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Monday, November 26, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Flock
Thanks to techcrunch for enlightening me about the presence of flock, a wrapper over the firefox engine. I was tired of using firefox, because it eats up most of my CPU, Memory and Time. Thank god for inventing flock. I will start using it today and sooner post a comment on this browser and even i am publishing this post using the blog post editor of flock
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Flickr as source of income
How to Get Paid for your Flickr Photos
Source : http://blogs.photopreneur.com/how-to-get-paid-for-your-flickr-photos
Photography: Peter Faretra
It’s
happening. In fact, it’s been happening for a while. But it’s happening
quietly, and outside a few forums on Flickr, people aren’t really
talking about.
Photo users are browsing Flickr and they’re not just taking
Creative Commons-licensed images (or stealing protected photos).
They’re contacting photographers and offering to pay usage fees.
The amounts might not be huge, which is probably one of the reasons
that the sales aren’t making headlines, but they are being handed over
at the end of email offers and modest negotiations. Taylor Jones, a relatively new band photographer, mentioned to us in an interview recently that:
“I’ve sold a few images thanks to the site…”
then added:
“…nothing serious though.”
as though having someone hand over cash for images they’ve uploaded to Flickr happens all the time.
Upload to Flickr, Get Published
Photo users are buying images for all sorts of reasons but perhaps the
most common is the one that photographers tend to find the most
satisfying: they need pictures for books and publications.
Terry McCormick’s
image of the world’s largest steam train, for example, was bought by a
manufacturer of model railways and appeared on the cover of the
company’s catalog; Peter Faretra’s photo of diving gannets (shown above) was bought by the publisher of a wildlife book. Denis Callet’s picture of a lake was used by a media company producing a history book.
The ingredients in all of these sales include:
- Careful tagging so that buyers can find what they’re looking for;
- Clear descriptions so that they know what they’ve found;
- And, of course, a professional quality picture shot at a high enough resolution to be reproduced commercially.
It might help too if the photographer’s photostream includes a few
Creative Commons-licensed photos to bring in users looking for free
images. The lower-quality shots they can have for nothing; professional
quality images they would have to pay for.
Selling Photos as Prints
Of course, it’s not just publishers who are reaching into their wallets
on Flickr. The site’s forums occasionally include questions from buyers
asking how they can purchase prints from Flickr members.
Again, it’s clear that you’ll need to display the sort of images
that people would actually want to own, but it’s a good idea too to
indicate that the images in your photostream are available for purchase.
Flickr doesn’t want big “For Sale” signs everywhere, and unlike many
photography sites, it doesn’t have its own click-button print-ordering
service. So just mention in your profile that your images are available
as prints and suggest that anyone interested in buying them should drop
you a line.
As long as the photos are good enough, you’ll be in with a chance of making a sale.
Marketing the Flickr Way
But to increase the chances of making a sale, you have to market. Like
anywhere, it’s not enough to put your goods on offer — however good
your photos might be — and hope that photography-lovers with
bucketloads of money spot them. You have to let people know they’re
there.
On Flickr, that doesn’t mean spending vast sums on pay-per-click advertising.
It means investing time in networking. As Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, probably Flickr’s most successful member, put it:
You can’t just put your pictures up and leave them there. You have to drag people back to your photostream.
That happens by leaving comments on other members’ photos, joining
groups and participating in forums. It means doing all of the things
that Flickr was created for: being part of a community and exchanging
information and advice as well as image views.
Become a popular Flickr member, and your name will become known among buyers as well as other photographers.
There is still a tendency among photo users on Flickr to expect
photographers to hand over their images for free — and a more worrying
tendency for photographers to agree. But shoot good images, upload them
to Flickr and let lots of people know that they’re there and available,
and your Flickr popularity can translate into sales.
Check out our interview with Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir here and tell us whether you’ve sold a photo on Flickr.
Technorati Tags: make money on flickr, sell photos on flickr, selling flickr photos
Now that people are making money using flickr, it can become a major hit for Y!
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Social Site Rankings
Social Site Rankings (September, 2007)
Erick Schonfeld
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Did you know that Imeem
is the fastest-growing social site in the U.S (up 1,590 percent in
monthly uniques). And that AIM Pages is growing slightly faster than Digg
(345 percent growth versus 323 percent)? Well, at least according to
comScore. I asked comScore to do a ranking of social sites in the U.S.
and then I reordered the list by growth rate. Here it is:
Here are my takeaways. MySpace
In blogging platforms, Blogger is beating Six Apart
both absolute numbers (32 million visitors versus 13 million) and
growth (55 percent versus 44 percent). In the doldrums territory,
you’ve got Windows Live Spaces (with a one percent decline) and Yahoo
Groups (four percent decline). And in the
you-ought-to-seriously-think-of-shutting-this-down territory, there is
Lycos Tripod (23 percent decline), MSN Groups (36 percent decline), and
Yahoo 360 (’nuff said).
Here is a more comprehensive list of social sites ranked by total
number of visitors. It includes sites where comScore could not
calculate a growth rate because it did not have enough data for
September, 2006. Some sites that stand out on this list, having come
out of nowhere in the past year, include Wordpress.com
Source : techcrunch
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Getting credit card Details through Google
http://www.alistercameron.com/2007/09/29/google-search-uncovers-credit-card-details/
Gives details how to uncover whether your credit card has been hacked or not.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
10 Most amazing illusions
10 Most Amazing Illusions
Source : 10 Most Amazing Illusions
from digg
Published on 7/18/2007
We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always
altered by invisible biases. Illusions demonstrate this fact. So go
ahead, get your own perception from 10 of the coolest illusions ever
made.
Going into this elevator would certainly makes one nervous. A sign at
the entrance cautions the people that goes in about work in progress. A
more detailed look shows that the floor has been painted with an
illusion that there is no floor.
he Red Cross creatively used the power of optical illusion to shock
viewers in its earthquake-awareness campaign in San Francisco.
Here is a novel illusion that is as striking as it is simple. The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are
identical, yet one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a
different angle. The reason for this is because the visual system treats the two images as if part of a single
scene. Normally, if two adjacent towers rise at the same angle, their image outlines converge as they recede
from view due to perspective, and this is taken into account by the visual system. So when confronted with
two towers whose corresponding outlines are parallel, the visual system assumes they must be diverging as
they rise from view, and this is what we see.
This
is a natural illusion. On this day, the Sun rised due east at the
Equinox, a geocentric astronomical event that occurs twice a year. What
we see here is a set of ice halos, recorded on a cold winter morning
near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. Produced by sunlight shining through
common atmospheric ice crystals with hexagonal cross-sections, such
halos can actually be seen more often than rainbows. The remarkable
sunrise picture captures a beautiful assortment of the types most
frequently seen, including a sun pillar (center) just above the rising
Sun surrounded by a 22 degree halo arc. Completing a triple sunrise
illusion, sundogs appear at the far left and far right edges of the 22
degree arc. An upper tangent arc is also just visible at the very top
of the view.
This
was featured in the Economist Magazine article titled "Top Ten Signs"
and was a finalist for an Epica Award in 2003.
All this time we thought the "Land Shark" skits on Saturday Night Live
were just comic fun. Little did we know at the time that this might
happen.
It starts out innocently, a caring relative gets an exotic pet for
their niece or nephew. The beast gets big enough to take off a
fingertip and flush it's gone. But being the cleverest species of them
all, they adapt and the next thing you know you have a land shark as
big as a bus.
Chicago
artist Cayetano Ferrer paints street signs with images of its immediate
background, thus giving them the illusion of transparency.
Cardiff
Bay barrage visitors would definitely love the art that Swiss artist
felice Varini and his team created. Seen at a certain angle, the large
optical illusion would render into a public art which would fascinate
unknowing visitors.
Partners
in both life and art, Tim Noble (1966) and Sue Webster (1967) explore
the toxic influences of consumer culture through new modes of
portraiture. Turning garbage into complex and visually arresting
sculptural installations, Noble and Webster exploit, manipulate and
transform base materials, often using self-portraiture to undermine the
"celebrated" authorship of the artist. This artwork is called "Dirty
White Trash", Six months' worth of the artists' rubbish.
A "Be careful" Ad illusion. It lets people know they should be more careful on how they use those stairs...
Yes, it's simple, but still cool, since it's so simple, you can do it yourself!
Source : 10 Most Amazing Illusions
from digg
Published on 7/18/2007
We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always
altered by invisible biases. Illusions demonstrate this fact. So go
ahead, get your own perception from 10 of the coolest illusions ever
made.
Elevator Floor Illusion
Going into this elevator would certainly makes one nervous. A sign at
the entrance cautions the people that goes in about work in progress. A
more detailed look shows that the floor has been painted with an
illusion that there is no floor.
Earthquake Illusion
he Red Cross creatively used the power of optical illusion to shock
viewers in its earthquake-awareness campaign in San Francisco.
Leaning Tower Illusion
Here is a novel illusion that is as striking as it is simple. The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are
identical, yet one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a
different angle. The reason for this is because the visual system treats the two images as if part of a single
scene. Normally, if two adjacent towers rise at the same angle, their image outlines converge as they recede
from view due to perspective, and this is taken into account by the visual system. So when confronted with
two towers whose corresponding outlines are parallel, the visual system assumes they must be diverging as
they rise from view, and this is what we see.
Triple Sunrise Illusion
This
is a natural illusion. On this day, the Sun rised due east at the
Equinox, a geocentric astronomical event that occurs twice a year. What
we see here is a set of ice halos, recorded on a cold winter morning
near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. Produced by sunlight shining through
common atmospheric ice crystals with hexagonal cross-sections, such
halos can actually be seen more often than rainbows. The remarkable
sunrise picture captures a beautiful assortment of the types most
frequently seen, including a sun pillar (center) just above the rising
Sun surrounded by a 22 degree halo arc. Completing a triple sunrise
illusion, sundogs appear at the far left and far right edges of the 22
degree arc. An upper tangent arc is also just visible at the very top
of the view.
Land Shark Optical Illusion
This
was featured in the Economist Magazine article titled "Top Ten Signs"
and was a finalist for an Epica Award in 2003.
All this time we thought the "Land Shark" skits on Saturday Night Live
were just comic fun. Little did we know at the time that this might
happen.
It starts out innocently, a caring relative gets an exotic pet for
their niece or nephew. The beast gets big enough to take off a
fingertip and flush it's gone. But being the cleverest species of them
all, they adapt and the next thing you know you have a land shark as
big as a bus.
Tansparent Street Signs Illusion
Chicago
artist Cayetano Ferrer paints street signs with images of its immediate
background, thus giving them the illusion of transparency.
Cardiff Bay Illusion
Cardiff
Bay barrage visitors would definitely love the art that Swiss artist
felice Varini and his team created. Seen at a certain angle, the large
optical illusion would render into a public art which would fascinate
unknowing visitors.
Shadow Illusion
Partners
in both life and art, Tim Noble (1966) and Sue Webster (1967) explore
the toxic influences of consumer culture through new modes of
portraiture. Turning garbage into complex and visually arresting
sculptural installations, Noble and Webster exploit, manipulate and
transform base materials, often using self-portraiture to undermine the
"celebrated" authorship of the artist. This artwork is called "Dirty
White Trash", Six months' worth of the artists' rubbish.
Death Ad Illusion
A "Be careful" Ad illusion. It lets people know they should be more careful on how they use those stairs...
Money Illusion
Yes, it's simple, but still cool, since it's so simple, you can do it yourself!
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Friday, July 06, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Ice Breaker Game
Ice Breaker Flash Game VX4 Dot Com - Free Online Games
Ice Breaker Flash Game
Your Comments on this game.
