Random Web Discoveries and Interesting Stories on the Internet
Steve McCurry captured this memorable young Afghan Girl photograph in 1985 that adorned the cover of National Geographic Magazine in 1985. This young Afghan girl with here unforgettable green eyes is now one of the most famous face in the world.
Am looking for an online bookshop in India where I can buy the two best-sellers on personal productivity and time management - Getting Things Done (GTD): The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen and The 4 Hour Work Week by Timonthy Ferriss. [either Paperback or Hardcover edition] Google throws up tons of results for “online book stores(…)
iPhone = YouTube Video player. iPhone owners can now watch YouTube video clips on their mobile phones similar to Apple TV. The YouTube videos will be converted from Flash Video to H.264 video format for streaming on iPhone. The video conversion will happen on YouTube servers, not inside the Apple iPhone.
Stop Motion Animation Video Tutorial Over 700 Photos Were Taken to Make this Movie – the good old mouse is try to find a place in this world.
The robotic book scanning machine that is secretly scanning and digitizing millions of books for Google Books search is housed in a location near Chennai in India. Google probably outsourced the book scanning jobs to India in an effort to reduce costs. When there are no books to scan, this underground place called “Googl Browsing(…)
The biggest issue with the iPhone is not the hefty price tag but the battery life, the touch screen and absence of a keyboard. While Apple says that iPhone battery will survive your 5 hours of web surfing / talking / music / video play, there’s no option to swap the drained battery with another(…)
Tom Cantu who works for Christian Radio Station “Radio Vida KRGE 1290 AM” is having some issues with Windows Media Encoder. He writes: I stumbled across your Website Digital Inspiration when I was looking for some information concerning dropping packets or as our Provider for re-broadcasting our radio signal to satellite tells us that when(…)
YouTube is awesome! If you are in the later stages of pregnancy and preparing yourself for child birth, the following 3D video animations found on YouTube will give you some good idea on how a baby is delivered. The videos cover both Cesarean Birth (also called C-Section) and the natural vaginal delivery of a baby.
Adobe Media Player will let you download video podcasts and streaming flash video (unprotected .flv) from video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, Blip.tv, etc. The new Real Player 11 will also allow users to save Flash Video files from the internet. So what’s the different between Real Player 11 and the Adobe Media Player(…)
What would you do when you are required to solve a CAPTCHA as long and complicated as the one in this screenshot.
The name Zoho is a copyright-friendly misspelling of SOHO, an acronym for the Small Office/Home Office market, which is Zoho’s target customer. “We want to be the small companies’ IT department,” says Raju Vegesna, who works as an evangelist for Zoho. Still, it won’t be easy to displace Microsoft or to avoid the Google juggernaut.(…)
This is the 360 °digital camera head that captures still images for Google Maps – street view photographs that now available for San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver. This Google Maps camera can be carried by hand or mounted over cars or airplanes. The camera shoot images at 11 different angles at(…)
Will Apple release an unlocked iPhone (that accepts sim card of any cellular operator like other GSM phones) – that may be the top question in your mind now as Apple iPhone is all set to debut in few hours on AT&T stores in North America. There’s little reason to believe that Apple will themselves(…)
Stanford graduate Don McMillan, who claims to be the only corporate comedian working in PowerPoint, has some excellent advice for presenters with plenty of lighthearted humor. Common PowerPoint Mistakes – My favorite pick “most people don’t run spell cheeks”
