Category: Link Dump

Jakob Nielsen lists the top 10 usability bloopers in movies nowadays.

TIME lists the 5 things that went from buzz to bust in 2006. The PS3 is on the list of course.

A site that offers older versions of software, because newer is not always better. Really good idea and very uiseful.

Some of the best css-based web designs created in 2006.

An interactive online radio that plays you music according to your mood.

An interesting post on why you should upgrade to a DSLR Camera and how to choose which is best for you.

Matt from 37signals weighs in on the social bookmarking icons that are being added at the bottom of blog posts and that so many blogs have now.

Adam’s apple explained. And it turns out, contrary to popular belief, that both males and females have Adam’s apples.

A list of the top 100, really cool, photos taken by the Hubble space telescope over the years.

102 Tips and pieces of advice on how best to manage your personal finances.

Charles Darwin’s complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts.

A list of 50 articles that you should read to help increase your writing skills.

A great post about the sad reality we Arabs live in and how the commonness of conflicts in the region gives them a certain shelf life, after which we sort of grow numb to them, and wait for what will come next.

The new restrictions that apply to all passengers starting their journey from the UK or the United States of America and to those transferring between flights at a UK airport.

The 50 coolest websites on the net according to TIME magazine.

A really cool Grand Theft Auto inspired Coca-Cola commercial.

The Evolution of the Photoshop Splash Screen over the years.

The evolution of computer desktops over the years. Cool stuff.

A list of of Google-related games.

An old high resolution colour photo taken at London’s Piccadilly Circus looking up Shaftsbury Avenue. Really cool look into the past.

Stephen King presents you with everything you need to know about writing successfully in ten minutes.

Margaret McGaffey Fisk on the steps to take your novel idea and make it into a completed work.

Al-Waha, which translates to “oasis,” is Concordia’s 14th summer language camp on the shores of northwestern Minnesota’s Leek Lake.

Want to go ahead and create your own hotspot for your business or even for fun, here’s a nice guide on how to go about it.

Why America gives Israel its unconditional support – The Economist

A quick-reference comparison chart of the world’s major religions and belief systems.

Step by step instructions to complete a Sudoku puzzle by simple process of elimination.

What you should do when you get bit by one of those annoying tiny flying bastards.

A pornography focused browser to make porn browsing more efficent and more secure.

Know more about the Finnish language.

An easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool.

A simple comparison between the different web scripting languages explaining the differences between them.

All the things you should not do when you have a cell phone. I couldn’t agree more.

A view at the 20 year history of pc viruses. Quite an interesting article.

A really cool gallery of infrared photography. Great stuff.

A bunch of tips and tricks for SSH (Secure Shell).

Some of the most popular web design clichés we’re seeing in the web sites and web apps that are popping up these days.

A list of the top 10 most used, and may I add insecure, passwords.

A list of things we’d still have to live with if Google didn’t come into existence.

Download 400+ quality royalty free stock photos for free.

The list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world nowadays.

Google’s new online payment system, previously rumoured to be called GBuy.

Wired Mag’s “Artifacts from the future” unearthed this little optical enhancement. Funny and cool.

Adobe Photoshop tutorial on how to take a photo of something real and retouch it into an anime style image.

A bunch of cool resources and tutoirlals on Web 2.0 design.

Sun says is it only “months” away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license.

Screenshots of the 1.0 version of Adobe’s Photoshop released in 1990.

So you feel like making your own R2D2 or C3PO, here’s a list of resources that could help you out.

A list of the ten weirdest things ever to appear on eBay and that have received at least one bid.

A free ebook featuring Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and more fun stuff.

Another ajax style todo list manager. I like their clean and practical ajax interface.

A list of the worst video game names ever. Some very stupid names in there, I agree.

A collection of free ebooks covering a number of different categories.

A cool social bookmarking way of finding the best tutorials.

Galleries of beautiful photos of Petra / Jordan. Amazing stuff.

A set of comparative images that puts things into perspective when it comes to the size of our world.

A really good book about psychological self-help by Clayton E. Tucker-Ladd.

How to retouch photos using Adobe Photoshop’s airbrush tool. Very cool.

More cool photo retouch tutorials, 438 to be precise.

Play against people, show the world how good you are…