Technology
« Previous EntriesEasily add High Dynamic Resolution to your images
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008CreateHDR is an online tool that lets you easily add High Dynamic Resolution effects to images without using Photoshop or any other HDR software. HDR images show greater range of tonal detail, than your camera could capture. This site emulates HDR effect so you can play with it with no Photoshop or other software. [...]
Circumventing Internet Censorship #1
Monday, November 10th, 2008AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. And, by the way, it also lets anyone on the outside of a U.S.-only service like Hulu or Pandora get around that often arbitrary restriction.
Hotspot Shield is a [...]
What does this Error Message or Code mean ?
Sunday, November 9th, 2008bug.gd lets you search for computer errors and find solutions. No need to signup, but simply submit an error message you want to get a fix for and get solutions submitted by people who encountered the same problem.
It has the following featuress:
* Search and find a fix to your error message.
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Gmail: search for or by the first post in a conversation
Saturday, November 8th, 2008You can use search in gmail to find some particular information. Part of the syntax is “to:” and “from:” Gmail search parameters. Rakesh Agrawal has an excellent gmail tip on how to use these to find the start of an email thread.
For example, if I’m looking for every e-mail from my friend Shashi [...]
Where is your username being used ?
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Response to “Christian Lobby Welcomes ISP Filtering Moves”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Australian Christian Lobby have issued a press release welcoming the Australian ISP Filtering Moves PDF. Here’s my response
Hi Jim,
I doubt you remember me, but we’ve met twice at Shellharbour COC and you also spoke at a course I was attending , ran by Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation. I’d [...]
Associate Email Links with your webmail in Firefox
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Google toolbar already provided a feature for this, but you can also do it right in the latest version of Firefox (3.0 onwards): associate “mailto” links in web pages with Gmail (or yahoo or Windows mail), so that when you click on, say, this address you’ll be instantly forwarded to create a new message [...]
Has Gmail gone all AOL on us ?
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008I am was a great fan of gmail. Lots of storage (I haven’t deleted anything since June 2004), excellent spam filtering, accessible from anywhere that has a ‘net conenction (including my phone).
Unfortunately, I loved it so much that its entrenched in all my Social Nets, personal contacts, domain registrations etc. Unfortunate, [...]
The Outbreak: Innovative Vampire Short
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008The Outbreak is a choose your own adventure film about—you guessed it—a zombie outbreak.
As you watch the movie, you’re presented with choices you have to make in order to move the plot along. Your choices control which different sequence in the film comes up next. Decide on the right course of action, and you live [...]
Schmap.me: Create a Web Page with your Contact Information
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Schmap is like a virtual business card – key in your contact address, website URL, phone number, email or any other details that you want to reveal in public and it creates a personal web page for you with all this information.
You get a personal URL for your contact page and it looks the same [...]