Use Wolfram Alpha to Make Words for Scrabble
Are you looking for online word builder to make a high-scoring word from all the letters you have in a game of Scrabble?
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The Best Indoor Plants for your Home Office
This presentation by environmentalist Kamal Meattle talks about how you can grow your fresh air at home and office buildings using some commonly available indoor plants.
How Well Can You Identify Asian Faces?
If there are a mix of people from Japan, China and Korea in a room, can you correctly identify which is which by simply looking at their faces?
A Simple Way to Understand Hue, Saturation and Luminosity
This video explains a simple way to help you quickly understand the concept of Hue, Saturation and Luminosity (Brightness) for colors.
PreCursor Turns your Monitor into a Touch Screen
Pranav Misty of the Sixth Sense is working on a new project called PreCursor that can turn any regular computer monitor into a touch screen.
Create Better Diagrams for your PowerPoint Slides
If you ever need to create diagrams for your PowerPoint slides, these simple design tips should help make your diagrams looks even better.
World Statistics Made Simple!
What percentage of the total world’s population is literate? World statistics are often hard to remember but if the same data is presented with visuals and in relative form, things can get a little simple.
This Mobile Phone Charger Needs No Electricity
Meet a new USB based charger that can charge your mobile phone or MP3 player without requiring electricity – all it needs is a heat source which could be as simple as a pan of boiling water or even a campfire.
The New Windows 7 Ad – Gone a Bit Too Far?
The new Windows 7 video ad features two college students, a boy and a girl, who are in different locations but manage to carry on the relationship with their laptops.
Tips for Shooting Better Home Videos
Steve Stockman, author of How to Shoot Videos That Doesn’t Suck, offers five great tips that will help you shoot better home movies with your existing video camera.
How Do You Teach a Geek to Meditate?
How do geeks meditate and relax their minds? This comic from Joy of Tech would give you some idea.
Most Popular Tourist Places Around the World [Heatmap]
The heat maps drawn on Google Maps show how popular different parts of the world are among tourists. Most popular cities are in yellow while least popular destinations are in blue.
The Control Key Shortcuts
A quick visual-reference for someone who has trouble making sense of the various keyboard shortcuts that make use of the Control key in Windows.
How Much Sugar is in your Favorite Foods?
You may be adding just a single cube of sugar in your cup of tea or coffee but do you know how may extra sugar cubes are you eating ever day through other foods & drinks?
Who are the Babies on the Photoshop Splash Screen?
The splash screen of Adobe Photoshop contains names of all the team members who were associated with the Photoshop product in one way or the other.
Maintain a Good Posture While Using your Laptop
If you use your laptop computer for extended hours, watch these animated movies as they offer easy tips on how you can maintain a more healty sitting posture.
How to Advertise your Website on TV Channels?
Do you want to run a video commercial for your website or your business on national TV channels? Now you can with Google TV Ads.
A Wedding Invitation Inspired by Google
This unique wedding invitation card is purely made of Google search results.
As a Geek, What gives you the Greatest Satisfaction?
This pyramid chart represents the basic needs of geeks and things that give them a high.
How to Deliver a Great Presentation Like Steve Jobs
If you like to learn some of the techniques and styles that make Steve Jobs such a great presenter, watch these excellent videos and slides by Carmine Gallo, author of ‘The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.’