Download Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gifDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comen-usCopyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Flickr finally launches embeddable slideshow widgethttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/21/flickr-finally-launches-embeddable-slideshow-widget/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/21/flickr-finally-launches-embeddable-slideshow-widget/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/21/flickr-finally-launches-embeddable-slideshow-widget/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Image sharing site Flickr has allowed users to view attractive slideshows of search results or image sets for a while now. But for some reason, up until now you had to rely on a third party service if you wanted to embed that slideshow on your own web page. Or you could create an iFrame and figure out how to create the code yourself. But who wants to go through the trouble?

This week, Flickr finally added the ability to share a slideshow with other users. Just click the Share link when viewing any slideshow on Flickr. You get two options: a URL that links to the slideshow you're viewing or HTML code that will let you embed a smaller version on your web page.

The slideshow embedded at the top of this post shows search results for the word "compiz."

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]]>embedflickrslideshowBrad Linder2008-08-21T16:00:00+00:00Mygazines - read magazines online for free until?http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/19/mygazines-read-magazines-online-for-free-until/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/19/mygazines-read-magazines-online-for-free-until/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/19/mygazines-read-magazines-online-for-free-until/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Mygazines
Mygazines.com is a Flash based site where you can read most of your favorite magazines online for free. The big question is for how long, since this is copyrighted material after all, and as Folio reports, the magazine trade association MPA has already threatened legal action against the site.

Content on the site is uploaded by users and then displayed in a neat Flipbook reader with lots of tools like zoom, search, keyboard shortcuts, article directory, etc. You can also create your own magazine with content you supposedly own, upload it and share with others.

Since the site was registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and is hosted by PRQ of Sweden, the same web host of Pirate Bay infamy, does the piracy theme apply? Although there are arguments aplenty for why publishers should be happy about their content being shared online - increased readership, more ad views, ability to go viral, etc., there is still that pesky copyright infringement argument that just won't go away.

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]]>copyright infringementcopyright violationCopyrightInfringementCopyrightViolationmagazine sharingMagazineSharingmymagazinesp2pDolores Parker2008-08-19T15:00:00+00:00Use Tweetake To Back Up Your Twitterhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/18/tweetake-twitter-backup-webapp/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/18/tweetake-twitter-backup-webapp/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/18/tweetake-twitter-backup-webapp/#commentsFiled under: , ,


If you're a heavy Twitter user, you've no doubt accumulated a huge collection of tiny text messages. Losing all that information would be a giant pain, but how do you save a copy for yourself? Have a look at Tweetake!

The interface is dead simple: enter your Twitter username and password, select what you want to back up, and press Get 'em! to release the hounds.

Within a few seconds Tweetake presents you with a CSV file containing all your valuable messages. Tweetake grabs the sender's name and screen name, their location and description, timestamp, and the tweet text, along with just about all the other info that Twitter stores.

How many of you back up the files on your PC regularly? I'd wager the number backing up online data (like Twitter) is even lower. Play it safe, and back up your tweets!
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]]>backuptweetstwitterLee Mathews2008-08-18T15:00:00+00:00Googleholic for August 15, 2008http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/googleholic-for-august-15-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/googleholic-for-august-15-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/googleholic-for-august-15-2008/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,



Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.

In this edition:

  • Google apologizes for e-mail downtime
  • Docs spreadsheet gets new features
  • AdSense for Feeds is launching
  • Google Reader improves sharing
  • First Android phone to launch in Q4

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]]>androidgmailgooglegoogle docsgoogle formsGoogleDocsGoogleFormsgoogleholicChristina Warren2008-08-15T18:00:00+00:00Drop.io Firefox extension enables drag and drop uploadinghttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/13/drop-io-firefox-extension-enables-drag-and-drop-uploading/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/13/drop-io-firefox-extension-enables-drag-and-drop-uploading/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/13/drop-io-firefox-extension-enables-drag-and-drop-uploading/#commentsFiled under: , ,

drag and drop.io
Online file sharing service Drop.io already provides one of the easiest ways to share documents and media files. Now the company is making things even easier with a Firefox addon that lets you drag and drop files to your browser.

Here's how it works. You install the somewhat cleverly titled Drag & Drop.io extension and create a drop point by visiting Drop.io. Then you can just drag any files from your desktop to your web browser and watch while they're uploaded and in some cases converted for easy online access.

Too busy to actually create a drop point manually? Just drag your files over the little red check box in your status bar. The plugin will automatically create a drop point and open it up for you. So you can be browsing your favorite web site (like, say Download Squad?) and uploading files at the same time, without bothering to visit the Drop.io web page first.

