Archive | June, 2007

Get the Mac look on your Windows PC for Free

Posted on 30 June 2007

If you are bored by the look of your Windows XP or if you have been longing to work on a Mac then here is something that can make you feel good.

FlyakiteOSX.
FlyakiteOSX is not just a skin. It goes beyond that to transform your entire XP interface into a near-perfect replica of Mac OS X.

FlyakiteOSX [...]

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Here is a whole lot of words born out of Google

Posted on 29 June 2007

Here is a list of words that have their origin in Google. You might have heard of many of them before but there might some you haven’t.
Egogoogling - To search for one’s own name in Google. It is also known as autogoogling or egosurfing.
Google Algos - A short-hand for “Google’s algorithms,” meaning the technical specifics [...]

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ChanceXchange - Trade your unwanted dvds, games, cds and books for things you want

Posted on 28 June 2007

A few days ago I wrote a post about readitswapit - a site where you can swap your old books with others. But the service is available to people staying in UK only.
Here is a similar service called chanceXchange that is not limited to a particular country and it is not limited to books either.

At [...]

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Tiny Radio tags to provide counterfeit protection

Posted on 27 June 2007

The diamond ring of the future will radiate its unique beauty quite literally thanks to a minuscule radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip embedded in it.
Scientists at Hitachi Research Labs in Japan have devised the smallest RFID tag ever, just 0.05 millimeter by 0.05 millimeter, tinier than a grain of sand.
The so-called powder chip is thin enough [...]

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DQ links for 27 June, 2007

Posted on 27 June 2007

Yourgen.com - YourGen is a free, easy to use text generator. It has a wide selection of fonts and more are being added each day.
mycybertwin - It is a free service where you can create a virtual clone of yourself. So even when you are offline, your ‘clone’ will respond to instant messages. Using information [...]

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‘Problems with this Web page might prevent …’ - Get rid of this IE Annoyance

Posted on 25 June 2007

If you use Internet Explorer to browse the web, then at some point you are sure to have encountered the following error message:
“Problems with this Web page might prevent it from being displayed properly or functioning properly. In the future, you can display this message by double-clicking the warning icon displayed in the status bar.”
If [...]

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Googlefight - Turning Google search into a battlefield

Posted on 25 June 2007

Googlefight is an innovative use of Google search. It is a simple brawl of words.
Load Googlefight and you’ll see two text boxes, one that reads Keyword#1 and the other Keyword#2. Enter any keywords you’d like into these text boxes, click ‘Make A Fight’, and you’ll see two stick figures punching and kicking each other.
When the [...]

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