ResizeIt: An Image Editor Made for Bloggers
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If you do a lot of blogging or Web design, you know what a pain it can be to have to open a hefty application like Photoshop just to resize or rotate an image before posting it. There’s no shortage of image-editing tools with a smaller system footprint, but many of them include features that [...]
Jennings, Spencer out for 49ers this week
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Tackle Jonas Jennings and cornerback Shawntae Spencer will not be available for Sunday’s game against the Lions. Barry Sims will take over for Jennings while Donald Strickland looks to take the majority of the snaps in Spencer’s position. Dashon Goldson may also get a few looks his way too.
Jennings suffered a right shoulder injury in [...]
Shawntae Spencer’s season over? Cornerback might need surgery
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Spencer left Sunday’s game after hurting his left knee during a kickoff return. Coach Mike Nolan had ruled Spencer unavailable for the upcoming game against the Lions, but now it may look like he won’t play at all this season.
Exact details have yet to surface on the severity of the injury; but if surgery is [...]
Spencer listed as day-to-day; surgery not needed
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To follow up on the previous post, cornerback Shawntae Spencer is listed as day-to-day. It looks like that the injury isn’t as serious as first initially reported. He still isn’t going to play on Sunday, but he’s not on crutches or anything like that. From , Spencer said, “It doesn’t hurt, it’s just one of [...]
Hazel Mail: Cheap DIY Postcards
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Getting e-mailed a Flickr URL from a friend on vacation just isn’t the same as getting a real postcard in the mail. But honestly, who wants to spend their vacation sending postcards? A new site called lets you easily make postcards out of your own photos, and even sends them for you.
All you [...]
Joost Revamps Site, Adds Web-Based Video
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Remember ? The online video service on Thursday announced a revamp of the site that will let users watch videos from their browsers rather than through a desktop client.
The move will let users “watch video directly in your web browser,” Mike Volpi, Joost CEO, wrote in a . “You still get the great quality video [...]
Having Trouble Getting Comcast’s Attention? Tweet It.
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Getting cable companies’ attention has long been a source of an incredible stress amongst consumers. The answer, however, may be one well-placed Tweet away.
Comcast has begun using Twitter as a means for communicating with disgruntled customers. Employee Frank Eliason is tasked with following the service and responding to their questions.
Of course, it helps if you’ve [...]
Hacking Sarah Palin: What We Can All Learn
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Photo by Al Grillo/AP file
Breaking into Sarah Palin’s webmail account was a simple hack–one that required little to no technical expertise. There is, of course, an important lesson to be learned here for the vice presidential candidate, and hopefully the rest of us can take something away from this as well.
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MAPLight’s Committees Tool Highlights the Power of Congressional Committees
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, a site dedicated to revealing the connections between politics, politicians, and money donated from interest groups, unveiled a new tool this week that allows you to see how congressional committees influence legislation and how special-interest groups influence the members of those committees. The tool adds a new tab to legislation, so you can see [...]
Where was Manny Lawson on Sunday?
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As you watched the game on Sunday, you may have noticed that Manny Lawson was not on the field much. In fact, he wasn’t on the defensive side of the ball at all! What’s up with that?
I didn’t notice that throughout the game, but when I did realize it, it seemed like the Niners were [...]
