Articles Archive for December 2007
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YouTube, the ever-present video hosting service just made some big improvements to their web-interface. Among their upgrades are:
For a complete list of upgrades visit the Official YouTube blog. The upgrades look like a welcome addition to an already good service. I don’t personally use YouTube, but I know many who do. Do you YouTube?
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So just a quick update tonight. I’m finishing up a week of finals right now, so I won’t have any grand updates this week. But, I’ve got a good tutorial that I’ve started and some website reviews. Wanna make sure you don’t miss any updates? Subscribe to the RSS feed, it makes reading Simply-Basic.com much quicker and easier.
Still need something to read? Check out some of the popular articles in the side bar to your right. When your done with that, why not read some good articles from some of my favorite blogs:
- Jeffro2pt0 writes a great review of FeedDemon. Because of his post, it’s now my RSS reader of choice.
- Wired writes a funny article poking fun of LAN geeks.
- MacUpdate Promo has $650…
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Have you ever been trying to sign up for an online service or “freebie” and thought to yourself “man, that’s gonna fill my inbox with SPAM”? Luckily, Spambox lets you give out your email with confidence. How, you may ask? By letting you not giving out your email address at all!
Spambox is a temporary email forwarder. Using their form (pictured on the left) you give them your email address and then chose how long you want the Spambox email to be valid. You can have your temporary email be valid anywhere from 30 minutes to a whole year. Plus, it comes with the option of extending the length or canceling the address any time you like.
Your…
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All generally lazy people can rejoice. Forgetting to do that report for work or that take home test for school is no longer a problem. (Note: I don’t condone the use of this to cheat or mislead others. But it’s a nifty tool that works just like it says!) Welcome File Destructor 2.0
What does File Destructor do? It spits out a garbage file that is exactly to your specifications. What does this mean? Let’s say you had a PowerPoint presentation tomorrow that your boss said you had to have emailed to him by tonight. Ok, now lets say you forgot until just now. All you need to do is go to File Destructor, tell it to…
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I thought I’d share this freebie I just found. Zinio, a digital magazine distributor, is giving away free, one-year digital subscriptions to PC Magazine. In order to get it you have to sign up with Zinio and download their magazine reader. It actually all works pretty good. Zinio’s reader lets you have easy navigation, plenty of zoom, and the table of contents is linked to the actual stories, meaning you can click on the article you want to read and it will turn right too it.
It’s not as nice as reading the print version, but it’s better then paying for it. If you want to pick up your own subscription, click here.
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