December 2007
50 posts
A new trick to stop speedy drivers
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library →
A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context. In this site, yahoo shares somes of its patterns and codes. Each pattern consists of four parts: Problem Summary Use When Solution Rationale Example: Auto Complete The user needs to enter an item into a text box which could ambiguous or hard to remember and therefore has the potential to be...
The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year (PC... →
TechCrunch: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live... →
A little old yet useful bunch of Web 2.0 sites.
WatchAre you smarter than a chimp?
“Netscape Navigator, once the dominant Web browser back in the 1990s, will no...”
– AOL Says Goodbye to Netscape Navigator
WatchThe Evil Eye
1st Paragraph .com →
Read the news and learn new terms. A superb website which contains the latest news and then explains the difficult English words
Whale 'missing link' discovered →
The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.
Top 10 Free Windows Downloads →
galleryPost('LH Top 10: Free Windows Downloads', 10, '', 'list'); 10. 7-Zip (file archive manager) 9. Foxit Reader (PDF reader) 8. SyncBack (backup utility) 7. Picasa (photo manager) 6. Notepad++ (text editor) 5. foobar2000 (media player) 4. GAIM (instant messenger) 3. Paint.NET (image editor) 2. Launchy (keyboard launcher) 1. Mozilla Firefox (web browser)
An Art (or a sport?): Parkour
Parkour (sometimes abbreviated to PK) or l’art du déplacement (English: the art of displacement) is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment -from branches and rocks to rails and...
A Semantic Web Firefox Add-on: ClearForest Gnosis →
ClearForest Gnosis is the cutting edge of real time semantic processing for the web. By evaluating the pages you read – as you read them – Gnosis immediately locates key information such as people, organizations, companies, products and geographies hidden within the text. By simply hovering over any of the identified topics, you can immediately locate relevant news, blog entries, maps, company...
13 Tips to Zap Your Butterflies When Speaking in...
1. They won’t notice. 2. Rehearse like a maniac. 3. Unfreeze the audience with humor. 4. Look good. 5. Scope out the environment. (Come to your presentation room a day before and look around.) 6. Talk to the audience. 7. Memorize the sticky spots. 8. Accept the fear, don’t fight it. Source: LifeHack
WiFi at Mecca during Muslim Hajj pilgrimage season →
A Concept: Web 3.0 →
Web 3.0 is a term that is used to describe various aspects of the evolution of Web usage and interaction along several paths. These include transforming the Web into a database, a move towards making content accessible by multiple non-browser applications, the leveraging of artificial intelligence technologies, the Semantic web, the Geospatial Web, or the 3D web.
A Site: 101 American English Proverbs →
An Idiom: too many chiefs →
Idiom: Too many chiefs and not enough Indians Meaning: too many bosses, and not enough people to do the work. . Example: I can’t find anyone to do the photocopying. There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians in this company. Courtesy of my dear friend, Mr. Akbari.
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 - TIME →
Blog future vs NYT future: none of the above! →
A Boing Boing blog post abour the unpredictibiity nature of the Web.
An App: Launchy →
Launchy is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows. It’s the best app I’ve seen in the past few months; very handy.
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A Love Story: Chinese Man Carves 6000 Steps Up... →
A Word: Leet (l33t)
‘l33t speak’ is an Internet-based language reliant on the keyboard. It is, however, simple to learn and has much room for creativity. Some Examples: * 0w|\| or 0wn3d - One of the most popular l33t words it is very loosely defined as beaten or can simply be an expression of awe, for example, ‘I 0wn3d you’ means ‘I have beaten you in a very humiliating...
A Word: w00t
The term “w00t” (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, “woot”; IPA: /ˈwuːt/) is a slang interjection used to express happiness, excitement or joy, most often expressed via the Internet. The expression has been used in Usenet posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first-person shooters), the IRC and SILC chat protocols, instant messages, weblogs, and web forums....
A Legacy DBMS: Supra
Cincom Systems, Inc. - SUPRA is an ANSI-compliant relational database management system that can help you bring your legacy mainframe data into the SQL, client/server, and ODBC world. (This is the answer to the question of Mr. Khayati during SE2 class.)
A Site: 25 Web Celebs (Forbes.com) →
Forbes magazine introduced 25 web celebrities of 2007.
A Book: Candide
Candide, ou l’Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the tale of a naïve young man, Candide (meaning “ingenuous”), who has been taught to believe in Leibnizian optimism but becomes disillusioned after undergoing a series of extraordinary hardships during a luckless odyssey.
A Podcast: China232 →
Free English lessons
A Word: Recitation
A Recitation is a discussion carried by a teaching assistant (TA) to supplement a lecture given by a senior faculty at an academic institution. During the recitation, TAs will review the lecture, expand on the concepts, and carry a discussion with the students. In classes with a mathematics aspect, the recitation is often used to perform derivations or solve problems similar to those assigned...
A Site: ArsDigita University Free Video Lectures →
You can find a bunch of free video lectures of computer science courses here.
An Article (by Bill Gates): The skills you need to... →
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker.
10 Free Mini Apps, Perfect for a USB Thumb Drive →
A Podcast: Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott →
Another useful podcast which discusses all things Microsoft including Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Xbox.
A Podcast: this WEEK in TECH →
A great podcast on the technology and computer related news. “Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech.”
A Podcast: Hanselminutes →
A podcast about DotNet programming, specially VB .Net. I found this episode interesting: Visual Basic Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Paul Vick
Office Arithmetic
Smart boss + smart employee = profit Smart boss + dumb employee = production Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
GMail Keyboard Shortcuts →
Enable the keyboard shortcuts in GMail and you’ll be much more efficient dealing with your mails.
Google Zeitgeist 2007 →
At the end of every year, google publishes the words which have been searched the most. It shows the taste of the web people for past 12 months.
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USB Dongles
Genius Mathematicians
Miscommunication
A wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday, she would like something that accelerates from 0 to 100 in four seconds. She was expecting something like this: But her husband presented her with something very different… . . . . . The husband is in a critical but stable condition in ICU!
The miracle of Photoshop →
A graphist has retouched a picture of Amber Mac, and shows the steps of the process.
WatchJapanese way to fold a Tshirt
Top 10 Free Windows File Wranglers →
It introduces some useful apps which make you more efficient in Windows.