Archive for category Apps

The Baby Name Wizard’s: Name Voyager

Posted by mistergroonk in Admin, Apps on November 8, 2005

This little web-app tracks the popularity of of your name as-you-type it in.

It seems that my name, my true name, was most popular in the 1910s with about 600 million baby boys running about the Earth calling themselves me.

While Xander, Damien, and Jesus are the boy names on the rise in 2004.

And Adrianna, Abigail, and Willow are the popular girl names of 2004.

(via digg)

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Jim Bumgardner is an App Creating GENIUS

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Art, Flickrlicious on October 19, 2005

On the one hand Jim Bumgardner made this mind geekingly cool collage of covers from the visual index of science fiction cover art which is arranged horizontally by time, and vertically by average hue.

run space monkeys, run

I waste hours flipping around in there.

He also made a Flickr texture picker.

(via boingboing)

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Patterns and Code

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps on September 29, 2005

Tons of patterns and dhtml/php/mysql bits of code free for use on Squidfingers.

Including a neat slideout menu.

Apps, CSS, DHTML, Web Design

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Amusing Conversations with iGod

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps on September 29, 2005

Chat with the Almighty.

I grew bored after a minute, but Medicmike managed to amuse the fuck outta me.

Excerpts from Medicmike’s chat:

Me: fuck

God: Please don’t be so rude.

Me: Please don’t be so omnipotent.

God: Thanks for asking politely. I was not trying to be a omnipotent.

Me: Where are the prostitutes?

God:I would search for it. Have you tried looking in the Open Directory? I will try to find out..

Me: Why do you kill puppies and babies?

God:I do not kill.

Me: You are a liar.

God: Yes, I have been known to bend the truth occasionally.

Me: Are you the devil?

God: Yes I am the one and only devil.

Apps, Flash, Religion

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A Disaster map “Wiki”

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, USA on September 3, 2005

Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com.

Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that’s awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That’s pretty amazing in itself, but there’s more: All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in search of information on the flood themselves.

Since Scipionus.com launched Wednesday, it has become a giant visual “wiki” page, attracting tens of thousands of visitors who are collaborating in creating a public document of astonishing detail.

(via wired news)

Apps, Map

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More Flickr Apps

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Flickrlicious, Google-fied on July 30, 2005

On the one hand I’m obssessed with Flickr.

On the other hand I’m obssessed with Google Earth.

Let’s put those hands together.

There’s a dyanmic layer that links from Google Earth to geotagged Flickr images.

You can now reverse it and “link to Google Earth dynamically from within the Flickr website, letting Google Earth fly you to the spot where your geotagged photo was taken”
(via ogleearth)

You can also automate geotagging with Firefox extension Grease Monkey.
(via ogleearth)

Then there’s Geobloggers:

The idea is that you go out into the (urban) wild armed with a camera and possibly a GPS unit. You take a bunch of photos and upload them to flickr. Then you add “tags” which lets geobloggers (and other sites) know where the photo was taken, using “geotagged”, “geo:lat=xxx.xxxx” and “geo:lon=xxx.xxxx”. Flickr handles the management of the photos, geobloggers does the rest.

Now all I need is a GPS.

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Shuttle/ISS rendezvous Revisited

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Google-fied, Science, USA, World on July 28, 2005

I would have had pictures the first time but Groonk Command and Control isn’t fully functional yet.

But now I have half my image resizing capabilities and Google Earth on my side:

just north of Australia

full globe view

off the coast of japan

they passed me by again…the bastards

Many,many thanks go to ogle earth for the live Gearth/Shuttle tracking application.

Apps, Blogged

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Track the Space Shuttle and ISS with Google Maps

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps, Google-fied, Science on July 27, 2005

Run your own mission control from home and track the shuttle and the space station using google maps.

Course without any kind of communication with said places, you’re pretty much commanding naval lint.

But you can watch the rendezvous at 6:18 CDT Thursday July 28 2005.

(via digg)

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Attack of the Show Actually Useful

Posted by mistergroonk in Apps on July 20, 2005

I never thought I’d see the day. That piece of crap show called AOTS had some links that are worth something:

Slogger
Slogger is an extension for Mozilla Firefox which can create a customizable browser history, automatically store all pages you visit locally, log pages via various search providers, and more. Slogger has many options and is designed to be highly customizable.

My Rate PlanMyrateplan.com helps you sort out the best cellphone rates in your general area.

Old News baby
oldnewsbaby.com allows you to submit URLs to be commented on and rated by other users of the site. As you submit cool URLs, your coolness will increase and you will move up the cool users chart and have more influence on the site.

Montage-a-Google
Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters

You Send It
If the file’s too big for email…yousendit.com will send it for you.

Flickrdown
A program that pulls pictures from wonderful Flickr and allows you to download them hella easier.

Wavepad
WavePad audio editing software is a sound editor program for Windows. This audio editing software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad is a wav editor and MP3 editor, and supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, Real Audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.(and it’s FREE!)

(all via sarah’s damn good downloads and sarah’s damn good websites)

Apps, Linkable

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