Archive Mar 29, 2006
T.A. McCann and Adam Loving on HelpShare
Finding the help you’re looking for online can be a challenge. Spammers pollute the search results and sometimes the top results don’t provide enough information or not exactly the answer for your particular situation. Enter HelpShare, an Question and Answer service connecting people with questions to qualified individuals capable of providing reliable answers for a [...]
Get the 411 on Marketsync Jobster and CTIA
If you’re in Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless April 4-7, be sure to join Jake Ludington of The Chris Pirillo Show in the Waggener Edstrom Blogger Lounge in the swanky Wynn hotel. The blogger lounge started at CES and will be open to bloggers and podcasters to use at CTIA. Drop on in to get [...]
Email 2.0
Quote – Get stock information HZQUOTE+symb.symb@hz.com Stock – Get detailed stock information HZSTOCK+symb.symb@hz.com HZJOKE@hz.com – Get a joke Weather – Get weather HZWEATHER+zip@hz.com TAFMETAR – Get TAF and METAR info HZTAFMETAR+ident@hz.com Nextflight – Next flight between airports HZNEXTFLIGHT+airport.airport@hz.com FlightInfo – Get current flight status info HZFLIGHTINFO+airline.flightnum@hz.com Address – Lookup address from phone number HZADDRESS@hz.com – [...]
Password Strength
According to the Microsoft Password checker, “A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, (eight characters or longer at a minimum). It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.” p00p is Weak, PassamaquoddY is Medium, H0m3rJSimps0n [...]
Thank Björn Friðgeir for i18n in Gada.be
We're emotional geeks. When something doesn't work right, we complain. Such was the comment in last night's Gada.be update. Björn Friðgeir discovered that we didn't yet support UTF-8 characters. He got pissed (and rightfully so, but in the American definition of “pissed” – not the European sense). Shayne doesn't like getting told that his baby's [...]
This Can't Be Real
I knew I loved Lenovo for a reason. If you can watch this video without saying “holy sh*t,” there's something wrong with you. I think I'll be a ThinkPad fan for life.
Search Engine for Forums
BoardTracker – awesome service, just added to the default set of results in Gada.be. This is a “must-have” search feed for your brand. Consider that BoardTracker is likely surfacing the information you're not finding through the blogosphere. That is to say, it's tracking forums from across the Internet. And yes, those communities are alive and [...]
I Lost My Geek Backpack
Have you ever lost a backpack before?
Gada.be – Over 225 Search Providers!
Yeah, it's that big. Go ahead, try a search for your favorite keywords – check out the Social section alone. Insane. Looking for a job? Try importing a job search OPML. Looking to buy? Try importing a shopping search OPML. Insane. Rock over, London. Rock on, Chicago. Shayne Sweeney, the breakfast of champions.
Adagio Teas Coupon
Hey, wanna save $5 off your next order of Adagio Teas? I can recommend an unlimited amount of friends through my account. Send me your name and email address and I’ll be able to send you a $5 gift certificate. I just picked up a green sampler (apricot green, gunpowder, kukicha, li zi nutcracker, sencha [...]
