ParkWhiz - the freelancer’s new best friend
A blog post from Somewhat Frank alerted me to this cool new service by a Chicago-based startup. Currently available only in Chicago (yay) and Philadelphia, ParkWhiz is essentially Google for parking spots in Chicago. Type where you want to look for parking and it will pull up an extensive and detailed list [...]
Visual Acoustics Musical Painting
There is a really interesting Flash-based program by Visual Acoustics that is worth checking out. A choice of bass, guitar, piano, violin, flute, guitar, tenor sax, strings, or harp is available for experimentation. Pick an instrument and some parameters, then move the mouse around the screen and create music. Very interesting. [...]
Find podcasts on Digg
Digg (one of my favorite websites) now has a feature to find, listen, and vote for podcasts. If you haven’t used Digg before, check out their site. It is one of the best places to find news stories. Users of Digg submit and vote on stories, which results in the most interesting [...]
A big year for Google
The Google Operating System blog recently reviewed the 12 biggest developments for Google in 2006. This is a great post that is definitely worth checking out.
One of the most interesting aspects of this post is the way in which search results are censored in China. Here are the results you get if you [...]
Google Zeitgeist 2006 Report
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger recently posted a list of Google’s top searches for 2006:
1. bebo2. myspace3. world cup4. metacafe5. radioblog6. wikipedia7. video8. rebelde9. mininova10. wiki
Check out the complete post from ProBlogger here.
Fun Program from Technorati - How Much is my Blog Worth?
I recently found this fun program designed to calculate the worth of your blog. I’m not sure exactly how this number is being processed, but I assume that it involves the number and pagerank of people linking to your blog. Here’s my blog’s current worth:
My blog is worth $22,581.60.How much is [...]
Jason’s del.icio.us tags
I use the social bookmarking service del.icio.us and really find it a powerful and useful tool. Since I am always using different computers bookmarking links in my web browser is of limited value. With del.icio.us I have all of my internet resources available to me at any computer anywhere. Del.icio.us allows people to [...]
Hundreds of Double Bass MP3 Practice Tracks Now Available for Download
I have finally organized my MP3 practice tracks for double bass scales, solo works, and orchestral excerpts for the double bass. You can now view all of these tracks under the practice tracks tab at the top of the page. From this page you can either practice with the Flash player on [...]
Top Searches on Yahoo! for 2006
Yahoo! just published this interesting list about the top searches in various categories. They list the top 10 overall searches, news searches, celebrity searches, baby searches, politician searches, and many more. One of my favorite lists is the top blog/blogger searches. Most of them are trashy celebrity blogs. The list is a [...]






