Launch: Google Docs & Spreadsheets makeover

Lifehacker:

The Google Docs & Spreadsheets beta is sporting a new look with
a couple of slick new features, like folders. (Click on the image to
take a look.)

In addition to a prettier interface with new icons and expandable
trees on the left, the old tags have been replaced by good
old-fashioned folders. Finally, the search box offers Google Suggest
as-you-type docs and spreadsheets results suggestions for faster
getting at what you need. Log in to your Google Account to check it out.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets
An entirely new way to stay organized [Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog]

Featured Windows Download: Vista Start Menu for XP with ViStart

Lifehacker:

Windows XP only: Freeware app ViStart brings the functionality of the Windows Vista Start Menu to Windows XP.

ViStart
not only offers the Vista style eye-candy and transparency for XP, but
also the highly regarded quick search function of Vista. ViStart was
designed to be included in the Vista Transformation Pack, however you
can grab a stand alone version if you would prefer not to install the
entire pack. ViStart is lightweight, skinable, and another great
feature of Windows Vista brought to XP. ViStart is a free download for
Windows XP only.

ViStart

All things iPhone

Yeah, it’s about that time…

Want to stay abreast of all things iPhone related? Then be sure to keep an eye and ear on applephoneshow.com

Scott Bourne and friends will keep you up to date…

Mac: Top 5 apps to pimp your iSight camera

Pretty cool that you can play games (and more) with ur iSight…

Digg:  “Those with the new built-in iSights get the pleasure of having a little
fun with Apple
’s PhotoBooth application, but there’s only so long you can enjoy
looking at your own reflection… until now. Here are the Top 5 apps
to have more fun with your iSight!”

Link to article

Japanese Food Fight, Matrix-Style

Pretty cool how they do this manually, rather than with special effects…

Neatorama: “Remember the Matrix Ping Pong? Here’s food fight, Japanese-style (complete with reverse effect!)

Boingo rolls out flat-rate global WiFi

There are a ton of locations, even in my home state and city…

Boing Boing:

Cory Doctorow:
Boingo, a WiFi hotspot subscription service, has just rolled out
flat-rate, worldwide WiFi roaming for $40/month. Boingo lets you login
to other companies’ WiFi hotspots all over the place (particularly in
Europe, where the local tarrif can be through the roof — one hotel I
stayed in in Amsterdam charged €45 per 200 megabits of traffic). For
some of these, Boingo subscribers have had to pay a hefty surcharge (it
was more than $0.10/minute at the Paddington Hilton in London). With
the new Boingo plan, it’s one fee, everywhere.

I pay for a T-Mobile WiFi plan and it sucks. They charge gigantic
roaming fees to use other T-Mobile WiFi hotspots around the world –
$0.14/minute in London’s Starbucks! T-Mobile Italy charges US T-Mobile
roamers more than they charge Telitalia roamers — the company charges
its own customers more than customers of the state-owned telco!

I’ve had a comp Boingo account for a couple months now and I’ve
found it to be way more useful than my T-Mobile account. It works at
more airports, hotels, coffee-shops, etc than T-Mobile does, by far.
The only bummer was the roaming fees, and now that those are gone, this
is a no-brainer for anyone who puts in a lot of road time. You can
spend more than $40 on one night’s WiFi in a hotel — $40/month is
totally worth it.
Link

Rate Plans for iPhone

I could probably do the $59.99 plan - it’s not too shabby! Too bad the phone is so expensive I can’t even get one…

apple.com:

Click here to go to Apple’s site for more details

The entire Kill Bill - new DVD coming with extra footage!

I’ve been waiting for this one….

Movieweb: “You can never have too much Kill Bill!

In a listing from Amazon.com, it seems that “Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair” will be coming to DVD November 6 from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company!

There is no word yet on what extras this 247 minute extravaganza is going to contain but chances are, since this is The Whole Bloody Affair, consumers will be getting everything they can stick on this release.”

Technical Specs:
- No. of Discs: 4
- Run Time: 247 minutes
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Rating: NC-17

The 305

Hee hee, this is great….

Neatorama: “The Holecheck Brothers directed this funny mockumentary of the 300, about what happened to the goat path that led to the downfall of the Spartan army:

It is known to any, the Spartan 300 army. Soldiers
thought that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory they can
achieve in their lives. But this is not that story, this is a story of
a goat gate. And the five brave souls who were chosen to defend it. The
305.

Featured Firefox Extension: Visit unavailable web sites with Resurrect Pages

Lifehacker:

All platforms running Firefox: The Resurrect Pages extension lets
you visit offline websites that are unavailable for one reason or
another. Resurrect Pages displays a list of options on the “Server Not
Found” page in Firefox and links to popular cached pages like Google
Cache, Yahoo! Cache, The Internet Archive, etc. that could let you
check out the site even if the server is down.

Powerhouse sites like Slashdot and Digg can bring a server
to its knees. What do we do when a page is dead but we still want to
see it? Call in the clerics, and perform a resurrection ceremony! Or,
the easier route, use this extension.

Resurrect Pages is a free download and works anywhere Firefox does. Thanks, zizzy!

Resurrect Pages [Mozilla via Arrogantics]