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Consumer Information RSS FeedsYahoo Has Geographically-Sensitive Search Suggestions - Yahoo announced last week that its search suggestions will now be sensitive to where you are. Read the blog post for examples of why searching for santa in one place will get you different results from searching santa in another place. I dunno. I tried it and it didn’t do that much for me. I [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Google Revamps Its Translate Tool - Google announced last week some updates to its translate project. I normally don’t use Google Translate outside the regular Web interface, so I’m sure I’ve missed a lot as it’s evolved. Google Translate lives at http://translate.google.com/. It looks a bit different from what I remember, with more access to tools “up front” and an overt [ ]... Morning Buzz ? September 6, 2010 - Wow. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is now offering recall data via an API. Is that not cool? The state of Texas has begun investigating Google Search. “The examination involves the fairness of Google search results, a concept called search neutrality. Some companies worry Google has the power to discriminate against them by lowering their [ ]... Over 600,000 Restaurants in Allergy-Friendly Eats Database - I’m really lucky when it comes to food allergies; I’m not allergic to anything except pineapple on pizza. (Seriously. What are y’all thinking?) But I have lots of friends who aren’t as lucky, which makes eating out a bit of a research project, sometimes. AllergyEats, available at http://www.allergyeats.com/, is trying to build a database of [ ]... Jazz in an Archive, Jazz on Your Screen - I had never heard of Smalls Jazz Club until I read this item on JazzCorner.com. Now it’s my favorite jazz place in New York City. I’ve been to a few concerts and had a great time. No, I don’t live in New York City. I don’t have to; Smalls Jazz Club has a live video [ ]... Large Database of Children?s Books Now Available - The University of Arizona has put online a database of its collection of non-US children’s books — the world’s largest collection. The database, which contains information on more than 30,000 books, is called The World of Words: International Collection of Children’s and Adolescent Literature. It’s available at http://wowlit.org/. You can do a simple keyword search [ ]... Morning Buzz ? September 3, 2010 - New York City has a new database of the most neglectful property owners. Hey Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, I personally can’t wait to learn more about the new Global Digital Archive of Existing Historic Theatres. Keep us posted! Nifty, cool NASA pictures on Flickr. On the day that the ability to make [ ]... The Culture of the Earth-Sized Time Machine - Spurred by the expiration of my Pandora One subscription, I recently spent a few days putting music into iTunes and organizing playlists. When I finished, I skimmed over my music collection and was surprised at what I found. Lots of disco, heavy metal, and instrumentals. But also much from several different countries as well as [ ]... Morning Buzz ? August 27, 2010 - Amit Agarwal has an excellent article on online services that perform OCR. 5 GMail Lab Features that Increase Productivity. Five Thirty Eight has moved to a new home at The New York Times. From Technology Review: Mining Mood Swings on the Real-Time Web. A brief note about Bing crawler improvements. There have been some updates [ ]... Printable Flyer Templates Now Live - Template maestro Kevin Savetz has launched a new site, this time for flyer templates. http://www.PrintableFlyerTemplates.net/ has 40 flyer templates in DOC and PDF formats. There are templates for lost cats, garage sales, apartments for rent, door hangers, and parties/events. Templates are divided into categories and searchable by keyword (which isn’t necessary because there aren’t huge [ ]... Copyright © 2010, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |