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WHAT THE HEll?

lowercase L, a unique blog trying to unravel the psychology of the lowercase L offenders in an uppercase surrounding.

“The gist of lowercase L is this: I have noticed that, when people create handwritten signs, they sometimes choose to capitalize every letter except the letter “L”.”

You Suck at Photoshop #7: Patch Tool and Levels

Another funny Photoshop lesson from Donnie Hoyle, where he tires to hot up a facebook photo for a lucky fan. In his own mean and some what brutal way as he tries to make his fan into a “Mom he’d like to Facebook” , we get to see how to use the patch tool and levels.

Obama’s Senate Record

Daily Kos unearths Obama’s senate record to put an end to the charge that Obama is all talk and no action. Since 2005 Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills, out of which 15 have became law. He also introduced amendments to 50 bills, out of which 16 were adopted.

Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule

Photo Time Capsule, a new cool feature from Photojojo, which will once a week email you photos from a year ago from your Flickr account. Read more about the Time Capsule service. See email sample.

“Every couple weeks, the Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago. It picks the ones that are most interesting — the ones that got viewed the most, favorited the most, and commented on the most — and sends them to you in email.”

The Airbag guide to SXSW

If you are headed to SXSW(south by southwest conference and festival) held in Austin, Texas on March 7th, you might want to read Airbag’s guide to SXSW for the newbs and veterans.

“Use your laptop sparingly. You’d be amazed at how much better your experience will be if your eyes aren’t glued to a screen.”

“Meet the world” Campaign

A unique yet powerful flag campaign created by Brazilian Icaro Doria for the magazine Grande Reportagem.

“We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.”

FeedBurner error halves subscriber count

Lot of blogs have been experiencing considerable drop in FeedBurner subscriber counts. Here is an update from FeedBurner forum regarding this issue:

Feedfetcher’s subscriber reporting is being restored; if your numbers are missing with yesterday’s totals, specifically, you should see them start to return with Friday morning’s (GMT -0500) reported totals. (It may take longer than one day for complete coverage to return.)

How to Photograph the Lunar Eclipse

People in North and South America will be able to see a total Lunar Eclipse tonight. This will be the last lunar eclipse till 2010. You will also be able to spot Saturn and the bright star Regulus. The eclipse will last around an hour starting at 7pm on the west cost, and 10pm on the east cost. If you are planning to photograph the total lunar eclipse, then check out the tips provided by New York Institute of Photography. Here is another resource for shooting the moon from cameraporn.

PHOTO BY: FORT PHOTO

iPaper: The document player

iPaper, a YouTube like flash player for embedding various document formats (PDF, Microsoft Office documents, text files, and images) on web pages. It will even allow advertising within the documents, and best of all, no more downloading bulky pdf files, and keeps the users on the web site.

Some are speculating this could be the end of pdf, but it might not be the case, instead iPaper could encourage the use of pdf and other document formats, now that there is a better medium for embedding documents on a web page.

CURRENTLY THE SCRIPT DOES NOT WORK IF YOU TRY TO EMBED iPAPER USING WORDPRESS POST EDITOR

Android SDK M5

A new version of Google’s Android SDK pre-release is out. From ars technica it looks the changes to the API can affect already developed Android applications. Google has also added an issue tracking system, and improved the UI. Other new additions include layout animations, geo-coding, new media codes, improved Eclipse plugin with a new manifest editor. See changes overview

X-Box with Blu-ray

As more and more retailers gravitate towards Blu-ray over Toshiba’s HD DVD, rumors are afloat, that Microsoft is going to dump HD DVD for Blu-ray in the X-Box. X-Box with Blu-ray could be out around May 2008.

Mind Blowing Gadgets

A list of 25 very cool, makes you want to have it, kind of Gadgets. The on/off mug is definitely cool, and the PieLamp + Bookshelf design is interesting.

Are Americans Hostile to General Knowledge?

NYTimes article on Susan Jacoby book, “The Age of American Unreason.”, where she takes a look at not only Americans lack of interest in essential scientific, civic, cultural, and general knowledge; but also why they don’t think it matters.

“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.
The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”
“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.

At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”

DoubleKiller: Delete duplicate files

DoubleKiller, a freeware windows application for finding and deleting duplicate files.

“DoubleKiller searches single or multiple directories for duplicate files by comparing any combination of file name, size, modification date and content. “

Five typefaces for programmers

the hamatsu explains fixed-pitch Monospace fonts, provides historical context of these fonts, and gives a list of five fonts for programmers.

“Now when you’re working on a program, website, or any other body of code, there’s only one thing you’re really looking at. Text. And lots of it. So naturally it’s important for the text to be easy to read and comprehend.”