Lorem Ipsum is a dummy text used in place of real content. It has been used since the 1500s as a way of showing how print or layout will look without drawing attention to the text. The Lorem Ipsum text looks like real text, and it is, in fact, derived from Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum [...]
Read more »Google is now hosting millions of historic LIFE photos from the 1750s all the way till today. It provides an interesting view of historic events. Using Google’s search functionality, you can browse the photos any which way you want. Browsing by year, for example, shows the zeitgeist of the time. It is easy to get [...]
Read more »One Minute Languages teach you languages one minute at a time. They have courses available for Catalan, Danish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian. You can listen to the lessons directly in your browser, you can download them as mp3 files, or you can subscribe to them via iTunes. Each [...]
Read more »Browsershots is a free online service that tests websites for browser compatibility. It is very simple to use. You enter your website URL, select the browsers you want to test it on, and Browsershots presents you with screenshots of your website on each of the browsers. Browsershots supports lots of browsers in multiple versions on [...]
Read more »Pipl is a search engine for finding people. Enter a name, and Pipl searches the deep web for it. Pipl is a free service.
There are other options for finding people online:
123people presents its results in a nice organized way.
WhitePages will tell you where someone lives.
Spock allows you to claim your own identify and making edits [...]
Amazon has a new shopping website called Amazon Windowshop. You browse through photos of products in various categories: Music, books, audiobooks, movies, TV shows, and video games. You browse using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press the space bar to select an item. If you select a book, you will hear a review of [...]
Read more »Swoopo is an auction website. eBay, of course, is the giant in the auction arena, so it is nice to see start-ups like Swoopo take them on.
Swoopo has been operating in Europe for three years, and they are now also in the US. They provide fast-paced on-line auctions that “offer the winners incredible deals, and [...]
Block Posters turns your photos into huge block posters. You upload your photo, and you can then download images for each block of your poster. Each block is either in Letter (US) or A4 format. Print them and soon you have one huge poster.
There is a gallery of posters people have created using this [...]
MeetInBetweenUs is a web site for finding a place to meet that is equally convenient for everyone. Enter two or more addresses, and MeetInBetweenUs will suggest a place to meet. You can choose to meet at restaurants, coffee shops, golf courses, bars, hotels, libraries, malls, theaters, Apple stores, etc.
MeetInBetweenUs [via Lifehacker]
MeetInBetweenUs is similar to MeetWays [...]
Mobuzz TV is a vlog (video blog) that gives you the buzz five days a week. Each episode is about 5 minutes long and covers current topics of interest related to the internet, electronic gadgets, etc.
Mobuzz TV programs are available via the internet, or you can download them to your device of choice: computer, iPod, [...]
