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14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds

Posted by Andy | Posted on February 24, 2008

Category : Software

RSS Applications

MakeUseOf has a great article that taught me a lot about how to make better use of RSS feeds by reviewing 14 interesting RSS Feed applications that consume your feeds in a unique manner, as opposed to consuming them in your same old feed reader.

I have probably close to 200 feeds I monitor and some of these applications just might make me a little more productive. Take for instance something like SendMeRSS which forwards my favorite feeds to my inbox.

Then there’s Pingie which sends them to my mobile via SMS, or SpokenText which converts my feeds to speech files and you can subscribe to them as podcasts!

Check out the full list of 14 other ways to use RSS Feeds.

Motivational: Embrace Diversity

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Posted by Andy | Posted on February 23, 2008

Category : Just geeky

The other day I posted the Cosplay Mosaic set of pics I assembled using an online tool from Big Huge Labs.

Below is a resulting ‘motivational poster’ I put together from another of their tools. Sure, maybe ‘embrace diversity’ isn’t very motivational but it’s all I could come up with on the spur of the moment when I decided it would involve ‘Marta’.

Marta was the green Orion consort of Lord Garth in the episode ‘Whom Gods Destroy‘ from the Star Trek the original series.

Motivational - Embrace Diversity

The Bigger, Better, Faster SkyDrive – Exits Beta

Posted by Andy | Posted on February 22, 2008

Category : Web

Skydrive

The Live SkyDrive folks have increased storage capacity to 5GB and have removed the Beta tag which means the quality is finally there along with some improvements.

They’ve also opened up the service to accounts in these 38 countries now that the US, UK and India are done dogfooding on it:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Sign up or check it out for yourself, it makes for a great dumping ground for your pics or music that you can make private or share with the world or specific accounts.

Cosplay Mosaic

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Posted by Andy | Posted on February 22, 2008

Category : Flickr, Just geeky

I’m experimenting with an online mosaic tool from Big Huge Labs, how does it look?

Some of the detail in these costumes is over the top. For instance, check out the medical eyepatch on the girl in #8.

 Mosaic of Cosplay(ers?)

Note: WordPress can’t handle encoding the Kanji characters for #1, 4, 13 below and i’m too tired tonight to continue trying to fix it up after having read through the WP support forums. If you have hints, i’m all ears, thanks! 

1. ???, 2. Tifa Cosplayer 8, 3. Cosplay – Ulala [Space Channel 5], 4. ??????????, 5. [AmeCon 2007] Cosplay Competition 6. Cosplay I, 7. Cosplay, Migilore, Dongdaemun, 8. TGS Cosplay – IMG_0733, 9. TGS Cosplay – IMG_0743, 10. ax06- soul cosplay 758114 11. Cosplay 2007 @ Down Town East_15-07-2007_131 – Version 2.jpg, 12. Cosplay – Yazoo [Final Fantasy Advent Children] by Sanerken 03, 13. ? ??, 14. Cosplay – Baafa, 15. [AmeCon 2007] Cosplay Competition 16. Cosplay – Riku [Kingdom Hearts], 17. Cosplay – Angel Sanctuary, 18. Yuna Cosplay, 19. Cosplay Taipei 2005 018, 20. AX2006-Soul Calibur-Nightmare-cosplay

The Women Of Sci-Fi And Their Provocative Poses: Jeri Lynn Ryan

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Posted by Andy | Posted on February 21, 2008

Category : Just geeky

Seven of Nine Seven of Nine headshot

I’m toying with a new topic, let me know if it’s over the top or not. It’s to show off some of our favorite heroines or villains in Sci-Fi, but in a little more provocative manner than usual.

In some cases their characters are provocative on screen, let alone once they’re in a private studio stripping in front of a camera. Take for instance Jeri Lynn Ryan, aka ‘Seven of Nine’ in Star Trek Voyager. I don’t know why she would have to resort to such provocative poses, she had us at her first tricorder reading.

jeri ryan Jeri Lynn Ryan

Jeri’s first two poses are fairly tame, the next two are questionable as to whether they are safe for work. And since we don’t want to get in trouble at work, here’s the thumbnails:

jeri_ryan Jeri Denim

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