Catch Up on your TV Addictions with Sidereel

Explore the legitimate and more *ahem* fan-driven ways to watch, read about, and discuss your favorite television addictions at Sidereel, a wiki-driven site that also aggregates links and clips for music and movies. The site offers RSS feeds for each show's content, but its best value may be its archive of links to episodes from previous seasons, both on the network sites and elsewhere. It's free to browse and click through Sidereel, but contributing to the wiki pages requires a free sign-up. For more ways to keep current on your TV fixes, check out Adam's Six Ways to Catch Your Favorite TV Shows.

The Voice Behind GOOG-411's Fetch Audio

One of the things that makes the GOOG-411 directory service awesome — besides the fact that it’s free — is that cool “bippedy-bippedy-bippedy” sound it makes while searching. And now, for the first time ever, the man behind the “bips” (and the voice of 1-800-GOOG-411) breaks his silence to talk about that famous sound.

A First Look at eBay Desktop

The popular eBay auction site is now accessible from a desktop application. With eBay Desktop, you can interact with the auction site normally with the added benefit of having powerful tools on hand in a very lightweight application. Most significantly, eBay Desktop updates listing data and the time remaining for auctions in real time. Download eBay Desktop here and Adobe Air, the required runtime platform, here. Read on for more info.

Download DS Demos Via Your Wii Soon

Tired of having to lug your DS to a public place to download demos? Lord knows I am. I didn't buy the damn thing to sit on trains or parks, I bought it so I could game on the can. Thankfully, Nintendo knows what I'm talkin' 'bout, and have announced at their Fall Conference that you'll soon be able have a DS station in your home, courtesy of your Wii.

Family Guy Now on iTunes

Friggin sweet.

MySpace Optimized for T-Mobile Sidekick

So much for Helio exclusivity. Whores.

Google Reader Gets Search!

Google has recently added a searchbox to Google Reader allowing you to search your subscriptions and shared items from others. Other tweaks include the ability to hide the side navigation and unread counts that go all the way up to 1,000. They’ve also made the forward and back buttons work like you’d expect, despite the heavy use of javascript.

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import

Twitter has finally added the feature they’ve needed from day one: the ability to import your contacts from another service. For now it is limited to just Gmail, which should apply to a large proportion of the service’s early adopter user base. Enter your email address and password to see which of your contacts are on Twitter, or manually invite people to join.

Blogger Adds Video Uploading Feature

Now you can upload videos to blogger the same way you do pictures. blogger supports AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media with a 100 MB maximum size and with convert you video into google video format.

Google Launches Embed Map Feature

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Today Google announced a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable.

Facebook's iPhone Interface

Facebook has just released an iPhone formated version of the site that works and looks amazing. Comparable to Helio's MySpace application. Try it out at iphone.facebook.com. As an added bonnus you can bookmark it and tell firfox to open it in a sidebar and now you have a Facebook Sidebar.

YouTube Custom Player

Users are now able to customize player features including the name of the player, color theme, layout (standard or related videos to the right), and content. The content feature allows users to include their own videos or other videos from a YouTube Favorites List or YouTube playlist. Um, It's a bit huge for my taste, but I like where there going with this.

Invite Share

Looking to get an invite code to private beta testing? Just head on over to Invite Share and request one. It's that easy. I got my invite to Pownce in about 3 minutes. There is currently 42 sites in the mix for this new service including Demonoid, Streamy, Pownce, and more.

Video: Google Maps' New Features

GOOG-411 Adds "Map It" Feature

Just say "map it", and you'll get a text message with the details of your search plus a link to a map of your results.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Redesigned

Here's what's new:

• Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul - new icons, more content, and better organizational controls. We know users spend a lot of time here and we aim to make it feel more like home.
• Getting organized - Almost from the day we launched people have been clamoring for folders. They're here! Even cooler, our new folders continue to work like the tags they've replaced - your old tags are automatically converted to folders and documents can live in more than one folder at a time. Organizing your documents is as easy as dragging and dropping a document to a folder. We've also included special controls for seeing only those documents created by you or shared with a particular person.
  
• Search that thinks ahead - If you've ever tried Google Suggest, you know how cool it is when a search engine offer suggestions as you type. Google Docs & Spreadsheets now works the same way - we offer dynamically filtered results from your document list as you type, saving you time and getting you to your documents more quickly.

Web Tools: Google Reader

Kevin and Olivia demo Google's new web based blog organizer, Google Reader

Google Public Calendar Gallery

Google has just come out with a Public Calendar gallery for you to add to your calendar. Topics include TV Shows, Events, Sports, Entertainment, Holidays, and By Google.

Download Any Song From MySpace

Nice little tool to download any song MySpace. Wonder how long this will last?

Video: Google Mapplets