Online Observations

If you are having trouble uninstalling programs from your Windows (XP or Vista) installation, here’s a neat little tool that I came upon. It’s called Revo Uninstaller. It’s a completely free utility that helps you remove even broken installations from your computer.

There is a long feature list that this nifty utility boasts of (i.e. aside from it’s primary function of uninstalling programs). One of these features that I really want to mention is the Junk Files Cleaner. You have to use it to believe it. I used to think that my computer was free of junk files. I was wrong. With this software, I was able to free up more than a couple of Gigabytes within minutes.

Here’s a link to their website which has a list of complete features and the download: http://www.revouninstaller.com/

I use MS Office extensively and haven’t though I have tried to use Google Docs off and on, I haven’t been able to stick around on it. Still, I keep following what’s going on with the ‘Google Office’ just in case they make a break through which makes it easy for me to shift.

Despite all the claims where people say that Google Docs is not meant to be a replacement for MS Office and is a different offering all together, it seems that with every new enhancement it gets closer to office. Take for instance the latest additions to Google Presentation:

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Take a look at these mouth-watering, hunger-inducing, and awesome-looking pictures. I have pilfered these from a very interesting blog that I came across today. To know more about the pictures and the blog, look at the description after the pictures:

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Google just released an update to their Sync Utility a couple of days ago. The Google Calendar Sync Utility is a way to synchronize the Google Calendar with MS Outlook. Fans of Google Calendar have been clamoring for such a utility ever since the Google Calendar came on the scene. In the meantime, some people took up the opportunities to create their own utilities to sync between their Outlook and Google Calendars. One such utility is SyncMyCal.

I have used SyncMyCal for almost a year now and have been very happy with it all through this. So, I didn’t feel too bad when Google released their own utility. However, after having a look at the offering from Google it turns out that I would still go ahead and use SyncMyCal in place of Google simply because it offers so much more.

Here is a look at a comparison between the two utilities (picked up from the SyncMyCal site):

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I have been coming across some awesome talent this week and that goes to show that some people just have it. I posted about Jessica Rabbit in real life, and I want to talk about Stuart Wade and the very nice talent he has with his Wacom tablet and Photoshop.

I came across a blog by Stuart Wade called Project 100 Animals. He is on his way to create sketches of 100 different animals and so far has reached 60. The Moray Eel on the left is one of these animals. After spending some more time on the blog and you get to see so many beautifully done animal sketches that you can’t help but want to write about it. And here I am.

Take a look at some more of these sketches. All of these sketches have been included here after Stuart’s permission. Please do not copy them or use them elsewhere without his permission.

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TruthDig celebrated Earth Day by putting together this cartoon which depicts the chilling truth behind anything we do on the planet today.  However, I felt that the picture is incomplete, so I edited it a little to look a little different. Here’s the original:

Here’s my version:

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All of us have seen some type of panoramic picture which shows scenes which are 360 degrees and we can keep panning them forever. Some of us have even found it to be very cool.

How about taking that concept and making it 3D? How about being able to be inside this 3D Panorama and be able to look around in any direction to see what is there? WAIT! One more thing, how about this panorama being a video where all the things that you are viewing are moving and you yourself are moving around?

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Today’s links are really varied in terms of their subject topics. A lot has been happening around the Internet and I haven’t got a chance to blog too much in the past few days. Here are some of the more interesting amongst the ones I visited lately:

• Using Laptops as Earthquake Sensors - This is an article on MIT Technology Review which talks about researchers using data collected for a network of laptops to predict earthquakes. This is possible because a lot of modern laptops have built-in movement sensors to protect hard disk damage.

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The blog owner of Pixeloo is a Photoshop Wizard. No doubt about it. What you see above is a before and after version of the famous Jessica Rabbit. The original Jessica Rabbit is a cartoon character. What the creator did above is that he worked on her to see how she would look in real life.

And here is what the final result looks like:

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A lot of us don’t realize that when we surrender a computer to the IT department, sell our old hardware, or plain dispose hard disks, we send out private data that can be misused. Even those of us who are little more diligent about this will only do so much as erasing data or formatting the hard drive, which is not good enough if someone is determined to retrieve such data. For completely rendering the data unrecoverable something much better is needed.

That is where Darik’s Boot and Nuke comes in.

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