Here’s for a thought, in most companies (particularly I.T firms) there’s definitely rooms for weirdos. Folks at joyoftech try to categories these weird office employees with hilarious names (with description).
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Photoshop action is a very useful build-in function to create customized program to repeat tedious and time consuming Photoshop task. In this post, we are going to look at how to create a simple Photoshop action with a scenario as example.
Latest announcement from Nokia’s Goplay event announced that they will come out will come out with a phone very simiar to iPhone.
There are some gadgets that you know your girlfriend will want one the moment you show it to them. It’s not that they are in need of them, simply just attracted to the outlook. Here’s one that would melt a girl’s heart – iRiver Mickey Mouse Mp3 player.
This cute little toy comes with a 1GB capacity; comes in pink, blue white and black color. The size is as light as 17g, running on rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery, support continues playback up to 8 hours.
Thanks to reader Amanda we get to see more photos on iRiver Mplayer. More photos after jump.
If you have no time to create nice patterns to use as web background, here’s a website that allows you to do that on the fly. Background Image Maker is a rails project created by Yuichi Tateno, its free and you can use it to create basic backgrounds made up of slashes, strips, dots and gradients.
At most occasion, I will not want to terminate all opened application, shut down and reopen one by one each time I want to resume my work. Putting the machine on sleeping mode is perhaps the most energy saving way, also the fastest way you can retrieve your work on the next start-up. Here’s a trick, a fast way to switch your macbook to sleeping mode.
If you are looking for icons for UI designs, now you don’t have to browse through a big list, looking for something in particular. Instead, you can look be more specific. Iconfinder is a icon search engine. It’s simple as type in the keyword, search and get the results. Very similar to Goolge Image to image searching.
Thumbalizr allows you to create thumbnails of any websites you want. All you need to do is enter the URL of the website and hit the thumb it button. Thumbalizr will then generate the thumbnail instantly with size options (width) of 150, 320, 640, 800 and 1024. You can even customize the width yourself by typing into the textfield provided.
You know in movies, witnesses to crimes are asked by the officials to illustrate the faces of law breakers with a facial recognition system. Witnesses describe how the offender looks like and the police will compare selected facial features with images from their facial database. Flashface allows you to do that online D.I.Y style. With comprehensive list of face features like hair, head, eyebrows, glasses, eyes, nose, moustache, mouth, jaw and beard it is possible to illustrate someone’s face almost 100% alike.
Here’s a cool site that allows you to convert video into other formats online (free) so you don’t have to download extra application to perform video conversion. These folks also run a little extra mile to make sure this free service stands out.
Want to view more websites on a single browser screen? Firefox Split Browser plugin allows you to split your single browser screen into multiple screens so you can fit as much websites as your resolution and monitor size can take.
We’ve seen how cool the new iMac is, but I bet you’ve never seen them from the inside. Crazy Japanese have the iMac disassembled. Now you can see the internal parts of an iMac without having to dissect them yourself, which I highly doubt anyone would.
Searching with Google can be fun too sometimes, see what you end up with by searching with these following keywords. Here’s how these tricks work:
Matt Cutts, senior software engineer of Google gave a one hour talk on Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers during the WordPress Camp 2007 happened 2 weeks ago in San Francisco. Thanks to onemansblog, those who are unable to attend the WordCamp now get to view the lecture in video.
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