Are you the type which likes to check their daily horoscope in the newspaper? I have a friend who really believes deeply in Astrology, and regularly goes to palmists, tea leaf readers, a host of astrologers, and so on. If you are such a person, this post is for you (of course, I am going to let her know about it as well).
I love LifeHacker, and should have blogged about it here (but I would imagine, almost everyone in the world knows about this site). Anyway, as a regular reader, I was deeply disappointed with one of their recent posts. Its about a ‘windows only’ screen saver which you can set to turn off your PC in a given time. Why would I even want such a thing when Windows has this built in. Just go and read the comments on this post to get an idea on how dumb everyone thinks this post is.
Since the team at LifeHacker has generally been good over the years, and I believe they are not dumb – the only conclusion for a post like this that I can derive is that they have totally run out of smart things to right about, and in desperation are posting any random stuff. Hopefully, this is a temporary phase.
If you like to play scrabble and often find yourself stuck because you have a large number of hard to use consonants with you, here’s a page which will help you a lot. This page lists 10 words which are legal in the game, are high scoring, and are very short.
Here’s the URL: Win at Scrabble.
Remember one thing though. You should not stop at reading the article. The readers have added a larger list in the comments, making this a nice little resource for Scrabble goodness. Now, go, memorize, and then kick some butt at Scrabble.
My favorite word in that list is Cwm. Never knew that was a word. In fact, even my spell checker in this software that I am using for writing this is saying that its not a word. But, guess what, it is a word.
Happy Playing!!!
Here’s a website which is sure to make you smile. It has loads of cute animal pictures (mostly cats) with really witty captions. Here’s an example (not a cat, but still funny):
The site is called ICanHasCheezBurger. Go visit for loads of laughs.
Here’s something that will blow your mind away. Microsoft has recently released a software (and a service) which completely redefines the way you will enjoy your photos from now on. Have you ever felt that the picture you are capturing just doesn’t do justice to the scene you are witnessing? Have you been taking a lot of pictures and painstakingly stitching them together to create a panorama?
Well, that is exactly where this new service will help you. It’s called PhotoSynth. PhotoSynth lets you take loads of pictures of the scene that you are trying to capture and simply load it up in there desktop software. This software then looks through all the pictures and finds overlapping areas and then stitches them up automatically. But the story doesn’t end here.
Are you a big artist type, with art flowing through your veins? Well, this is not for you then. But are you someone who wished they could draw something sensible by putting pencil to paper, or brush to canvas? Then read on because this neat website may be able to whet your appetite a little.
Introducing Mr. Picassohead – a tool that will make Picasso’s out of us all (well, maybe not, but we can still try). This painting on the left was made using Mr. Picassohead. What Mr. P offers is a flash based editor which allows you to choose from a number of different shapes to paint with. It allows you to get as creative as you can get with a finite set of tools which offer an infinite set of combinations.
There are many photography sites on the Internet which you can go to when you are looking for images that you need to use for your website, brochure, blog, or anywhere else. However, most of the sites are paid or have some kind of copyright assigned to the photographs. WebWorkerDaily covered some of these sites a while ago (and most of these are highly recommended by me as well). However, that is not the topic of this post. I want to talk about a website which offers thousands of good quality, completely free, photos.
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