Jimmy Kimmel of late-night talk show fame (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) has been running a bit of a campaign in the past few weeks that culminates today. His plan states that he wants to make today a new holiday titled "National UnFriend Day". He wants people to sign onto Facebook and review their friends and remove anybody that they don't really know. National UnFriend Day might be a … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2010
Mozilla Wants To Secure All Browsers With Plugin Check
Mozilla offers an expanded version of the Adobe Flash Player check that you might see after a Mozilla Firefox update but this site covers a number of other plugins and works for more browsers than just Firefox. The Plugin Check site checks at least Adobe Flash, Java, QuickTime, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat, and many other plugins. It will report the version if it's running the … [Read more...]
Academic Earth, The Hulu of Lectures, Aggregates Video Lectures For Your Enjoyment and Education
Academic Earth is a website that aggregates online video lectures of some of the top Universities. The same folks that are interested in watching TED Talks may also be interested in watching some lectures from Academic Earth. Not only can you watch a video and learn more about a topic, you can watch the whole series as if you were auditing the class. Universities involved … [Read more...]
ListBean – Take The Tedious Out Of List Making
There's not much more to say than what they've already said themselves about Listbean: "Listbean is a sleek and simple site that allows you to customize pre-populated checklists so you can use them to suit you in anyway." If you are looking to get more organized but hate the tedious tasks of making checklists or think "if I knew it to put it on a list, I'd know it and I … [Read more...]
Where Is The Netflix App For Android? Netflix Answers.
Netflix has an app for streaming movies and TV shows for the iPhone and iPad. As the Android OS surpasses iOS as the most popular operating system on phones, this leads to a natural wondering of what's delaying the Android version for the Netflix app. Netflix answers that question exactly in a blog post last evening. (Hint: The problem is DRM.) We regard Android as an exciting … [Read more...]