Fun Friday

There are thousands and thousands of semi-trucks on the road everyday that pass car after car full of people. Given that, there's no doubt why some companies use their trucks to advertise. A company in Germany decided to run a competition to find the best original application of graphic art to a transport truck, and below you'll find the winners. They're all pretty amazing, but I must say

Have you ever been in Firefox and wanted to paste multiple lines of text into a single-line text field? You know, like in the example above where there is an address which has been placed on two different lines, but if you paste that into the Google Maps search field it will cutoff anything on the second line.

Although you can't do this in Firefox

Mary Jo Foley has tapped some of her sources to try and get information regarding Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), and it appears that she didn't come up empty handed this time around. Her sources said that Vista SP1 RC will be in the hands of testers as early as next week, and that the public will be able to

It looks like Yahoo has spent some considerable time designing an all new homepage for their Yahoo Widgets, and I must say, it looks good! They wanted to improve the experience, and that they did. They've also launched a new version of Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator) version 4.5 which has new features and some fixes. You can find the upgrade for that here.

One big change with the newly redesigned homepage is that searching

The Pirate Bay sure does care about their users, don't they? :) Today they've shown this by launching a music discovery feature to help people find more of the music that they like so that they can spend more time downloading files. They were able to offer this thanks to data from Last.fm. As most of you know, Last.fm tracks what you listen to, learns what you like, and provides you with music

Mozilla pushed out Firefox 2.0.0.10 on Tuesday which fixed three highly rated security vulnerabilities, but a rather critical bug slipped through their test routines. The issue lies in the canvas.drawImage which is used by some extensions and websites to display images. An example of this can be seen here where a line graph is supposed to appear on the left

Hey Google, remember that Google Talk application you have? Yeah, the one that keeps getting ignored? You launched it back in 2005 and added a few features in 2006 (offline messaging and voice mailing), but since then it seems you've just forgotten about it. Now it looks like you're focusing all of your efforts on Gmail Chat and the flash based Google Talk gadget for personalized homepages. Here we thought your next move would