Ajay on January 29th, 2007

Midi files have a variety of uses. You can play them on your computer, your cellphone and your synthesizer. Unfortunately, you still can’t play them on your music player.
What if you’re a musician and have created that beautiful piece and saved it in midi. How, do you spread it to people who prefer using a [...]

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Ajay on January 29th, 2007

Every once in a while an image editing software comes along that claims to be as good as Adobe Photoshop. One such software has been GIMP, which was primarily an image editing software for Linux.
When it came to Windows, one software that stood out has been Paint.NET.
Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software [...]

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Ajay on January 28th, 2007

ZDNet Blogs has a report about Bill Gates’ speech at the Davos World Economic Forum.
If you want to charge somebody $0.10 or $1 a month, that will just be a click…you won’t have to manage some funny thing or pay some big credit charge, where half of it goes to the clearing.
It appears [...]

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Ajay on January 28th, 2007

If you have missed reading the Techtites Daily this week, below is a list of everything I covered this week.
Jan 23 - Tool Tuesday: Virtual Drive Creator
Jan 24 - WordPress Wednesday: Patching UTW for WordPress 2.1
Jan 25 - Tip Thursday: about:blank saves bandwidth
Jan 26 - Fun Friday: Predict your Death
Jan 27 - Software Saturday: µBook [...]

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Ajay on January 28th, 2007

Found this at Techcrunch.
For those who are waiting desperately for Apple’s iPhone, you can now download this image, print it out, fold it along the dotted lines and you have you’re very own iPhone.

Who says the best things in life aren’t for free?
Sneakmove also has a version of this in PDF format, which instructions.
Ohh… the [...]

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Ajay on January 27th, 2007

“We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users,” Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said at the World Economic Forum. “So in the coming months, we are going to be opening that up.”
These words herald great news for the millions [...]

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Ajay on January 27th, 2007

Though it has been a while since I read a book, I do try to catch up on reading whenever I can.
For those who like reading on the PC, Project Gutenberg is an amazing source for getting a great number of books. These books are available in HTML and TXT formats besides others.

Reading files in [...]

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Ajay on January 26th, 2007

In a bid to improve performance of individual ad units, Adsense has introduced ad placements.
In addition to creating a custom channel, you can now designate it to be available to advertisers.

The screenshot above (from the Inside Adsense blog) shows you how to create / edit a custom channel and designate it to be an ad [...]

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Ajay on January 26th, 2007

Amazon has released a wiki exclusively for products. Titled Amapedia, it can be editted by anybody with an Amazon id.
Amapedia is a community for sharing information about the products you like the most.
Amapedia introduces an exciting new way of organizing products we call “collaborative structured tagging”. In a nutshell, it makes it easy for you [...]

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Ajay on January 25th, 2007

I’m not sure how much of a “fun” thing it is when a site tells you that you are going to die, but it sure is amusing to read about how you’re going to die.
But that is what The Amazing Death Predictor does.
All you have to do is answer a few questions and the engines [...]

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