Betalist is a site the shows you all the new startups before they become popular. Also they sometimes have beta codes to give away. It is a very good site if you are always looking for new sites to discover. Sites range from new social sites to new web hosting. This site also allows you to sign up for newsletters and every day they will send you all the latest startups.
BitLet is an online torrent client that downloads the torrents for you without any torrent client. BitLet runs in java so there is no extra installing needed.This is also good if you don’t want to install a torrent client on your computer. Also it supports video streaming so you can download a torrent that is a video and have it stream. They also support streaming for music too.BitLet supports changing the port and even the upload rate.They also have a bookmarklet for Firefox and IE that allows you to download the torrent without having to go to the BitLet page. BitLet also has cool features like resume downloading, using a local or online torrent,and allows you to download more than one torrent at a time. They also show you your upload and download speed and even how many seeders and leachers. Most of the time the torrents will work but not always. I would recommend this to users who rarely download torrents and also to people who need to download a torrent but don’t have the time or want to install a client.. If you download torrents often then i would stick with whatever client you have.
Tab Scope by Gomita is a Firefox addon the does the basic and easy feature of giving Firefox tabs previews when you pass over it. It also allows you to send mouse click on the tab preview. This is really useful if u just need to press the send button the tab or if you just wanna see a page looks real quick. Below is a list of features from his site:
Have you ever wanted to add a retro feeling to your images? Well now you can with the vintageJS jQuery plugin. The vintageJS plugin uses HTML5 elements to create the retro feeling.
Currently, there are three different types of affects, sepia, green and grayscale.
A lot of users really like the Speed Dial feature on Safari that allows users to quickly open up their favourite websites when opening a new tab. Here is a great Firefox addon to use to get the same features in the worlds most popular browser.
Speed Dial 0.9.5.8 (download) is the most robust of the four add-ons we’re looking at today. It’s highly customizable, offering the deep range of customizations that come with the best Firefox add-ons. Among the multitude of choices is the option to control whether it opens in new tabs or new windows; set the number of “dials,” create dial groups and hook them to hot key combinations for quick launching; and customize the look of each dial’s thumbnail.
There have been a lot of reports over the last few days about Apple, iCloud.com domain name and CloudMe (the company that used to be called iCloud). Om Malik and Techcrunch have reported that Apple has acquired the iCloud.com domain name from CloudMe for approximately $4.5 million.
A few news sources have reported that Apple will use iCloud.com for their new music service. However, I dont think this is the case.
Apple seem to always be ahead of the times, but in this case I think Apple has realised that the Cloud is the way forward for content and its about time they embracced it. I think Apple will use iCloud.com as their new locker service in which users will be able to store their music, videos, pictures, basically anything they puchase from the iTunes store. Plus, im sure that Apple will allow us to access this account via any iOS related device and stream the content directly.
It will now be interesting to see if Apple launch this at WWDC on the 6th of June, because it will also mean that we will be getting a new iOS and possibly a Mac OS X.
Have you ever need to convert a zip to a 7z or maybe a mp3 to a wav? Well Zamzar is a site that allows you to upload a file or 100mb or less and convert it into any of the supported file types (Check out the list of supported types Here). It is really easy to use and is good when you need to convert a file really quick. There are just 4 quick steps. upload your file, choose the file type you want, enter your email, and click convert. You email is only required so they can send you a link when its done. I love this because if I am running out of my house it will go and convert it for me and then in 10 minutes or less i will get an email from them saying that it has been converted. Also if the file is hosted online you can just put in the URL and it will convert it too. Though I do not think it supports compressed files with passwords.If you need more room to convert files you can always buy a subscription. The lowest is basic and it is 7$ a month and increases you size to 200mb and gives you an online storage of 5gb. So if you need to convert files on the go and then be able to access them then this is the way to go.
