TimeTube is a pretty interesting YouTube search tool.

It arranges the search results in a neat timeline where the thumbnail image sizes represent the popularity of the corresponding video on YouTube. And the various entry points indicate the day when a video was uploaded. Try it.

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Google Trends, a service that lets you compare the world’s relative interest in particular topics, suggests that blogs’ popularity have surpassed that of newspapers or magazines, at least on Google.

And this gap between blogs vs newspapers and magazines is much wider in California and India. Here’s another close-up screenshot with data for the last 30 days.

Related: What’s Hot, What’s Not ?

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For instance, a search for Paris Hilton on Yahoo! Glue would should you news stories from Yahoo! news, videos from YouTube, pictures from Yahoo! Images / Flickr and blogs related to Paris Hilton from Google Blog Search - all this information is laid out neatly on a single page.

While the current launch of Yahoo! Glue did generate lot of buzz, it is actually based on a project that has been cooking at Yahoo! Australia labs for over an year now - it’s called Yahoo! Alpha.

In fact, some may find Yahoo! Alpha search as more useful than Yahoo! Glue because it lets you pick individual search engines and you may also customize the layout of search pages. Here’s screenshot.

You can integrate any search engine into Yahoo! Alpha search as long as it supports OpenSearch specifications (like Wikipedia, Amazon, etc). Here’s another screenshot of Yahoo’s Custom Search builder interface. Give it a shot.

Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google

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Blinkx is way ahead of other video search engines because it converts audio portion of the video into text using speech recognition technology and makes it searchable.

This will be an interesting one to watch because until now, YouTube can only search videos if they have matching keywords in the titles or the descriptions - blinkx can make video search much more relevant by indexing speech.

Will Google Acquire Blinkx Video Search ? - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS

The search box on the Wall Street Journal website now suggests words and phrases in a drop down as you type characters. It looks for search patterns in the regular stories published on WSJ as well as stock symbols.

Wikipedia search box too sports a similar feature. Thanks Mrinal.

Related: Read Wall Street Journal Stories for Free

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Now NASA is collecting names of people who support this mission and this list will then be placed onboard the spacecraft when it is headed for the moon.

If you want to send your own name to the moon, just go to this Johns Hopkins site and submit. The deadline is June 27. You may also print a "certificate of participation" in PDF. Thanks Gerard Vlemmings.

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To make a new font from scratch, start the FontStruct font builder, pick the pencil tool from the tool palettes and start sketching. If you makee a mistake, just use the eraser. You can pick different styles for the corners and edges of your fonts to make them look more stylish.

Others can download your fonts as TrueType that can be installed on any Mac or Windows computer. If you are an Adobe Flash developer, FontStruct is again useful since it supports flash pixel fonts.

And it for the font designer (that is, you) to decide the licensing of the font. You can share the font under a Creative Commons license - the details of which are then embedded in the digital font file itself. Here’s a quick tutorial:

fontstruct.fontshop.com | Quick Start Guide - Thanks No.Good.

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Yahoo’s search program was definitely superior than competing products from Google or MSN because it supported many more file-types and would let you preview files even without the associated application.

Yahoo’s desktop tool was good enough that it won the editors’ choice award at PC Magazine but unfortunately, the product never picked up - Yahoo! silently abandoned further development and took the software offline.

The Yahoo! Desktop Search website at desktop.yahoo.com now redirects to the X1.

Nobody noticed this because Windows inbuilt just got much better or people shifted to other good desktop search software like Google Desktop or Copernic.

X1 did release a free consumer version but seems to have disappeared as well.

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Kevin O’ Keefe, who gets credit for this discovery, says that regular supply of new content, highly relevant content and incoming links from other relevant sites are the prime reasons why "blogs" perform better in Google Search results.

"Regular content updates = frequency does help some, but it’s the many keywords and key phrases that relevant users may search for that you will have by accumulated posts as well as the links you will draw by more posts that bloggers and news sites will link to."

The New Definition of a Blog is Better Listing on Google - Digital Inspiration | FAQ | RSS

Earlier, you could search for people on Plaxo only if you remembered their email addresses but now they have relaxed the rules and lets you perform a search by name - very similar to Facebook or LinkedIn.

There’s a small difference though. Unlike people search in Facebook or LinkedIn which is open for non-registered users as well, Plaxo offers the search feature only if you have logged-in. Thanks Gautam for the tweet.

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Enter Magtoo Panorama Show, a web based tool for creating 360° panoramas from photographs captured using any digital camera. It also provides an interactive Flash viewer for you to easily embed panoramas in web pages.

MagToo Panorama Show can build both horizontal and vertical panoramas. You can also upload non-overlapping photos but in this case, the tool won’t merge your photos - it will just create one long image that can be embedded using the Flash viewer.

Related hack: Embed Large Screenshots in Web Pages

There’s a limitation though - you can stitch using IE for Windows only since the application is implemented as an ActiveX control. However, the final panorama image is rendered in Flash and can therefore be displayed using any web browser.

And not just for panoramas, you can also use the MagToo viewer to embed high-resolution photographs in web pages something similar to the Google Maps viewer.

MagToo Panorama Show - Thanks Larry Ferlazzo

You may also want to check this excellent guide by Kevin Purdy on how to turn normal looking photos into fantastic wide-angle landscapes.

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Whether you download emails from Gmail Inbox to Outlook or sync Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar, everything gets saved in a PST file on your hard drive. It is therefore extremely important that you regularly backup your Outlook PST files so as not to lose any data in the event of a computer crash.

Though you can create a backup copy of your Outlook .pst files using the Import and Export wizard in Outlook, that’s slightly cumbersome and puts some pressure on your memory since it’s for you to remember the date when you have run the same backup process again.

To save you from this backup stress, Microsoft has a free Outlook add-in called Personal Folders Backup that works with all versions of Outlook and weighs just 160 kb.

This tool can backup all your PST files in a single click and will automatically remind you to perform a backup after ‘x’ number of days. The same tools can also be used to restore Outlook data from previous backups.

The Personal Folders Backup tool has been available since long but the new version that’s released today includes support for Outlook 2007.

Related: Export Outlook PST mails to Gmail

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While the current beta of OpenOffice 3 doesn’t support PDF editing yet, it does include lot of new feature including the ability to read and edit Microsoft Office 2007 files formats.

Calc now supports upto 1024 columns per spreadsheet while Writer can display multiple pages during editing. The new version is also compatible with Windows Vista.

OpenOffice.org has also said that PDF editing features will become available soon via a PDF Import extension that’s currently under development - now this would be a real free alternative to Acrobat.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 | Release Notes | Public Announcement

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Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India while YouTube, a Google subsidiary, is the largest video sharing site in the world.

Am sure this is purely coincidental but the logo designs of these two very popular brands do bear a striking resemblance including the logo tag-line.

First spotted by Pratham who earlier wrote about the unofficial Wikipedia API.

Related: The Idea Behind Amazon.com Logo

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With WildLife Filmmaker, they can quickly create animal videos by just dragging wildlife video footage on to the timeline. Kids can also include animal sounds and background music to their wildlife movies.

The movies get saved on the National Geographic site but there’s no download option.

Wildlife Filmmaker - Thanks Silvia Tolisano

Related: Windows Movie Maker Alternative

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