Very clever way to multiply any numbers by using lines, single digit numbers and their intersections. It is quite interesting and easy to use. It will make you wonder, how did they do that and why didn’t anyone think of this before? [button link=”http://www.glumbert.com/media/multiply” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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With so much information to search for and somehow wanting to squeeze it all between 1400 and 1050 pixels, it is becoming hard to find an application or site aggregator that does it well. I had been using My Yahoo for a while and although I wasn't necessarily thrilled with it, it did the job and did it decently. I have tried others as well, such as My MSN and even blogged about Google Personalized and Microsoft's Start a while back. I started using pageflakes for a while, but noticed it would lock up and its performance was less than satisfactory. The other competitors I found were: Goowy and Protopage, I didn't think I would write about it again until I found NetVibes. A very well designed Ajax-based, all in one, personalized homepage that you can arrange at will with as many blog feeds, news feeds, weather reports, financial information as you will. There are a good amount of widgets as well to choose from. It also offers a...
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Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. You can place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you. [button link=”http://sketchup.google.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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Google Mars allows you to view Mars three ways, by elevation, by "visible" and by infrared. Google has plotted points by Regions, Mountains, Plains Spacecraft, Canyons, Ridges, Stories, Dunes, and Craters. They have plans to add a Google Earth like desktop feature for Mars in the future. [button link=”http://www.google.com/mars/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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I am having my site moved to a new .NET 2.0 server. I will be posting some ASP.NET 2.0 experiment shortly, but in the meantime I have to pack everything up and prepare for the move. Some experiments may be offline for a while, while I figure out how I got them to work in the first place and modify whatever I need to do to make them work again… note: some experiments may cease to work all together since I used to have ColdFusion on the old server and did some CF experiments several years...
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I Stumbled across this article by Ali Khan with some good guidelines for developing fast and efficient ASP.NET applications. Some I knew, others I did not, but nonetheless a comprehensive guide to things to keep in mind writing your next web application. [button link=”http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ASPNET_Best_Practices.asp” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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Guy Kawasaki has some excellent tips for when you ever need to demo a product or software feature and you "think" you know how to do it, but deep down you really have no clue… He has some other good advice for getting a standing ovation and and for writing a business plan. [button link=”http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/how_to_be_a_dem.html” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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How does a rainbow form? Is levitation possible? Do time machines exist? What does 'quantum' mean? What is the maximum force value found in nature? Is 'empty space' really empty? Is the universe a set? Which problems in physics are still unsolved? Motion Mountain publishes a free, online, physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration, to answer such questions. The book is written to be entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page. With little mathematics, the text explores the most fascinating parts of mechanics, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, electrodynamics, quantum theory and modern attempts at unification. The essence of these fields is summarized in the most simple terms: it is shown how they are based on the notions of minimum entropy, maximum speed, maximum force, minimum change of charge and minimum action. The text explores the limits of time and space, and the wonders that can be discovered there. Written in English, its over 1200 pages are provided for...
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If you need to know how to add Google Maps to your website, keep reading… Exploration Age explains the details… First you need a Google Maps API key, which you can obtain here. You can find out much more here with plenty of details of anything you might want to know about Google Maps, especially if you plan to extend your new map beyond this example. Check out this nice detailed tutorial with excellent and good examples by Joshua Siler… (via Exploration Age) Update: if times allows, over the next week I'll play with it and may post a new entry in the experiments section… [button link=”http://blog.explorationage.com” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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Unbelievable. Of course I had been warned about the amount of rain in Seattle before moving here. And figuring I had lived in South Florida for 6 years, I thought little else could top the frequent tropical rainstorms and floodings that I had experienced there. In Seattle it is not necesarily the amount of rain but it is this constant drizzle and grey, overcast skies that leads people to complain about the weather here. It really doesn't bother me too much. It hasn't been cold enough for that rain to turn into snow yet, but it may happen tonight…temperatures are expected to fall so we may get a few inches of snow overnight… As of December 19th, 2005 it has not stopped raining and today marks the 26th day of consecutive rainfall. The record is 33 days and we are on the verge of breaking it… [button link=”http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/255721_power14.html” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
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