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YouTube lets you turn videos into greeting cards — On Friday YouTube unveiled a new feature for the holidays that lets users create hosted video cards to send to friends and family. Users can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips. There's also an option to make a personalized greeting straight from a connected Web cam. When finished picking the video there are a handful of themes that house the video player, along with space to add up to 230 characters of text, both of which can be sent up to... [Tags: blog, e mail, family users, friends and family, greeting card]

Yet another introduction — Filed under: TUAW BusinessGreetings, TUAW faithful! I'm Todd, and after writing for Download Squad for a year, I'm fortunate enough to be able to write for TUAW. A MacBook Pro is my primary machine and I'm rarely without my iPhone 3G (who isn't?).By day I'm a systems admin for a school district in central Pennsylvania where I manage a network of about 1400 PC's, 600 Macs, and 35 servers (a handful of which run Mac OS X). I handle all of the Mac client management, system imaging, and podcast-related functions. In addition to my day job, a few nights a... [Tags: administration active directory, apple products, business greetings, career institute, central pennsylvania]

Blip Festival 2008 coverage — Vimeo user Tony gives us a taste of the action at this past weekend's Blip Festival with a performance by Sulumi. The NYTimes Jenna Wortham also ran an article profiling the event -The third-annual Blip Festival kicked off its four-day showcase Thursday night. Hosted by 8bitpeoples, a New York art and tech collective, and The Tank, a local nonprofit, the event features nearly 40 artists from China to Switzerland. [...] Although chiptune musicians prefer to play on older consoles -- the more obscure and archaic, the better -- and can only produce a handful of notes, the range of... [Tags: blip festival, chiptunes, consoles, cranks, game boys]

Verizon's FiOS TV expansions: December 6, 2008 — Filed under: Fiber After a light week a week ago, Verizon has taken it pretty easy the past seven days too with just a handful of new FiOS TV expansions. Kicking things off are video franchise approvals in Danvers, Massachusetts and Lackawanna / Atlantic Beach, New York. Next, we're reassured that everyone's working as hard as possible to bring the fiber-based programming service to the City of Brotherly Love. Keep at it, folks -- we'll see you here next week. Same time (roughly), same place (definitely).Read - Massachusetts expansionRead - New York expansionRead - Philadelphia expansionVerizon's FiOS TV expansions: December... [Tags: atlantic beach, city of brotherly love, danvers massachusetts, engadget, expansions]

A peek into a legendary game company, Valve Software — If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’d probably have noticed in the past couple of weeks my affection (exhibit 1, 2, 3 & 4) for Left 4 Dead. As a matter of which, I’m also giving away a copy of Left 4 Dead in the HP Magic Giveaway. When I realized Seattle (where I am this week) is also home to Valve Software, I knew I just had to go for a tour. And that’s what I did today with the help of office manager Katie. Since Valve isn’t working on any new IPs or major projects, I... [Tags: affection, amp, array, flat corporate structure, gabe newell]

Weighing Devices for Your Netflix Delivered via Web [Personal Technology] — Netflix was a pioneer in the business of movie rentals — getting consumers to rent DVDs online and mailing them out in cheery red envelopes. Recently, it has put a lot of effort into a service that delivers movies digitally over the Internet to subscribers, preparing for a day when getting movies on a physical disc will become outmoded. People today use the Netflix service on their computers, but Netflix (NFLX) has cut a series of deals with hardware partners to make the service available on TV sets through an array of devices. Most of these devices were designed to... [Tags: blu ray disc, blu ray disc player, charge users, digital video recorder, disc players]

Time Warner Cable adds a handful of high-def nets in Kansas City — Filed under: Cable, New contentWho would've thunk that Kansas City, Missouri would end up being a hotbed for HD competition? With SureWest, Time Warner Cable and AT&T all vying for your hard-earned dollars, it's no shock to see the middle guy adding a little incentive to its package. As of now, customers in the area can catch MGM HD, CNBC HD, FX HD, Fox Business HD, College Sports TV HD, SciFi HD and a few "others" as described by our tipster. Time for SureWest to step up now, huh? [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family][Thanks, Matt]Time Warner... [Tags: amp, cnbc, college sports, disclosure, earned dollars]

Facebook, Ads and Phishing. Bad Combo. — A warning from Google Chrome browser this morning alerted users trying to access Facebook that the widely used social network may be a phishing site, reports TechCrunch and tons of people on Twitter. Throughout the course of the morning, more and more users found that a similar warning appeared with Safari and Firefox browsers as well. This didn’t bode well for Facebook and we’d guess that there was also a temporary decrease in traffic resulting from this. So it seemed pretty evident that the problem occurred with Facebook–not the browsers. A final update from Facebook has since resolved that... [Tags: advertisement, advertisers, advertising networks, domino effect, facebook]

mouth mix — I hate soggy cereal. The only way I can properly enjoy it is when I eat cereal, I throw a handful in my mouth which is followed by a swig of milk in order in ensure wonderful crunchiness in each and every single bite. I like crunchy things.... [Tags: handful, soggy cereal, swig]

Aircell's Gogo in-flight WiFi goes live commercially on Virgin America — The time has come, internet mavens... to comment on this post from 35,000 feet up, of course. After launching to a select handful of lucky souls last week, Virgin America has gone live with its Aircell-engineered Gogo internet service on select flights. As of now, an undisclosed amount of VA flights will offer guests unlimited use (with certain restrictions around VoIP, we hear) while in the air for $12.95 on flights longer than three hours and $9.95 for flights under three hours. The airline's entire fleet should be WiFi-ready by Q1 2009, but for now, why not kill some... [Tags: aircell, airline, engadget, fleet, gogo]

Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers — An anonymous reader notes a Reuters report of a study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, confirming that Mobile phone calls distract drivers far more than even the chattiest passenger, causing drivers to follow too closely and miss exits. California's ban on using a handheld cell phone while driving, which went into effect last summer, is looking less than fully effective. A handful of other states have instituted similar bans, but none has forbidden driving while talking on a cell phone at all. "Using a hands-free device does not make things better and the researchers believe they know... [Tags: anonymous reader, cell phone while driving, handful, journal of experimental psychology, maneuver]

Tizmos.com - Your Own Personalized Homepage — What it doesIn a nutshell, Tizmos is a personalized homepage that enables you to visualize thumbnails of the sites you always visit in the same place, and dispense with visiting them out one by one to see if they have been updated. Each site that you add to your homepage is entitled “Tizmo”, and you can manage these easily online as Tizmos can be dropped, edited and deleted in no time at all. Moreover, you can add tags for browsing convenience. As you probably have realized, this solution has the added advantage of enabling you to access your favorites from... [Tags: added advantage, convenience, different computers, handful, latter approach]

Handful of candidates spent campaign money on clothes — Blog: It's not a $150,000 spending spree, but CREW found something... [Tags: campaign money, clothes, handful, spending spree]

Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs — Barence writes "After years of boasting about the Mac's near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their computers. Apple — which has continually played on Windows' vulnerability to viruses in its advertising campaigns — issued the advice in a low-key message on its support forums. 'Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.' It goes on to recommend a handful of products." Reader wild_berry points out the BBC's story on the unexpected recommendation.Read... [Tags: advertising campaigns, antivirus utilities, apple, bbc, handful]

MySpace helps develop OpenID extension for Flock — There's a new OpenID extension for "social browser" Flock, and it was created with the help of password management service Vidoop and News Corp.-owned social network MySpace. It's now available for download for all Flock users who have upgraded to Flock 2.0. For MySpace, which initially announced its support for OpenID back in July, this is also a push for Data Availability, a universal-login project that the social network announced in May but has since only rolled out with a few partners. Yahoo, one of MySpace's launch partners for Data Availability, has also thrown its weight behind OpenID. "As three... [Tags: bells and whistles, boundaries, browser space, credential management, data availability]

Will BitTorrent Change Destroy The Internet? No — Will BitTorrent bandwidth hogs destroy the Internet? We tend to think not, but a report in the Register predicting doom is getting plenty of attention. At issue: BitTorrent Inc. is changing the way its popular uTorrent P2P app transmits and receives files. The alleged problem: The new transmission method uses a channel currently only employed by a handful of applications, like gaming and VoiP. With P2P traffic flooding that transmission line, users' Skype calls or World of Warcraft sessions could get interrupted amidst the P2P noise, the Register supposes. Hogwash, says BitTorrent. The company tells the Industry Standard it's trying... [Tags: bandwidth hogs, caps, cmcsa, comcast, doom]

Maybe They Should Call It the Compact Electronics Show — For tech journalists, the busiest week of all is the first full one of the year. It starts with San Francisco’s Macworld Expo, which involves a whole lot of hoopla about a handful of products (Apple ones, naturally). And then it segues into the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at which no single product [...]... [Tags: apple, consumer electronics show, consumer electronics show in las vegas, electronics show in las vegas, handful]

PhraseExpress Text Replacement App Updates, Better than Ever [Featured Windows Download] — Windows only: Free text replacement application PhraseExpress updates to version 6.0, sporting a handful of new time-saving features and stability improvements. If you're unfamiliar with text replacement apps like PhraseExpress, they're like digital shorthand for your computer; the user defines small text snippets that expand to larger pieces of text, so when you type ,sig, for example, a text replacement app can expand that text to a full text signature. We've developed our own text replacement app here at Lifehacker, Texter, which was inspired by the Mac-only TextExpander, but PhraseExpress has a ton to offer in its own right. Among... [Tags: added bonus, apps, handful, new features, new time]

WinFlog powers up your Windows context menus — Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware WinFlog Extreme is a tiny Windows utility that lets you add a handful of useful items to your right-click context menus. That includes the ability to turn Aero desktop effects on or off in Windows Vista, eject a CD or DVD, or turn on the Flip 3D Windows switcher in Windows Vista. You can also add an option to turn off your display from the context menu. Don't worry, it will come back on as soon as you move your mouse.The utility lets you pull up these features when you right click your My Computer... [Tags: 3d windows, computer icon, context menu, context menus, dialup connection]

Apple's Mini DisplayPort Might Not Be BS Proprietary Port After All [Apple] — We hated Apple's tiny DVI ports because even though they used an industry standard, they were de facto proprietary connections. We were ready to hate Mini DisplayPort too, but we might not have to. That's because Apple will be licensing the Mini DisplayPort specification for free, meaning Apple might not be the singular assholes to use it (which is why their shrunken variations on DVI, while not technically proprietary, practically were). At the very least, even if vendors like Dell—an early supporter of DisplayPort—don't pick it up, it should mean a decent-sized ecosystem of Mini DisplayPort accessories, not just a... [Tags: apple, assholes, dell, displayport, ecosystem]