Tag: IDENTIFY

Googling someone to get more information about them is a pretty common practice these days, whether you're an employer, a journalist, or just curious. A new Firefox plugin called Identify makes the task of information-gathering easier, by displaying information and links to someone's blogs and social profiles with just one keypress. From any page with a "rel=me" line -- that's most blogs, ...

How good are you at identifying well-known alphabetical characters and shapes? Well, I'm pretty good at it. I can even read, and stuff. So at first I wasn't sure how a game that had to do with identifying shapes and letters would be all that interesting. But what if you can only see a one-pixel slice of a letter at a time, and you have to imagine that that slice is scanning from top to bottom? ...

The Song Tapper is a web service that will identify songs based on the rhythm you tap out with your spacebar. I put it through its paces a couple times and found that it has about a 50% success rate, but then, maybe I just have lousy rhythm. Still, it's more fun than calling up your friends and singing at them until one of them recognizes the tune. ...

There are several tools out there that will identify your music, such as MusicBrainz Tagger, but Tunatic is a bit different. Its sole purpose is to identify music you play it through your computer's microphone. So, if you're listening to the radio and hear a song and want to know what it is, you can hold your microphone up to the speaker and in a few seconds Tunatic will, or so its makers claim, ...