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I’m sure you have all seen the videos on YouTube of people who took a picture a day for a year and compiled it into a video. Well now thanks to Flickaday you too can have faceblog of yourself from the comfort of your own home. Flickaday takes the idea and makes it super simple. Go to their website, enter your login and password and click Take my Picture. Bam! your picture is taken and its added to your collection. It uses Flash to access your webcam so no additional software is needed. They generate a widget that you can embed anywhere you’d would like, just like the one above. Even add some music. The webpage will email you if you haven’t taken a picture for the day yet so you don’t forget. You can only take one picture a day so make it count. I decided against this kinda project when I started my Project 365 but the website makes it super simple so I’ll be uploading my picture each day until I get tired of it.

Remember the Milk is the first 3rd party web app to make use of Google Gears for offline access. RTM is the 2nd app I use on a daily basis to be given the offline treatment; the other being Google Reader. Since Google Gears was released, I’ve switched back to Firefox just so I could play around with it and now I’m back to a Firefox as my main browser. Firefox 3.0 plans to bring all web apps offline and I’m now seeing how this kinda access is going to change the web once again. My guess is the Google Gears code is going to be giving back to Mozilla to incorporate into Firefox. Now if they can just release Gmail and Google Doc and Spreadsheets as offline apps I think I’d be in my glory.

I’m a little late with this but last week CBS bought one of my favorite social networking sites Last.fm. Last.fm is based on audioscrobbler technology and tracks what the music you listen to setup a social network of friends, neighbors with similar tastes, and new music you might like based on what you listen too. They also offer streaming music based off all those criteria if you have a paid account. Not really sure were CBS is going to take the site but I’m interested to see what corporate backing is going to bring to the table. Since the site is based in the UK, they were one of the sites that missed a bullet with the recent FCC changes to streaming music. Either way I’m happy for the guys that run the site. The site is amazing and keeps getting updated every few months with new features and fixes. Lets just hope it only gets better now.

I started a tumblelog to post stuff thats interesting but don’t really warrant an entire blog post or I just don’t have the time.

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The Totally Rad Show is a new Revision3 show featuring Alex from diggnation, Dan from Geekdrome and Jeff Cannata from who knows where. The show is a weekly review show featuring the latest movies, comics and video games. Its hard not to see the comparisons to Geekdrome, especially with the fact that Dan was one of the hosts of Geekdrome and there was even an episode of Geekdrome that featured Dan, Alex and Jeff all together. But thats neither here nor there.

For me iFanboy and TRS have been replacement for Geekdrome . I know Jonathan London is doing his thing with Geekscape but Geekscape has just been bothering me lately for some reason and I can’t put my finger one it. I’ve been LOVING iFanboy tho and hopefully TRS will fill the movie, TV and video game part of Geekdrome I miss so much.

Anyways, you can download The Totally Rad Show from Revision3 or subscribe to it via iTunes.

Last month I started cleaning up my RSS feeds in the hope of making them less of a chore. Well, its been one month since then and I have deleted 72 feeds that have saved me 10,000 articles a month. This has helped me keep my RSS feeds manageable and I no longer feel like I’m a slave to Google Reader.

One of the biggest things I did was remove digg from my RSS reader. Why? Well first off it was my highest traffic feed, so deleting it helped save me hours a day and 2nd, I also go to digg.com anyways to digg articles. There was no real reason to have it in my RSS reader. So now what I do is once a day goto digg.com and look through the last few pages digging and reading as I go.

I can still trim a little more in the way of feeds but for now I’m a lot more productive during the day as I’m not tied to my RSS reader all the time. If I delete my new top traffic feed, techbargians.com, I can save another 2500 articles a month and probably some money too since I won’t see all the great bargains that I “must” have.

If you visit this page via RSS, you may not of noticed I’ve added a “shared articles” link to my link bar. What this is is a link to my shared items on Google Reader. I use this to keep track of what article I want to follow up on or read later. So now you can see what I’m reading too. You can even subscribe to it via RSS. Since I’m constantly adding and removing items, subscribing to the feed feed might be the best way to keep up.

[Link to my Google Reader Shared Items page]
[My OPML file]