Find Out How A Website is Tracking You 17 Mar 2011, 5:48 pm

Ghostery is your window into the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons that are included on web pages in order to get an idea of your online behavior. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

Available as extensions for Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, Ghostery also lets you block the trackers it finds, and view the source of suspect scripts. Running it is quite an eye-opener, to say the least.

Really cool to see what websites are really running on your computer!

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MacTV: The iPad 2 Apple Retail Video 15 Mar 2011, 2:15 am

For those of you who collect, here is the Apple Retail iPad 2 launch video!

Geek Out Your Status With httpstat.us 10 Mar 2011, 9:15 am

This is a super simple service for generating different HTTP codes. It’s useful for testing how your own scripts deal with varying responses. Just add the status code you want to the URL, like this: httpstat.us/200

Very handy with the geeky coding crowd… Or if you are a little teapot!

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Subsonic: The Free Media Streaming Tool 24 Feb 2011, 2:28 am

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.

The streamer is cross-platform, free and open source, and will stream everything from MP3s to Shorten files. (Though you need to pay for the third party iPhone client apps, and donate to the project to unlock certain features.)

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Hate Your ISP’s Webmail? Maybe Try This Beautiful Browser-based Multilingual IMAP Client 31 Jan 2011, 6:54 pm

So you hate your ISP’s webmail? Check out Roundcube!

Roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Easy to roll on your own server!

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Turn Your iPhone Into A Desktop Phone 31 Jan 2011, 3:59 am

The iPhone is awesome, but try having a 10 minute conversation on it, how about 20? Sometimes I wish I had a handset for it so it would be easier to hold up to my ear with my shoulder.

Enter the Desktop Handset, which costs about $59.95. You can do all the normal functions on your phone while making a call, and don’t have to pull it away from your face every time you need to look at something on it. This phone set will plug into your phones earphone jack, and will charge via USB or wall outlet.

NEAT!

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Free Video Converter: The Freeware Program that Does Photo, Video and Audio Conversion 13 Jan 2011, 4:40 pm

Free Video Converter is a free media conversion program which combines a great looking user interface with some seriously powerful functionality. There’s no shortage of video converters out there (Such as Handbrake), which offer to transform video into different format for different devices and uses, but this is a well designed program that also offers image slide show, and audio conversion on the fly within the same interface.

Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MPEG, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, rip & burn DVD, convert online videos directly from 40+ sites, burn Blu-ray, and upload to YouTube with our free video converter! Windows only.

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Get a Year of Amazon Prime for Free (Yup, Even if You’re Not a Student!) 12 Jan 2011, 5:39 pm

So for those of us who don’t know, Amazon Prime is a nice service that gets you 2-day shipping on virtually everything for free- well after the initial $80 fee that you have to pay to sign up.

Amazon is good to students, and gives them a year of Amazon Prime for free. But, you need is to somehow get your hands on a .edu address. With Australia.edu, for instance, you can create an email address that ends in .edu, and then sign up for your free Amazon Prime subscription. It’s as easy as that.

Something BIG is Happening at the Apple Store Today! 10 Jan 2011, 1:16 am

As reported by a TwitPic all Apple retail stores are having an “all hands meeting” TONIGHT, which requires all employees to show up. But, there is a fun twist! All Apple’s retail store windows are being covered in black cloths to prevent people from seeing what is happening inside. Can it be the Verizon iPhone? We will find out 1/11!

UPDATE:: TUAW has to pointed out some interesting commentary:

Despite the unrelated coverup, we’re hearing that retail employees will have a meeting next weekend for the “red zone” — a code name given to the sales area of the floor. We’re also hearing of a possible new set up area, meaning you may see a part of stores set up to accommodate new iPhone purchasers get their phones activated. This would be great for Verizon customers suddenly flocking to Apple’s warm embrace, yes? At any rate, it’s more about the service than the product, both in the retail experience and on your network when you leave the store.

Welcome Mac App Store… Seems Like Its Hacked Already! 7 Jan 2011, 3:03 am

This morning Apple launched the App store for Mac which is either a blessing or a curse for users. However, it seems less then 24 hours after launch the DRM in the App Store has been figured out.

Install the latest Snow Leopard update(10.6.6). Sign into the new App Store (in your dock). Download Twitter, it’s free. Then go to Applications folder, locate Twitter, right click, Show Package Contents, navigate to Contents folder and copy _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources.

Download Angry Birds ( http://bit.ly/gy9wzk ).. run the dmg file.. drag Angry Birds into the Applications folder. right click, Show Package Contents, navigate to Contents folder and delete _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources. Now paste in the files you copied from the Twitter.app .

Done. Enjoy Angry Birds and any other .app file from the new Mac App Store that you can find online ;)

Now I can’t tell if its a hack, broken DRM or just a certificate issue with developers – but an interesting development none the less!