Monthly Archives: January 2008

Word Association

January 31, 2008
Richard Pryor + Chevy Chase Make Uncomfortable Racism Funny Paul Mooney wrote this masterpiece. I honestly can’t believe it was ever televised…or re-broadcast on Comedy Central apparently...

Google Docs Firefox extension

January 31, 2008
gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for Firefox, a perfect companion for all of you using Google® Docs. With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents. You can s...

Mozy – Simple Online Backup

January 30, 2008
Mozy comes in 2 flavours, one for home users (MozyHome) and one for business users (MozyPro). The first is free as long as you don’t need to backup more than 2GB of personal stuff. To get start...

LEGO turns 50 – Congratulations!

January 29, 2008
It all started back in 1932 when Ole Kirk Christiansen, master carpenter and joiner, establishes his business in the village of Billund, Denmark. His firm manufactures stepladders, ironing boards, st...

Introducing PicLens

January 28, 2008
PicLens is a browser plugin that enables full-screen slideshows within Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. The plugin is supported by numerous websites including: Flickr Photobucket Picasa Web Alb...

GooglePreview – browser plugin

January 27, 2008
GooglePreview inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. When you use GooglePreview and click on an Amazon link within the se...

Preparing for HTML 5

January 26, 2008
Last year Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), announced that it was about time to revise the HTML (HyperText Markup Language). Version 4 came back in 1997, followed by a...

Introducing HandBrake

January 25, 2008
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD...

Spot the fake smile

January 24, 2008
Courtesy of the BBC, this experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. Watch these 20 smiles (on video), and see if you can spot the fakes. ...