http://krynsky.com eclectic mix of technology, poetry, and my ramblings Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:29:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-january-22nd-2008/ http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-january-22nd-2008/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:03:20 +0000 Mark Krynsky http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-january-22nd-2008/

Genfavicon. Free Online Favicon Generator. Icon Generator. – Nice web service if you are in need of this

The Best Companion Tools for YouTube and other Web Videos – A list of some useful video sites

The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: Crysis – If you’ve never seen a Zero Punctuation review. Here’s a great one to accolomate ya. Very Very funny stuff and spot on in many ways.

The 2007 Darwin Award Winners – Ahhh…always fun to see what the pinheads of the world are up to

Get Feeds for Sites Without RSS with Dapper – Lifehackers take on a useful tool to add content that doesn’t offer an RSS feed to your Lifestream

Example: How to Embed Two Views on the Same Page | drupal.org – This is useful in Drupal to create a pretty complex custom homepage

Bill Gates last day at Microsoft (video) – istartedsomething – This video proves that Bill Gates is waaaay cooler than Steve Jobs

WeGame.com – Show Your Game – Site provides in-game videos for many PC games. Also provides the tools to create the videos

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – Another nice collection of WordPress themes

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• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters – I already use some of these tools but thought this was a good resource to learn about tools I may want to use in the future
• eBible.com: Online Bible Search & Bible Study Community – Online reference site for the Bible
• GodTube.com – A niche based offshoot of YouTube
• e-Sword – the Sword of the LORD with an electronic edge – Free software that provides many great tools to use the Bible as a reference guide
• Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday – This may provide a large step towards creating a framework for Lifestreaming platforms. Only time will tell
• Self publish with free BookSmart software for Windows or Mac | Blurb – Great service to publish your own professional looking book at a reasonable price. I learned about them at the Wired NextFest
• Soup.io Offers Simplest Microblogging Yet – Mashable coverage of new Lifestream service
• From shoebox to performative agent: the computer as personal memory machine — Van Dijck 7 (3): 311 — New Media & Society – From author José Van Dijck comes an interesting article that covers Lifestreaming
• CleverClogs: Basics of Attention Profiling through APML – An easy to understand and well written primer on what APML is by Marjolein Hoekstras
• APML – Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata – Newly re-designed APML site for any info you need
• Emily Chang – Blog: Lifestream to APML – Emily discusses her forray into the world of APML and offers several resources as well
• Viewpoints – Let’s review. – Interesting community based review site

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• Tumblr Takes 750K Series A – More proof that investors are now funding Lifestreaming. Tumblr gets funding
• Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter? – Mashable’s news on the Google purchase of Jaiku. Lifestreaming finally hits the big time in the form of a major acquisition
• Share Personal Memes on Meemi – Mashable info on another Tumblr inspired service called Meemi
• listography: your life in lists – Interesting minimal list creation site that could be used to create a manually based Lifestream. I found this via the first BoingBoing video show
• Soup turns big ideas into teeny blogs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – Webware info on Soup which is a Tumblr inspired Lifestream service
• Slifeshare Relaunches Sharing Network – Mashable info on Lifestreaming service Slifeshare
• Utterz: Yet another nanoblog platform… or is it? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – Webware info on a new service that has some Lifestreaming features
• Readr: Latest News Feed Aggregator – Mashable blurb on a new Lifestreamin service called Readr
• Elsewhere I’m: Relationship Update Stream – Interesting development from Six Apart on what appears to be another player in the movement happening to build backend systems to help communicate data in a better fashion than just polling for feeds.
• [OC]ModShop – Enable 4GB of memory on Vista: I need my 4GB! – Guide to unlocking unused memory if you have 4Gb RAM and you are running Vista 32-bit. I tried the simple fixes which didn’t help, and I didn’t feel like messing with my Bios so I remain using only 3.5Gb of my RAM
• WordPress Theme Hacks – Here’s a ton of insight into the WordPress code that include mods that allow you to convert it to be used as a CMS

]]> http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-october-16th-2007-through-october-20th-2007/feed/ 0 http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-september-21st-2007-through-october-13th-2007/ http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-september-21st-2007-through-october-13th-2007/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:31:05 +0000 Mark Krynsky http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-september-21st-2007-through-october-13th-2007/ These are my web travels for September 21st 2007 through October 13th 2007:

