Droll Things

SmartTab is a freeware, is an alternative for the Windows Alt-Tab dialog. It is a liitle application that displays icons with their names next to open windows and allows you to activate a window either by using the regular alt-tab dance, or hit a key between 0 and 9 and a-z (choosing the window you […]

 
Stunning shot of a Japanese plane being struck by chain lightning in Osaka airport. Amazing that the aircraft itself and the people and equipment inside can survive such a hit!
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CD Art Display is a little program that display the playing song cover and lyrics on your desktop while the song is being played by your media player. It fully supports AlbumPlayer, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, MediaMonkey and partially supports foobar2000 (with Winamp API Emulator plugin), MP3Toys, qmp and musikCube. Actually […]

I saw in books and in the movies unicorn horses, but I never saw a real goat with six horns. This goat stands in the herd of goats at a farm in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region August 28, 2007. The owner said the goat began to grow six horns shortly after its birth. Experts said […]

Ads is each more growing up in the market, people wants to be creative to sell ads, like in clothes, cars, websites, pixels…now people are selling space in their bodies to companies as tattoos images. This is Joe Tamargo idea. He is selling permanently tattoos in his body. He has started with some permanent tattoos […]

Attention friends and readers, the Red Bull Air Race is coming! For those don’t know what Red Bull Air Race is, is an exciting competition in which the world’s most talented pilots are up against each other in a race based on speed, precision and skill.
The competition features a dynamic new discipline of flying, called […]

Are you searching for wallpapers? If yes, I have the right place for you. Desktopography.net has a great selection of wallpapers designed by professionals. This nonprofit website has available for free amazing wallpapers.
They have 10 downloads pictures from the 2005 exhibition, 25 from the 2006, and 40 from this year, a total of 75 pictures.
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A calf with two heads! I’m not joking, this is true! One cow gave birth to a two-headed calf on Tuesday at the Hamstra Dairy in California.
DAIRY workers thought they were seeing double - when one of their cows gave birth to a two-headed calf.
“We call her Blinky because all four eyes blink at the same […]

LiveQuartz is a great and powerful free image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters. It has all the necessary tools, like the drawing tools (brush, rectangles, lines, ovals), the eraser tool, the duplication tool, the gradients, the text tool, the layer moving arrow, the CoreImage tool, the rectangle and lasso selections, the […]

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Free Sound Recoder is a great program audio recorder that allows users to record their music, their own voice, or any other sound by working directly with your sound card.
It supports the record input/source from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, external input devices (e.g. CDs, LP, music cassettes, phone line etc.) as well […]

Why does a crocodile swallow stones?
The stomach of a crocodile is a rocky place to be, for more than one reason. To begin with, a croc’s digestive system encounters everything from turtles, fish and birds to giraffes, buffaloes, lions and even (when defending territory) other crocodiles. In addition to that bellyful-o’-ecosystem, rocks show up too. […]

Want to know how the weather forecasters do for your town? With the free application for OS X, WeatherDock displays weather information based on xml-feeds supplied by weather.com®. It displays textual weather information as well as icon-based. Next to the current conditions it contains 10 day forecasts with 2 day-part’s weather information.
For the current conditions […]

If you want to capture 360º panoramic picture of your vacation place to show to your friends now it’s very easy, with the Panoramic Digital Camera you can do that, this camera can take the perfect 360º view of your place, only you have to make sure it’s sitting on a level surface, in the […]

There is a large quantity of wines and each one has their own color. The Colour Lovers website has launched a wine color guide for quality and age. Color can tell us a great deal about a wine. See some examples:

Red wines are deep red in color. Observing a purple-red suggests a young, but more […]

Jar Inspector is a simple, easy and free application for Mac OS X, it allows you to view, edit and decompile the contents of jar files. Jar Inspector comes with its own text editor. It also integrates with a variety of external editors. You can use your favorite editor to edit jar file entries. Smultron, […]

Design studies on display in Watford near London are showcasing new environmentally friendly houses. Legislation in the UK means all new houses built from 2016 will have to meet strict energy efficiency standards. Solar thermal panels, wind turbines and photo-voltaic cells are key technologies.
Link & Image: euronews
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This tool allows you to add titles, descriptions, and common tags to image collections of any size. The data you enter is embedded into the actual photo using standard IPTC headers. Once you have annotated your photos with iTag,
any IPTC aware application will automatically fill out the title, description and tag fields. iTag can also […]

 
Can you believe? Chocolate can be better than fluoride for healthy teeth! New esearch suggests an extract of cocoa powder that occurs naturally in chocolates, teas, and other products might be an effective natural alternative to fluoride in toothpaste, according to Tulane University doctoral candidate Arman Sadeghpour.
The extract, a white crystalline powder whose chemical makeup […]

There are around the world non-profit organizations (NPO) in many areas, including arts, charities, education, research, social issues and environment, and recently I found Planet Aid, is another NPO, devoted to protecting the environment and creating sustainable development in Africa and Asia, the Planet Aid raises funds by collecting used clothing, shoes, toys and laptop […]

Acronyms is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women’s Army Corps or AFAIK for As Far As I Know. In general, an acronym made up solely from the first letter of the major words in the expanded form is rendered in all capital letters.
Some times we need […]

This is an excellent idea! A man from Ohio is using cardboard model of his children to try slow down the traffic on his busy street. With this idea the speed limit on Mai Street in West Salem, Ohio, changes quickly from 55 mph to 35 mph before his home, but many people still running […]

Learn to draw with DrawSpace, this website has many arts lessons and is the largest and fastest growing recreational art education website in the world. The site owner, Brenda Hoddinott, is a world renowned artist and art educator, and is the author of two internationally published books on drawing. Here you have the opportunities to […]

 
This tool can optimize all processes, how? Helping users to remove quickly and unnecessary programs.
The PC Decrapifier will uninstall many of the common trial ware and annoyances found on many of the PCs from big name OEMs.
How it works?
It’s very easy, Open up the zip file and run the “EXE”. There is no installer necessary. […]

 
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. You can drag and drop files and folders to eraser tool. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is […]