone and special feature information. The data are however user contributed so some of it is incomplete etc.
The UI isn’t 100% perfect but so far this is a great service, I can only wish they would extend it to support audio CD’s as well.
