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05-14 Neat new stuff

Just wanted to post about some of the interesting new (to me) technology thingies I've seen lately.
  • Joost of course. Everyone's watching Joost these days, and they do have some pretty good shows. But it's stil somewhat incomplete at this point. We have Charlie's Angels, sure, but where's the A-Team? The service itself seems to work fairly well, and keeps improving every time I use the program. And, it responds to the Apple Remote.
  • On the same note, the DivX web player is a nice web-based video player. It's not really any different than QuickTime or anything else, with the obvious exception that it plays DivX web content. The thing that's neat, though, is the feature that dims the rest of the screen outside the player while you're watching. Useful and slick.
  • Yottamusic is a web-based front end for Real's Rhapsody that has an underdeveloped social layer and has been around for a while apparently. It seems to crash less than Rhapsody's own native version (which is either a Firefox extension or IE ActiveX control), and it even runs in Safari without any installations. Best of all, it submits Rhapsody plays to Last.fm. I don't think I'll be using the buggy Rhapsody app for anything other than transferring tracks to my player.
  • Tick. Gah. I'm constantly in search of some time tracking app, preferably web-based or at least with a web component. Tick seemed neat – it didn't have a built-in timer but a dashboard widget fixes that issue. Unfortunately, Tick's servers are incredibly unreliable, their Ajax-y interface often doesn't save changes, and the free account doesn't allow for much. Normally, account limitations are fine, but for a service that only seems to work some of the time, I have a hard time spending even a little money. Any ideas for Mac or web-based time tracking?

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