omicron

Member since: Dec 11th, 2006

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Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part ten: win an HP Envy 15! (Engadget)

Nov 27th 2009 7:46PM It will be mine.

Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part eleven: win a 32GB Zune HD! (Engadget)

Nov 27th 2009 7:44PM I want one too!

Black Friday Giveaways (part 19): Wii + Metroid Prime 3 and more (Engadget)

Nov 24th 2007 12:57AM FTW!

Microsoft launchs Windows Live Translator beta (Download Squad)

Sep 9th 2007 3:36PM I guess those idiots at Google never heard of AltaVista or Lycos either. Since when did it become stupid to release a competing product?

Bioshock Tuesday: win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Bioshock (Engadget)

Aug 26th 2007 12:39AM Civilization 4. Looking forward to the expansion as well.

TinyMaps : Create and share maps (Download Squad)

Feb 18th 2007 7:11AM local.live.com also does this. You can add pushpins (including notes, urls, and images), and shapes to the map, and then share that out as a URL, which can be shortened with tinyurl. Users can easily generate driving directions with the pushpins or any point on the map they desire. Example: http://tinyurl.com/35tut8

See the world with Panoramio (Download Squad)

Dec 11th 2006 1:11PM You can do something similar with http://maps.live.com collections, which supports pictures, links, and descriptions on each place. Check out this collection of places along the US continental divide: http://local.live.com/?cid=F441765F3B3306E4!287 There are more collections at http://www.passthepoi.com