• The Worst Thing about Macs – And the winner is….drumroll please….The users! No surprise here. However I doubt this post will stop them from drinking the kool aid
• 10 tips for improving your wireless network – Some good tips to optimize a wireless network
• Phone Scoop – I came across this site while researching the Samsung i760 phone which I am considering to buy from Verizon
• Kongregate: Play Desktop Tower Defense – I read about this addicting little flash game in Wired. It passed my son’s good game testing procedures and I liked it too
• BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages. – Found this Bible resource by accident and it looks like a great site.
• Weekend Project: Soup Up Your Xbox Media Center – Lifehacker – I upgraded to this flavor of XBMC. If you haven’t heard of XBMC, it’s the best Media Player available for your Home Theater system and runs on the old XBOX. A bit tricky to get running but well worth it
• ThemBid.com » Blog Archive » Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop – Always useful to have some photoshop skills.
• Covertastic.com – Great site to get CD or DVD covers. I sarted using this to get cover art to my new iPod Nano.
• Kevin Kelly — KK* Lifestream – Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly’s version of a Lifestream. It’s actually an aggregated view of his posts to many different blogs.
• T3CH XBMC BINARY RELEASES / DOWNLOADS for XBOX, Latest SVN = 2007-09-23 rev10329 : I AIM TO MISBEHAVE – This is a recommended distribution of XBMC for the XBOX. I am trying the latest version tonite.
• Virtual Hosting Blog » 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images – This list should come in very handy. I like using photos every so often for posts as well as my poetry
• The Apple Store: Where Intelligent People Go to Die – Love the title…love the post…sad commentary on the Apple freaks out there. Applegasm…classic!
• 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write : [chrisbrogan.com] – Here’s a great list of reasons that should inspire me to write something as soon as I find time

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• PR 2.0 – Silicon Valley – Lifestreams Channel Online Activity, Creating Rivers of Relevance – Some general commentary on Lifestreaming that also appears to have been spurred by Steve Rubel’s Lifestream
• US WebBlog » Blog Archive » No time to blog? Why you should start your own lifestream… – Using Lifestreams as a method to Micro-blog when you don’t have time for normal blog posts
• Get Engagd: Creating an APML file from your Lifestream – Chris Saad offers us an easy way to create an APML file from our Lifestreams
• Who needs Carnivore when you have lifestreams | WinExtra – Commentary on Lifestreams and fear of losing privacy
• IPhone: Bill Maher Rips iPhone Fanboys a New One – Gizmodo – I can’t get enough of people ripping on Apple fanboys
• World Rally Championship – I’ve recently become a big fan of Rally and sadly heard about the passing of Colin McRae. These are the most talented drivers in the world by far. Nascar has nothing on these guys.
• Smarty : Template Engine – Keep this in mind for some future development efforts
• How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great on Squidoo – Good tips on optimizing the method used to encode videos for best quality to upload to Youtube
• gameupdates.org – Download game patch, demo, trailer via bittorrent fast – With the recent mega size downloads for Bioshock & Medal of Honor Airborne game demos topping over 1GB I found this great pc gaming torrent site to help bring em down faster
• Drupal Performance Tuning and Optimization for large web sites | 2BITS.com – Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting – This is going to come in very handy for my current project
• CRICAVA.org – PHPBB.module for Drupal – I needed a way to provide a single account and authorization point between Drupal and phpBB and tthis appears to be a great modified version of the original module that enabled this
• Behold: Dell’s XPS 420 revealed – Engadget – This looks like a sweet machine…buy or build…decisions, decisions
• LA Drupal – Los Angeles Drupal Group Site

]]> http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-23rd-2007-through-september-19th-2007/feed/ 0 http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-17th-2007-through-august-22nd-2007/ http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-17th-2007-through-august-22nd-2007/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:30:06 +0000 Mark Krynsky http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-17th-2007-through-august-22nd-2007/ These are my web travels for August 17th 2007 through August 22nd 2007:

• ActionThis to Offer Task Management, Integration & Analytics for Teamwork – New tool for online project management that also lists several others
• Library clips :: Centre of my web 2.0 universe :: July :: 2007 – John provides more insight to Lifestreams and Friendstreams and references several tools.
• The Steve Rubel Aggregator – Steve Rubel’s Lifestream using Tumblr
• » 20 Ways To Aggregate Your Social Networking Profiles – Here’s a roundup with brief descriptions of many services that can be used to Lifestream.
• Tech News Speak: Prematurely Squirted is the New Word for “Leaked” – internalmi6.com – technology news xbox 360 ps3 software hardware unix windows – Post on how Jaiku officially “leaked” their new symbian software. Gotta love the headline
• A CSS styled table version 2 | Veerle’s blog – I used the first version of this tutorial to style a table on my Lifestream Blog. Will take a look at this new version for more tips
• Color + Design Blog / Colors of Religion: Buddhism by COLOURlovers – Interesting article on how color plays a role in Budhism. This is also a beautifully designed site worth looking at regardless of this article
• Bootdisk.Com Utilities – Good list of Software Utilities
• Don’t pay for eBay selling tools! (Free eBay Seller Software) | The Auction Software Review – These tips and tools could be useful for any future Ebay sales I plan on making
• Ask E.T.: Moderating internet forums: What’s smart, not what’s new – This may be helpful guidance for managing several new community areas I’m working on including Forums
• Free Games That Don’t Suck! – Facepunch Studios – Here’s a nice list of some quality free games
• Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Google Working on Social Network Aggregator – Interesting speculation about a Google possibly developing a Social Network Aggregator
• Predictions! – Lifestreaming will get more automated in the future.
• Elaminen Lifestream – Here’s a nice looking stream
• Minesweeper The Movie – CollegeHumor video – This is one of the funniest game adaption movies I have ever seen. Well worth the view!
• Amazon.com: Have You Never Been Mellow: Music: Olivia Newton-John – A little trivia. What artist had a hit album in the 70′s who had a track on the record called Lifestream?
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 10 Ways to Socially Manage Your Money « – I really need to spend more time managing my money and hopefully will find time to look into these resources

