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« 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. [...]
Where is your username being used ?
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Can you create your own 3D cartoon ?
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008This is my first xtra normal video.
Very basically, the tool takes what you type, for one or two characters, and creates a video of your selected characters. You can control pretty much everything in the video, from background music to camera shots, and character appearances and actions, by dragging icons and dropping [...]
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, [...]
CSS and Printing
Monday, October 20th, 2008CSS allows you to create multiple styles styles for a single page or document. This is how Wordpress themes are implemented. You can see it at work in the last.fm paint it black or simply red screen formats. Developers are used to styling for the screen. However, using it on other media [...]
Check Website Loading Speed with Site-Perf
Friday, September 19th, 2008Want to quickly find out if your website loads fast enough? Use www.site-perf.com to get an accurate estimation of your website’s loading speed.
Just type in your URL, press go, and Site-Perft will present you with a loading chart for your website. The chart displays the elements of your page and their load times, [...]
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Stanford University has launched a series of 10 free, online computer science (CS) and electrical engineering courses. The courses span an introduction to computer science and an introduction to artificial intelligence and robotics, among other topics.
The free courses are being offered “to students and educators around the world” under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere [...]
RSS Feeds for Yahoo! Search Results
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Listed below are the different feed addresses for Yahoo! - just replace keyword with your own search query or phrase before subscribing to that feed.
Web Search:
http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=keyword
Videos:
http://search.yahooapis.com/VideoSearchService/rss/videoSearch.xml? appid=ysearchblog&format=mpeg&query=keyword
Images:
http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchimagerss&query=keyword
Yahoo! News:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=keyword
The images and video clips are available as media enclosures in the RSS feed so you can directly download them locally via any pod-catcher or your [...]
Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
