Memory Improvement Tools

Articles that help you to improve your memory. The techniques it explains are particularly helpful in studying for exams or in situations where you need to remember detailed, structured information. They also make things like learning foreign languages and remembering people's names much easier.

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is all about tracking where your readers come from and where they go; in the simplest, most non-intrusive way possible.

Firefox File-Sharing Extension

Firefox extension has peer-to-peer capabilities into the browser via a sidebar. AllPeers combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to add media sharing to the long list of available extensions.

Textmessage.cc

No signing up, no creating an account. just put the # and message and hit send.

Writely

Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online.
You can:

Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).

Use our simple WSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.

Invite others to share your documents (by e-mail address).

Edit documents online with whomever you choose.

View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.

Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.

Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or zip.

Post your documents to your blog.

Can you really get a Mac mini for free?

You've seen the ads, possibly even on this site: Get a Palm, a gift card, an iPod, an iBook, or an Apple Mac mini for free. The list of these "free" items is endless. Maybe you've even clicked on one of the ad links and decided it was just a scam to get your email address. The article chronicles author's one and only experience with these "gift" offers. It's intended to help you decide if offers like these are for you.

Google Music

Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Unrelated to Typing?

Found on Slashdot: "Carpal tunnel is caused when nerves in the wrist are pinched, however it's not caused by frequent use of a keyboard, claims the report. Instead, it is caused by heredity, body weight, fracture, or even pregnancy."

Google Safe Browsing

Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous.

RIAA / MPAA spider trapping script

A PHP script that, "generates fake apache directory indexes for the purpose of slowing, and overloading with false positives the RIAA/MPAA's spider bots.

Download:

Use BitTorrent to keep up with your shows

BTSeasonPass.com is a listing of television shows you can download and watch with BitTorrent.

Haha, now I got 4 in queue

It's start to be rediculus. I am going to ask at my apartment office if there are any restrictions. All I want to leave package at apartment office. Let's see if there is a reason why UPS cannot do that or they are just morons.

As predicted, UPS cannot deliver

Two more days and two more InfoNotices. Now they cannot deliver 3 packages. I do not know what's wrong, driver does not like me or the whole company just sucks?

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 6120 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.

The Photographer’s Right

Photographers, know your rights: attorney and photographer advocate Bert P. Krages II has created The Photographer’s Right, a PDF file meant to be printed, stowed in your camera bag and distributed in the event of a confrontation.

Do Not Press!!!

Colorize black and white photos

Norwegian developer Haakon Bertheussen has implemented the algorithm in his own program called Recolored, and the Windows beta is available to play with for free.

Mamiya ZD

Mamiya first announced their 22 megapixel ZD medium format digital-SLR more than a year ago and it’s finally going to ship, a bit late, but hey this one is worth the wait. This professional-level shooter is up for pre-order (grrr, in Japan only apparently) for delivery on the 21st. Oh, did we mention it’ll set you back a cool $10,844 US green equivalent? But this is for pros, son, and features a 14-bit A/D converter recording 12-bit images at 1.5fps, CF and SD storage, 1.8-inch LCD and FireWire support.

UPS cannot deliver…

For last couple months they were not able to deliver anything to my apartment. I ordered something to be delivered overnight on Friday. I got it next Thursday after 3 unssucessful attempts. I had to go and pick it up myself. It's always like that. Why FedEx can leave packages at my apartment office? Here we go again, Bed Bath & Beyond order has arrived today :-) I start documenting this :-)

How to Give Up Coffee

Teeccino Caffeine-free Herbal Coffee is a delicious blend of herbs, grains, fruits and nuts that are roasted and ground to brew and taste just like coffee.

Coffee lovers are attracted to Teeccino’s full-bodied, dark roasted flavor and its nutritious health benefits. Teeccino allows coffee drinkers to keep their cherished coffee ritual with all the enjoyment and satisfaction of a freshly brewed cup!

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

Microsoft has today made their RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer PowerToy available for download. This utility provides for viewing of Canon (CRW & CR2) RAW and Nikon (NEF) RAW files as well as TIFF images and other standard image formats (BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG etc.). The utility is split into a Windows XP shell extension which provides preview / edit / print commands for RAW files as well as a RAW viewer application. It weighs in as a 47 MB download!

FedEx delivered my Bessa R3A

I got it yesterday. Went to Safeway to buy cheapest 3-pak of B&W film to learn how to use this bueaty :-) I fill like went back in time to my primary school days. It's funny experience after years of using SLR cameras.

“The show must go on!”

"The show must go on!",
originally uploaded by !!! Monika !!!.

I missed anniversary of Freddie's death. Let's rember him and others on World AIDS Day.