Category: bookmarks

Controversies aside, the recent facebook changes do have something for the developers all over.

Yet another use case for the iPad – become a DJ with 2 iPads & off the shelf apps.

Online tool that checks your uploaded file against a bunch of virus scanners.

Nice little site that lets you visualize many timezones at once.

The trick that fooled the art critics

Not a very good photoshop job on most posters, but gets the message across

Goes on to emphasize the fact that few people read license agreements & the likes.

Zipf's law & its applicability to cities.

This probably explains why many videos, particularly songs contain bits of dialogue/fillers before & after the primary content.

Interesting points by Craig Newmark

I'm still not much of an SMSer, but I do feel the effects of the mobile phone daily.
via http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/20/kids-and-mobile-phon.html

Norton manages to top this test, while Avast 5 comes in the middle of the pack of 10

Many of them have had worthy successors & can be thought to have been ahead of their times conceptually.

Lots of opinions. It ultimately boils down to the type of laptop & battery you have.

Nice little chart classifying various procedures as per their perceived vs actuality utility

The full text of the letter from representatives of various countries.

Brilliant photo

A couple of petabytes apparently. I wonder how much that helps during exams.

Includes tips for mobile phones & consoles.

Works really well

A video streamer for the iPhone\iPod that works!

Pretty creative for sure.

A simple tool to generate your own South Park character

A multitude of special effects for you pic

Includes tips to liven dull pics.

Includes points on the illusion of choice. Q 4 & 5 are pretty interesting.

Features most of the scifi sports & Quidditch is at no 2. But Calvin rules.

Tons of lego designs

Quite a few options

Can be apparently extended for Hulu too.

A basic proxy. Doesn't work for sites that require logins & some that have flash content. Handy nonetheless.

Very handy indeed

The evolving theories of strategy

Captures it quite effectively

Automated troubleshooting from MS.

They can be connected to form a saberstaff. And there're a variety of hilts too.

Made along the lines of lego bricks. Neat!

The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations.

Apparently they may be busy playing games. Too busy to respond to our signals or even create their own. So, looks like now we have to survive the games & not bomb.

Xerox to the rescue of Apple once again. That's what photo copiers are for after all. Couldn't be any simpler.

Jargon tracker for meetings. You can generate different Bingo cards using the online tool.

That's one dedicated gamer

A Windows optimized compilation of Firefox. Supposed to be up to 25% faster than the Mozilla version.

Never knew one could analyse a song so in-depth.

Is it really useful to frequently change your passwords?

Who said dentists can't be creative

The truth. the whole truth & nothing but the truth

US centric, but still a useful assortment of information on different products.

"Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported."