Employees that have their own computer with Internet access sometimes have the great urge of doing things that are not related to work. They might be reading online news, playing games, listening to music or trying to download at work. Everyone must have been in the situation that he needed to download a specific file [...]
Customize RSS News Feeds With Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes is a very sophisticated online tool which might look intimidating at first glance but which provides a great interface that requires minimal input to create astonishing results. One major use of Yahoo Pipes is the customization of RSS News Feeds. It does not really matter if one RSS News Feed or multiple should [...]
Return to Plurk
It’s been about a month now since I introduced Plurk here at gHacks and now that I have had a chance to properly test it, here is an update on the developments over the last few weeks.
The first thing I began to realize was that although Plurk has a great way of managing threaded conversations [...]
How does Plurk work?
Are you as sick of hearing about Twitter as I am?
See the problem is that I never really “got” Twitter… I tried, I really did. I signed up and followed people and Twittered regularly, but it never really did it for me. Eventually I just forgot about it.
Enter Plurk.
Considering micro-blogging isn’t something I’ve really got [...]
See Who’s Watching Your Videos on YouTube
YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the internet today. Although videos posted on the site may not have the best quality there’s no doubt in my mind that if you cannot find a video on YouTube, you’re unlikely to find it anywhere else.
Until now, when you uploaded a video on [...]
Find Book, Music, and Movie Recommendations According to Your Tastes
You’ve just watched this movie that you really enjoyed. Now you’re in the mood for something similar but you don’t quite know what to pick next. Don’t worry. All you have to do is head over to ThisOneNext and let them do the choosing for you.
ThisOneNext or TON if you please is an extension of [...]
Read The Words Text to Speech Online Service
Read The Words [via Digital Inspiration] is a text to speech service that is offering quite an impressive amount of options for a web application. It is not only possible to paste text that is read to you but to furthermore upload text documents in various formats, let the service read websites to you and [...]
