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Blogmailr takes advantage of the Metablog API and uses it's own e-mail parsing tools to pull out your post, images, and tags and then posts that info to your blog via the Metablog API.
to get it working you sign up for an account, tell Blogmailr your blog address and login information and you're done. Blogmailr then generates an email address something@blogmailr.com. Just add that address to your address book with the handy vcard Blogmailr generates and you're ready to go.
Write your blog post however you normally do and instead of logging into your admin section, you just email it to your Blogmailr.com address.
Blogmailr supports most major blogging platforms. If yours isn't on the list there's a very good chance it doesn't support the Metablog API, which means there isn't a whole lot Blogmailr can do about it.
The range of support varies somewhat by blogging service, most allow file uploading via email attachments and tags give in the form <code>[tags: tagname1, tagname2]</code>
The usefulness of Blogmailr will depend somewhat on your work habits. Many people live in their email program and it's always open which makes Blogmailr an attractive way to post without having to open a new browser window. But the big appeal here seems to be posting from mobile devices. I haven't used it myself, but there's already a lot of buzz around the web attesting to how easy Blogmailr makes mobile posting.
Which means I could probably post to Monkey Bites from, say, Tahiti, just as easily as this apartment. Hmm.
Blogmailr is free, but will leave a "posted with blogmailr" badge at the bottom of your post. There is also a commercial version available. The Single-User commercial account is $2.99/mo per-user. Blogmailr asks that if you make more than $300/mo from your blog that you use the commercial license.
[1]: https://www.blogmailr.com/
[2]: http://telligent.com/
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But first a bit about Google Earth beta 4. Speed. Oh the speed. GE beta 4 sees much improved performance, particularly if you have a lot of overlays activated. Beta 4 is much faster at rendering, zooming and coming into focus.
GE Version 4 features a new icon set for markers and various overlays. There are also numerous improvements and new features like altitude for overlays. If you use [the popular Global Cloud Layer][2], you can now zoom through the cloud layer and pan back toward the sky and you'll see clouds instead of the generic blue. You can also set the clouds to cast shadows on the surface if you like. The altitude settings can apply to any overlay you want to add.
GE always was and continues to be a RAM hog, but that's somewhat expected given what it's capabilities. With about five overlays activated asking GE to zoom into Manhattan gobbled up almost 400 MB of RAM. As with the previous releases, the more RAM you have the better performance you'll see.
My favorite part of GE beta 4 is definitely the historical maps feature which allows you to overlay Rumsey Historical maps. Regular features like the state and national border overlay will still outline the current layouts so you can see how things have changed over the centuries. At the moment there are about twenty maps available, including the world globe of 1790, London in 1843, New York in 1836, the Lewis and Clarke expedition of 1814 and more. Below is a screenshot of New York in 1836 and one of the present day Manhattan.
Google Earth remains a one of kind program and beta 4 sees some great new features and a welcome speed boost. If your computer is up for it, I highly recommend downloading Google Earth beta 4.
[2]: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/global_clouds_w.html "Google Earth Global Could Overlay"
[1]: http://earth.google.com/ "Google Earth"
[3]: http://earth.google.com/earth4.html "Google Earth Beta 4"
[4]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=387 "ZDNet blog on Historical Maps"
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There are a couple of other sites out there offering similar services, but none of the ones I've tried have anywhere near the simple, streamlined and easy to use interface that Jamglue offers.
Jamglue is bit like a simplified version of Apple's garageband, living in the confines of your browser. After you set up your account, just upload any audio clips you'd like to play with. During the upload process you have the option to attach a creative commons license to your work, which is a nice touch. Alternately you can make use of clips that other users have uploaded.
The next step is to create a mix, give it a title, brief description, set the tempo and pick a license. You will then be take into Jamglue's Flash-based mixing app. For the most part everything is pretty intuitive and much of the interface is accomplished via very nice drag-and-drop features.
Once you're happy with your mix you can save it, share it with the Jamglue community or use some YouTube-style cut-and-paste code to embed it in any page you like.
