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Fortune magazine has compiled a list of 9 "forbidden' foods that have been banned (for some reason or another) in the US. Trans fats in NYC, foie gras in Chicago. Here's the list:
Trans fats Banned in: New York City Raw milk Banned in: 21 states Absinthe Banned in: The U.S. (sort of: Absinthe is legal in the United States, contrary to popular belief, as long as the spirit's levels of thujone - a toxic chemical present in wormwood, one of the herbs used to make absinthe - do not surpass the Food and Drug Administration's limit of 10 parts per million.) Foie Gras Banned in: Chicago Uncertified Chilean sea bass Banned in: The U...Click to Continue |
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Stay Tuned for some Updated content. I know not much has happened here lately, but that's because life has been keeping me a bit busy. ...Click to Continue
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Who hasn't dreamed of either starring in or making their own music video? With minimal effort it is now possible, just log onto Animoto.com and upload the music and the pictures that you want to be in the video. The best thing since sliced bread, the program developed by Animoto Productions produces professionally produced video using technology that they developed called Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that they say, "thinks its an actual director and editor." The program analyzes and combines the images that the user has picked and their music with the same tools that are used in film and TV. The best thing about the site, is creating the videos are virtually effortless, all that needs to be done is to upload the music and pictures and within minutes you will have a professional quality video. Just check out this crazy amateur video i put together in less than 5 minutes, complete with customized soundtrack!
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The world population is the total number of human beings alive on the planet Earth at a given time. In July, 2007, the world population has reached over 6.6 billion. In line with population projections, this figure continues to grow at rates that were unprecedented before the 20th century, although the rate of increase has almost halved since its peak, which was reached in 1963. Currently the most populous region is Asia, with China and India being in the forefront with over a billion people each. The least Populous regions? Greenland and Antartica!
Check out the below World Clock widget to see some intersting facts about current world populations! This World Stats Counter shows current statistical figures for world population, births, deaths, deforestation, and much more...Click to Continue |
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At long last, Cerulean Studios has finally sent me an invite to their Trillian Astra ALPHA 2, I have been long-awaiting this next version of the popular multi-messaging client. Apart from a cracked copy i tried for a total of 5 minutes (too buggy!) i have been waiting patiently for like 3 years to get a try at playing with Trillian Astra. Now Cerulean has put up a sneak preview and Sign-up site that taunts some of its slick new features we can expect in the successor to Trillian 3.1...Click to Continue
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The Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS is by far the best thing that I have got in the last 2 years. Before i received the Nuvi, I used to go everywhere except for the places I was meant to go to. Since I'm a guy i never want to ask for directions and think i can get where i need to go by following the position of the sun. It never got me anywhere good. So i finally broke down and asked for a new Garmin Nuvi 350 for my B-Day. And lo and behold i got my wish! Using the Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS now for about a week it has always gotten me to an appointment on time...Click to Continue
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Ever wonder where some of the top companies came up with their company names? Well here's a list of companies and how they came up with their name. Some are very interesting and quite funny while others are pretty boring. Ok on with the show!
YAHOO The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth...Click to Continue |
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If spending $500-$600 is too much money for an iPhone and music is your passion and literally rules the way you live, then the Sony Ericsson W850i is a must have gadget for you. Continuing with a grand musical success, Sony Ericsson offers this dynamic gadget to let you feel the music - the way you want. Well, the Sony Ericsson W850i is eighth member of Walkman series and duly endowed with various updated features. As far as designing and usability aspect is concerned, the Sony Ericsson W850i is a slider phone, which not only provides a soothing music experience, but also adds a lot in your mobile life. Besides all these music tantrums, the Sony Ericsson W850i also comes with a dynamic control system.
As being the next prodigy in the Walkman series, the Sony Ericsson W850i is the very first phone, which comes with the improved version of Sony Ericsson's proprietary music software...Click to Continue |
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Web "Two point O": We have all heard the hype and experienced it ourselves by now. Sites such as MySpace, Digg, Google Maps, and YouTube are all what the new internet experience is about. Want to know what the next big internet thing is going to be? You might want to check out PCWORLD'S fantastic article on 25 Web Sites to Watch. The article lists sites ranging from Mashup services such as the forthcoming Microsoft PopFly, which lets you build your own custom mashup services without knowing any code, to online and offline capable organizers, calendars and to-do lists...Click to Continue
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Have you ever experienced a hard drive failure? If for some miracle by God, you haven't you will soon! Normally, your data can always be recovered from a failed hard drive, but if you havent backed up it will be an EXPENSIVE proposition. Sandy, a completley made up name to protect the innocent, would like to share her story.
Simply stated, Sandy's computer overheated. And Sandy got the dreaded ..Click to Continue |
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BSoD's also know as the ubiquitous Blue Screen of Death. We have all had them.And they usually happened at the most important part of something we where working on, like page 349 of your 350 page thesis paper, or when you where just about to find a solution for the National Debt problem. And yes you forgot to save!
