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Scrybe Online Organizer

Originally posted on October 24, 2006 @ 11:05 pm

I’m always looking for new and exciting things in technology that I can use in my personal and daily work life.

Well tonight talking with a good friend of mine Johnny, he mentioned a new application called Scrybe Online Organizer:

Scrybe is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today’s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Simple solutions for some age old problems.

  • Seamless offline access – without any installations
  • Rich and fast like a desktop
  • Intuitive zoomable calendar views
  • Organize your thoughts with bookmarks, web snippets, images and files
  • To-do lists integrated with your calendar
  • Share and collaborate with friends and co-workers
  • Elegant, compact and handy print formats
  • Easily work across multiple timezones
  • Import and export from other apps easily. Your data is yours!

You have to watch the video demo of this new application. My jaw dropped when I saw what this thing can do. I can see how this will help myself and my clients.

The beta is suppose to be released this month, so hopefully we’ll see something soon as we only have a few more days left in October.

Man Attempts To Sell ‘Soul’ In Web Raffle

Originally posted on November 13, 2006 @ 3:25 pm

A Florida man determined to turn his life around has put his soul up for “sale” on his Web site, saying the return on investment could beat the most-generous Vegas slot machine.

Gerald Fraller, 28, of Tampa, Florida, who has created the “Win My Soul” Web site to raffle off his soul, likened the deal to a business contract.

Fraller wrote on his site:

In the corporate world, people invest in companies all the time by purchasing shares of stock. In a sense, they are investing in the business’ future, its potential, its value and its intellectual property. So, it occurred to me, why couldn’t someone do the same with an individual. Only in this case, a single stockholder reaps all the benefits of my potential value through ownership of my soul.

In return, Fraller promises to part with a percentage of his taxable income for the rest of this life – a minimum of $500 annually is specified in the 20-clause contract – let the buyer name his still-to-be-conceived children, and allow the owner to decide the message to be chiseled into Fraller’s tombstone. The contract also includes a $1 million soul buyback clause.

America Votes 2006

Originally posted on November 7, 2006 @ 5:49 pm

The big question everyone is asking: Did you vote today?

My question to America is have you watched Hacking Democracy? If you haven’t, you should.

Thanks to CNN.com, you can keep up with the Election Results as they happen.

In closing, I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Firefox 2.0 Final Coming Tuesday

Originally posted on October 23, 2006 @ 10:53 am

Get FirefoxMozilla Corporation will launch the final of its Firefox 2.0 browser Tuesday, October 24, 2006 the company said this morning.

The long-tested Firefox 2.0 which updated to Release Candidate 3 (RC3) last Tuesday, arrives hard on the heels of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP.

Firefox 2.0 features anti-phishing alerts, session restore, spell checking, suggested searches, and several other enhancement and additions to version 1.5, the last major update to the open-source browser.

According to the most recent statistics from Web metric firm Net Applications, Mozilla browsers accounted for 12.5 percent of the surfing market in September.

“2.0 has about a dozen major improvements across the board,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s director of engineering. “Our goal is always to get you to the important part, the content in the middle of the frame, as quickly as possible.”

“Users who have already downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0 RC3 will not need to re-download the browser”, added Schroepfer, “because the RC3 code is identical to what Mozilla is dubbing the final”.

Google/YouTube Purchase Confirmed

Originally posted on October 9, 2006 @ 5:46 pm

A few days ago I posted about the possibility of Google purchasing YouTube and guess what was announced today?

Google agreed to acquire YouTube, the Web’s most popular video-sharing site, for $1.65 billion in stock, the company announced today.

“The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement.

Source: MercuryNews.com

Google’s video service attracted a unique audience of about 13 million people in August 2006 compared with more than 34 million for YouTube, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

I’ve personally noticed that the video quality is a lot better with YouTube, so hopefully now that Google has aquired them, we’ll see a lot better video quality from Google Video. Only time will tell.

Read the Official Google Press Release for more information.