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For those that have never used it, Cooliris creates a Javascript pop-up preview whenever you mouse over a link. The pop-up lets you see whatever the link leads to without leaving the page you're on. Cooliris started out limiting its previews to Google, Ebay and other large sites, but now it works just about anywhere.
Simple drag your mouse over a link or thumbnail and Cooliris will automatically show a preview. I should note that this is not a thumbnail or simple image <p>it's</p>
the actual webpage and you can browse it like you would any other. In the case of video links you can watch the video within the preview window, which makes browsing through YouTube considerably less time consuming.
I've been using Cooliris for a few months now and I can honestly say there's a good chance it will change the way you browse the web. For instance, typically, when I searched for something on Google, I would open a few results in tabs and then work my way through them. After a few hours of this I used to have twenty or thirty tabs open and no real idea which were useful and which weren't.
Using Cooliris has streamlined my searching considerably since now I can quickly see and browse a page without leaving the page I'm on. If I decide the page is useful I go ahead and open it in a tab, if not I just move the mouse off the link and the Cooliris window disappears.
Cooliris is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock and Safari, but the exact features vary somewhat between platforms.
[1]: http://www.cooliris.com/ "cooliris"
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I can't say as though I ever used Google Answers so I won't be missing it and, according to Wikipedia that leaves Google with [eighty-five services/search engines/applications][1] so I doubt they'll miss it either.
Since removing the existing Q and A's would be, well, stupid, the site will remain but there will be no more Answers after the end of the year.
Google Answers, which generated only 800 Q and As over the past four years had long taken a back seat to Yahoo's similar offer, [Yahoo Answers][3].
What does this mean? I for one take this to mean that Google is not invincible and that you can in fact compete successfully against Google. It would seem that at least on some leave the long-tail, social model (Yahoo Answers) has a greater appeal than the authority of experts (Google Answers). Though perhaps it has more to do with free versus $2.50 an answer.
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
[3]: http://answers.yahoo.com/
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* Nokia and Yahoo announced today that they will [expand their partnership][1] to include Yahoo's email and messaging services on new Nokia phones.
* Apple has [released a Mac OS X Security Update][2] that patches twenty-two security holes. The update does not, however, appear to address the most serious vulnerability which lies in Mac OS X's Disk Image handling code.
* According to CNet, the [BitTorrent company will launching a video download store][3] early next year. Customers will be able to download movies from some Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox. In other BitTorrent news, it appears that [Bram Cohen is on his way out][4].
* Filed under the sky is still falling: A new study says [violent video games desensitize kids][5] and makes them <strike>more like adults</strike> have less self control.
* And finally, from our own Wired Magazine comes the best news I've heard in a while: [improvements are being made the venerable Jet Pack][6].
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-29T145244Z_01_WEN0453_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOKIA-YAHOO.xml&src=rss "Nokia and Yahoo expand partnership"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ "OS X Security Update"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6139174.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on BitTottent/Hollywood Deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/bittorent-raises-25-million-bram-cohen-is-history/ "Techcrunch on Bram Cohen"
[5]: http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/11/28/hscout536261.html "YASD: Yet Another Story of Doom"
[6]: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/start.html?pg=9 "Jet Pack improvements"
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