Google has recently released some pretty neat API for it’s Google Chart. It allows you to create charts on your browser dynamically, on the fly and free. Here’s all you need to do:
Open up a browser
Paste in the following URL http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:20,40,80&chs=250&chl=A|B|C
Tweak the settings.
Hit enter, download your chart.
Customizing your chart
Here’s a general explanation on the parameters of the URL.
Senior managements are group of people who plans and determines the long term goal for a company. They wears formally, attend meetings at all time and most of them looks serious, even when they aren’t. However this is not exactly the side of management team Singapore MDA (Media Development Authority) wants you to see.
The MDA management team thinks they can be cool and hip too! As attached is a music video, make up of senior management people like the CEO, Deputy CEO, Directors and so on, rapping and dancing the way you never expect them to be. It takes a lot of pressure courage to come up with something like that, not mentioning having it published on YouTube. Video after jump.
Rounded corners are something very cool for a Web 2.0 design. RoundPic is a site that help you to round up the corners of your image. You can either upload your own image or type in the image URL in the text field, then click Round It!
RoundPic provides 12 different radius of rounded corners to choose from, you can also set your own image quality, background color and image dimensions. Just click on Preview every time you made a changes. Finally, rename your filename and download it. It’s really that easy.
Google Blogoscoped reported that they are already receiving feedbacks from some GMail users that their accounts are suddenly suspended/disabled. Reason that causes such action – unknown.
Here’s the error message received by GMail user John Welch:
Sorry, your account has been disabled. For more information about Google Accounts, please consult our Help Center at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/.
According to John Welch in Blogoscoped comments, his account is somehow partially disabled.
You might not be happy to be labeled as “geek” but your personality might just be reflected in Scott Johnson’s 56 types of geeks. These photos can be downloaded separately (check out my facebook for full collection), or in a one-piece-poster.
“Advertise on this site” is a feature where advertisers can directly buy ads on your AdSense block. However according to the AdSense team, this feature is not performing as well as it is expected to, and therefore it will be dropped in the weeks to come. If you are using any links to direct advertisers to the customizable Onsite Advertiser Sign-up page, it will no longer work and advertisers will be directed to a default AdWords sign-up page.
According to an e-mail sent by AdSense team, it wrotes:
Unfortunately, this feature has not been performing as well as we had hoped, and in the coming weeks the feature will be retired.
We found that the Onsite Advertiser Sign-up feature was under-performing, and so we have made the decision to focus our efforts on features that we believe will drive the best results for publishers.
Digg.com’s content publishing model is no doubt one successful Web 2.0 example. I’ve written an entry about a year ago, listing some 15 sites that use similar digg.com concepts. Now that one year passed, god knows how many site out there now practices the digg model. But if you are still thinking of jumping on the bandwagon, here’s 6 free scripts that allows you to setup something like Digg, where stories are submitted shared as voted by users.
Pligg
Pligg is one of the most well known digg clone. It runs on PHP/MySQL, free and its currently on Beta 9.8. Read more about Pligg.
PHPDug
PHPDug is very similar to digg.com, particularly its dig buttons. It runs on PHP/MySQL, supports 12 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian) and here are its features:
Easy to edit html template files
Spam fighting captcha security codes
Simple wizard installation
External dig buttons
Easy to edit language files
No need to setup a cronjob
Dig up/down comments
Powerful Admin panel for controlling your site
Automatic thumbnail retrieval for youtube and google videos
Mac users (web designers and developers in particular) listen up, here’s an option to preview your web project with Internet Explorer within Mac OS itself without 3rd party OS applications like Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp, etc. ies4osx is a Mac OS application that, upon installed allows you to open IE in Mac, and it supports 4 different version of IE at the moment:
Internet Explorer 5.0
Internet Explorer 5.5
Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta
Checklist
Here’s a quick checklist before you start installing Internet Explorer on Mac.
You have admin privileges.
If you are on Mac OSX Tiger, install X11 from original CD.
Download Darwin, open it up and drag it inside Application folder.
If you wonder what other alternatives you can tweet besides logging in to twitter.com, this entry gives you tonnes of options tweeting with browsers, desktop applications as well as mobile phone. Worth checking out.
Almost any windows user can tell you how bad their experiences with BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) is. Reason that causes it – plenty. Even if the message in the blue screen says “Press any key to continue”, but most of the time it will not work. Users end up pressing the reset button instead.
BSoD is so famous that even Mac GUI designers use that as a symbol for PC in Mac. In Mac (Leopard, in this case) when you connect to a PC, the icon that represents this external machine is a PC with BSoD on its monitor. Maybe it just look like one on a typically small icon view, but when you zoom the icon up, it’s definitely the same nightmare Windows users are seeing occasionally on their PC.
Funny thing is, why would Mac developers wanna do that :-)
Mac comes with tonnes of keyboard shortcuts, some odd/cool ones are not known by many so here are some keyboard shortcuts you can try on your friend’s Mac, or perhaps (more mischievously) do it to Macs in Apple authorized stores or any places that displays Macs. You’ll be surprised how many Mac users out there will just go blank and stare at their screens wondering what happened. Just don’t get caught or say you learn them from here :-) And remember, choose the 24″. Have fun.
Zoom In / Out
Okay, this is not the best of all but still it may trick some. Mac comes with screen zoom in/out function. The keyboard shortcut here is:
Zoom In
“Command” + ” Option” + ” +”
Zoom Out
” Command” + ” Option” + ” -”
If it does not work for you, it’s probably the zoom control is locked. Here’s how you trigger zoom control lock/unlock
Received a heads up from Nuffnang couple of days ago, its the announcement of their new service – Innit. Innit’s goal is simple; helping bloggers to gain more readerships. Init runs the Digg model. I’m sure we are all able to list tones of sites running Digg.com model, but that doesn’t mean Innit will not work well. Personal point of view, as long it has its targeted audiences, it will hit. Ping.sg of Singapore is a good example in this case.
Innit is a new startup of NuffNang, that means you will need to have an account with Nuffnang (as a publisher) to login and start submitting your blog entries for publicity. Popular contents stays on the top portion of the website, categorized and pushed back according to its age, very similar to Ping.sg. Popular post is even listed on Nuffnang main site, that guarantees exposure if you content make it to the top 10.
Here’s a script for you Facebook addicts. Basically what is does is, it allows you to view a larger image from a thumbnail of anyone, friends or not. All you need to do is to hover the thumbnail image, and the larger photo will just pops up. Let’s go about installing it.
Installing Image Enlarger for Facebook
Here’s some requirements before you can make image enlarging works in Facebook. You need to be using Firefox browser, and have Greasemonkey (Firefox extension) installed, and follow these following steps:
I’m not sure if you’ve experienced this before but when Cely asked me to take a look at her computer, I’m totally surprised. The LCD’s color basically went haywire, or rather inverted. Black color becomes red, white becomes cyan, etc. On an intial search in Google attemmpting to find the reason and solution, I could’nt find any except a youtube video posted by another victim that had the exact same problem.
Similar victim
What causes this
We were not really sure about this, but suspected the laptop was overheated, or the wiring connecting the LCD might get a little bit dislocated when opening/closing the LCD lid.
Attempt to recover
I’ve tried restarting the Windows, re-update the graphic card drivers, reset screen resolutions but it all did not help. There aren’t much solution on the internet. Most of them suggest victims suffering from this to take it to computer shops to seek for assitance.
