Even Google is not secure from the downturns on the economy. This week it announced the discontinuation of its virtual world service called Lively. Lively was launched with a lot of fanfare earlier this month, but quickly lost traction with the crowd. I personally only checked it out once. Google does give a reason for why it is shutting down the service on its own blog here. Here’s the gist of this reason:
Every time I something like what I am about to show you, I feel jealous. I wish I had the time, energy, money, inclination, courage, or whatever it takes to do something like this. Take a look at the video below.
His name is Matt and it took him 14 months to do this and it took him to more than 42 countries. Watch it completely, it is way too cool not to be seen completely.
With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft introduced a new format for all it’s Office products. One such format is DOCX. And since not everyone has adopted the 2007 version, there is a mix of formats going on around the Internet and sooner or later you are bound to receive a DOCX file in your inbox. So what can you do with this file if you don’t have the program (Word 2007) to open it? As it turns out, there are loads of options that you have. In this post, I am going to list out some of these options.
Of course, the best option, if you just want to view the file, is to use the Word 2007 viewer from Microsoft. This allows you to open the DOCX file and view it. It is a free utility from Microsoft. Another option from Microsoft is available to you if you have an earlier version of Office installed (such as Office 2003). It is called the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. This allows you to open, view, and edit Office 2007 documents in Office 2003 or Office XP. If you don’t like Microsoft, but still want to view the file that you have, there are other options, and I point out out 3 of these below:
A few weeks ago, I had talked about the free offer for magazines from Zinio. This offer was valid for iPhone users (and everyone else using a very cool trick). For the longest time, the magazines on offer remained the same and some people feared that the offer is no longer valid because of over exploitation by people (using the above mentioned cool trick). I feared the same myself. However, I am one of those people who keep trying (also I had not read all the magazines yet). A few days ago, when I visited the site, I noticed that some of the magazines have changed (this included a brand new PentHouse, amongst others). So, if you have been disappointed at seeing the same magazines again and again, then you need to visit again.
There are many URL Shortening services on the Internet, and TinyUrl is the best of them. There are some services available of course which offer niche features such as NSFW.in (which is useful for shortening NSFW URLs – the person opening the URL is aware that it will lead to a NSFW site); then again there are totally weird ones like ZombieURL. None of these of course come close to TinyUrl’s popularity. Maybe, there is one now. It’s called Bit.ly.
Well, maybe not spy, but if you want to send out a secret message to someone, and you want it to self-destruct the moment it has been read, then you want to check out PrivNote. This is a neat little site, which lets you type out a note and post it, upon which you receive a Url. You can send this Url to any one person, and as soon as they open this Url, the note ceases to exist. It Self-Destructs – pretty much like how the messages delivered in Mission Impossible self destruct.
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