You gotta love Gmail and its users :)
Wow more than 1,100 fantastic clips submitted from 65 countries. Gmail team asked its users to contribute videos of Gmail messages traveling around the world..
Month: August 2007
Understanding common espresso coffee flavors
This picture illustrates the differences between the common espresso coffee flavors. Espresso is prepared by forcing hot water through finely ground dark-roast coffee beans. Think of it is strong, concentrated coffee. You can add extra ’shots’ of espresso to make your drink stronger.
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This illustration diagram is created by Lokesh.
How to get motivated and finish work
Motivation is nothing but the ability to change behavior. High motivation is the key to success in any field. So how do you motivate yourself or your coworkers?
There are 21 tips published by John Wesley:
If you want to make things happen the ability to motivate yourself and others is a crucial skill. At work, home, and everywhere in between, people use motivation to get results. Motivation requires a delicate balance of communication, structure, and incentives. These 21 tactics will help you maximize motivation in yourself and others.
Often you see coaches and special trainers uses motivation to improve performance. You can apply same for business or self improvements such as weight loss or clear math paper. Another technique is going closer to nature (a peaceful place such as beach or beautiful garden) and lookout for small things it will defiantly motivate you. You can also read Bhagavad Gita to get more motivation and understand misery of life.
=> Read more: 21 Proven Motivation Tactics
Photography tips and demonstrations from Nikon professionals
Nikon is a Japanese company and famous for cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments etc. Now there is a Nikon Digital Learning Center which provides practical photography tips, demonstrations from Nikon professionals and industry experts, as well as other useful information as it relates to capturing the shot you really want.
Several of Nikon’s sponsored professional photography experts, including Rosanne Pennella and Cliff Mautner, as well as Nikon School instructors Reed Hoffman and Bill Durrence, will be dropping by this group (when not globetrotting on assignment) to post images, and provide tips and commentary ranging in topic from aperture, shutter speed, and composition — to specific genres like photojournalism, landscapes, and portraits.
Wow! this is a good news for all, if you like to learn photography from experts. Although I don’t have Nikon camera, I can still use the tips for my HP digital camera.
Flickr’s Nikon Digital Photography Learning Center
=> Visit Nikon Digital Learning Center online.
Huge Hole Found in the Universe
The Universe is defined as the summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur. Very little is known about the size of the universe. It may be trillions of light years across, or even infinite in size.
Now we found the hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it’s also strangely empty of the mysterious “dark matter” that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.
Howto create screenshots of any webpage / url ( thumbnails )
If you would like to create thumbnails of any webpage use this free online service:
With thumbalizr you can take screenshots of any webpage you want. Use it for your presentations, documentations, visualisations or your webpage. Just enter the target-URL and press the “thumb it”-button. Wait a moment and a screenshot of the desired page will be taken. You can choose between a screenshot with a fixed height of the screen or the complete webpage.
Near death Out-of-body experience recreated in lab
Experts have found a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in volunteers. The experiments, described in the Science journal, offer a scientific explanation for a phenomenon experienced by one in 10 people. The researchers say their findings could have practical applications, such as helping take video games to the next level of virtuality so the players feel as if they are actually inside the game.
Shilpa Shetty next Bond girl?
Daniel Craig’s next on screen love conquest could be non-other than Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty.
Celebrity Big Brother and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is set to become a Bond Girl opposite Daniel Craig. According to sources, it’s Shilpa’s huge fame in Bollywood that’s helping her win the part, as Bond producers think casting her will make sure the movie does well in Asia. ‘She has a huge following in Bollywood, as well as a number of fans in the Western world – especially in Britain – so she will be great for box office sales,’ the source added.
Read more at : Shilpa Shetty next Bond girl?
Download Movable Type 4 Blogging software
Although, I use WordPress, MT is another award winning blogging software. They also claims to be the world’s most powerful and easy to use blog software. From of the download page:
Since the original release in 2001, Movable Type Personal has been downloaded by millions of users and has set the standard for powerful personal blogging. Download the free version of Movable Type for personal, non-commercial use. Some of the world’s top companies rely on Movable Type for reaching customers and internal communications.
I’m going to try out this software for my new project.
Download MT 4.0
You can download Movable Type 4 Blogging software by visiting this url