I stumble upon ReadtheWords.com service this week. And it’s really a cool service to create podcast as summarized below:

Read The Words via kwout

I tested the service submitting a ReadWriteWeb blog post via an URL. The result is quite good. Once created the podcast can be downloaded, embedded in a web page or listened directly from [...]

Tabs and extensions in Firefox are great functionalities. But when both are used thorougly, Firefox memory usage grows in an exponential way: Firefox Memory usage can be several hundred of MB and growing quickly. I listed below some tips taken from a ThinkTechno post  that can help to reduce and control Firefox memory consumption.
1. Use [...]

The service conv2pdf.com is really useful to quickly convert documents to PDF format. I used it for instance to convert some Words document to PDF. And I found the results very good. There are other tools like FreePDF that can be used to produce freely PDF file. But they require the installation of additional softwares [...]

This web page display in a very concise way an awesome collection of links covering all a Web-Developer need to work. There are listing for:

Creativity
CSS
Color management
Free Stock Photos
Web_Design magazine
Tools
SEO
Web 2.0

 

Philanthropy: The Greatest Givers

Business Week published a slide show listing the "Greatest Givers":

Twenty-five philanthropists who made a difference, and changed the way we think about giving

We found in this list, well known philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates or Warren Buffet but also organization like kiva.org. There is also an item for the web site Charity Navigator:

 Charity Navigator, [...]

According to this article from eMarketer, Facebook is now the fourth web site worldwide in terms of traffic. The graph below is taken from the article:

Found via FaceReview.

GmbmG or Give me back my Google is a custom search engine that cleanup Google search results, removing the annoying affiliate links (kelkoo, …). This is useful when searching information on a product. By default Google results are bloated with those links which are most of the time irrelevant. Here is a extract from the [...]

Popularity dialer

The popularity dialer is a web service designed to simulate phone call:
With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that’s [...]

This article describes the new conditions to access the New York Times Web Site:

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without [...]

Until now the answer to this question was: Use Google. Now Invite Share offers a more convenient, less time consuming solution. It is only required to register the invite request in a list and wait. I got almost instantaneously an invite for Joost.