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POPSChangeToLink: post text or HTML snippets Works like ShortText.com (with a spiffier design) -- if you need to put a little bit of information online, you can just enter it in the text box, hit "Create page," and presto, you've got a link you can give people.
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POPSManage email, calendar, and contacts with your voice For $6 a month, subscribe to a service that can access your POP3 email, read it to you over the phone, and allow you to dictate replies. Very cool. Also lets you manage contacts and calendar, though I'm not yet sure I get how that part works.
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POPSFigure out who took a Flickr photo from the photo URL Sometimes you'll come across a link to a photo hosted at Flickr but not have any idea who took the photo or where to find it on the Flickr site. This method will solve the problem. (Note that you can often also solve it by Googling just the numeric portion of the photo URL, e.g., if you want to find who took the photo hosted here: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2237119567_e1e640b249.jpg you could do a Google search for 2237119567.)
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POPSQuick-and-dirty schedule maker Kind of handy. Enter some scheduling information, and the script will generate a simple HTML table that charts your schedule visually. You can cut-and-paste the result or whatever. Very quick and simple.
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POPSSeveral handy web-based video tools I clipped this because it can convert a YouTube video (as well as videos from other sites) into an animated GIF. Which could come in handy someday, I guess. There are a couple other tools at the site. It looks pretty shady, but they seem to work.
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POPSWeb-based travel organizer (anyone tried this yet?) When you book a trip online, email your itinerary to Tripit, and it will aggregate everything about your travel into a single page (plus it will pull in data from around the web that's relevant to your travel). Looks very handy.
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POPSSexy chatbots deployed to steal your personal information! Some evil geniuses have developed an automated chat program that convinces people it's a real cybersex partner and convinces them to reveal personal information, which can then be used for ID theft, or it lures them to a fake malware-laden website. Called "CyberLover." Only in Russia thus far, but look out.
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POPSGreetQ: automate your Christmas-card list Heh. Sending all those Christmas cards a little too much of a pain for you? Here's a service that'll do it all for you. You can personalize your cards and "queue" them by date and occasion (e.g., send out a card for so-and-so's birthday every year), so you never have to even think about your friends again (okay, maybe that's a little cynical).
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POPSZoho Wiki allows you to embed documents in pages This could be very handy, though I haven't yet tried it out. My overall impression of Zoho is that they have a great, feature-rich, well thought out system, but that there are an awful lot of annoying bugs lurking just out of sight that make me reluctant to depend on them. Like their plug-in for MS Office -- it seemed to work fine, but then I discovered that it would mess up the formatting on some of my documents, and then one day it just quit working, and that's apparently the end of the story.
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POPSOld-school journalism + blogging, social networks: synergy? Linked from Dave Winer's blog, I think. A cool, experimental idea: connect beat reporters with an online circle of stakeholders joined by modern net-based social-networking tools. In this scenario, the "new" "Web2.0" model of information distribution doesn't kill old-school journalism but reinvigorates it.
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POPSBrowsable Greek New Testament Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online (front: http://snipr.com/1sy0o). It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good reference tools built in. It's built with GIF images for text (apparently one image per word), which is strange and prevents any copy-pasting. It is also about to be taken offline, but it looks like it will probably be hosted somewhere else (http://www.kimmitt.co.uk/gnt/gnt.html) thereafter.
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POPS"Content-aware" image resizing: get images the size you want without losing detail A very sophisticated Flash application that uses a new algorithm called "seam carving" to figure out which areas of your image have the least detail and squeezes them out first. It's hard to describe, and it doesn't work perfectly, but it's kind of amazing. Try it in IE. Be patient -- it runs very slowly and jerkily sometimes, but it does produce some remarkable results. (http://rsizr.com)
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POPSqipit: use your cameraphone as a portable scanner Some time back I clipped a link to Scanr, which does more or less the same thing. Photograph a document with your cameraphone, email it to their service, and get back a cleaned-up image which they store online. Could be useful.
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