Frequent fliers will be interested in the identity-verification service provided by the startup, Clear. Launched in 2003, travelers can pay $99 per year to receive a pre-screened ID card which lets them zip through airport security at one of the participating airports. Members receive a high-tech card which is inserted into a Clear kiosk, which [...]
Things have been a little busy for me lately, but just because I’m not posting here, doesn’t mean I’m not blogging! Check out my latest on RWW: Postalz & Scrapblog – Doing More With Digital Photos When you go on vacation, you no longer pack canisters of film for taking vacation photos – you [...]
Songbird is a free media player and web browser mashup developed by the folks who previously engineered both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. Both a media player and a platform, Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has a UI that looks very similar to that of the popular iTunes application. Like the [...]
Christmas is over and now you have a stack of gift cards but are short on cash to pay your bills…what are you going to do? A website called Swapagift.com can help! Launched in 2003, Swapagift.com will let you buy, sell, swap, and exchange gift cards or use your gift cards to pay bills. You [...]
Don’t be put off by the very un-web 2.0-ness of the Orb website – while other companies were busy building the perfect bubbly logo and tagging system, the people at Orb were busy building actual useful technology. Orb is software that manages all the media on your PC and lets you access it remotely while [...]
There are some fun ways to get you in the holiday spirit this season by dressing up your computer. Although many of us hoped that the iGoogle holiday themes would arrive, so far they have yet to materialize (the photo album of images was discovered here). But you can still dress up your Firefox browser [...]
FilesTube is a speciality search engine that scours many different file sharing and uploading sites like RapidShare and MegaUpload. The FilesTube search spider records the recent uploads to these sites in a database which you can then search from the FilesTube search box. Doing search on FilesTube website will provide you with a links to [...]
After much debate, the OpenID 2.0 standard was announced today. In case you are not familiar, OpenID is a new service that lets you log in to multiple websites with one account: your OpenID. The number of websites that support OpenID is growing every day. Currently, there are over 8,000 participating sites including big names [...]
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