What Shall We Name the Baby?

lovely-name-logo Admittedly there are plenty of baby naming sites on the Web, but What a Lovely Name is a new one, just launching, with a few cute twists. You can choose names by tradition (read ethnicity), personality or even celebrity names (best to be avoided).  As you search you can save your favorites and then email them to friends and family for their opinion. When you’ve made your final choice you can buy logo-ware from a custom Zazzle online shop with the little one’s custom name and logo.  Maybe, that part doesn’t appeal to me, but you’ve got to give them credit for a clever idea. I found an interest nickname for Daniel – Danek.  Should I start using it? Visit what a lovely name and name your next little bundle of joy or puppy. [via TechFlash] .jake-logo
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What’s Happening? – Happenr tells you

happenr-logo Planning a vacation or live in Europe?  Happenr can be a very useful site. Based on setting criteria as to what how you’d like to be entertained: music, film, play, exhibit and where in Europe you plan to be, you’re given plenty of fun opportunities. happenr-search I wish I was in London this evening (I’m in California). I found something I’d really like to be doing. Check it out Happenr and find something to do this weekend. happenr-results
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Recommended Reading — Four Interesting Memes

em-logo I’m going to start a new occasional feature here in Enquiring Mimes-land.  I’ll post a few links that are interesting, but that I’m not going to write about at length (at least, at this time).  I’ll also give you a bit of the reason why I found the link interesting enough to clip. You might enjoy wandering through them. After the jump. Here goes for this week: Zoho Status – In what seems like a very transparent gesture.  Zoho has setup a status page that shows the response time and availability of all their web applications.  It seems like a great customer service move and if you use Zoho apps it could be valuable. Netflix for Mac – Here at the EM sweatshop, we reported you’d be able to finally watch, Netflix Watch Instantly, streaming movies from your Mac before the end of the year.  Well the time is now.  You can  start using the new Silverlight viewer available for Mac and PC, by opting-in from your Netflix account. Gmail Video Chat – If you use Google Gmail for your mail and I think there are plenty of good reasons why you should, you can now add voice and video chat to your account.  Works really well for distributed work teams. Flip HD – Flip Video, the folks that started out making the really inexpensive, easy-to-use and easy-to-get-on-your-computer video cameras now has a new, more expensive model that will take high definition video.  It’s sells for $229 – which seems a bit much.  I find the cheap one I have very handy for baby-walking-pictures and dog-jumping-at-agility vids.

Making Picasa and Flickr Play Nice Together – [How To]

picasa-logoPicasa is a great free Windows Photo Organizer and Flickr is a great online media hosting and social web site.  Maybe since Picasa is a Google product and Flickr is a Yahoo! product, it’s not always intuitive as to how to make them work together. Ideally you would store all you digital pictures on your Windows computer in Picasa and then be able to automatically upload them to your Flickr account.  Out of the box this process takes several steps. If you’d like to make this workflow painless you need to do about five minutes of installing and configuring and then your uploading will be a breeze. flickr-logo We’ll assume you’ve already downloaded Picasa, if not, get the version 3 beta, it’s great.  Got an account on Flickr? No, go to Flickr.com and sign up with your Yahoo! username and password. Next download and install FlickrUploadr.  This is an official Flickr application that let’s you upload and configure bulk digital images from your PC.  Get it here. Okay, now the last step.  Download a little piece of “glue” called “picasa2flickr”, sounds right, doesn’t it?  Download and click on this magic piece of glue will install a new button in the control panel at the bottom of your Picasa screen called “send to Flickr”. sendtoflickrbuttonSo this is the way the magic will happen, you will choose the picture/s in Picasa that you want to upload to Flickr by selecting the picture/s, then press “Send to Flickr” which activates FlickrUploadr which will give you the opportunity to add titles, descriptions and keywords to you picture.  You’ll press “Upload Pictures” and when the pictures have been uploaded to Flickr, you’ll be given one more  chance to see and manipulate them online before they appear in your Flickr account. See the entire sequence after the jump [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="In Picasa on the PC"]picasa-screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="71" caption="Press Send to Flickr Button"]sendtoflickrbutton[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Flickr Uploadr Screen"]flickruploadr_screen[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="Your Pictures are on Flickr"]upload_complete[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="417" caption="This screen is optional, only if you want to further manipulate titles"]on flickr[/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="311" caption="On Flickr - Total time 24 secs"]flickr-final[/caption]
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Big Boy Competition for Google Docs and Zoho Office Coming from Microsoft

mslive-logo Microsoft announced today that the next release of Microsoft Office will include online versions of the main components of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.  The online versions will be “lightweight versions”, that is, not contain all of the features of the desktop products. Good for consumers, Microsoft is going to support the Firefox and Safari browsers in addition to Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. The online applications will be available to end-users through the Microsoft Office Live service which has ad-funded and subscription options. While a survey done on ReadWriteWeb earlier this year showed that the majority of that site’s visitors still used the Microsoft Office desktop application for their word processing and spreadsheet needs, there has been growing online competition to the behemoth office suite from the free online suites by Google and Zoho. We’ve written about the Google and Zoho offerings repeatedly.  It will be interesting to see whether Microsoft will be able to compete online, in the arena they have owned for so long, with the more nimble Zoho and Google. via ReadWriteWeb
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