Tech Tips

January 2006

Mashups

by Barbara J. Feldman January 31, 2006

What started as music trend, is now a popular Internet genre: a mashup is a mix of two (or more) tools to make a new one. For example, JackTracker is a Google Map that tracks the whereabouts of the television character Jack Bauer from the Fox show 24. To keep up with all the newest [...]

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Online Spell Checks

by Barbara J. Feldman January 24, 2006

I often use Google to check the spelling of a single word. If it is a recognized word, a definition link will display in the upper right-hand corner. For spell checking paragraphs or longer documents when you do not have access to a modern word processing, there are several sites that provide free online spell [...]

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Add Google Map to Your Website

by Barbara J. Feldman January 17, 2006

It’s easy to add a free, interactive Google Map to your website. First, sign up for a Google Maps API Key . You’ll also find a lot of documentation there about how to use the Google Maps API, but I preferred the short and simple explanation written by Joshua Siler at ExplorationAge.

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Copy From iPod to Computer

by Barbara J. Feldman January 10, 2006

One feature glaringly missing from the iPod is the ability to copy songs from the device to your computer, as iTunes only works in the opposite direction: from computer to iPod. If your computer crashes without a backup of your music files, you will need software such as iPod Access to recover your songs. iPod [...]

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Digg.com

by Barbara J. Feldman January 3, 2006

What makes news newsworthy? Is popularity a factor? Digg.com is a tech news website were visitors (free registration required) vote on the importance of stories. Stories will a lot of votes, naturally float to the top of the page. Although Digg focuses on technology, they also run stories on movies, music, gaming and science.

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