From the Search Engine Watch Blog: “Can’t remember special commands that help in doing special searches at Google (and often work elsewhere, as well). The latest edition of Google’s newsletter for librarians points to two posters you can print with the commands. Suitable for framing — well, for tacking to a wall, you might find them handy. Need something more comprehensive? There’s also the long-standing Google Cheat Sheet…” Here is the link.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Pigs in a Polka
On Frederator: “The Three Little Pigs meet Brahms in this Oscar-nominated Merry Melody.”
The composer’s famous Gypsy Dances are featured in this cartoon, and the animation is beautifully synced to the music. Where Disney failed to impress dramatically with Fantasia, cartoons like this one hit a vein, comically, just a few years later. Here is the link.
Mac OS X tip of the week: sending huge attachments
From Apple Hot News: “Chances are your email server puts a limit on the size of the attachments you can send. So what do you do when you want to send an attachment that exceeds that limit? Try iChat. [Apr 19, 2006]” Here is the link.
Congrats to Rich Price
Just found out he went to Midd, my alma mater. His song, “I’m on my way”, was featured on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Way to go, Rich! Here is the link.
Get Perpendicular
Hitachi’s gone disco to explain the new hard drive technology, which allows for 10x the capacity. See the linked flash movie. Cute! 🙂 Here is the link.
Raoul Pop 