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OpenCal is an online application that adds online scheduling to small businesses that take appointments; basically, it’s for anyone that sells their time. Opencal lets you easily handle appointments via its clean interface and easy-to-use tools.
There are many people who spend hours on end playing online multiplayer games. Facebook games like Zynga Poker etc. are also very popular as online multiplayer games. If you love chess, you must have played it on your computer off and on. How about playing it with your friend online and that too without having to use any gaming software? Using Zoho Docs, you can play Chess online with your friend.
Scrabb.ly is a multiplayer crossword game website that is similar to a popular board game. The beauty of this thing is that, everyone playing the game would be playing it at the same time on a single large Board. Everyone sees the tiles from others in real time as they play.
What do you use Excel for; creating spreadsheets, graphs, charts and all? Microsoft Excel is used by people in various ways. But can you imagine a video created in Microsoft Excel? The video for the song “Rock and Roll Train” by the legendary Rock Band AC/DC was created entirely in Microsoft Excel.
Comparing Android powered mobile devices side by side would make it easier to have an insight on their features and make better decision while buying one. Google’s Phone Gallery has a gallery of all the available android phones and lets you compare up to three Android devices side by side at a time.
Lets say you have a bookmarks folder named “TipsandTricks” inside bookmarks folder placed in the Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox. You have a handful of useful links saved into it and you wish you could access them from a similar folder at the Bookmarks menu as well. If you copy the folder and paste it into the bookmarks menu, the bookmarks will be accessible from there as well; but whenever you add a new bookmark to the same folder in the toolbar, it won’t update in the menu. To automatically sync the bookmarks, you’ll need to do a little workaround from the Bookmark organizer.
Many popular websites have been added interesting easter eggs that are triggered by the Konami code. If you are fairly good at programming, you can implement the Konami code Easter egg on your blog directly with the Konami-JS on Google Code. If you want things to be easy, there are a handful of Wordpress plugins which let you add and create Konami code eas ter eggs. Here are some Wordpress plugins for inserting Konami code to your blog.
When you need to find drivers for your printer, you don’t have to go much further than to your computer. Thanks to the Internet, you have a lot of partners available online that will help you identify, locate, and download the files you need to get your printer installed and running right. Next time you need a printer driver, try one of these 10 super useful printer driver repositories.
You might have some friends who update their status in a language alien to you. So, you just skip them. You wouldn’t generally bother to copy it and head over to Google Translator for translation. Wouldn’t it be great to get them translated on the fly? Facebook Translate Addon for Mozilla Firefox can help you do that.
Every webmaster strives to drive more traffic to their blogs. Have you ever wondered how much traffic any blog or website gets everyday? There are many places on the web like Statcounter, Sitemeter etc. where you can have such information. VisualizeTraffict is also lets you have a rough data on the traffic for a site.
Wordpress by default provides the option to import a blog from Blogger. It is very easy and can be accomplished by a few button clicks; that’s it. But in some hostings, an error is encountered due to the lack of secure connection. In such cases, the content should be first exported from and then imported to Wordpress. This process can take a bit longer but works perfectly for everyone.
Windows Phone 7 has a totally new and user-friendly interface and is smoothly integrated with other services. Applications for the Windows Phone 7 are currently being developed and applications for Twitter, eBay etc. are already available. Some more applications have been released, of which some are just demos.
Adobe has launched a new application called “Project Rome”. Project Rome is a content creation and publishing application for consumers, small businesses and educators. The tool is for users who don’t have technical knowledge in designing applications. Users can create rich multimedia content, websites, design and other stuff without the knowledge of desktop applications or say the Adobe Suite. Moreover, Project Rome is currently free for use.
Sorting emails containing documents, pictures or other files would be easier if they could be filtered into respective folders as soon as they reach your inbox. Using Gmail Filters, you can filter emails containing documents into a “Documents” folder, the ones containing pictures to “Images” folder and the like, making it easier for you to search through them.
Are you creating a website and looking for a matching set of fonts? It could be difficult for you to decide as there are thousands of fonts and now with CSS3 you can even use the fonts that aren’t on the visitor’s computer. Awesome Fontstacks can create bundles of matching and beautiful fonts and also generate the CSS code for it on the fly.
You must have seen slow motion scenes on movies where an action taking place very fast is shown in slow motion. Slow motion techniques are employed in movies off and on. Actually in a slow motion video, a bunch of images are captured very fast—at least 120 images per second, and often 300 or more and then played back at the speed that your eye can grasp. Here’s a cool 1 Million FPS slow motion video showing a bullet impact.
If seeing too much of them has distracted you, Facebook blocker can be of help. Facebook blocker can block all Facebook social plugins and make them disappear altogether from any site. It is available as a browser plugin for Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.
There are many interactive ways of learning online or with the help of educational software. Brainnook is an online world that helps children aged 6 to 10 years to develop skills and learn things in English, Maths and Science. Brainnook has a handful of educational games that are based on the important concepts in the foundational subjects like Math and English Grammar.
Researchers at Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany created “Diminished Reality” which can stunningly remove objects from a video in real time and the results are great. Well it works this way: The software first reduces the resolution of the object and then removes the object from the selected area and then it improves the result and incrementally increases the resolution so as to match the quality of the original.
Sometimes you need to delete the cookies from selected sites or from a single site to clear specific preferences without deleting all Browser Cookies. You can do this through a little workaround with Firefox Options or by using Remove Cookies for Site addon for Firefox.