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One of my favorite new bands is Band of Horses. Check them out on Hype Machine. If you haven’t used Hype Machine before, just click on a song title and then click the play button under Listen.

Here’s their video for Great Salt Lake.

I saw them play at the Independent in SF back in March…

Silver Mac > Cool things you can do on a Mac

Macbook Hosted on Zooomr

• Apple, Amazon to Offer Movies Online - Los Angeles Times
  Amazon will announce as soon as this week, Apple next week.
  (tags: apple amazon movies vod rumormill)
• HDBeat > TiVo Series3: Worth $800?
  Preview of the Tivo Series 3.
  (tags: tivo hd hdtv)
• Become a del.icio.us Power User
  Unleashing the power of del.icio.us
  (tags: del.icio.us productivity tips)
• BaseballRace
  A cool visualization of baseball standings. Select a league or division and watch the race.
  (tags: baseball mlb visualization)

• Burning Man Sculpture Defaced

  A prankster welded a bong on to the “burning man sculptures” near the Ferry Building

  (tags: sanfrancisco)

• Flickr > Burning Man 2006

  Sorted by most interesting. NSFW.

  (tags: burningman burningman2006 flickr)

• kottke.org > Manhattan Elsewhere

  Depiction of Manhattan next to other US cities

  (tags: nyc maps visualization)

• Apple, Amazon to Offer Movies Online - Los Angeles Times

  Amazon will announce as soon as this week, Apple next week.

  (tags: apple amazon movies vod rumormill)

• WebWorkerDaily

  New blog from Om Malik catering to the virtual office

  (tags: webtools web2.0 productivity collaboration)

• SF Chronicle > Rethinking Google’s system - Human-powered search premieres

  This new service from ChaCha will flop. Who is going to want to hand off their search to a low paid “guide”? And how will this scale? And ChaCha is just a horrible name.

  (tags: bubble web2.0jumpingtheshark web2.0)

• ESPN.com - TENNIS - Garber: Agassi gave until his body gave out

  Another take on Agassi’s last match

  (tags: agassi tennis)

• One Last Kiss From Agassi, and It’s Over - New York Times

  Another take on Agassi’s last match

  (tags: agassi tennis)

• Elgato Systems > EyeTV

  Tivo-like functionality for your Mac. Allows you to transfer the shows to your iPod and covert VHS to digital video.

  (tags: dvr mac video)

• 105.5 JACK FM - Playing what we want

  Retro video games: Pac Man, Space Invaders, Frogger, etc.

  (tags: nostalgia retro videogames timewaster)

Last weekend at Dolores Park.

Dolores Park Hosted on Zooomr

You might have heard about a product called Ceiva. Ceiva is a picture frame that plugs into a phone line. Each night it automatically downloads digital photos to the picture frame. It’s a great way to share photos with family members but it costs money. Ceiva charges you for the frame and you need to pay a monthly fee to use the service.

Now there are ways to accomplish almost the same thing using Flickr and a free screen saver that integrates with Flickr. Here’s what you need to do:

1) Open an account with flickr. Both free and pro memberships are available.

2) Upload your family photos to your flickr account.

3) There are two ways that you can identify the photos that you want to share:

- Tag the photos with a special tag name - e.g. “family”, “smithfamily”, etc.

OR

- Set up a Private Group on flickr for your family photos. This option is better if you want your screen saver to include photos from multiple family members.

4) Download the Slickr screensaver. Slickr currently runs on Windows only. Slickr is free but the developer takes donations here. This is a really great free program, so I encourage you to donate!

5) Install Slickr and open Slickr (Settings).

If you tagged photos in step 3, you’ll want to select the “User” option and type in your user name (the name of the user who posted the photos). Then click the “Tags” option and type in the tag name that you used in step 3 - e.g. “family”. You can only enter one tag.

If you are using a Group, select the Group option and type in the group name.

6) There are a couple of other Slickr settings that you might want to adjust:

• Under the Options tab, you can specify the Cache directory (Slickr will download the photos to your hard drive) and the maximum cache size in MB.
• You can also control how many seconds each photo will display, the minimum image size, and you can control various transition effects. You can un-check the “Show logo” option if you don’t want the Slickr logo to appear.

7. To preview your screensaver, run Slickr (Console).

8. When you installed Slickr, it should have set Slickr up as your screen saver. To double check this, go to Settings > Control Panel > Display > Screen Saver and make sure that Slickr is the selected screen saver.

That’s it! When you add more photos to Flickr using the family tag (or when you add photos to the private group), the new photos will show up in the Slickr screen saver. Once you have tested this out yourself, you can send these instructions out to your family members. Make sure to specify the Tag name or Group name when you send out the instructions.

Another tip:

If you have a big-screen TV, hook a laptop up to the TV and run the screen saver on the TV. It looks great!

Update:

If you’re a Mac user, check out Picture Framer. Picture Framer runs in your Dashboard. You can pull in photos from multiple sources, including flickr. The version that I’m running doesn’t allow you to filter by tag or group but you can specify a flickr Set. So if you go this route, you can set up a flickr set dedicated to family photos and use Picture Framer to display those photos.

9/21 Update: 
Here’s another option for Mac users who have iPhoto 6:
KuraFire Network > Flickrlicious Screensavers with iPhoto 6

• The New Tastemakers - New York Times

  “All told, music consumers are increasingly turning away from the traditional gatekeepers and looking instead to one another — to fellow fans, even those they’ve never met — to guide their choices.”

  (tags: pandora collaboration recommendation trends music)

• Niall Kenneddy > Programmed personal homepages over the last 20 years

  The evolution of the personal homepage

  (tags: homepage Personalized)

• tourb.us

  Live music tracker.

  (tags: livemusic music webtools)

• SF Chronicle > Great white shark adds fear factor to aquarium

  “A great white shark caught near Santa Monica Bay made its debut Friday at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.”

• Agassi

  A cool montage of Agassi. Thanks Andre for a great career.

  (tags: tennis)

• SI.com - 2006 US Open - Agassi says goodbye after 21-year career - Sunday September 3, 2006 5:58PM

  Andre Agassi ends an amazing 21-year tennis career today. If you saw this on TV today you know what a great moment it was. A five minute standing ovation at the end of the match and a very gracious speech by Agassi before he walked off the court.

  (tags: tennis agassi usopen)

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