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Find Your Celebrity Look-A-Like

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Looking for a little fun on the web? Dig up a photo of yourself and check out MyHeritage’s Celebrity Facial Recognition software. After uploading your photo using their simple web form MyHeritage does two quick scans, one to locate the face and a second to detect facial features. The facial features are then compared to [...]

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Search Safely with Yahoo!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Searching the web through Yahoo! just became much safer thanks to a new feature called SearchScan. Every time you search the web using Yahoo you will see warning messages alongside the results alerting you to potentially dangerous websites. What a great feature! Now you have a heads up whenever a site you’re about to visit [...]

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The Not-So-Boring E-cards!

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Everyone has sent an e-card at one point or another, you know this usually boring online greeting cards you can email to celebrate a holiday or someones birthday. E-cards are typically quite dull and boring, but they don’t have to be. The next time you look to send an e-card take a look at [...]

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Microsoft Purchases Farecast - $115m

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch.com is reporting that Microsoft has purchased the airfare prediction search engine Farecast.com (confirmed on their blog). Farecast.com, previously talked about here, is an airline flight search engine similar to Kayak.com. It searches across multiple travel sites including the airlines themselves, finding you the best bang for your buck!
Farecast’s claim to fame [...]

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Adobe has launched it’s online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. It’s currently a public beta and open for anyone to sign up.

The online Photoshop Express is a nice little photo editor for some of your more basic editing needs but if you’re used to the advanced features of the full blown Photoshop then it’s [...]

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Hulu launches to the public today which means anyone can join and you no longer need an invite!

Hulu is a joint venture by NBC Universal and News Corp to create a single location where you can watch “premium content” for free. (previous article here) This well-designed site is supported through periodic video advertisement breaks, however [...]

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hulu - Your Favorite TV Shows Online

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Fox and NBC joined forces, a new venue for watching the hottest television shows opening to the public soon!
March 2007, News Corporation (FOX’s parent company) and NBC Universal joined together and began developing their own ‘YouTube‘. The difference, hulu will feature premium video content including TV shows, movies and short clips rather than the user [...]

Popularity: 22% [?]

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New Photography Website

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I’ve been working on a new website lately. SG Photography will give me the opportunity to display some of my favorite photographs I’ve taken over the past couple years. There are still a few things I’d liked to change and a few things I’d like to add, but overall I’m generally pretty happy with the [...]

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Grand Central Freezes

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Improv Everywhere is at it again with their latest stunt, Frozen Grand Central. Previously, around 200 people shopped in slow motion at a Home Depot in Manhattan. This time 200+ people froze in place at the exact second in Grand Central Station. Watching the reactions of the passer byers as they try to figure out [...]

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Airline Flight Searching Fast and Easy

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

update 4/17/2007: Farecast is now owned by Microsoft.
Find the cheapest airfare for your next vacation or trip back home quickly and easily using the Kayak.com and Farecast.com flight search engines.
Search for flights on Farecast.com you’ll get the current airfare from multiple airlines and travel agencies sorted from lowest to highest. You can quickly and easily [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]

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