Many of you have probably had a moment where you wanted to quote a favorite line from a movie, but couldn’t quite get the wording right. A site called AnyClip can help.
AnyClip provides a growing directory of movies in which the user can search for a specific movie and find a list of major scenes and the lines in them. Or you could just type in the quote, and AnyClip will bring up related dialogue. Then, if you’re looking at a scene that you really like, you can also click on a tag and see scenes that have the same tag. And if that scene spurs you to think, “Boy, I really want to watch that movie again,” AnyClip has links for buying or renting the movie from retailers like iTunes.
AnyClip now has 5,000 quotes and tags from 2,000 of the top-growing films, and it plans to add another 3,000 by the end of the next quarter.
Snowtape is a new Max OS X application that lets you easily find, listen to and record from online radio stations.
It’s like the combination radio/tape deck of the future! If you were fortunate enough to come of age in the age of the mp3, then just think of Snowtape as the awesome “record” button that iTunes doesn’t have.
Snowtape doesn’t just play and record, though. It also lets you name, tag and add album art to your recorded audio files, so they’ll fit right in with iTunes or your iPod. It has other perks, too, like the ability to schedule a recording using iCal, in case you’re worried about missing a favorite radio show. Snowtape makes discovering new favorites easier, too, by building in a directory of stations, and allowing users to add their own stations to the list.
If you need more proof that Snowtape is a really well-thought-out app, check out the integrated editing feature that lets you trim the beginning and end of your recordings. There’s even a companion iPhone app!
Burnt Wood is a collection of wood-tiled icons branded with various social media network logos that are perfect for your next grunge-styled web design.
The package contains 12 icons for many of the popular social sharing sites. Each icon is a 420×420px PNG file that can be scaled down to any size needed.
This set was designed by Chris Thurman of Visual Swirl exclusively for the readers of Six Revisions. It was inspired by a burnt wood text effect tutorial and created entirely in Photoshop.
Listeners have been asking Rhapsody to add offline listening and now this has been added to their iPhone app. Their development team is getting close to submitting an updated app to Apple for approval.
A Rhapsody Android app will also leave private beta in the coming days and be available for download in the Android marketplace.
It has been announced by Big Fish Games that they are releasing their second Facebook game, My Tribe.
My Tribe is a game that’s similar to the popular iPhone/iPod Touch game virtual villagers, in that each of the people in the tribe have individual statistics and personalities, and grow in age over time. They may be rebellious and not listen to your orders when you’re not playing the game, and this adds a dimension that makes the game different from games like Restaurant City or Cafe World, where your workers are pretty much brainless as they follow your orders.
“With a player’s guidance, tribespeople develop areas of specialty – for example, construction – to help them accomplish larger tasks like building a ship or a storehouse. They grow from child to youth to adult, learn new skills, have children of their own, and eventually become respected elders. And because gameplay is continuous – your tribe is living, learning, fishing, eating and surviving even when your computer is turned off – it’s especially important for players to check in regularly on the tribe’s progress.”
The social elements come in the fact that players can travel to friends’ islands and help their friends with creating customized clothing and accessories, building shelter, providing food, and making scientific discoveries, all to gain levels and cash.
Stock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They’ve even developed their own shorthand; a stock symbol is typically prefaced with a dollar sign, such as $MSFT, and tweets that discuss stocks often end with two dollar signs.
Stock Tweet App has taken these conventions and used them to build a custom interface for viewing Twitter with a scrolling live stream of all stock-related tweets. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Stock List option to type in the symbol for a few stocks you’re interested in tracking, and only tweets concerning those stocks will be shown.
This is a partnership between Nokia and Microsoft which could see Silverlight on Symbian mobile phones as early as next week.
Microsoft posted the developer tools and the beta version of the code on March 11th but then quickly pulled them down again. Mary Jo Foley thinks it may launch at Mix next week.
Mobile may be the killer app to get Silverlight in more users hands. With Silverlight being heavily integrated with the up coming Windows Phone 7, soon with Symbian and even talk of a port to Android, Microsoft will significantly expand its reach with the platform.
The MIX conference next week will certainly be interesting as Microsoft pushes to reclaim the mobile space.
Email hacking is a big issue for thousands of people every day. If your Hotmail account for example has been hacked there are a couple of things that can be going on with your friend’s account, one of which is that she could be the victim of what’s called a “joe job”, when someone sends out spam to a random list pretending to be you. But they’re not, and they haven’t broken into your account, they’re just using some software that lets them specify “from = x@hotmail.com” and then looks just like they’ve used your account but haven’t.
After all, if the message you got from your friend Pegah was addressed just to you (e.g., had your yahoo.com email address as the “To:”) then that would imply that they sent messages one-at-a-time to each and every person in her address book. And that would be really tedious, wouldn’t it?
