Growl for Windows

Growl for Windows: "Keeping up with the Joneses. We all want the latest do-dad that the neighbors have; after all, who wants to be left behind? In the computer world, this is particularly true. New machines, new peripherals, new software—we want it all.

Mac users are probably familiar with Growl, the notifier app that gives you a heads-up when things happen on your system: a download is complete, a Skype call is coming in, that sort of thing. Well, now Windows users can take advantage of this same functionality with Growl for Windows.

You can configure this app for the type of notification you want—visual, audio, both—when a target event happens. The program that generates the event, whether a web browser, RSS feed aggregator, IM application, of something else, must be compatible with Growl for Windows for it all to work, but there are a fair number of popular tools that do just that, and they're adding new ones all the time.

Growl for Windows is a free download.

Download Growl for Windows

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Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity: "Download NV

TYPE
DATE 1.7MB
2.0β3
Mac OS X
10.4 - 10.6
Universal
2010-2-8
NEW VERISON!!
NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.
It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist

Thanks for link, Brenda.

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Password-Protected, Shareable Notes

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Kabroo Search results:poetry teacher

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YouTube Proxy

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Twitter Guidelines

Today on the Twitter blog, the company wrote a post that was all of three sentences to let people know about their new logos. Yay!

But there's actually quite a bit more to it then it seems.

If you follow the link they provide to Guidelines page, you'll find some interesting tidbits. Among them:

• Don't: "Use anything other than the most current versions of the Twitter logos."
• Don't: "Use screenshots of other people's profiles or Tweets without their permission."

Both are interesting because both are broken all the time. Well, okay the first one doesn't quite count yet because Twitter just officially launched their new logos. But hundreds if not thousands of sites around the web have been using old or fake Twitter logos to represent the company for a long time.

The latter rule is definitely more troublesome. Tweets are known to be public items, but Twitter is saying you can't use screenshots of them without permission. We do this all the time. So does just about every other publication. We've never been told this is wrong, it seems to reek of fair use, but now Twitter is saying it's a no-no. (Update below from Twitter)

A few months ago, Twitter tried to come up with their own solution for this with their own Blackbird Pie tweet embed tool. It's interesting that in their post on it, they never said this screen-grabbing of tweets was wrong. In fact, they note "Mostly, we just think it's a pain to take screen grabs of tweets." Notice they call it a "pain", not "wrong".

Twitter does say it's fine to use others' tweets that you have permission to use. But again, isn't this stuff already public?

Also interesting:

• Do: Make sure that if mentioning "Tweet," you include a direct reference to Twitter (for instance, "Tweet with Twitter") or display the Twitter marks with the mention of "Tweet."

This would seem to be all about Twitter gaining the trademark to the word "tweet", which they've been trying unsuccessfully to do. They also later note, "Please remember to capitalize the T in Twitter and Tweet!" As a commenter notes, it's funny that they don't even capitalize it in their own logo!

Update: Okay, we've clarified some things with Twitter.

From their spokesperson regarding the new logos:

The purpose of the update was to provide access to our new resources and to better clarify some guidelines.

We're encouraging people to use the new marks. It's okay for them to continue to use the old ones, but we're hoping people will use the new ones. We said this before too, as this isn't the first time our marks have changed.

And regarding the screenshots:

This isn't a new part of the policy and was stated in the guidelines before. This serves primarily to protect users from their tweets being used as endorsements without their knowledge. Public tweets are public. But if you're going to use tweets in static form (e.g. in a publication), you should have permission from the author/user. For instance, if someone famous were to tweet about liking something and then it was used on a billboard.

This doesn't apply to broadcast — there are separate display guidelines about that. Our policies also don't attempt to control the appropriate use of tweets in news reporting.

That's a bit confusing (and I've asked for further clarification), but it sounds as if they won't be enforcing the rule for individuals (including reporters) taking screenshots of tweets. It's more for advertisers attempting to use tweets as endorsements without permission.

Update 2: More clarity from Twitter:

For news, whether online or print, it's okay to use screenshots of Tweets. The permission applies more to merchandise, billboards, etc. Users' rights are key.

In other words, screenshot away, bloggers. Which is good — but basically they're just saying they won't be enforcing the rules. That's still a bit troubling going forward. They could enforce them anytime — why not just make the specific rules more clear? This reeks of the legal department covering asses here just in case they have to drop a hammer.

Regarding the capital "T" in tweet:

We view Tweet as meaning content on Twitter, rather than a generic word. With that, it should be capitalized when it's a noun. This isn't new, and it's not something we enforce.

Again, that seems to be all about copyright — and mainly when used in publications.

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Free Visual English Dictionary and Thesaurus | Discover meaning of words and associated words at SnappyWords.com

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TypeFront

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Use This Template to Write Concise, Effective Complaints When Companies Piss You Off

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FireShepherd

FireShepherd: "FireShepherd, a small console program that floods the nearby wireless network with packets designed to turn off FireSheep, effectively shutting down nearby FireSheep programs every 0.5 sec or so, making you and the people around you secure from most people using FireSheep.
The program kills current version of FireSheep running nearby, but the user is still in danger of all other session hijacking mechanisms. Do not do anything over a untrusted network that you cannot share with everyone.

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Visual Lightbox JS: Free Visual Generator for Lightbox 2 Script for jQuery or Prototype. jQuery Lightbox.

Visual Lightbox JS: Free Visual Generator for Lightbox 2 Script for jQuery or Prototype. jQuery Lightbox.: "Visual LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily generate web photo galleries with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just drag&drop your photos into Visual LightBox window, press 'Publish' and your own web gallery with beautiful LightBox 2 effects will open in the browser instantly!
No javascript,css,html coding, no image editing, just a click to get your gallery ready.

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Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone · digitalia.be

Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone · digitalia.be: "Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone

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LightBox Video Web Gallery Creator « Pranas.NET

LightBox Video Web Gallery Creator « Pranas.NET: "LightBox Video Web Gallery Creator

Free Web Photo and Video Gallery generation software

Show this program the folder where your images and videos are, press “Create web gallery” button and in a few moments a lightbox-like HTML Web Gallery will open in your browser. The resulting folder then can be copied anywhere (to your site).

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YouTube - digital photography

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YTTM.tv - Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.

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How to Break Into a Windows PC (And Prevent it from Happening to You)

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Awesome Vintage Tech Ads | UNEASYsilence

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peg.gd: Easily Create Web Pages for Most Anything

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Chinese supercomputer is world’s fastest at 2.5 petaflops | KurzweilAI

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HDR From the Field to the Computer: Part 2

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