BSoD's have been part of the computer industry for as long as there have been Graphical User Interfaces. The most famous of course is Windows 95 BSOD. Even Bill Gates had one during his ..Click to Continue |
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So you just went out and got yourself that new 42 inch plasma or lcd with that sexy picture and oh so model-thin, umm. thinness. Well, it turns out that you might want to have waited because the next big thing is already in the pipeline, and boy, it is anorexic thin and the extreme of cool. Its called OLED or if you want to get fancy, Organic Light Emitting Diode
We're talking OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) here and Sony is about to release it's first shot, though a small one, at the next generation of flat screen TVs. Their magic bullet of sorts is a diminutive 11 inch, 3mm thick OLED TV that promises picture quality akin to looking through a window. Sony plans to introduce it's new wonder by year's end and rival Toshiba is threatening a counter-attack by releasing it's own OLED by 2009, over a year later, but sporting a 21 inch screen...Click to Continue |
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Wow, something new from Microsoft thats actually worth talking about. Photosynth is a software technology preview from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyzes digital photographs to build a three-dimensional model of a photographed object. Pattern recognition components compare portions of images to create points, which are then compared to convert the image into a model. Currently, users can view models built by Microsoft or BBC, but not create their own models.
The program works by analyzing multiple photographs taken of the same area. Each photograph is processed by noting specific features, like the corner of a window frame or a door handle...Click to Continue |
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Apple Computers (Now Apple Inc.) has recovered from years of corporate doldrums through the introduction of an innovative line of computers but more importantly, through the phenomenal success of the iPod. Apple more or less created the market for personal digital MP3 players and has sold millions of units, along with millions of songs through their online music store.
Now the video world is coming into the handheld market - virtually every cell phone has a screen of some sort and the recent iPods have video screens as well. Apple's most recent product introduction is the much-hyped iPhone, which combines the functions of a cell phone, a "wide screen" iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device. Apple has chosen to make an exclusive deal with Cingular, the AT&T cell phone network...Click to Continue |
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Over 80 percent of Internet users use Google to find products and services on the world wide web. It stands to reason that if you want to generate more qualified sales leads and page visits you need to rank on the first or second page within the search engines results pages on Google.
As Google gets more and more sophisticated with each algorithm update, search engine optimization methods have to keep updating their methods to keep getting good results. Here is a list of ten important tactics that you can use to improve your Google rankings. Use the right keyword phrase The most important factor in getting quality web traffic is to optimize your web pages for the correct keyword phrase. Getting the most sales is often a balance between search volume for key words and level of competition...Click to Continue |
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Currently in Demo mode, AOL's much-talked-about social networking site AIM Pages launched today as AIMPages.com. Logging in with your AIM screen name takes you to the profile editor, which has a neat drag-and-drop Ajax interface. By default your AIM Pages profile has a few "modules" like the obligatory photo and "About Me" box, and you can add other modules like RSS feeds, photo tickers from Flickr or AOL, and even games, by dragging them to the column and position you would like them to appear. Each module has "Edit" and "Style" buttons for changing their settings and appearances. It also has more than 75 built-in themes which range from clean to cutesy to garish, and after choosing a theme you can further customize it...Click to Continue
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The company whose name has become a verb for searching the Internet has once again expanded its franchise by adding yet another service. Along with its mapping feature and its Gmail email service, Google has now added a free calendar function that is arguably easier to use and more powerful than competitive calendars from Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL.
If you already have a Google or Gmail account, you can sign in and get started immediately.You can also import Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Calendar or Apple iCal,directly with ease. So far this is a one-way import. The service is not yet set up to do a two-way synchronization between itself and other programs or handheld devices but stay tuned...Click to Continue |
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So i was sitting at home, a little bored, and decided to use my trusty StumbleUpon Toolbar in Firefox to see what kind of cool sites it would take me too today. As i clicked upon the Stumble button it took me to some nice art sites, a couple of flash games, and then it came across Flow "What's This?" I wondered as I watched the flash application's blue screen with the words FLOW written, almost dreamily, onto the screen...Click to Continue
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Google, the powerhouse of the internet search, has a new ace up its sleeve, although not really an official announcement, a powerpoint slide not supposed to be in one of their investor presentations made it to the web for a short period of time, and a few smart bloggers quickly got posted it on their sites. What am i talking about you may ask? Well that particular slide i am referring to is Google's next big ace up their sleeve. It's tentatively called GDrive and is meant as an online hard disk for users to store all their information, that will be accessible anywhere there is an internet connection. Kind of like their GMail service, but for ALL your files instead of just email. The notes mentioned Google's desire to host all user data such as files, emails, bookmarks and pictures on its servers rather than the user saving the information on their computers.Not much else is yet known about this service, nor how far along they are in this endeavor, but these things do sound like a great way to be able to access your data...Click to Continue
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Have you ever seen those Carnival Cruiseline ads where they create one cool picture out of thousands of mini pictures? Those are some of the coolest pieces of art you can create. Many people think that either $100,000 software or hundreds of man hours creates those images. Well those people are WRONG! It takes a free piece of excellently written quick, and easy to master program to create these wonderfull images. This software is called AndreaMosaic, written by Andrea Denzler in his spare time. With this freeware program you can create your own photomosaics made with your own pictures, or use images that have been provided with the software. Its still a little rough around the edges in some areas but can take avi movies and all sorts of jpg images and resize them approriatly...Click to Continue
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