Garbage Scout

Posted on February 13, 2006 Under Travel

One thing I miss about living in New York City is the sheer amount of goodies you can find on the street during your daily commute. I used to see great furniture, records, books, and even the occasional electronics strewn…

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Hey Google, Map this!

Posted on May 17, 2005 Under Life

I'm always a little bit hesistant to mention another Google maps trick, but Wired has a really solid roundup article about all the hacks that have been developed, including the housing maps, that combines craigslist and Google Maps, as well…

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TIVO and Google Maps

Posted on April 25, 2005 Under Gadgetry

I've been avoiding buying myself a TIVO for some time, but every-time I play with one-- I want one. I just think I'd find myself watching TV way too often. Every now and then I see a TIVO hack that…

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Google Search History

Posted on April 21, 2005 Under Life

I'm not so sure how I feel about Googles new "Search History" service. It's smart, obvious, and was only a matter of time for such a thing to be introduced--but I see a lot of privacy issues coming up for…

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Buzztracker

Posted on April 13, 2005 Under Life

Buzztracker is a neat internet based software that "visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google word news directory. It does a pretty good job at showing how interconnected the world is--right now top 10 locations include Baghdad, Beijing,…

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Yagoohoogle

Posted on April 4, 2005 Under Life

This is Yagoohoogle, Google and Yahoo morphed together so you can view results of both at once. Interesting to see how your name or company does on each. Via Life Hacker

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Google Gulp

Posted on April 1, 2005 Under Design

I'm not going to prank you all--i'm not that witty today--but Google sure is. Their prank, Google Gulp, is a riot. "Think fruity. Think refreshing. Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes…

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Google Maps

Posted on February 9, 2005 Under Travel

Google has done it again with their Google Maps. Another awesome addition to their lineup of tools. It does directions, business location, and is totally awesome. You can pan and zoom in and out on locations with ease. It's a…

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Google Touch Graph

Posted on January 14, 2005 Under Life

Holy cow this is cool! This is a graph created by Touch Graph that visually maps out all referrals, connections, and mentions using the google search engine. I really gotta give it up to the programmers behind this, this is…

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Google SMS

Posted on October 7, 2004 Under Gadgetry

I figured it wasn't long before Google did something like this, simple SMS query that performs a google search by sending a message to 46656 or GOOGL from your mobile phone with a query afterwards. For example, a query would…

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