How To Beat Carnival Games

Either beat the games or save your money and buy the 'prize' yourself.

Link:
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/beat-carnival-games.php?showall=true

Elk Cloner was the first

ELK CLONER, 1982: Regarded as the first virus to hit personal computers worldwide, "Elk Cloner" spread through Apple II floppy disks and displayed a poem written by its author, a ninth-grade student who was designing a practical joke.

Read about the other notorious computer viruses over the past 25 years.

Link:
http://www.physorg.com/news107790295.html

IDEA: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

Overview
Create a bookmarking system where the user no longer bookmarks a single website but instead is bookmarking a highly perfected (over time in the system) search engine query. What this does is prevent the annoying 'page not found' you get when you recall a bookmark. Instead you are always presented with the best possible websites for your topic.

The system would allow for, and encourage, tweaking queries for even better results. This allows your bookmarked queries to become better through the community using the site.

A community member would be able to request a query update where the original query creator would have the option of appending the change or branching the query into a related branch query. Related branch queries are a mechanism to see what other queries had be spawned from your original, perfected query.

Features

• Easily store and recall search queries in all major browsers
• With your account you can make a query public or private
• Public queries can be searched, viewed and modified by other users
• Modified queries requests are sent to you so you can chose to update your query with a better, advanced query
• Queries can be branched, or spawned, from an existing query. All query branches can be followed to see how a query has developed over time
• Complete user account management
• IE and Firefox toolbars to easily 'capture' queries
• Queries could attempt to tweak themselves by the user providing a target webpage. The system would then try and create the best possible query that brings the webpage, and like results, into the top spots in the designated search engine.
• Browser toolbar could have a Query Suggestion button where the system reads the page and attempts to create a query based on the pages content and the system knowledge of advanced query creation.
  

Imagine how many pages will be indexed in 5 or 10 years and as pages indexed increase it would make sense that bookmarked pages would increase also. By bookmarking a query you greatly reduce your bookmarks since a single query, on a topic, can replace large groups of page bookmarks.

Obviously a lot needs to be worked out but this is the basis for the website. First on block is a big thing and so far nobody else is doing this. I think this is a great idea and I just don't have the time to implement so I thought I would release the idea and see what happens.

Discussion going on now at DonationCoder about this idea

Email me if you develop it and donations accepted :-)

Content Aware Image Resizing

Read more here:
http://.../Fascinating-algorithm-to-resize-pictures/

PHP Link Directory

phpLD is now the most widely used directory script on the internet. Our customers have tested the script on over 25,000 websites, and we have been able to produce a script that works in nearly all PHP hosting environments.

Link:
http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/

30+ Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers & Designers

Firefox has cool add-ons which make the job of website designers and developers much easier. Here is our list of 30+ excellent Firefox add-ons that every web developer and designer should know about.

Link:
http://.../30-firefox-add-ons-for-web-developers-designers/

VBA Macros get a productivity boost with MZ-Tools

MZ-Tools 3.0 is a freeware add-in for Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic 5.0 and the Visual Basic For Applications editor (provided by a VBA-enabled application such as those in Office 2000 and higher) which adds several productivity features to the IDE.

I have used MZ Tools since a very early release back in VB6 days. This is one of those things that if you work in a Visual Studio IDE or create macros in Word / Excel you will wonder how you ever did without.

Link:
http://www.mztools.com/v3/features.aspx

XYplorer: A multi-tabbed file manager for Windows

XYplorer is a multi-tabbed file manager for Windows, featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. It's innovative and it's fun!

XYplorer is a portable file manager. It does not require any installation, stores all data in the program's folder, and running it does not change your system or registry.

Read a review:
http://www.donationcoder.com/...

Link:
http://www.xyplorer.com/index.htm

Scriptomatic 2.0

A completely new version of the famous Scriptomatic, the utility that writes WMI scripts for you. (And, in the process, teaches you the fundamental concepts behind writing WMI scripts for yourself.) Unlike its predecessor, Scriptomatic 2.0 isn’t limited to writing just VBScript scripts; instead, Scriptomatic 2.0 can write scripts in Perl, Python, or JScript as well. In addition, Scriptomatic 2.0 gives you a host of new output formats to use when running scripts, including saving data as plain-text, as a stand-alone Web page, or even as XML. Scriptomatic 2.0 handles arrays, it converts dates to a more readable format, and it works with all the WMI classes on your computer; on top of all that, it also writes scripts that can be run against multiple machines.

Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...

Some Simple SQL Rules to Live By

Just in case you have only touched the very basics of SQL this article can help to make sure what you are doing is at least correct, in the Author's eyes.

Link:
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2006/03/14/9289.aspx

Now that's a display!

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world - with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels.

The new HIPerSpace system between Irvine and San Diego is joined together via high-performance, dedicated optical networking that clocks in at up to two gigabits per second (2Gbps). The systems use the same type of graphics rendering technology, from industry partner NVIDIA. The "graphics super cluster" being developed at UCSD consists of 80 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics processing units (GPUs). "The graphics and computational performance of these cards is quite astounding," said Kuester. "Putting the theoretical computational performance of the cluster at almost 40 teraflops.

Link:
http://.../220_million_pixels_on_new_system_at_ucsd.html

The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.

If you're like me any little bit helps when it comes to Regular Expressions and The Regex Coach does indeed help.

Link:
http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

The Tenth Dimension

Confused?

Google Sky lets you see a galaxy far, far away

Google Earth just keeps getting better. This time it adds Google Sky which lets you explore the universe. From see distant galaxies to putting the planets in motion, Google Sky hits a homerun with me.

Link:
http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

Screenshots:
http://earth.google.com/gallery/kml_listing.html#csky#s1#e10

Google Likely Bidder in 700MHz Auction

After lobbying the FCC to ensure open access stipulations for the upcoming auction of 700MHz spectrum last month, Google indicated at a conference in Colorado late Tuesday that it would likely submit a $4.6 billion bid for a portion of the spectrum to be auctioned off. The frequencies would be made available following the successful transition of television signals from analog to digital.

Link:
http://.../Google_Likely_Bidder_in_700MHz_Auction/

Online interactive SQL Designer

Link:
http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/

GeeXboX turns your computer into a Home Theater PC

GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. Being a standalone LiveCD-based distribution, it's a ready to boot operating system than works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, implying no software requirement. You can even use it on a diskless computer, the whole system being loaded in RAM.

Despite his tiny ISO image size, the distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.

Link:
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html

Wal-Mart Begins Selling Music in MP3

Wal-Mart said Tuesday it will begin offering MP3 tracks from its music download service through arrangements with labels EMI and Universal.

Link:
http://.../WalMart_Begins_Selling_Music_in_MP3/

USB Drive Apps: PC Repair System

Basically a suit of tools that will fit on a USB drive as small as 32Meg to assist in the repair of a PC. Very much along the lines of Portable Apps but more geared towards fixing rather that function.

What's inside PC Repair System:

• DCoT Menu
• Active@ ISO Burner
• AutoCompress
• Brute Benchmark
• CCleaner
• CDmage
• DriveImage XML
• Double Killer
• DTaskManager
• encopy
• Eraser
• ERUNT
• explore2fs
• File Assassin
• Filemon
• Hash
• HDDScan
• ICE ECC
• LC ISO Creator
• LSASecretsView
• NTREGOPT
• Patcher
• PMMon
• ProcessExplorer
• ProduKey
• Regmon
• Restoration
• Roadkil’s CommTest
• Roadkil’s Disk Image
• Rootkit Revealer
• SequoiaView
• System Information for Windows
• TweakUI
• Universal Extract
• Virtual CD Control Panel
• What Changed?
• Why Reboot?
• WirelessKeyView

Anyone else remember Rocky's Boots

Am I the only one that played this game? A quick discussion over at DC brought back memories of Rocky's Boots. Funny thing is the graphics were actually decent for back in the early 80's.

Rocky’s Boots was a visual simulation that made it possible for upper-grade-school students to design simple digital logic circuits, using a joystick to move around circuit symbols on the screen and plug them together. The circuit components were AND gates, OR gates, NOT gates, and flip-flops. The colors orange and white were used to show the logic states ‘1’ and ‘0’ of the components, so that as the circuit operated, the signals could be seen propagating through the circuits, as if the electricity was liquid orange fire flowing through transparent pipes.

Link:
http://www.warrenrobinett.com/rockysboots/

My wish list on Amazon

I figured nobody would buy anything off the list so I picked out the most expensive things that I would want.

Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2IZCUAAFXJPGJ

Eleven steps to buying a domain name that doesn't suck

Eleven steps to buying a domain name that doesn't suck: "Whether you're a multinational Internet retailer or a lone human just entering the Web world, there are many things to consider when purchasing a new domain name, not the least of which are core SEO (search engine optimization) parameters. Following is a list of considerations I'd supply to either entity mentioned above or anyone in between. Some may seem ridiculously obvious, but a friendly reminder won't hurt."

Link:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759544-7.html?part=rss

Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar Creator

Sometimes, when we are building websites and web applications, we need a percentage bar / progress bar to show the progress of a specific task. However, it is very difficult to find a working and easy solution without using Flash. Therefore WebAppers have created a simple Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar which is inspired by Bare Naked App. Bare Naked App taught us how to display Percentage Bar with 2 images only by using CSS. And then I used a little bit of Javascript to make it more interactive. You can use it anywhere you can think of. Use your Imagination, I am sure you will find it useful somewhere.

Link:
http://www.webappers.com/progressBar/

Who's editing Wikipedia

WikiScanner will let tell you who's editing Wikipedia.

Link:
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Xinu shows how well your website is performing

Xinu lets you quickly check your PageRank, backlinks and much more. This is a great way to see how your website is performing in the web world. Be aware that some information may not be 100% accurate so use this as more of a guide.

Link:
http://www.xinureturns.com/

Google improves its Robots.txt tools

We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier versions weren't aware of sitemaps at all, and understood only absolute URLs; anything else was reported as Syntax not understood. The improved version now tells you whether your sitemap's URL and scope are valid. You can also test against relative URLs with a lot less typing.

Link:
http://.../new-robotstxt-feature-and-rep-meta-tags.html

Need a quick and easy file manager for PHP?

Then check out File Thingie (great name).

File Thingie is a small web-based file manager written in PHP. It is intended for those who need to give others access to a part of their server's file system when FTP is not practical. Through File Thingie you and your users get access to the most common functions

Link:
http://www.solitude.dk/filethingie/

Talk like a Googler: parts of a url

Let’s dissect the parts of a URL (uniform resource locator). I’ll tell you how we typically refer to different parts of a URL at Google...

Link:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-glossary-url-definitions/

Better blogger templates

Some new and different blogger templates to give your blog a more unique look.

Link:
http://www.geckoandfly.com/blogspot-templates/

Vista Hands On #17: Solving a pesky resource problem

Have you experienced any of these problems with Windows Vista? After opening a large number of programs and windows, you try to launch a new program or open a new browser tab or even switch back to an already running program and instead:

• You get a strange “out of memory” message, despite the fact that you’re using only a fraction of the RAM installed on your system.
• The window opens but its contents refuse to load.
• The window opens, but menus are missing, dialog boxes are empty, or buttons don’t work.

Read on how to fix:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=269

Do you like Horror movies?

Then check out the Horror and Sci-Fi news mashup site I put together. I did it for myself because I wanted something I could quickly navigate to to see what happening in the world of horror.

Pass it along to anyone who you think may be interested.

Link:
http://scarymind.com/

Is Outsourcing Right for Your Business?

Many businesses still are very hesitant to embrace outsourcing as a means to growing their practice and increasing productivity. To help you decide whether outsourcing is right for your business consider the following common questions:

Q: How can I be sure private client data will be secure?

A: Superior security measures and processes; make sure you have a signed service agreement (including confidentiality guarantees). Some important security features to look for when choosing a vendor are if they support a paperless monitored work environment. Consider network security such as if their site is encrypted and uses a firewall. Also, verify how they hire their employees. Do they adhere to stringent background checks and do they require a particular level of education or training?

Q: Is it against the law or code of ethics to utilize outsourcing?

A: No, as long as disclosures are made to the client. There is typically a provision in most privacy statements that disclose that the firm may be a need to disclose client information to third parties who provide help in servicing their accounts. Most firms reference outsourcing directly or indirectly in their privacy statement in order to comply with the Graham Leach Bliley Act. In either case, as long as the taxpayer is assured that his/her return will be reviewed by the firm's tax department prior to filing, they generally respond favorably to outsourcing.

Q: How can I be assured that the work being done meets the high quality standards that I guarantee my own clients?

A: Again, investigate whether the vendor employs a skilled staff. Verify that the vendor performs quality checks and audits by seasoned U.S. staff and conducts rigorous and continual ongoing training of the tax and accounting team.

Q. How can I ensure outsourcing will be successful for me?

A. Communication with vendor. In the end, it is up to both the vendor as well as the client to make sure the lines of communication are open. The more the vendor understands the needs and work flow of the client and the more the client understands the outsourcing process, the better the relationship will be for both parties.

BuPro USA is the leader in outsourcing services for accounting and tax professionals. BuPro USA is a U.S. and Indian based company that helps accounting and tax professionals become more efficient and manage their work more effectively. Their proprietary technology platform makes the outsourcing process easy to use for all accounting and tax professionals; no matter their size or business mix. Key benefits include: a lower stress work environment, better quality, lower costs and better end-client relations. BuPro USA is a privately held company based in Ferndale, MI. For additional information, please visit http://www.BuProUSA.com or contact us at: info@BuProUSA.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Allison_Marrs

InsiteCreation 2008 is a very nice ASP.NET CMS System

Thanx to Cheryl Wise for bringing this ASP.NET CMS system to my attention.

For ASP.NET its probably one of the cleanest CMS systems I have come across. They have done a great job with the interface aspect of the CMS system. This is where a lot of CMS systems lose their users, in ugly and confusing admin areas.

I much prefer PHP, but for those who like ASP.NET this is a must to check out.

Right into the features:
http://www.insitecreation.com/insitecreation.aspx

Add a little color to your electronic device with ColorWare

ColorWare Inc., established in 2000, is an industry leader in altering the color of existing products. The idea behind ColorWare started with transforming the ubiquitous beige computer into a custom-colored work of art.

A simple idea that can give your hardware a personal touch. Check it out.

Link:
http://www.colorwarepc.com

Clearview to replace Highway Gothic

The typeface is the brainchild of Don Meeker, an environmental graphic designer, and James Montalbano, a type designer. They set out to fix a problem with a highway font, and their solution — more than a decade in the making — may end up changing a lot more than just the view from the dashboard. Less than a generation ago, fonts were for the specialist, an esoteric pursuit, what Stanley Morison, the English typographer who helped create Times New Roman in the 1930s, called “a minor technicality of civilized life.” Now, as the idea of branding has claimed a central role in American life, so, too, has the importance and understanding of type. Fonts are image, and image is modern America.

Link:
http://...r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Facebook Home Page Code Leaked!

Not much to say except you can see the source code driving the homepage of Facebook.

Link:
http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/

Professional Legal Documents for Free

Over 300 free professional legal documents and forms available to download as Microsoft Word documents (.doc) ready for you to print.

This is great!

Link:
http://www.prolegaldocs.com/

11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects

In honor of some of our favorite summer blockbusters (Harry Potter and Transformers), we bring you our 10 11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos. Read on!

Link:
http://.../best-movie-effect-photo-tutorials-photoshop/

Web Marketing: Standard Ad sizes

Couple of good sources for what the standard sizes are for web marketing material (images, movies, Flash).

On Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner

Interactive Marketing Units:
http://www.fearnwebdesign.com/php/pages/advertising.php

Scrollovers

Scrollovers are a way to quickly and easily add flair to your web pages, giving your users an experience they weren't expecting.

Integration of Scrollovers into your web site couldn't be easier, even if you’ve already built the site that you want to include Scrollovers on. In just minutes you will be able to have them appearing on your own pages.

Link:
http://www.scrollovers.com/