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Temporary URLs are not a new thing. TinyURL is a well know URL shortener, but whats missing from most URL Shortener sites is the ability to customize your URL to make it more meaningful. MeaningfulURL does just that, it allows you to create a temporary URL that is easier to remember. Your URL works for 3 days and can be used in any number of combinations. Say for instance you want to send Dave a download link to a new product you have created, you could use “thanks.to/dave” as the URL. Here are some more of the possibilities….
Unlock any iPhone NOW
Unlock any iPhone NOW, if you’ve been looking for a really easy way to unlock your jailbroken (v1.1.2) iPhone to version 1.1.3 your application has arrived. The JailBreak Dev team has released a one click installer that uses the Installer.app on your iPhone to unlock your phone. This particular version is for users who already have a jailbroken 1.1.2 phone and want to update to the newest firmware without a great deal of pain. You download the installer (which weighs in a over 200meg), press a button and 20 minutes later away you go. Keep in mind that there are risks to updating your iPhone so be sure to check out Lifehacker for a blow by blow description on what it takes to get your iPhone updated.
Think Twice Before you post
Are you a blogger? I am. The popularity of social networking sites, such as Myspace, YouTube, Facebook, etc., is continuing to grow. Blogging allows us to express ourselves in new ways. Oftentimes it may be easier to write what we are feeling for total strangers to read than to verbally express ourselves to someone that is close to us. The end product, people are posting content and pictures that may be embarrassing, inappropriate, upsetting to others, etc. Until recently, the general public was generally unaware of the real consequences of what they write or portray – even if it’s done simply in the spirit of fun or as a joke.
FileBox eXtender now Vista Compatible and Free
One of the features I missed the most from XP was a little Dialog Box Extender utility called FileBox eXtender. This simple program allowed you more control over your save and open file dialogs. For instance, when I use the open file dialog in a program I don’t want to switch to “details view” and “sort by date” every time I open the dialog. The settings I set should be automatic. Filebox does all this and more. There are tons of features such as being able to jump straight to a saved folder or recently used folder to drop your files when saving. You can also roll up windows so you can get your dialog boxes out of the way when you need to locate a place to save your file. The “window shade”-like button transfers to regular explorer windows as well so you can reclaim some screen real estate. Also included is a pin feature that will prevent any window you “pin” to the desktop from being covered by any other windows. FileBox used to be a shareware utility but its owners made it free when they didn’t think they could make the jump to Vista. In an unexpected move though they released a new version (also FREE) that is now Vista compatible.
Don’t get dead the Web 2.0 way with SafeCheckIn
The modern world can be a very lonely place. In the news you hear about people disappearing and no one knows the better until its way too late. As someone that did the whole internet dating scene, I can attest that there are some real nut jobs out there and having someone to check in with and make sure you arrived safe and sound is a great idea.
Find a blog author’s other sites by using a Aboutus wiki
Every once in a while I do a search for my own website with Google to see whats linking back, but doing a search this week returned a very interesting result. When I searched for “Noheat.com” the number 2 result was a aboutus.org wiki link. When I clicked around I noticed that they found a lot of my domains (not all though) and linked them up, also if I visited a site without a AboutUs wiki it autogenerated a wiki for the site which is pretty cool for building a database of sites and getting a nice link back. I also noticed that site owners that edit their pages on Aboutus end up on the main page of Aboutus sending traffic to your site. All in all this is a pretty nice site, and should be a useful resource in finding your favorite blog’s other sites.
Speed up Firefox
Now this is something a lot of you may already know about and use, but for those of you that don’t this provides a quick and easy way to speed up your browsing speeds for free. It makes multiple requests to the same server resulting in a faster browsing experience. What is it? Well, it’s a modification to the Firefox configuration.
Web Photo Editing the right way with PicResizer
The web is chock full of Web 2.0 picture resizing applications, but none do it quite this well. The interface is polished and quick and try as I might I had a hard time breaking it which is a very good thing. Whether or not you want to just resize the or you actually want to edit the picture this tool can do the job like a real application. One of the most unique functions of this software is the capability to batch out pictures, which I have never seen before in a web image application.
Visually see the path data takes to view a website
Visually see the path packets of information flow with Visual Trace Route Tool a cool Google Maps mashup. The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware connected together by gateways. Information sent over the Internet is broken down into formatted blocks of data called packets. This cool little tool visualizes that trip your data packets take and sometimes can answer some website latency issues by watching the amount of “hops” it takes to get responses from servers. The more “hops” the slower a website or server could seem.
Rename your Digital Camera’s files to pictures’s Date and Time
I take tons of pictures with my digital camera and of course I rename nearly none of them. So if you do the same thing as I you could end up with a file naming mess, possibly deleting files with the same file names.
