You Tube tools

The always handy Quick Online Tips has come up with a great list of third-party YouTube tools that "enhance your YouTube experience." Here's three that I especially liked: * Youtube Video Slideshow - insert a username or a video tag below and it starts a slideshow. * YouTube badge maker - will show your viewers images of your 6 most recently uploaded videos. * Capture Youtube and Google videos - save them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command. * Youtube Video Slideshow - insert a username or a video tag below and it starts a slideshow. * YouTube badge maker - will show your viewers images of your 6 most recently uploaded videos. * Capture Youtube and Google videos - save them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command. See anything that should be on the list and isn't? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. — Wendy Boswell The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection [Quick Online Tips via eHub] click here

Lifehacker - a brilliant website

Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live. Click here

Email plugin for Wordpress

Now this could be very handy. A way to make the post by email feature on wordpress more usable! http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395

An intro to Cron

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

Cron Jobs

Cron Jobs...... The crontab command, found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. It reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into a file also known as a "crontab" which is later read and whose instructions are carried out. The name is derived from Greek chronos meaning time. Generally, the schedules modified by crontab are enacted by a daemon, = crond, which runs constantly in the background and checks once a minute to see if any of the scheduled jobs need to be executed. If so, it executes them. These jobs are generally referred to as cron jobs I want to do more investigation into cron jobs. I recently had to do a work around when told to set up a cron to check my mail account every 15 mins, thus posting new blog entries. I couldnt begin to learn how to do it (not a server geek) so I found this page which had a wordpress plugin that checks the account on a timed basis. Not from the server time (cron) but from the user page request..... this slows down access rates though. Heres the wordpress issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33523 Heres the plugin: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/05/26/plugin-wp-cron/=

Car Websites

Usually car websites are rather good, they go all out and its one
place where flash really works.
I stumbled across this site for the new Volvo S80. While the Volvo
features are interesting, the whole future interface is dire.

Click here to view the site

Google (cough) Napster

Turn Google into your own personal (free) Napster Google is good for so many things, among which is searching for all sorts of files, including MP3's. Here's a quick primer: * -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana" Just substitute the term "Nirvana" for any band or singer you might be looking for, and your search will lead you to open indexes that contain downloadable music files.