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Bun.ch together all your links with LinkBun.ch
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I can honestly not remember where I found this link, but I remembered seeing it and I remember favoriting it. But then I remembered that I didn’t remember it!
LinkBun.ch is the result of another idea I had, but someone else bore into fruition. I am damn cool. LinkBun.ch lets you send a ‘bun.ch’ of links under one own with the generator on the front page;
For e-mail links, Twitter and IM links, the URL they give you is handy as hell, it sends you to a page with an ‘Open All’ option that, though the linkbunch.php, opens all links in seperate tabs. But, in the case of blog posts or the like, you can copy the Open entire bunch link and past it in your a href tags, but no, it doesn’t seem to work behind TinyURLs.
Podcasting with YouTube
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For many a moon I wondered and frustrated over the fact that YouTube did not have a proper Podcasting function for use in programs like iTunes - I mean, it really is the same damn thing, except Podcasts arent streaming at the time.
How does it work? Extremelly simple, actually. Take the username of whatever YouTuber that you are fond of and type that into the YouTube Username form on the front of YTPodcaster website and press Get Feed;
Now, mind you, I think YTPodcasts work a bit slower than the YouTube channel, but to really bug me I found this website right during the sxephil break, so I wasnt quite sure what was going on… Anyways, click on whatever Podcast program you are using and, at least in the case of iTunes, it just kinda works. A little… something… like… this;
So it got me thinking, GoDaddy and Netflix and Audible are the major ad supporters of Podcasts internationally. I mean, it makes sense, people deep in the Internet-scene are more likely to, a) have a website, b) rent movies online, or b) buy audiobooks.
YouTube just got a whole bunch more useful.
Obligatory Tech Prediction for 2009
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If not only for the attempt of looking cool, here we go;
More companies will start joining Twitter
Recent news showed Dell making a good $1M, now, compared to the rest of the income, that is not necessarily a large quantity. But it was enough to show off, to both fan and exec’s, how useful advertising deals and the like can be.
Apple TV/ Mac Mini upgrade:
The Mac Mini has not updated in over an entire year, which at least in comparison to the iPod, looks like its death. Apple has been treating the Apple TV as more a hobby project, but has been doing well with it. Also, with the recent update to the HP MediaSmart to work with iTunes and Time Machine, a relative upgrade would seem appropriate, but since the Apple TV and Mac Mini are so similar, upgrading both would be redundant.
The iPod Classic won’t fit any more songs
A rule of thumb where buying an iPod, is that if its been a few months since the last update, wait a week or two and the iPod will be upgraded. When the iPod Touch was introduced, they dubbed the next generation of the iPod Video’s as the iPod Classic. The second generation of the Classic, if you can call it that, denoted the hard drive space from 160gb to 120gb, but what they really did was take out the 160gb hard-drive and replaced with a dual 60gb solid-state drive. The rumors of a iPod Touch-esque, tablet-esque Apple product just prove how whole-heartedly Apple is going towards the touch interface.
Kevin Rose will re-publish Pownce
To much anger and confusion, SixApart bought Pownce and hired the devo team. Although they did publish their plans to incorporate the Pownce software into their products like Vox, MoveableType and TypePad. But why did they close the original website? Well, SixApart has said that, in the new year, they will be releasing the Pownce engine for either purchase or beta. A large portion of the Pownce community was there just for the affiliation with Kevin Rose, and he definately has the cash to pick the software back up.
SMS in Canada will come back to Twitter
Or imma beat some ass, beat some ass real bad.
More countries will be turned into more TinyURL websites
Because we dont have enough; b65.us, c-o.in, dn.vc, faceto.us, fly.ws, hurl.it, is.gd, Just.as, x.se, LNK.IN, turo,us, Twitty.ms and Xil.in, and that is just the ones that use county URLs…
Sony PS3 will team with Blockbuster (or someone like that)
With release of Microsoft’s NXE for the Xbox 360, they included a NetFlix client; letting you order and stream their entire catalog of movies for no price in addition to a normal NetFlix account service. I dont use it for reasons that are legal in Canada, but I have heard nothing but praise from friends that do use it. Recently, it was announced that Blockbuster was (finally) doing an online service, and besides the fact that both of their main colors are blue (OMFG COINCIDENCE?!) I would not be alone in assumption that the PS3 will follow suit, as the only thing the PS3 has over the 360 is space, and movies take space. And people that bought a PS3 are going to be looking for cheap rentals for a while now…
9 Podcasts for 2009
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Although these all like to the iTunes Store, they shouldn’t be hard at all to find them on other Podcasting services by entering the same name.
Scene Unseen Movie Reviews is a new podcast that offers a unique spin on the movie review process. The catch? Every week one of our reviews sees a new release… the other does not. Also featured - “Letterboxing” banter, DVD picks and special guest appearances from professionals in the film industry.
Vancouver’s top comedy podcast? Hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shmka, with weekly guests. Hilarious weekly guests? Yup.
EPIC FU is what happens when tech and culture get it on. It’s your weekly geek-out to the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. Subscribe to get a fresh new episode each week!
Mars Hill Church: Mark Driscoll -
Mars Hill Church in Seattle lives, breathes and is generally OCD about Jesus. Pastor Mark Driscoll is the lead preaching pastor for Mars Hill and regularly distribures video content via this channel, including sermons, event teaching and the occasional one-off video created for our internet audience. You can find more content like this by visiting our web site at www.marshillchurch.org
By Tech Fans, For Tech Fan! Product reviews, tech tips, viewer questions, gaming and great guests, all brought to you by Robert Heron and the DL.TV crew. We go live every Thursday, then we encode and make available for download.
Diggnation is a weekly tech/ web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
The Totally Rad Show is the summer blockbuster of geek news shows. Every week, hosts Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata rip into the world of movies, video games, tv, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad.
Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla cew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from Ipod to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.
The Hour with George Stroumboulopolous
Want a different look at the news? Watch to The Hour. The Hour isnt your average newscast, its more lik hanging out with someone whos really interested in the world. The Hour - a current affairs show hosted by George Stroumnoulopoulos. Watch new video clipos every weekday.
Quick Twitter User Locator in Firefox
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Want to add keyword functionality to speed up your Twitter searches in Firefox? First, go to any website website with a search bar and add a Keyword to your Bookmarks list;
When asked, name the Keyword whatever you feel dandy, but add the infamous @ symbol as the keyword.
Next, go into the bookmarks window and search for the keyword you just added (I use the Search tool, but only because I have a jillion of these) and change the location to http://google.com/search?btnI=1&q=twitter+.
Anyone working with keywords or search engines at all should be familiar with a form of the search? commands. The way this one works is by adding the btnI, it submits the same command as clicking the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage. By using twitter+ I am making sure this searches only for things that meet both search criterum, and since, were it a functioning Twitter handle, that users profile would be the first thing to show up.
So, thanks to Google, linking to a Twitter profile in your Firefox address bar sends you right there. Just try copying the command with any of your favorite Twitter handles, and you will end up right there.
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