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Welcome to A Bit Eclectic. As you may have noticed, I have changed the name and URL of this blog. As part of the transition away from wordpress.com I wanted to get a new matching URL and name for the blog. Although I liked Eclettico I couldn’t obtain the URL.

Please update your links, bookmarks, and feeds. As far as I know this will be the last change to the URL. All of the old URLs should work for the forseeable future but I recommend moving to http://abiteclectic.net.

Here is a new feature I stumbled upon last night. Google Maps has added the street view feature to driving directions. Now you can get a glance at the route before you even get in the car. When you look up driving directions on Google Maps, a little camera icon will appear next to the streets. If you click on the icon the street view will pop up on the map. From here you can zoom in and pan around to get a good look at the surrounding area. If you don’t see the camera icon, street view may not be supported in your city.

Overall it is a great addition. However, I only see one real good use for it. Sometimes when you are driving, street signs can be hard to see. This can be especially true late at night in a poorly lit area. With this feature, you can get a look at the houses and landmarks surrounding the intersection. This will make it easier to recognize your turn on those easy to miss streets.

Google has provided some other great uses in this video. Some of them seem a little far fetched to me, but your millage may vary.

Flickr rolled out a new feature to help us share our photos and videos. It is a little Share This button in the upper right hand corner of a photo page, sets page, or group. After clicking it you get a drop down menu where you can: email it, grab the link, grab the embed code, or post it to your blog (which requires some setup.)

This simple little feature will help us share more of the interesting stuff that we find on flickr.

Welcome to Eclettico. Eclettico is italian for eclectic, which means

deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

I believe that is fitting for my diverse interests and wide range of post topics. Here you can find things covering movies, music, video games, books, blogs, websites/webservices, my opinion, news, technology, and just life in general. If you aren’t necessarily interested in all of these topics, feel free to use the keywords and tags to hone in on what interests you.

I have also imported the posts from all my other blogs so that you don’t have to hunt all over the internet for other stuff I have written.

Enjoy