Just Fool Enough to Try One More Time

I am going to try to support this blog on my own again. May the spammers, hackers, and viruses stay away from DanToday.

The President Tweets

The President has tweeted.

RSSCloud

". . . we could see a whole new form of blogging really soon."

Online Text to Speech

To save my eyes, I found two online text-to-speech applications that work well, without limiting the length of text one enters to be read:

• Japplis Speech
• voxMe
  

Hunch

Hunch: the most personalized of searches.

FriendFeed Real Time Search

FriendFeed search goes real time today.

What's A Tweet?

A Tweet is a chip off the old blog.

In Appreciation: Traffic Cams

I was about to leave the house (in a car) to go for some sandwiches seven miles away. Seven highway miles away.
"Are you sure you want to do that at 5:00 on a Friday afternoon?" asks the spouse.
"It's summer," says I. "Everyone's already home."
"Really?" says she.

Well, apparently not everyone.

Google Chrome Experiments

Aviary's Talon: A Seriously Convenient Screen Capture Tool

Aviary, a startup that has developed and hosts a startling complement of browser-based image editing tools, now has launched Talon, a Firefox browser extension that lets one capture a screenshot of an entire web page, no matter how much of that page appears outside of the browser window. Now that is a serious convenience.

Update: I also like Pixlr. I prefer Pixlr's tools for drawing on the computer screen.

Web Everywhere

". . . the web isn’t just this thing on the side that only appears in browsers. It’s everywhere. It’s the oxygen of modern computing."
—Brent Simmons

Pidgin

I am now using Pidgin for chat.