Solving Math problems

This site is amazing! It solves all kinds of Math problems you can imagine… From pre-algebra, to algebra, to trigonometry, to precalculus, to even calculus… You can see the step-by-step solutions… that’s pretty good!!! Try seeing the solution to this calculus problem.

September 30, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Wallpaper download

This site InterfaceLIFT has pretty good wallpapers for free download. These wallpapers are pretty amazing!

September 30, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Firefox's Ubiquity

I am not sure why it seems like no one is paying attention to this awesome piece of plugin for firefox. There are many things we do on firefox can be automated. Imagine many the copying the url, opening up google map, cut-&-paste, all that can be simplified with a few key strokes! If you are a launchy or quicksilver user, this firefox plugin Ubiquity will make you feel right at home! Check out their promo video and try it out yourself! ...

September 19, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Tech interview puzzles

I came across this site techinterview.org that lists many of the tech interview puzzles that you may encounter sometime in your career path. For me being a puzzle lover, this site is awesome! I hope you like it as well! If you are looking for some more intense technical interview questions, here is another website you may want to check out: techinterviews.com. Notice that there are many questions on this site, but you need to find the answers yourself… ^^; ...

May 28, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Real Estate on Google Map

My goodness, google map is going wild… Now we can even use it to look for real estates… I am worried for some of the real estates listing websites… Just go to google map, then type in the neighborhood address, then click “Show search options”, select “Real Estate”, that’s it. It’s pretty amazing. http://maps.google.com/

May 14, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Chinese earthquake

Oh my… What’s going on… China just had an earthquake and the death toll is 50,000, as on May 15th, 2008. It was a 7.9 magnitude quake. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24573168/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7396400.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7396225.stm

May 12, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Soundsnap

Oh my goodness! You got to check this out! Sometimes when you are working on a video, you really wish to find a background music that create certain kind of atmosphere. Chances are you try to look for the music on some music searching engine but couldn’t find anything remotely close to what you want. Well, those days are gone! Try Soundsnap! You can search for the music and listen to it live even without downloading it. ...

May 9, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Hyperwords

Hyperwords lets you interact with the text on the webpages. For example, if you see a word you want to look into it, you probably will highlight the word, then copy it, then open up a new tab, go to wikipedia or google, then paste the word and click search. It’s quite a long process isn’t it? With Hyperwords all you need to do is to highlight the word, then right click and find what you want to do with the word, for example google this word. ...

May 9, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Burma's cyclone death toll (22,000 and more)

I had a chance to visit Cambodia for some mission work last summer. If you have ever visited developing countries and gone to their local villages, you would know how devastating the current situation is. The house, or shack, or perhaps what we call a box that a family lives in cannot by any means endure a cyclone. Their homes and their surroundings right now must look like a landfill. There would be no electricity (not that they can afford to pay for it), no clean water (of course no tap water), no food, no shelter, no nothing. The last thing you want to hear is that the only bridge or road that connects your village to the outside world was destroyed. You try to hold your desperation from your face, but when you turn around you see it from others. All there is left to do is to sit down and pray. ...

May 6, 2008 · 2 min · birdchan

Enable DVD Playback in Ubuntu

Ubuntu doesn’t play DVD from a fresh install. You need to install a few programs and codecs first. Here is how to do it: sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh That’s it! Enjoy your movie! (source: tech-recipes.com)

May 4, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan