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/
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
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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)
When you have a shopping list of various items, do you ever wonder how you can get the best deals from the grocery stores around you? Wanting to find the weekly deals newsletters from your junk mail pile but to no avail? Most likely you may end up simply going to the same grocery store that’s nearby. Even worse sometimes you find out that there were crazy deals you missed simply because you didn’t know about. Well, that’s where technology comes in to help! myGroceryDeals.com will first ask for your shopping list, then goes through all the grocery stores around you to find the cheapest deals for you to go get your groceries. Sounds good huh? Give it a try! ...
Do you sometimes wonder why certain web pages look a little odd to you? You know, it may be that the browser that you are using does not render the web page correctly. ;) Try using this acid3 test to see how well your web browser performs! I hope your web browser gets close to 100. Sadly many of them are not even close. The correct display of the test should look like this! ...
FYI, I recently set up my personal wordpress site at birdchan.com . It’s fun to tweak the code when you have your own server. ;)
When I came across this site, I was stunned. In short, you play a vocabulary game to earn rice for donation to the poor. Here is their “How to Play” instructions: Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. This game can really test your vocabulary, and at the same time you get to donate rice. What an idea! ...