The plugin is cross-platform and works with Firefox for Windows, OS X and Linux.
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]]>addondrag-and-dropdrop.iofirefoxfirefox-pluginBrad Linder2008-08-13T16:00:00+00:00KlipFolio might be the only desktop widget you ever needhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/12/klipfolio-might-be-the-only-desktop-widget-you-ever-need/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/12/klipfolio-might-be-the-only-desktop-widget-you-ever-need/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/12/klipfolio-might-be-the-only-desktop-widget-you-ever-need/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

KlipFolio
KlipFolio is a desktop application that lets you access online content like RSS feeds, weather forecasts, Flickr slideshows, YouTube videos, and other web content. We first checked out KlipFolio more than two years ago when it was little more than a widgetized RSS reader. But the application has come a long way since then.

You can now use KlipFolio to subscribe to all sorts of content. Pretty much anything with an RSS feed is fair game, but you can also browse the KlipFolio web site for specialized "klip sets," including email notifiers, social network updates, or content from webcams. There are also klip sets that let you monitor shoutcast streams or see the latest updates to the iTunes music store.

KlipFolio 5 beta D also has a slick new interface. You can dock the application to the top, bottom, left, or right side of your screen or let it float free. You can rearrange your klips by dragging and dropping. And you can choose from a variety of customizable skins.

The Windows application is also pretty lightweight compared with other desktop widget engines, eating just under 10MB of RAM during my test.

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]]>klipfoliorsswidgetsBrad Linder2008-08-12T16:30:00+00:00Googleholic for August 8, 2008http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/googleholic-for-august-8-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/googleholic-for-august-8-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/googleholic-for-august-8-2008/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.

In this edition:

  • Olympic madness
  • Google Translate comes to the iPhone
  • New Google Earth API resources
  • Directly link to Google Mapplets
  • Get your Picasa prints at Walgreens

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]]>googlegoogle earthgoogle translateGoogleEarthgoogleholicGoogleTranslateolympicspicasaChristina Warren2008-08-08T17:00:00+00:00Twitter - Fail = Rejawhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/rejaw-awesome-twitter-clone-alternative/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/rejaw-awesome-twitter-clone-alternative/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/rejaw-awesome-twitter-clone-alternative/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Microblogging options abound, most with drippy sounding names and many with half-baked functionality, having only been thrown together because Twitter was down again due to some kind of malfunction with the staffroom espresso machine. Rejaw, on the other hand, offers users a solid alternative with a number of excellent features. Without whales.

The basic idea's pretty much the same: shout and post something on your main profile page, whisper to send a private message to someone. nothing really special here yet, but bear with me.

Shouts, whispers, and replies are posted to the Rejaw servers almost instantly, so what you actually get is a more like an IRC/microblogging mashup than just another Twitter wannabe. The interface is nicely Ajaxed, and extremely responsive. Keep an eye on the status overlay at the bottom of your browser window, it'll let you know when new shouts and whispers are posted.

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]]>chatmicroblogmicrobloggingtwitterLee Mathews2008-08-08T15:00:00+00:00Mloovi translates RSS so you don't have to learn a foreign languagehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mloovi-translates-rss-so-you-dont-have-to-learn-a-foreign-langu/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mloovi-translates-rss-so-you-dont-have-to-learn-a-foreign-langu/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/mloovi-translates-rss-so-you-dont-have-to-learn-a-foreign-langu/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Mloovi
I have a hard time reading some of my favorite blogs, including Eee PC News and Blogeee because, well, I don't speak German or French. Not fluently anyway. Historically, I've tried to deal with this limitation of mine by subscribing to each site's RSS feed and trying to figure out what articles are about by squinting at the headlines, scratching my head, and looking at the pictures. Every now and again I find something I think might be interesting and I pop it into Google Translate. But I'm fairly certain I'm missing some interesting stories this way.

Mloovi is a new service that makes it much easier to follow a blog or news site published in a language you don't speak. Mloovi basically takes the contents of the feed, runs it through Google Translate, and then syndicates a new feed.

There are a few limitations to Mloovi-generated feeds. First, you'll occasionally be confronted with an advertisement, but Mloovi needs to make money somehow. Second, Mloovi strips images from RSS feeds and only shows a partiel feed even if a web site's original feed was full text. But Mloovi can still be big time saver if you want to follow some foreign language sites. Mloovi works with any languages supported by Google Reader, including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Hindi, Norwegian and English.

Mlovi also has a handy widget that lets web publishers offer subscription links in mulitple languages.

