Omnisio lets you paste in the URL of a YouTube video (among other video sites) and then crop the time slider to a specific part. You can then add more videos if you want, and publish the result to show to others – without even registering at the site, a cool approach. The site is fairly straightforward to use and all in all well done, albeit the editor interface is unnecessarily confusing*, and there seems to be a bit of a lack of available effects (like fade in/ fade out, color effects, text overlays and such).
Note that, YouTube also has an online video editor (with some issues, though).
Also, Google Video allows you to directly link to a certain part within the video by appending e.g. #4m12s (the minutes and seconds into the video) to the video URL.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mash YouTube Videos
Google's Maps Street View API
It looks like Google Maps Street View has been added to the Google Maps API. The interactive 360 degree panoramic images that Google provides for a number of cities on Google Maps has, until now, not been available to developers to add to their Google Maps mashups.
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Create Online Mini Cities
My Mini City lets you create a new village (without registering) and then see it grow as new unique referrers are pointed towards it. The city I just created, IITB, can be seen above in its current near-empty status. But others cities like Barbelith are already much bigger, sometimes showing impressive skyscrapers.
By default, linking to your city will increase its population when people click the link. But once the city grew a bit, new links on the city sub-domain become available to grow specific sectors – say, linking to iitb.myminicity.com/ind/ will increase the city’s industry, whereas .../tra/ will push its transport facilities.
With this incentive to create backlinks, MyMiniCity.com is likely to reach high PageRank and keeps gaining traffic over time (the homepage currently has a PR5, with around 21,600 pages on the domain – many to most of them their own sub-domains – indexed in Google).
The site was created by Motion-Twin, who exist since 2001 and call themselves the “leading provider of online games for the French-speaking public.”
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Adobe launches free Web-based version of Photoshop
Adobe Systems opened up Photoshop Express on Thursday, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos.
Photoshop Express, available for free with 2 gigabytes of storage at www.photoshop.com/express, is a significant departure from Adobe's desktop software business and a big bet that it can make money offering Web services directly to consumers.
The application, which needs Flash Player 9 to run, pushes the limits of browser-based applications and will likely ratchet up the competition on the dozens of free and online photo-editing products available now.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Down for Everyone or Just Me?
With this small website, you can quickly and easily check whether a website is down for everyone or just you! Simply enter the domain you want to check, hit return!
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
New Trailers .. (Speed Racer & Wall-E)
New full trailers of Speed Racer (from Wachowski Brothers) and Wall-E (from Pixar Films) are released.
Speed Racer:
Full Trailer #1
Full Trailer #2
Wall-E:
Full Trailer #1
Full Trailer #2
Sunday, March 9, 2008
3-Way Chess !
Yes, It's 3-way!! The regular chess rules are used, although the shape of the board is obviously different.
The pawn moves as usual straight forward and takes enemy pieces one square diagonally forward.
In the center the pawn can attack three squares diagonally.
The bishop is limited to diagonal movement.
The rook moves as always. Nothing new.
The knight is also no different from a standard knight.
Nothing new for the queen as well.
One peculiar feature: the diagonal in the center of the board.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Nokia Morph - Take a look..
I don't like Nokia so much, but I found this on net. Its competitors must have their own research projects like this. But this is kind of interesting.
Check it out: Nokia Morph
Sunday, March 2, 2008
The world is not magic
Read a nice blog "The world is not magic" at 'Cosmic Variance'.
Few lines from it (for a motivation to read it!):
"...The world is not magic. The world follows patterns, obeys unbreakable rules. We never reach a point, in exploring our universe, where we reach an ineffable mystery and must give up on rational explanation; our world is comprehensible, it makes sense. I can’t imagine saying it better. There is no way of proving once and for all that the world is not magic; all we can do is point to an extraordinarily long and impressive list of formerly-mysterious things that we were ultimately able to make sense of. There’s every reason to believe that this streak of successes will continue, and no reason to believe it will end..."
