Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web services

Have you ever wanted to see what your face looks like on Borat’s body? Curious to see if you would have been a good subject for the Mona Lisa? FACEinHOLE lets you put your face in a variety of “scenarios” either with a webcam or a .jpg.

Select a scene, choose “Webcam” to enable the Flash webcam application (you may then have to right click in the application, choose “settings” and select the proper webcam) or “Image File” to upload a picture.

Situate yourself or your picture file, and then click “Save this Image.” Enter a title for your creation, and you’ll be given a handy URL to your finished image and code for embedding the picture on your website or blog.

[Thanks Carlos!]

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Filed under: E-mail, Productivity, Web services

YourLi.st is a simple web service that sends you an e-mail reminder on the day and time you specify (with an option to have a pre-reminder). The site does not require registering with them, so you can have a reminder set up in seconds.

Events can have a title and summary, and the reminder can be set to repeat. A bookmarklet is available to set up reminders even more quickly. When you create a reminder, you’ll receive an initial e-mail telling you that your reminder is configured (and you can delete the alert if you want). YouLi.st claims that after the actual reminder e-mail (and the pre-reminder e-mail if you choose that option), they’ll remove all traces of your e-mail address from their system.

We hope they decide to add selectable time zones since they only support GMT now, which can be confusing when setting up your reminder. For more overall functionality, try Remember the Milk (although that site requires registration).

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Filed under: Productivity, Web services, Search

There’s a lot of garbage on Craigslist — including vowels, apparently. Crgslst cuts to the chase, providing a quick Ajax site that switches between cities and categories on Craigslist with one click. It looks a lot prettier than the real thing, too!

Since there are hundreds of different city pages on Craigslist now, you can save a ton of time by jumping between them within the same search. Crgslst doesn’t grant a simultaneous nationwide search, although it could easily do so, because that feature has gotten sites shut down in the past. This is the next-best thing, though, and we hope it lasts.

Crgslst has another leg up on the built-in Craigslist search engine because it lets you swiftly save what you’re doing. You can pick up to 10 favorite cities, to avoid having to reselect your city from the map or the popular cities list every time, and you can save interesting listings to a compact sidebar. If the folks at Craigslist do want this site shut down, they could do worse than to steal from its design, which a huge improvement on the original.

[via JoshSpear]

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Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Web services, Open Source, Social Software, AOL

It’s hard to get by with just one chat client these days. Your contacts aren’t likely to be limited to a single service, like Google Talk, MSN Live or AIM, so a multi-chat client is a must. Now the multi-chat experience is about to get a lot better for AIM’s 27.8 million users, with the launch of AOL’s Open AIM 2.0 initiative.

Open AIM will aid the developers of clients like Meebo and eBuddy by releasing documentation for OSCAR, the protocol that the official AIM client uses to connect to the service. Open source libraries are now granted to access the AIM network, and developers are free to create mobile or corporate versions of AIM to their heart’s content, and AIM will now all kinds of widgets and plugins.

What does this mean for users? For one, some of the compatibility issues with third-party clients might finally go away — file transfer is the one that’s always been a sore spot for us. AOL is promising access to AIM’s voice and video capabilities, too. Keep an eye out for updates to your favorite chat client, because the devs are likely working at full speed to add new features under Open AIM.

[Via TechCrunch]

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coondoggie passed us another NetworkWorld link, this one discussing the banning of a shady telecom tycoon convicted for ‘cramming’. “The owner of three companies that billed more than $30 million in bogus collect call charges, an activity known as cramming, to millions of consumers throughout the country, has been banned forever from all billing on local telephone bills. Willoughby Farr agreed to the lifetime ban as part of a federal court order settling Federal Trade Commission charges that he directed a huge unauthorized billing scam for more than two and a half years. The settlement contains a monetary judgment of $34,547,140, which will be partially satisfied by Farr’s transfer to the Commission of all but $7,500 of his frozen assets, the FTC said.”

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A. Smith writes “Ars Technica is exploring the relationship between property rights and copyright, arguing that copyright holders are making a mistake by stressing similarities between property rights and copyright. They compare P2P users to 18th-century squatters in North America: ‘Like squatters of old, many ordinary users find copyright law bewildering and are frustrated by the arbitrary restrictions it imposes. Customers wanting to rip their DVD collections to their computers, download music they can play on any device, or incorporate copyrighted works into original creative works find that there’s no straightforward, legal way to do these things.’ They conclude by offering that more reasonable, understandable copyright restrictions would result in a user base friendlier to publisher interests.”

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Khuffie writes “The US Air Force has been sending sensitive information, including flight plans for Air Force One, to a website promoting the town of Mildenhall in Suffolk. When told of the error by the site’s owner, the Air Force didn’t attempt to fix it at first. When reminded at a later time, instead of fixing the issue, they advised the owner to ‘block unrecognizable addresses from his domain and have an auto-reply sent reminding people of the official Mildenhall domain and blocked his website from access on base.’”

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NorseWolf writes “Since its foundation, the United Nations system has been collecting statistical information from member states on a variety of topics. The information thus collected constitutes a considerable information asset of the organization. However, these statistical data are often stored in proprietary databases, each with very special dissemination and access policies. As a result, users are often unaware of the full array of statistical information that the UN system has in its data libraries. The current arrangement also means that users are required to move from one database to another to access different types of information. UNdata addresses this problem by datapooling major UN databases and those of several other international organizations into one single World wide web environment. The innovative design grants a user to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search.”

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Khuffie writes “The US Air Force has been sending sensitive information, including flight plans for Air Force One, to a website promoting the town of Mildenhall in Suffolk. When told of the error by the site’s owner, the Air Force did not attempt to repair it at first. When reminded at a later time, instead of fixing the issue, they advised the owner to ‘block unrecognizable addresses from his domain and have an auto-reply sent reminding people of the official Mildenhall domain and blocked his website from access on base.’”

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NorseWolf writes “Since its foundation, the United Nations system has been collecting statistical information from member says on a variety of topics. The information thus collected constitutes a considerable information asset of the organization. However, these statistical data are often stored in proprietary databases, each with very special dissemination and access policies. As a result, users are often unaware of the full array of statistical information that the UN system has in its data libraries. The current arrangement also means that users are required to move from one database to another to access different types of information. UNdata addresses this problem by datapooling major UN databases and those of several other international organizations into one single Internet environment. The innovative design grants a user to access a massive number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search.”

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