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]]>mloovirsstranslateBrad Linder2008-08-07T16:00:00+00:00Turbanizer: You, But With a Turban! - Time Wasterhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/turbanizer-you-but-with-a-turban-time-waster/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/turbanizer-you-but-with-a-turban-time-waster/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/07/turbanizer-you-but-with-a-turban-time-waster/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

I tried not to post about this, but after using it I just couldn't help myself.

Yet another head-in-hole type photo manipulator, Turbanizer takes your image and allows you to overlay any of several fashionable turbans. The simple interface provides the granular controls you'll need to create an oh-so-convincing composite: it'll scale your photo or the turban as well as tweak the color intensity of your fabulous new headgear.

With more than 120,000 beautiful creations to date, the public is clearly embracing the opportunity to try on a turban without making the lengthy plane ride to the Middle East. Why, Turbanizer's not only fun, it's also environmentally friendly! There's even support for your Flickr and Facebook photos (though laziness and the desire to produce the screenshot above necessitated a Google image search, in my case).

As a bonus, Turbanizer even displays interesting facts about turbans while you wait for their Flash application to load. Give it a try yourself - and as-salaam alaykum!
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]]>funfunnygeorge bushGeorgeBushphotophoto manipulationPhotoManipulationturbanturbansLee Mathews2008-08-07T11:00:00+00:00Atomkeep synchronizes your profile across social networkshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/06/atomkeep-synchronizes-your-profile-across-social-networks/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/06/atomkeep-synchronizes-your-profile-across-social-networks/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/06/atomkeep-synchronizes-your-profile-across-social-networks/#commentsFiled under: , ,

AtomKeep
If you're a good, upstanding netizen, odds are you have accounts with half a dozen social networking service or more. You may only use one or two services, but if your friends or colleagues pressured you into signing up for LinkedIn, Plurk, or Pownce, you probably filled out an online profile before promptly forgetting about it. And now that you've moved, changed jobs, or gotten married, the profile is woefully out of date. Atomkeep can help.

Atomkeep lets you synchronize your profile information across more than 20 different services including Digg, YouTube, Blogger, Wordpress, Jobster, Facebook, and Twitter. You can choose from a huge list of category elements to fill out and when you hit the sync button Atomkeep will send that information to your social networks. You can sync with all of your networks at once or just select the ones you want to update from a list.

The coolest part of the service is the fact that you don't need to fill out your Atomkeep profile at all if you don't want to. It can import your profile from another service and merge it with your profile from other locations. So if your Facebook profile is already pretty complete but your Last.fm profile could use some work, Atomkeep can import the former and use the information to fill in the blanks on the latter.

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]]>atomkeepbloggerdiggfacebookjobsterlast.fmsocial-networkstwitterwordpressyoutubeBrad Linder2008-08-06T12:00:00+00:00Upload, Share, and Mirror in One Step With Rapidspreadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/rapidspread-rapidshare-upload-mirror/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/rapidspread-rapidshare-upload-mirror/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/04/rapidspread-rapidshare-upload-mirror/#commentsFiled under: , , ,


There are plenty of great places to upload and share files, so why not use a bunch of them all at once?

Rapidspread is a a simple file upload site that automatically forwards your files to as many as 10 filesharing sites. From the upload page, simply browse for your file(s), agree to the terms of service, and click share. Once the upload is complete, RapidSpread displays a URL to send to your friends as well as direct links to your file on the supported hosts it's been transferred to.

My test rar file successfully uploaded to eight of the ten possible hosts - not too shabby. When I chose to upload several images, RapidSpread was even smart enough to limit mirroring to the media-sharing services (ImageShack, Badongo, ZShare, and ZippyShare).

Anyone that uploads files on a regular basis will appreciate the simplicity and power of RapidSpread. If the developers would just intergrate a short URL service like bit.ly, this would be a truly killer service. Give it a shot, and see how it stacks up against your favorite service.

Thanks for the tip, Eran!
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]]>file sharingFileSharingmedia sharingMediaSharingp2ppeerrapidshareuploadingLee Mathews2008-08-04T13:00:00+00:00Googleholic for August 1, 2008http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/01/googleholic-for-august-1-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/01/googleholic-for-august-1-2008/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/01/googleholic-for-august-1-2008/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,



Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google.

