Was doing a bit of reading up tonight and found out all about compilations in iTunes. Turns out this features will solve one of my biggest organizational pet peeves about iTunes, that is random artists from albums with many artists in them (ie: best country of 1974, a favorite of mine) showing up in the regular browsing list of artists. So my Del Reeves album collections now won't be "infected" by random Del Reeves songs from the VA collections.
Cool huh?
Well, in theory of course, that sounds like how it's supposed to work anyway...
Now this has got to be the coolest thing I've seen in ages! Mozilla Labs Announced Ubiquity, which is sadly a bit hard to describe, but once used I'm sure it'll be hard to go back. Mac users can think of it as quicksilver for the web, linux users think gnome-do for the web on steroids.
Basically it allows you to hit a hotkey combination and then type natural(ish) language into the window that pops up. So if you're writing an email in gmail and want to include a map to an address, you'd hit alt-space (or whatever key combo you set up) and type 'map 1234 main street, vancouver, bc' and hit enter. The resulting map will be put into your email. If you're not in an email it'll go to that url.
Ubiquity isn't limited to maps of course, searching, calendar (google calendar currently), bugzilla, calculator, tabs, translation, highlighting..... lots of really cool stuff. It also operates either "alone" or on text / images you've highlighted on a webpage. Very cool stuff, I've had it for about 5 minutes now (it's a firefox plugin) and I can see this changing my browsing very very easily.
Gameplayer Best PC Money Can Buy guide. Check the high end, includes-a-nuclear-reactor version!
Paul points to a good article on how to resolve lots of Vista Annoyances over at tweakguides.
Kinda a cool little app if you're a D&D guy or gal, Mach Dice: Roll for iPhone supports up to 100 d100 die, and is funky 3d and makes good use of the accelerometer.
Via digg: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits. Good stuff in there, lots of stuff known already by your standard unix hacker, but most likely there's something in there that you've just never gotten around to putting into your daily arsenal (for me it's the xargs tricks).
Pimping out a buddy's Dr. Who fan flick who just got a trailer out on the net: Doctor Who ::Victimsight. Cool stuff, check it out.
Oh awesome, hows this for bringing back memories.... someone found and scanned The Official DOOM Comic Book From '96. Sweet!
This is pretty cool.... iPhone factory workers send message of peace to our lands via the iPhone’s camera is from a guy who found a bunch of pictures on his new iPhone.... not the "accidental" type pictures I've heard of before, but more of a proper photoshoot!
The latest Heavy Update, pointed to me by Darren (as usual) is The Sandvich... you have to watch the video and appreciate the sound effects that they use for eating, that's awesome!
I'm not really sure what this is for or from, but as a Duel of SU-27 and F-15 it looks fairly cool :)
Free book with Free shipping? Found by me on coding horror is Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review which claims to be a free book with free shipping. Is there a catch? Will I start getting Obama-spam if I believe there's such thing as a free lunch? Anyone else seen this or heard of it? Or maybe I'm just too paranoid.
From the 'wow they do weird stuff in Japan' comes Double-wide anime look for your eyeballs.
Anime eyes?
What could be freakier (and more desired by Japanese girls)?
Via BoingBoing.
Maybe the initial "all of vista's security rendered useless" may have been sensationalist, so says OSNews in their Look at a New Vista Security Bypass.
New characters from the latest Star Trek movie have been revealed thanks to Comic-Con. SlashFilm has the details on Star Trek: Sulu, Scotty, McCoy and Chekov Revealed!. Make sure you click through for the high-res update.