Archive for May, 2006

SocialMail: Feeds from e-mail

SocialMail is a handy service from Big in Japan that will turn any e-mail inbox or mailing list into an RSS feed. It’s pretty simple: you sign up and get a unique @biggu.com e-mail address. Then you can put that e-mail address on a mailing list or forward messages from your inbox to it and [...]


It’s a Web 2.0 Revolution

Another web fad? Or just a case of history repeating…
It’s hard to avoid the impact of some of the buzzwords and hype that’s been circulating round the web: Web 2.0 has proven to be key phrase in web development since the O’Reilly / MediaLive conferences in October 2004. [via Modern Life Is Rubbish]

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Automatic .htaccess generator

The .htaccess file generator web site lets you enter specifications into a web form, automatically creating your .htaccess file based on your specifications.

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addthis_title = ‘Automatic+.htaccess+generator’;
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Clip and collect the web with Google Notebook

Google Notebook gives you an online “notebook” where you can organize all your research, add personal notes to it, and share it with others. Google Notebook surfs along quietly with you as you browse, letting you clip and annotate whatever text, images, and links that help answer your question, all without ever leaving the webpage [...]


DIY Skype phone

Instructables has a step-by-step for turning a regular old landline phone into a VoIP phone.
This hack requires a little bit of soldering and might not be for the novice hardware hacker, but the results look pretty good. If you’ve been wanting to try out Skype but haven’t wanted to buy a new headset (and you’ve [...]