In this, yes, we're alive edition:

  • Google tests automatic Blogger support for Google Reader
  • Gmail adds "never send it to Spam" filter
  • CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar
  • Multilingual Google
  • Google Maps transit directions come to more phones

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]]>caldavgmailgooglegoogle calendargoogle mapsgoogle readerGoogleCalendargoogleholicGoogleMapsGoogleReadericalChristina Warren2008-08-01T14:00:00+00:00Apprise: RSS reader with Twitter, AIM integrationhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/apprise-rss-reader-with-twitter-aim-integration/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/apprise-rss-reader-with-twitter-aim-integration/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/apprise-rss-reader-with-twitter-aim-integration/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , ,

Apprise
Sure, most RSS readers give you a few button that lets you share interesting stories you're reading with friends, loved ones, and enemies via email or a link blog. But what if you want to broadcast a story to your Twitter friends, or send a story by instant messenger? Apprise is an RSS reader designed to save you the few seconds it would take to copy and paste the link.

Apprise lets you sign into your AOL IM or Twitter account and send a page to your contacts with the click of a button. The reader is built on Adobe AIR, which means it should work on Windows, Linux, or OS X. But it's worth noting that Apprise is available as a public beta at the moment, which means you might experience some bugs. After importing a few hundred feeds, I found that Apprise crashed every few minutes. The Linux version is described as an alpha.

Aside from the Twitter and AIM integration, Apprise has a few other tricks up its sleeve. For example, you can view the full web version of any feed item. You can search your feeds, and you can import and export OPML files. One things you cannot do? Email a story to a friend.

[via Sizlopedia]
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]]>apprisefeed-readerrssrss-readerBrad Linder2008-07-31T14:00:00+00:00TweetParty Does Group Messaging for Twitterhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/tweetparty-does-group-messaging-for-twitter/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/tweetparty-does-group-messaging-for-twitter/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/31/tweetparty-does-group-messaging-for-twitter/#commentsFiled under: ,

If you're still into Twitter (and apparently a lot of you are), TweetParty offers a yet another service based on the Twitter API that you might want to check out.

To get started, just sign in with your Twitter user name and password and you're shown the "my groups" page. Enter a name for your group, click the "create" button, and TweetParty will add it to the current page.

Clicking "manage" gets to the good part: a simple drag-and-drop interface to turn Twitter friends into group members. When you're done, click "update party" and you're done-- there's no limit to the number of groups you can set up.

Add TweetParty as a friend on Twitter, and you're set. Send a direct message to TweetParty with #yourgroupname in front, and they'll take care of the rest. It's a great service, especially on days Twitter is functioning properly.
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]]>group messagingGroupMessagingtweettwitterLee Mathews2008-07-31T11:00:00+00:00Task2Gather: Online task manager with mobile clients coming soonhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/30/task2gather-online-task-manager-with-mobile-clients-coming-soon/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/30/task2gather-online-task-manager-with-mobile-clients-coming-soon/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/30/task2gather-online-task-manager-with-mobile-clients-coming-soon/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Task2Gather
Vito Technology is probably best known for developing software for Windows Mobile and Symbian phones and PDAs. But the company has just made the jump into a new arena: web apps. First up is an online task manager called Task2Gather.

The interface is clean and easy to use, if not entirely intuitive. It took me a few moments to figure out how to name new tasks or projects, for example (you type in the Name & description box, but it wasn't immediately clear that the light blue area was a text box). You can either see a list of all your tasks from multiple projects at once, or you can browse tasks using a tree mode, which lets you pick a project and look at your finished and unfinished tasks and sub-tasks. You can also invite other users to share your task list.

Overall Task2Gather is useful if you want to keep your task list online and accessible from any computer, but there are other task managers out there that accomplish this as well or better. Vito has an ace up its sleeve though: the company plans to release a Windows Mobile and iPhone version of Task2Gather soon. These mobile clients will likely not only let you create and manage tasks while you're on the go, but also synchronize them with the web client.

Task2Gather is free to use. Eventually Vito plans to offer a subscription-based premium version with access to additional features like RSS feeds for task updates and the ability to upload file attachments for tasks.

[via My Today Screen]
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]]>remember-the-milktask-managertask2gathervito-technologyBrad Linder2008-07-30T15:00:00+00:00Dopplr's "Copenhagen" release tempts travelers with new featureshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/29/dopplrs-copenhagen-release-tempts-travelers-with-new-features/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/29/dopplrs-copenhagen-release-tempts-travelers-with-new-features/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/29/dopplrs-copenhagen-release-tempts-travelers-with-new-features/#commentsFiled under: , ,

We haven't written much about Dopplr, a social network for travelers, since we talked about its launch last year. If you're a jetsetter, or even someone who travels a couple of times a year and has a lot of friends, we'd like to direct your attention to the new features in Dopplr's "Copenhagen" release, which has been out for less than a month. The key improvements include the ability to add trips by e-mail, Twitter and SMS, and the introduction of public profiles.

