Free Icon Designs for Sprucing your Website
09 nov 2008
If you are hooked on to the web then invariably you have come across the Web 2.0 concept of flashy rounded icons. But what do you do when you don’t have the expertise to get the icons?
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Adobe Photoshop Outside the Computer
07 nov 2008
Someone took the interface of Adobe Photoshop software and created a real-world model similar to that Photoshop image.
Google Custom Search with fewer ads
10 oct 2008
Google Custom Search allows you to create a custom search engine for your site. The problem is the advertising is sometimes too intrusive, even when no results are found.
The Difference Between Google Knol & Wikipedia Encyclopedia
24 jul 2008
Google today introduced Knol, a Wikipedia style encyclopedia that anyone can edit but with some major differences:
Microsoft Referrals for Windows Live Toolbar and OneCare
21 jul 2008
If you are looking for alternatives to AdSense Referrals, try Microsoft Affiliate. This is much like the AdSense Referrals program though limited to two products – Windows Live Toolbar and OneCare, an anti-virus software from Microsoft.
Register .me Web Domain Names with GoDaddy "in a few hours"
15 jul 2008
Registrations for .me personalized web domains will go live in the next few hours and new .me domain names will be issued on a first-come first-served basis.
Narcissistic – Love of Oneself
13 jul 2008
Narcissistic – "To declare blogging dead, and THEN spout off a list of reasons that are so myopic they border on cluelessness — its just plain narcissistic."
The term narcissism means love of oneself, and refers to the set of character traits concerned with self-admiration, self-centeredness and self-regard.
détente – a period of détente
12 jul 2008
détente – "Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft’s new proposal to buy Yahoo’s search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday."
Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since the early 1970s.
Adding the Word ‘Obama’ In Windows Vista Dictionary Requires 56MB
10 jul 2008
Microsoft recently released a patch for Windows Vista (kb 955020) that updates the English and German language dictionary of Windows Vista to include these five words:
Obama, Nazr, Friendster, Klum and Racicot.
A Twitter Background Made Using Photos of Facebook Friends
10 jul 2008
The background of my Twitter page is done using profile images of all my Facebook friends captured via the picture collage trick.