Mp3tunes is a music streaming service(also supports some video formats) that allows you 2gb of free data (10GB if you request it) or you can pay for more room. My favorite feature is that you can upload M3U files which in case you don’t know are playlist files. You can stream to Android, iPod, WebOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, PS3, Wii, Windows Phone 7, and right to your browser (it really has support for almost anything you can think of). They also have API’s avalible for free and open source apps for you to play with .I think that its one of the best mp3 streaming services out there because it has alot of support.
I have my own account and I use it to sync music from my home computer to the cloud then play in on another computer. The online storage player is really neat and you can play any music or video you want from the player and there is a Flash and Html player. Also I use my phone(Palm pre) and stream music from the cloud down to my phone or to my Tivo. Currently the only problems I have encountered is syncing videos because on WebOS doesn’t support video streaming yet i guess. Also on Tivo you will sometimes get an error when streaming and the only way to fix it is restart the unit which takes forever. Besides for that I think it is a really great program and I would recommend it to anyone look to stream music to multiple devices.
Amazon.com seems to have finally succeeded in breaking into the “cloud” market with their new “Amazon Cloud Drive.” It touts a default of 5GB of online storage for free, unlimited access from any computer and, of course, reassures customers they will never have to worry about losing their files again. Their claim is, “Anything digital, securely stored, available anywhere.” But is it really as great as they claim? I decided to dig deeper and find out.
I received an email from Amazon when the cloud drive was launched and was given $2.00 in credit towards mp3 purchases. Intrigued by this new development (and the free music credits), I ventured to their website to check it out. I quickly found a song I wanted and clicked the buy button. It asked if I wanted to save the music to my cloud drive. “Simple enough,” I thought. Then I wouldn’t have to download it – I could just stream it. I immediately went to my new cloud drive, selected my new song (which was available immediately) and pressed play. It buffered up the song and played but I discovered it was also downloading to my computer as well. Bummer.
Next I decided to try uploading some music. I clicked “Upload to your Cloud Drive” and was prompted to download the “Amazon MP3 Uploader.” Wait a minute – so I have to use proprietary software to upload music? “That’s a bit inconvenient,” I thought, but I downloaded it anyway. After installing the software, it decided it had to scan my entire hard drive for music, which was a long and tedious process. Once it finally loaded, it told me I had X playlists and X songs not in my cloud drive and asked if I wanted to upload it all now. I declined (as it would have been way more than 5GB of space) and chose a few albums to upload. What I found was that it killed my internet speed and I saw no way to limit the upload rate. Frustrated after about 20 minutes of sluggish internet, I killed the uploader until that night when it could run and not bother me.
In the meantime, I checked out the Android mp3 player from Amazon, wondering if it too would have to download my music before playing it. I discovered that while it can play the song through buffered memory, it still has to download; so listening while downloading isn’t a good option as the song often plays faster than it downloads (unless you’re using Wi-Fi). So once again I’m stuck waiting.
Ultimately, I was able to get the music I wanted uploaded and then downloaded again (to my phone). Now that I have done so, I can simply open the Amazon cloud player and quickly hear what I want (slightly faster than searching my hard drive and includes better filtering options). So was the hassle worth it?
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Overall, I would say Amazon has a potentially great thing going on here. If they simply added the ability to stream without downloading, I would give the Amazon Cloud Player and Drive 5/5 stars. As it is now, and considering their hefty fees for storage in excess of 5GB, I give it 3.5/5 stars. It’s a great concept, but could use a few tweaks to make it the best.
Google has just released Google Chrome 11. Chrome 11 is the new version of the very popular browser from Google. Chrome 11 features updated bug fixes, translation and speech-to-text features, plus some simplified icons.
Users can download Chrome 11 at the official Chrome page.
Google has paid out around $16,500 to developers who have been able to find bugs in Google Chrome. Additionally, Google gave special thanks to Apple Product Security team members miaubiz, kuzzcc, Sławomir Błażek, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas who helped take the browser to a less buggy stable release.
