Archive for June, 2007

Couscouskid, illustrator and designer

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

This drawing and more is the work of Mathew Thomas, illustrator and designer based in Bath. Mathew makes illustrations between the cutting edge of the new breed in contemporary illustration and the tempting nipple of naïve. I saw his drawings and they are absolutely gorgeous. Check it out his website!
Link & Image: couscouskid
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Live Earth Official Desktop Wallpapers

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people on 7/7/07 to raise awareness about global warming. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world’s top musicians, Live Earth will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to […]

ZoomIt v1.50, is screen zoom and annotation tool

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

ZoomIt utility is a great tool that you want to have, it is small, easy to use and very helpful in presentations. Once ZoomIt’s installed you can assign a hotkey to quickly zoom (by default, Ctrl+1), then click your mouse to draw on the zoomed area (like circling a button or URL.) The pen width […]

Google has launched his own blog

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Google has launched his own blog called “Public Policy Blog”, they have articles about government, policy, politics, news and much more.
Link & Image: googlepublicpolicy
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eReading software from Adobe

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Adobe has launched the final edition of “Digital Edition 1.0″, the new software from Adobe which can be used for reading ebooks, digital publications like digital newspapers and other forms web based readable media.
Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports PDF and XHTML, based content as well as Flash SWF for rich interactivity.
The new […]

Firefox Auto-Reload Add-on

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Tab Mix Plus (TMP), is one that enhances the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox
 It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.
Once […]

ChanceXchange, trade your stuffs

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

ChanceXchange is a free service where you can trade unwanted films, cds and books for those things that you really want. It’s totally free to use this service, the only thing that comes out of your pocket is the shipping, which is fair enough, considering someone has to pay shipping to send you their stuff […]

Pageflakes, a customize a Web site

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Pageflakes is the easy and fun way to customize the Internet, with just the news and information you want.
This super-customizable version of a home page enables you to pick the news and information feeds you want to read, and to specify the “flakes,” or applets, you want to include. Flakes let you add all sorts […]

Free Excellent Wallpapers

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I suggest you to visit an excellent website called 3Data Desig. Here you find great free large collection of wallpapers with high resolution and outstanding quality, like landscapes, movies, fantasy world, manga & anime and much more. Also you can find here wallpapers for mobiles. Check it out!
More pictures after jump.
Link & Image: 3Data Desig
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Stonehenge mystery solved?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Stonehenge mystery solved by professional puzzle maker, Bruce Bedlam, 56, has built a scale model of the ancient stone circle as he believes it was originally constructed - as a round building.
He believes that the Wiltshire monument was created with a large, domed roof made from wood and covered in wooden tiles.
Bruce believes the sitting […]

Be a Digital Picasso

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Get three digital cameras and be a Digital Picasso, is easy, you can make your own in few seconds.
How to do it:
1. Find a couple of digital cameras - the bigger the viewing screen, the better.
2. Hold the cameras over crucial facial points as if you are going to take uncomfortably close-up pictures of them. […]

Google identifies faces

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Google has new face search function in Google Image Search.
If you want search for a person, for e.g. Maria Sharapova , after then add the following text string to the end of the URL: &imgtype=face , Google will only include faces in image search results.
You also can exchange the term face in the search string […]

Third View, A Rephotographic Survey Of The American West

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

 
Third View revisits the sites of historic western American landscape photographs. The project makes new photographs, keeps a field diary of its travels, and collects materials useful in interpreting the scenes, change and the passage of time.
Most sites are represented in a series of three views taken at different times. The original photographs were taken […]

Burn Notice’s YOU’RE FIRED!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I like watching detective and agent movies and I think most people like too. These kinds of stories have always fascinating me, investigation, crime, suspense, spies … And for those that are a TV series fans, I have great news a new series is being released called Burn Notice from USA Network
Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) […]

Bamboo Competition

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

A young girl dressed in a Red Army costume doing the splits in the water during the Kong Zhu Piao contest, or single bamboo rafting, in which competitors must get across the water on a bamboo pole while striking difficult poses, in Zunyi, South China’s Guizhou Province.

A young girl in a Red Army costume kicks […]

Have the perfect legs with Leg Magic

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Hey folks! Do you want have the perfect legs? I saw in the internet an excellent product for that. Leg Magic is an exercise machine that targets the leg muscles, you can workout your thighs, gluts, abs, dorsal muscles, it is a very good heart and vascular exercise and only you need 60 seconds a […]

Tourist snaps an eagle, what a great shoot!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

What a great shoot folks!
Eagle its beating wings forming an almost perfect square against a background of water spray; this is an American bald eagle in the act of catching a fish.
Many a professional wildlife photographer with state-of-the art equipment would have been delighted with such a dramatic picture. In fact it was taken by […]

Take you PC in your pocket

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Now your PC fits in your pocket! You may be wondering what I’m talking about?! Read this:
MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user […]

HTC Touch Mobile Phone

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

iPhone (Apple) has a new rival, the company HTC from Taiwan has announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a deceptively small and stylish mobile phone that ushers in an innovative new concept in intuitive touch screen navigation. The HTC Touch brings a new level of simplicity to the powerful and function-rich device experience that […]

Elephants Dream

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use.
“Elephants Dream” is the result of almost a year of work, a project initiated and coordinated by the Blender Foundation. Six people from the Blender user/development community were selected […]

Rome Reborn, Ancient Rome

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Rome Reborn 1.0, Institute for advanced technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia collaborated on a project to create a digital model of ancient Rome as it appears in late antiquity. The notional date of the mode is June 21, 310 AD.
The project is called “ Rome Reborn” in homage to the founding […]

Amphibious Vehicles come to the U.S.

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

UK based Gibbs Technologies, is leader in high speed amphibian technology, and has plans to bring its high-speed amphibious vehicles to the United States and it will be sold in 2009. Gibbs Technologies forms three companies and one of the three companies formed in U.S., the Gibbs Amphibians will be responsible for the sales and […]

Interesting technique to tie or lace shoes

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Checkerboard Lacing

1. Start with two pairs of different colour laces, preferably the wide, flat variety. (I was lucky to receive two such pairs with my last runners!)
2. With one colour (yellow in my example), lace the shoe using either Straight (Fashion) or Straight (Lazy) Lacing.
3. With the other colour (blue in my example), start at […]

The World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

OpenMoko announces the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform at Open Source in Mobile Conference in Amsterdam.
Open mobile communications development platform and phones will create explosive growth of mobile applications to rival the diversity and size of the massive ring tone market and foster new income models for carriers.
Hardware:
- 2.8″ VGA touch screen
- […]

14-Karat Gold Plated Slinky

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Do you remember the Slinky? It was funny and frustrating at the same time! If you still young at heart or you are moneyed, so you can enjoy playing with a slinky which is 14 karat gold plated is the perfect gift and conversation piece, oh, the Slinky comes with it’s own wooden box for […]