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* This has relatively the same effect on me that fingernails on a chalkboard seem to have for other people: Bodyhack has a post (with pics) about a [wrist surface piercing with a watch attached][1]. "Surface piercing is hard to heal and with this chunky watched attached, getting bumped and scraped is inevitable."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/watch_piercing_.html "Watch piercing never gets left on the nightstand"
* Who says kids are lazy? Game|Life has the story of a 9-year-old Seattle boy who "became a modern day Frank Abagnale, Jr. when he hijacked a handful of cars and sneaked onto an airline flight, all in an effort to visit his grandfather in Dallas." Naturally his mother [blames the whole thing on video games][2].
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/mother_blames_p.html "Mother Blames PlayStation for Son's Criminal Tendencies"
* Screw iPhone, truly upscale snobs are going to get [the Prada phone][3]. At $780 and sporting a touch screen interface Gadget Lab drily observers: "If an overpriced, touchscreen-only phone sounds oddly familiar, you're not the only one thinking imitation." But doesn't Prada charge like $500 for a belt? So relatively speaking $780 for a phone might not be that bad.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/lg_flatters_iph.html "LG Flatters iPhone"
* Listening Post [has the skinny][4] on a new MP3 player that looks like a Rubik's cube. Except that it's all white, which is probably good since "you need to solve the puzzle in order to turn it off."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/rubiks_cube_is_.html "Rubik's Cube Is Sweeping the Nation Again"
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I'll confess I don't like Spotlight and I hardly ever use it so I wasn't looking forward to Inquisitor, but I was wrong. Where Spotlight is slow, clumsy and to me, useless, Inquisitor is fast, easy-to-use and makes searching the web easier.
Once installed, just type in the Google search box and the Inquisitor window will pop up with the top search results and attempt to auto-complete your word or phase. By default Inquisitor shows the top 3 Google results, but you can customize that number via Safari's preferences window.
Just below the results is a list of auto-complete suggestions and if you enable the feature, below that you'll see links to other search sites. The Search engine sites themselves are limited to offerings from Google or Yahoo, which I assume is because both offer good, stable APIs.
You can add as many search engines as you'd like to the "additional search engines" links and add keyboard shortcuts as well. It would be nice if the custom search engines could have a postfix string appended to them, but that's about my only quibble with this little gem.
The version of Inquisitor 3 that I's using is still officially a beta (currently beta 2), but I had no stability issues and haven't seen any bugs in my testing. Inquisitor is a great little app and it's free, though I'm sure developer Dave Watanabe wouldn't complain if you donated something toward future development.
[1]: http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/ "Inquisitor 3"
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MySpace is hoping that the new tracking software, named "Zephyr" and due to be released this summer, will help stave off what continues to be a growing problem for the popular social networking site.
Though details of Zephyr remain vague, one thing it won't do is provide account passwords. The standalone program, which for now is Windows only, will notify parents whenever a someone logs into a MySpace account from that machine and will provide the name, age and location their children have entered on MySpace, however Zephyr will not give parents access to their children's profiles nor does it let them see email or other password protected communications.
Zephyr stores the data it collects in a password protected file and can notify parents of changes made to the account even if those changes are made from another computer. It also works even if the child's profile is private.
The basis of MySpace's existing security revolves around age restrictions. Last year MySpace enacted features that place restrictions on how adults may contact the site's younger users
Currently MySpace requires users to be over fourteen to register and under sixteen can display their full profiles -- containing hobbies, schools, and any other personal details -- only to people already listed as friends. Others see only the user name, gender, age, and location.
The problem is that the age restrictions aren't really enforceable. To get a full profile that the whole world has access to is a simple as changing your age on the signup form. Zephyr is intended to notify parents if their children are lying about their age to gain access to full profiles.
MySpace says many of Zephyr's specific mechanisms are still being worked out, but one thing is for sure -- the tool won't work if a profile is accessed entirely away from home.
For all practical purposes Zephyr seems to do little more than possibly give MySpace some wiggle room in its many pending lawsuits. The software has little chance of accomplishing anything from a security standpoint, but it does do one thing, it transfers at least some the burden of age policing back to the parents.
