Go to http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ and create your own, personalised music video for the song "We Used To Wait" by Arcade Fire. You must use Google Chrome, enter an address (the address of the home you grew up would make the video meaningful to you) and the site will build the video using google maps and street view data (if there is data available at the address).
This is the version with my home address :).
In the past few days I started having problems at home with my internet connection. For every page that I was trying to visit I would get, most of the times, a "Host not found" error and after refreshing a couple of times then the page would finally load up.
Initially I thought this to be a Windows problem so I played with the settings of the DNS Client but to no success. I also rebooted my router and modem a few times, again, without solving anything. Then, I remembered that my problems started just after installing Sun's VirtualBox ...
Finally, an e-book reader that seems useful, practical and cool-looking.
[via hardocp]
Some sites allow googlebot to index their content but require regular users to register/login. So, if you don't want to register in order to see the content of such a site, you can just change the User Agent of your browser to Googlebot (in Firefox you can do that using the User Agent Switcher plugin).
[How to: visit password-protected websites without registering via reddit]
Freebase Parallax is a browsing interface for Freebase that greatly enhances the way we search for linked data. Watch the video for a very cool demo.
Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on Vimeo.
Great video editing technology that automatically enhances your videos using high quality photos of a scene. What it does:
The only limitation for now is that it can handle only static scenes.
[Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene via reddit]
Cool technology from Intel that allows your computer to wake up when supporting applications receive a signal. Great for VOIP and multimedia.
How long till we get a plug into the back of our heads? Make sure you watch the video.
More details here.