These new methods of adding trips are a followup to the iCal and Google Calendar support that Dopplr added earlier this year. Now you can either automatically update your Dopplr by updating your calendar, or you can send in your trips in almost any way you could wish for, short of mental telepathy. Public profiles mean you can show your trips to anybody, not just your Dopplr contacts, and choose how much information you want to share. At this point, we're basically looking for excuses to travel, just so we can use Dopplr.
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]]>Dopplrsocial networkingSocialNetworkingtraveltripsJay Hathaway2008-07-29T13:00:00+00:00Google Knol goes live, Wikipedia hardly quaking in its bootshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/google-knol-goes-live-wikipedia-hardly-quaking-in-its-boots/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/google-knol-goes-live-wikipedia-hardly-quaking-in-its-boots/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/google-knol-goes-live-wikipedia-hardly-quaking-in-its-boots/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Google Knol
Google has finally pulled back the curtain on its so-called Wikipedia killer, Google Knol. We first heard that Google was looking at launching a user-editable encyclopedia-style web services late last year. But to be perfectly honest, a lot's happened in the last 7 months and we kind of forgot about it. Now that it's here, we're not entirely sure it's fair to call it a Wikipedia-killer.

Knol provides a place to find information about topics ranging from lung cancer to toilet clogs. What makes it different from Wikipedia is that while any user can suggest alterations to articles, the original author gets to decide whether or not to include those changes. In theory, this will help prevent people who don't know what they're talking about from ripping apart an article from an authority on a topic. In practice, since anyone can write an article on any topic, whether they know what they're talking about or not, it could be even harder to find reliable information on Knol than Wikipedia.

Knol's saving grace might be that users can write multiple articles on the same topic. So if you think you know how to build a better mouse trap than the 20 other writers who have published their own methods, you can write your own article. Readers can then rank stories so hopefully only the most accurate and/or helpful "knols" will find their way to the top of the pile.

Creating a Knol is fairly straightforward. You just sign in with your Google account and start writing. You can also import documents create in Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF or TXT file.

[via Official Google Blog]
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]]>googleknolwikipediaBrad Linder2008-07-23T14:30:00+00:00Can't Finish Your New Limerick? Try WriteRhyme!http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/writerhyme-rhyme-words-poem-poetry/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/writerhyme-rhyme-words-poem-poetry/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/writerhyme-rhyme-words-poem-poetry/#commentsFiled under:


Rhyming dictionaries are great, not only because they help us finish off our salty poems, but also because they introduce us to spiffy new words like "Mashantucket."

WriteRhymes is a handy little resource for any aspiring poet - or anyone who like to annoy their co-workers by needlessly speaking in rhymes. Type some text in the box, alt + click a word, and suggested rhymes appear in a balloon. They're even grouped by syllable count for easy integration into your poetic rhythm.

You can even print, copy, and save your literary works via three handy buttons below the text box. Neato!

We did try, but sadly there are still no words that rhyme with orange or purple. Or verisimilitude, for that matter.
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]]>poempoetryrhymingrymewordswritingLee Mathews2008-07-23T11:00:00+00:00Vimeo bans gaming videos, starts debate among usershttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/vimeo-bans-gaming-videos-starts-debate-among-users/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/vimeo-bans-gaming-videos-starts-debate-among-users/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/23/vimeo-bans-gaming-videos-starts-debate-among-users/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Popular video hosting site Vimeo has announced that they will no longer allow videos of video games on the site. Specifically, they're going to be deleting "game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps, or any other video gaming videos that simply depict individuals playing a video game." As of September 1st, all videos that fall under that description will be deleted.

The staff blog post on the subject lists some reasons for the decision, including the staff's feeling that these videos don't meet the standards of "creative expression" that the site tries to uphold. More importantly, though, video game vids tend to be some of the longest and most common videos on the site, slowing down transcoding times for the other content that Vimeo is apparently trying to encourage.

Debate has already fired up in the comments section of the Vimeo blog, as users wonder why the site would cut off a type of video that is evidently popular enough to take up significant system resources. There's also a fair share of relieved comments from folks who are glad to see this type of "unoriginal" content removed from the site. We can see the points that both sides are making, but what's your take?

[via Eric Rice on Twitter]
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]]>moderationscreencastvideo gamesVideoGamesVimeoJay Hathaway2008-07-23T09:00:00+00:00