MySpace is attempting to walk a thin line here since if they gave parents total access to their children's accounts the kids would likely flee the site in droves for competitors like Facebook.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-18T155950Z_01_N18174054_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-MYSPACE.xml&src=rss "More families sue News Corp's MySpace: attorney"
[2]: http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116900733587978625.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj "MySpace Moves to Give Parents More Information"
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* More proof that Opera can do anything. [From the Register][1]: "A Swedish Wii owner took advantage of the console's built-in Opera browser and Wi-Fi to tap into his PC's media collection shortly before Christmas. The Wii remote can then be used to show photos and browse iTunes playlists on the TV"
[1]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/18/orb_wii_console/ "Orb brings iTunes to Wii console"
* Google has started pushing Google Checkout again. A couple of months ago they offered merchants free order processing until the end of the year. Now they're targeting buyers with a new deal that's being [promoed on the Google homepage][3]. If you sign up now as a new user, you will get $10 to spend at Google Checkout merchants until March 31, 2007
[3]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_promotes_checkout.php "Google Promotes Checkout on Homepage"
* In a move I believe was motivated by a deep desire to bring real world meaning to the theoretical work of [Jean Baudrillard][4], Microsoft has [patched a patch][5]. Microsoft issued a patch to patch a patch that "messed up the way Excel 2000 processes information."
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard "Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard"
[5]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2085354,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 "Microsoft Patches Buggy Excel Patch"
* The site your boss doesn't want you to see. According to the tagline on [PointlessSites.com][2] the sites aims to "list here only pointless and useless sites that; are completely pointless, don't have pop up/under ads or too many ads in general, are original, useless, are not offensive." What's not to love?
[2]: http://www.pointlesssites.com/ "The definitive place for pointless websites"
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* It took a while longer, but Adobe has finally released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. The new plugin can be [downloaded from the Adobe site][1].
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4 "Download Flash Player 9 for Linux"
* Web [newspaper blog traffic tripled last month][2]. According to Reuters article "U.S. news organizations are increasingly calling on their reporters and editors to write news blogs and compete with the expanding Internet format for informal analysis and opinion." Oh are they ever dear reader, and sometimes they use bullwhips to drive their point home.
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/wr_nm/nielsen_blogs_dc_1 "Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec"
* Microsoft [plans to offer][3] Windows Vista for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which has previously sold Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista "Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online"
* CNet has compiled a list of the [top ten software downloads][4] of the past ten years, based on download.com usage. ICQ tops the list. I can see where for maybe three or four of those years download.com would be a good indicator of popularity, but after that, I mean does anyone actually download things from download.com?
[4]: http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6257577-1.html "Top 10 downloads of the past 10 years"
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Shelfari is a social network that revolves around books and has an attractive, easy-to-use interface whose design and layout are vaguely reminiscent of the popular Mac software Delicious Library.
Speaking of Delicious Library, Shelfari allows you to upload your Delicious Library info as a text file which means you don't have to input excessive amounts of data (a similar function is available for LibraryThing exports).
If you don't have your book data already in some malleable digital form, you'll have to enter it by hand or search to see if other users have already input your favorite books. You can search for books by title, author, ISBN or subject.
There's all the familiar trappings of social networks, profiles, tagging, friends, recommendations, and more (if I had a dollar for every time I've typed that sentence...).
Shelfari also takes tip from Digg and offers a number of lists like "Top Books," "Top Tags," "Most Opinions" and "Top Shelves" to help you find books that might pique your interest.
Shelfari lets you create separate book shelves for books you've read, books you own and books you plan to read. Your books are displayed, as you might expect, on a bookshelf and above each cover image (pulled from Amazon) are links to friends opinions and other metadata. Each book also has a direct link for purchasing via Amazon, which is part of Shelfari's revenue stream.
Unlike LibraryThing which charges an annual fee for users that want to list over 200 books, Shelfari is free regardless of the size of your book collection.
Overall I liked Shelfari, it has a simple and slick interface an it's easy to add books to your listing. At the same time, something about Shelfari put me off a bit, perhaps it's too slick.
Shelfari is a bit like a meat-space Borders or Barnes and Nobel, clean, organized and well lit, whereas LibraryThing is bit more like a local bookshop, it's run by one person, it's a bit musty, there's dust in the corners and the lighting isn't perfect, but it has a genuine community feel that Shelfari lacks.
Then there's Shelfari's misguided decision to refer to users as "Shelfarians."
My search for the perfect book cataloguing service isn't over yet. What I'd really like is a site that offers a robust API --like the Flickr API-- anyone have any suggestions?
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