Saturday, January 28, 2006

create your own RSS feeds through email

So Bloglines, my feed aggregator of choice, has this cool feature where you can create on the fly email addresses, and any emails sent to those will show up on your feed aggregation page. This is a great feature for email lists which have a lot of discussion, but don't have an RSS feed (or for "newsletters" from websites that you just want to scan, but you don't want to clog up your inbox).

One way I've been solving this problem is by creating labels in gmail and then having those emails skip the inbox, but this seems like a better solution because I often forget to check those labels. Cool!

* Bloglines email link [bloglines, found via Lifehacker]

Friday, January 27, 2006

folding tshirts

I haven't quite wrapped my head around this yet, but this is so cool! How does she do that?

* Folding tshirts fast [Google Video, found via Lifehacker]

Update: I have mastered this ingenious technique! My tshirts just don't look as nice. I am still a tshirt folding fiend.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

pay your friends!

How annoying is it when you go out dinner, or pick up a cab, or buy a round of drinks, hoping that in the grand scheme of things it all evens out between you and your friends? Now you can be a huge stickler! I found a couple of cool online programs which allow you to enter in expenses and have them do the math for you. It still means you have to enter them in, but at least it will add for you.

The first is UK based (meaning they probably have great accents): I OWE You, which I am currently trying out, and the second is BillMonk, which I haven't tried yet.

Friday, January 20, 2006

My Stickies

This Firefox extension is a cool way of annotating web pages with little sticky notes! It lives in your browser and saves your sticky notes on a per-site basis.

Update: I have moved the link from the title so it's more obvious (thanks omar).

* My Stickies

new plan

this blog shall contain cool links to things I want to try, or go to, or in general share with you, gentle readers.

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