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A new startup called Legacy Locker is set to fill a much-needed gap in passing on your estate to your heirs and beneficiaries. The gap exists with your online assets – mainly the usernames and passwords used to secure your digital life: your computer accounts, social networking sites, bank accounts, e-mail accounts and much more. …
NASA got an unexpected result from an online contest to name a new room at the International Space Station: Colbert. Stephen Colbert, host of the Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," asked his viewers to write in his name in the contest. And they did, in huge droves. At the end of the contest, the name "Colbert" had 230,539 votes. NASA's preferred name, Serenity, only had around 40,000 votes.
With countless videos already uploaded to YouTube, it was only a matter of time until someone tried to remix them. ThruYou is a creative remix of YouTube user-generated content into new original videos masterpieces.
You couldn't register domain names until the mid-1980s. Here's a list of the oldest websites on the Internet and the oldest domain names registered.
The streaming video site Hulu and the streaming-video-on-your-TV service Boxee spent all of last weekend fighting. Again. In late February, Hulu asked Boxee to remove the special Hulu browser from the Boxee software. Boxee complied with Hulu’s request, but Boxee users were very upset. Then last weekend, Boxee figured out a way around the Hulu …
Here’s an interesting video we found on YouTube. The clip is titled “World’s Fastest Undresser” and looks like it’s from a Japanese game show. So how did he do it? YouTube user EclipseMoonXIV thinks they have it all figured out: “he hooked his shirt over his foot, and then grabbed his pants. then, in pulling …
Our friends at Gizmos For Geeks had an opportunity to look at the new Samsung SGH-T719, which is Samsung’s equivalent of the BlackBerry. It’s good for checking emails, but not as easy to reply to them without a full keyboard. Ironically, that was followed the next day by accessories for the BlackBerry Bold, which probably is …
This week Apple released a very minor firmware update for the Apple TV. The 2.3.1 update only adds a “Network Test” option to help users troubleshoot Internet connections. That’s it. Seriously, it’s hardly worth the trouble. But the update does do something we weren’t expecting… it disables and deletes the Boxee software. Boxee is a …
A 66-year-old Haitian man named Jean Fortune decided that a lemonade shortage at a Flordia Burger King was a serious enough emergency to call 911.
Autofollowing people on Twitter just got a whole lot easier. Last month we wrote a detailed tutorial on methodshop.com that walked you through how to setup up your Twitter account to autofollow anyone who follows you using a service called TweetLater. Part of the process involved making an autoforward rule in Gmail. But after getting …
We all probably have a bad 1st date story under our belts. But your story can’t be worse than this Craigslist posting about a date that went terribly terribly wrong. In a humorous, yet honest plea, the John of this story tries to convince his date to give it another try. The story has become …
This incredible handwritten document by Jack Dorsey is the original blueprint for the social networking service Twitter.
THE SHOW “House of Cards” WHENWHERE Tonight at 8 and midnight; Saturday night at 7 and 10; Sunday night at 9, and other showings, on CNBC REASON TO WATCH A remarkably clear overview of the financial debacle that has put us all in this fine mess. WHAT IT’S ABOUT The first frame shot is of …
“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project. >Submitted by Paulie Rodrigues[Watch: youtubex]
An actor’s instruments are his emotions. There are tricks to it, but it is more alchemy than science. And there are times, like when a Director of Photography crosses your eyeline during a scene, when you just have to let ‘er rip. Should this ever happen to you, you’ll be prepared, as we’ve got a …
Have you heard of this thing called "Internet"? According to this news report, the Internet is a "World Wide Switchboard" where you can talk to the world about topics like art, guitar construction, sex, politics, and grief.
Steelers and Cardinals fans weren’t just sitting idle watching the Super Bowl last Sunday on TV. Apparently their thumbs were tweeting up a storm on the micro-blogging service Twitter. The NY Times put together a great interactive map showing the frequency and location of commonly used words in Super Bowl related tweets. If you’re still …
