Archive for October, 2006

Audioblogger Discontinued

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Hello,

As of November 1, 2006, Audioblogger will no longer accept phone calls. MP3s made with the service will continue to be hosted and served but you will no longer be able to use Audioblogger to post new audio.

Audioblogger is an independent product, run by Odeo, Inc., a small startup company in San Francisco, CA. We are not affiliated with Google or Blogger except that we operate and provide the Audioblogger service.

Given our limited resources, we have to make tough decisions about what projects to focus on. And we’ve come to the difficult decision that Audioblogger demands too many resources, time, and money for us to continue its operation.

However, there are several other services that offer similar functionality. Odeo is not affiliated with any of these services, we only suggest them only in hopes that one or the other will be a good alternative for you.

Gabcast.com is a free service for recording by phone
Hipcast.com has a seven day free trial and lots of features
Gcast.com is another free service for phone recording

All of the listed above are compatible with Odeo in that they produce , which can be imported to Odeo. Any audio file at Odeo can be posted on a blog by copying and pasting some embed code.

Odeo would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has tried Audioblogger. If you are interested in keeping up with our other blog-friendly projects, please have a look at Twitter.com and our .

Thanks,
The Odeo Team

Links:
Odeo Importing – http://www.odeo.com/create/addfeed
Players – http://odeo.com/channel/102054/embedded_player

Omni Format

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

OmniFormat is a free document which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.

This utility converts files from most any format to most any other format. For example, it converts Word documents to image files and GIF files to PDF files.

The one “catch” is that it won’t work unless you install the company’s free PDF utility, which displays ads.

Auction Speller

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Auction Speller is a free service that will check for the most common misspellings and typos. Misspellings can provide real bargains for the determined eBay hunter.

Drift Electric Motorcycle

Sunday, October 1st, 2006


Intended for off-road use, the Drift Electric Motorcycle comes with a toggle switch that reduces power and allows it to be driven on the streets as an . It sells for $5500 USD with a top speed of 45 mph. It has a range of about 20 miles on a charge using about a dime’s worth of electricity.