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...

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...

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...

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....

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. wikiCheck out the complete post from ProBlogger here.