However, since you two are friends it sounds like it’s probably not a joe job after all, but rather that somehow her account has indeed been compromised or broken into somehow. Not good.
First step if you think you’ve been hacked: Change your password immediately!
Now, let’s try to figure out what’s going on. If your friend didn’t need to log in to her account that suggests that anywhere she’s previously logged in to check her email (like a public computer at the library or at school) remained logged in and if the next person on the system simply went to “hotmail.com” then they might well have found themselves logged in to her account. That’s why it’s so critical not to check the “stay logged in” box on any computer other than your own secure system.
Another possibility is that she has a virus or keylogger or spyware on her computer that let someone identify her account and password, then utilize them. I suspect that’s not the case, but it’s always good to run some decent antivirus and antispyware software to see if there are any issues. One that’s a good option and is free is AVG.
Finally, and this might be obvious, never, ever, ever share your password with any of your friends. BFF or boyfriend, it’s not that they are going to do something bad but that they too might make a mistake and log in somewhere unsafe then never tell you. Not good.
Hope this helps your friend clean things up. Again, step one, your immediate reaction to anything of this nature should be to immediately change your password to something new and complicated.
FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the Internet. You can use this to login graphically to your desktop from a remote location. One example of its use would be to have a FreeNX server set up on your home computer, and graphically logging in to the home computer from your work computer, using a FreeNX client.
Installing the FreeNX server on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Open your terminal from Applications->Accessories->Terminal
Run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install freenx
Now use nxsetup to install necessary files and create the special user “nx”
sudo /usr/lib/nx/nxsetup –install
FreeNX Client installation in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
If you want to install opensource client for freenx use QTNX,QTNX NX client for QT install qtnx using the following command
sudo apt-get install qtnx
Install Freenx client in windows
You can download freenx windows client from here and install.
If you’re Internet-savvy, you’ve probably come across a “lolcat”–an image macro usually featuring a cat and a caption in broken English. You might subscribe to them through RSS, or even collect them. Now you can make your own by following these steps!
Search for (or take) pictures of cats. Get several of them and choose which one would look funny with ‘capshuns’. If you use someone else’s image, make sure to ask for permission, or if it’s a Creative Commons image, give them credit appropriately.
Think of a caption. Remember that spelling/grammatical errors are deliberate. This “language” is sometimes called lolspeak, kitteh or kitty pidgin. You may be able to find some translators online.
Try these caption templates (replace the blanks with your desired noun/verb):
“IM IN UR ___, ___-ING UR ___”
“IT ARE ___, I HAS IT”
“OH NOES! MAH ___ IT ARE ___!”
Try finding cats in positions that look as if they have an ‘invisible object’. Put a caption describing what is the ‘invisible object’. A good (existing) example would be “invisible bike.”
Open up the desired cat picture with Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, place your desired “capshun” on the picture in Impact font, Bold it, colour the text white and enable a black outline around it.
You’re done! Now send to friends or post on forums for the world to view your creation! Many lols will come forth!
We received a great tip this morning about a list of the Top 100 Engineers on Twitter. Nearly everyone knows what Twitter is these days, but its so hard to find quality people to follow. Here is the top 8 Engineers to follow on Twitter. For the full 100 list you can check it out here.
Top Engineers on Twitter
The below feeds are solely or mostly dedicated to the profession of engineering.
1. Kevin Mastaw : This popular engineer nearly has 9,000 other users following him. He is a self-described pensive engineer, FOREX trader, internet marketer, and fan of quantum physics. He also enjoys the words of Neil Peart.2. Mustafa Yusuf : He works in the field of industrial engineering and management. Although he is located in Ohio, he travels the world and tweets all about it.
3. Tyrone Taborn : Also known as the Black Engineer, he is the Chairman and CEO of Career Communications Group. Engineers, along with those looking to bring diversity to the field, will enjoy this Twitter feed.
4. Angela Melick : If you are an engineer who feels they are wasting their talent, visit here for someone who feels just like you. Angela is both a mechanical engineer in the sustainability sector and author of a webcomic entitled “Wasted Talent.”
5. David Rush : Visit here for the Twitter feed of an engineer with an ecologic frame of mind. David is a civil/environmental engineer who promotes sustainability and the reduction of man’s impact.
6. Manny Jimenez : This engineer is actually in recording and mixing. He is also a computer nerd and not shy about it.
7. Matthew Anderson : He is a civil engineer from the suburbs of Chicago. His other interests include AutoCAD, hydraulics, and being a father of five.
8. Chris Gammell : Chris is an electrical engineer who uses Twitter to blog about analog electronics and renewable energy. Check out interesting engineering tweets, along with daily life.
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This is a partnership between Nokia and Microsoft which could see Silverlight on Symbian mobile phones as early as next week.
