Oct 23, 2006 | photos, video, web_services
Tracking Shot is a free online service that deserves a look. There’s no easier way to build videos and slideshows from your photos, movies and music. Here’s a glowing review of Tracking Shot from CNet.There’s no shortage of sites for sharing photos,...
Oct 17, 2006 | games, Internet, web_services
Make no mistake: MySpace is old news, YouTube is beginning its slide out of the headlines, Yahoo is over the hill, Flickr never stood a chance. Second Life is the hot online destination, the next cultural obsession, soon to be a household name.Second Life is an online...
Oct 2, 2006 | backup, file_sharing, remote, web_services
Let’s talk about syncing files. I’ve got a new program you ought to know about.Imagine that you have a folder full of files and you want to have a copy of that folder on another computer. There’s a lot of reasons to do that: to take your work files...
Sep 15, 2006 | Amazon, DRM, video, web_services
Cory Doctorow has closely read the license agreement that accompanies Amazon’s movie download service and he doesn’t like it. “I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. A lot. I won’t ever be buying one of these movies. Amazon has a great and...
Sep 15, 2006 | photos, web_services
Google’s free photo organizer Picasa has been updated to version 2.5. (As of today, the main download page may not be updated to the new version; according to this blog, it can be downloaded directly from Google by clicking on this link.)I invested some time in...
Sep 8, 2006 | backup, remote, web_services
Altexa provides an online backup service – a small program copying designated files to an online storage space in a simple, secure way.I have no idea whether Altexa is a good service! They may be great, they may have awful software, they may be out of business...