]]> http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-17th-2007-through-august-22nd-2007/feed/ 2 http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-8th-2007-through-august-16th-2007/ http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-8th-2007-through-august-16th-2007/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:32:07 +0000 Mark Krynsky http://krynsky.com/my-web-travels-for-august-8th-2007-through-august-16th-2007/ These are my web travels for August 8th 2007 through August 16th 2007:

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » ShakeMap Archive – Here’s a good real time view of earthquakes in southern california. With 2 within miles of my house over the last 2 weeks I thought I should bookmark the page
• PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner – It appears that every day I need to learn more about web development and this looks like a good source for info
• Aggregating myself with Yahoo! Pipes – Download Squad – Here’s a guide you can use to create a single aggregated RSS feed which you could use for your Lifestream using Yahoo Pipes
• Blah, Blah! Technology: Social Networks: mobile micro-blogging – Some thoughts on Lifestreaming while being mobile as welll as workstreaming
• Stream by Zach Hale – Very nicely put together Lifestream
• HOWTO: Integrate Tumblr with WordPress | Sophistechate – Great tutorial for you Tumblr fans out there
• The Next Big Virtual Good | Hyper Public – Interesting article on an important aspect with regards to the Lifesream revolution which is of course the mighty dollar. This post goes into possible methods of monetizing Lifestreams and business models that can be created around them
• Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Master Your Information Manifesto: 21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload « – My life is all about information overload and finding ways to cope with it. Hopefully this article helps out
• Info for event ci14312160 – Woke up to a violent shake and found this out in the morning. It can be scary living in SoCal
• RAID 0 vs. RAID 1 performance – Topic Powered by eve community – I’ve been researching the performance differences between RAID 0 & 1 for my new system. This comment thread helps demistify a bit

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• css.maxdesign.com.au – CSS resources and tutorials for web designers and web developers – Great CSS Tips and Tutorials
• Library clips :: Friendstreams :: July :: 2007 – Great post by John covering what a Friendstream is and the various services that allow you to create them
• django-lifestream | zerokspot.com – Here’s a post where someone created a Lifesream for django inspired by Jeff Croft and Manuella Hoffman
• Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Privacy in a world of lifestreaming – Another Lifestreaming and Privacy post
• cearta.ie » Blog Archive » You don’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone? Privacy in a world gone Web2.0 – Interesting post on privacy that mentions Lifestreaming and this blog
• Contemporary Mahogany Charging Station – Frontgate – This looks like a cool replacement for my current valet
• Who is Hosting This? – Type in a domain name and find out what company is hosting it
• Read what matters – AideRSS – Great Feed Analyzer to rank itmes in your feeds based on several factors including how many users have commented on each item. Great idea to help good stuff to bubble up. I’m hoping Google Reader adds this
• Get Engagd: Announcing Engagd.com – The first open, standards based Attention Platform – APML for the masses available now
• /Message: Flow and Streams – Here’s a post making the observation that lifestreams are starting to become mainstream
• Library clips :: Meta-identity content, ok then Lifestreams :: April :: 2007 – This is an excellent reference for lifestreaming services

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• Neomeme » Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia – Great additional ways to use Wikipedia
• urlgreyhot | michael angeles – Nice Drupal powered site I came across
• 70+ Tools For Job Hunting 2.0 – These may come in handy as I’m currently on the market.
• TR’s July 2007 system guide – Powered by Newegg – The Tech Report – Page 1 – Good reference for determining components for my next computer purchase
• Internet Archive: Audio Archive – I’ve used archive.org for historical cached versions of web pages but wasn’t aware of their great library of audio and music until my friend pointed it out.
• Lorem Ipsum – All the facts – Lipsum generator – Very useful Lorem Ipsum generator that also provides the history behind this common dummy text used everywhere
• Compete – An interesting looking web analytics service
• Lijit | Home – This is a service that allows you to create a custom search engine. It allows the addition of the source data to roll your own engine and supports the ability to add content from all your profiles across Lifestream services. I will review this soon.
• NewTeeVee Five Free Services for Broadcasting Yourself Live « – Here’s a roundup of the up and coming live streaming services out there. This may be a good source to consider adding to a Lifestream if they allow saving of clips and providing rss feeds of them.
• Absinthe and Absinthe Accessories – I tried Absinthe a few years ago but it wasn’t official but more of a watered down version and I didn’t really feel anything. I am told this is the real stuff.

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• NPR : Songs about Feet, Math, Baseball: New Kids’ Music – Listened to this story on NPR and these really are some good kid song alternatives
• Mindomo – Web-based mind mapping software – Web based mind mapping service
• stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site –
• Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos | iStockphoto.com –
• Yotophoto | Find free photos… fast! –
• The Star Online : TechCentral – Malaysia Technology – Article provides differences between Dell e520 and 9200. I’m considering to buy a 9200 soon

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