No Cash, No Problem

If you sell anything and are not currently accepting credit card payments, you may soon be in luck. New technologies will make it very easy for anyone with a smartphone to accept credit cards wherever they may be about.

Cellphone Payments Offer Alternatives To Cash

Here is one example:
SquareUp.com

Things To Do With A Cassette

Here are some interesting things happening with the old cassette tapes. It is interesting to me to know how creative people can get.

Hitting Rewind On The Cassette Tape

Your Own Field Agents

Post a quick job for someone who owns an iPhone. Say you need to find out the price of a product at a store down from where you are. Have someone else do that for you and pay them. Or say you have a new service and need some on-site help convincing the biz manager, just post and see if anyone is nearby to help you.
FreeAgent.net
NYT's An App That Pays

Ready To Move To The Cloud?

Companies are slowly migrating their apps and data to the cloud. Are you getting ready to do the same? Here is some news about this migration.

Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

Mini-Tasks get Mini-Pay

If you have some small tasks to get done, checkout these services that pair up providers with seekers. If you have only $5 to spare, there are plenty of things people are willing to do for that. For example, one person will send out a tweet about your site to his 35,000 followers.

Fiverr.com
Springwise review of fiverr

ShortTask.com
Springwise review of ShortTask

MyTown: Check-in Game

Very interesting how some services are gaining traction that essentially make a "game" out of "checking into" real places, like restaurants, salons, etc. MyTown is one such game. I'm not sure how it all works yet. I hope to check it out soon.

Booyah! MyTown hits 1 million users before Foursquare or Gowalla

Kwedit: Do You Promise To Pay?

This is a very serious player and awesome concept in the online payment industry. I think these people have a winning concept. I really like the fact anyone can make their payments by going to a 7-11, mailing it in, or via the "pass the duck" feature.

TechCrunch Review
Kwedit.com

Practice Storytelling

This is an awesome tool to get kids to be creative with telling stories. It is a set of cards that come in two types. You pull one card of each type. The first is a character, while the second is a situation. For example, "a cashier at a dollar store" may be the first card, and "who is afraid of getting old" is the second card. The person then proceeds to tell the story based on this character and situation. Two rules: the character must change in some way from beginning to end. The character must never die.

The Storymatic

Online Language Learning

The NYT put out some useful online resources for learning a new language. I really need to give this a try if I ever want to get beyond my English and Spanish.

The Web Way to Learn a Language

No Credit Card, No Problem

If your intended clients have only cash and no credit cards, you really need to start using Rixty.com. For some odd reason, they have a slightly different website at Rixty.net.

Apparently, Rixty is growing according to the latest round of financing talked about at TechCrunch.

Android/iPhone Apps Directories

Check out these directories for apps for your Android or iPhone as discussed in the NYT's story Want New Apps for Your Android or iPhone? Here Are the Best Directories

Top Android App Directories:
Android.com
Androidapps360.com
Androlib.com
Mplayit.com

Top iPhone App Directories:
AppAdvice.com
Appolicious.com
Yappler.com
Apptism.com
Mplayit.com

The Sixth Sense

You may have seen part of this technology before, where a projector is used to cast a working, digital keyboard onto a surface, so that one would no longer need a physical keyboard but just an image of one. This guy Pranav Mistry make his own version of this and shows you so many different applications for it that it could blow your mind away.

The Thrilling Potential of 'SixthSense' Technology

Still Need Cable TV?

Read this story about how this couple got rid of their cable service and aren't missing much:

Cable Freedom Is A Click Away

Useful jQuery Tips for Select Lists

If you are into using jQuery and need to manage select lists, here are some really useful tips.

http://www.myphpetc.com/2009/03/jquery-select-elements-tips-and-tricks.html

By the way, I wrote my own routine for using an array to save a select list and its selected index when the page loads:

//Save all initial options
    var saveselect = new Array();
    $('#myselect option').each(function() {
        saveselect[this.value] = this.text;
    });
    //Save inital selected index
    var saveindex = $("#myselect option").index($("#myselect option:selected"));

Voice to Text

I may have written about this before but since the blog search is not working on my blog, it would take me a long while to find that post. Nonetheless, it is worth repeating.

These services are apparently really good and perhaps cheap at converting voice calls into transcribed text. Read all about them here:

SpinVox.com
PhoneTag.com
DiTech's PhoneTag Now Works Behind Your Company's Firewall
SimulScribe Signs Exclusive $17 Million Partnership Agreement With Ditech Networks

Nice Facebook Shopping Cart

This is a very nice shopping cart meant to work with any site, but in particular Facebook. In fact, they are set to unveil a completely new platform of e-commerce for Facebook.

Payvment.com

TechCrunch's review

Video Sites for Kids

This NYT story mentions some very good sources of videos and other good stuff safe for kids.

How to Provide Parental Guidance on Web Video for Children

Some of the sites mentioned are:
Kabillion.com
Kidzui.com
Kideos.com
Totlol.com
Zuitube.com

Very Interesting: Buzzd

This is a very interesting service. It seems it is a step above iAte.com

Read the review here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/01/buzzd-is-an-iphone-app-built-for-party-crashing/

Buzzd.com

Note that Twitter has lots of interesting data available for "free". You just need to use their API to gather it, analyze it, and display it.

I think Twitter does have limitations on API requests per time period.

I wonder what we could do with Twitter data?

Artwiculate

Build up your vocabulary with this Twitter integrated service.

Artwiculate.com

TwitDraw

This service has lots of potential. It is a simple drawing program with which to draw and to easily send to your twitter wall. I especially like the concept of the Graffiti Chain.

TwitDraw.com