Jamglue is a private beta at the moment so you'll have to sign up and wait for a while. Most people seem to have gotten an invite sent within a few days at the most.
The only real side to Jamglue was how quickly it revealed that I have no talent for remix tracks. But that's no fault of Jamglue.
[1]: http://www.jamglue.com/ "Jamglue.com"
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Podworks has a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod, the easiest of which is to simply click "Copy All," which copies everything on your iPod to whatever location you select. Alternately you can select a range of songs and only copy those songs.
Podworks can also send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" or "Send Selected to iTunes" options.
Podworks lacks the drag and drop features of Senuti, but makes up for it by being smarter about duplicate songs. Podworks still doesn't warn or ask about duplicates, instead it just silently skips them (or overwrites them depending on your settings.
Like others, Podworks can play songs on your iPod though when I say play I mean literally play, not skip or fast-forward and changing views will stop playback.
Podworks is shareware and costs $8. There is 30 day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transfering songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Easy to use
**Bad**
* Lack of Universal binary makes it a bit slower than others
* No way to view your iTunes Library along side your iPod
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
[1]: http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/ "Podworks"
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* Sun Microsystems announced today that it will [release the Java source code under a GPL license][1]. The software will be under the version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and many other open-source products, but Sun is employing the so-called "classpath exception," so that programs shipping with Java, need not use the GPL.
* More on Microsoft/Universal deal: According to Universal CEO Doug Morris the iPod and Zune, "are just repositories for stolen music." He went on to [tell Billboard Magazine][2], "So it's time to get paid for it." So does this mean it's okay for Zune owners to steal music from Universal artists, since Universal has already taken their cut?
* Google has [introduced a new start page for Google Apps for Your Domain][3] which allows for more customization, including the use of GMail with customized addresses in place of @gmail.com.
* [Lycos announced a new service today called Lycos Cinema][4]. The company claims Cinema will combine online video and social networking. Lycos claims the technology it has created "allows for the virtual living room." No word on whether anyone has told them about YouTube.
[1]: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html "ZDNet on Sun Announcment"
[2]: http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003380831 "Billboard.com"
[3]: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10413.html
[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061113/wr_nm/media_lycos_dc "Yahoo on Lycos"
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First up in our review of iPod circumventors is a [Mac-only program by the name of Senuti][1]. Senuti is free (as in beer) and open source, licensed under the GNU GPL.
Senuti's interface mimics that of iTunes circa version 6 and should be easy for most users to figure out.
You can copy songs in Senuti by simply selecting the songs on your iPod and clicking the copy button. You can also copy playlists via drag-and-drop. By default Senuti will copy the songs to the music folder set in your iTunes preferences, but if you'd like the change that you can do so in Senuti's preferences.
I had no problems copying songs with Senuti and even discovered some music I had forgotten about using the "Hide iTunes Songs" feature. Invoking hide iTunes songs will show only those songs that are only on your iPod, select them, click copy and your songs will be recovered.
The main downside to Senuti is that it doesn't know to not duplicate tracks. If you have a playlist with ten songs on your iPod and the same playlist already exists in itunes, Senuti won't warn your about duplicates. Instead is will simply make copies of songs so you end up with a playlist that now has twenty songs. You can stop Senuti from duplicating the actual song files by choosing "overwrite songs" in the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the duplication of songs within playlists.
Senuti can also copy movies just like songs and can even restore photos from you iPod.
Senuti is developed and maintained Whitney Young; if you like the program you can make a contribution by visiting [fadingred.org][2].
*Good*
* Easy to use, interface will be familiar for iTunes users
* Can copy songs from Windows or Mac formatted iPods
* Ability to view only songs not in your music library
*Bad*
* no one-click sync of iPod to iTunes (though this is listed in the Senuti roadmap)
* No way to avoid duplicates when copying playlists
[1]: http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ "Senuti"
[2]: http://www.fadingred.org/ "fadingred.org"
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