A cool game for passing time.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
A catalog of web applications
Simple Spark: A Catalog Of Web Applications
New York based Simple Spark aims to make finding web applications easy through an extensive catalog of online application sites.
Over 3000 web applications are tracked and categorized with screenshots, icons, feeds, reviews and concise summaries. Applications are indexed in over 70 categories including Spreadsheets, Workspace & Wikis, Education, Fashion, Green Living and Family & Kids
The Simple Spark search facility is also language friendly, a search for delicious or Flicker delivers the correct results of del.icio.us and Flickr; we’ve all misspelled Web 2.0 application names before.
Each competitive space can be tracked by RSS feeds based on individual categories, searches or the newest additions to the catalog.
Keeping up with the numerous competitors in each space can be difficult for even people working in the industry, let alone an outside observer. I find myself impressed with Simple Spark, as the name suggests it’s a simple idea that I can definitely see myself using in the future when researching a product category.
source: techcrunch
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Online photo editing
Most bloggers, and lots of others, spend a lot of time manipulating
images for posts, sharing, etc. Personally, I use Photoshop, which is
way more horsepower than I need since I generally just grab, mashup and
resize images. But it still works far better, and far faster, than any
of the online image editing tools we’ve reviewed.
images for posts, sharing, etc. Personally, I use Photoshop, which is
way more horsepower than I need since I generally just grab, mashup and
resize images. But it still works far better, and far faster, than any
of the online image editing tools we’ve reviewed.
Today I tested a new desktop application, called Skitch
that works far better than Photoshop for basic grabbing and editing of
images. And it also has an associated online account for storage and
sharing with others. For now, it only works with Mac (and is still in
private beta), but a Windows version is in development. All of the
images included in this post were grabbed and edited using Skitch, and
it saved me a ton of time v. Photoshop.
desktop application is a small, resizable window. Drag an image into it
from the desktop, another application (like iPhoto) or from a web page
and it presents it for editing. Alternatively, Skitch include an
excellent screen grabbing tool that also automatically pulls it into
the window for editing, or it will access the built in camera and snap
an image. Most file formats are accepted (jpg, gif, tiff, png, etc.).
The editing tools include adding lines, free drawing, arrows, and
text. Images can also be cropped and resized by dragging and dropping.
Once complete, the image can be named and saved as a jpg, png, pdf, svg
or proprietary format (no gif or tiff for now), uploaded to your Skitch
page or dragged to the desktop or other application. Skitch also keeps
a history of all files edited.
Images that are uploaded to your personal Skitch page (called
“MySkitch”) can be commented by other users, and there are a number of
options to embedded that image in other websites. See the screen shot
above and to the right for an example. MySkitch also allows hotlinking
of images, subject only to restrictions on “excess use.”
Source : techcrunch
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Free Image Hosting (uncensored)
Well known and often controversial BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has launched BayImg, an uncensored free image hosting service.
, an uncensored free image hosting service.The Pirate Bay has previously been private beta testing a video hosting site
which is yet to launch. BayImg is available now and offers hosting up
to 100mb with a promise that as long as the image is legal, they won’t
censor it, although interestingly “legal” isn’t explained. There is
also false attribution of “I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it” to Voltaire (the phrase was
invented by a later author
as an epitome of Voltaire’s attitude to free speech) and yet despite
the question marks over legalities the chances of anything being
censored by the team from The Pirate Bay would be close to zero anyway.
No registration is required for users wishing to upload files, and BayImg is said to support 140 different file formats.
BayImg competes directly with CNet’s AllYouCanUpload but with one distinct advantage: DMCA requests to BayImg will have no standing.
Source: techcrunch
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
101 Really Useful Websites
Really useful websites : by techcrunch
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2640824.ece
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2640824.ece
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Create animations using this
AniBOOM's ShapeShifter: easy user-generated animation creation | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Hands-on
AniBOOM's ShapeShifter: easy user-generated animation creation
By Josh Lowensohn – April 11, 2007, 12:00 PM PDT
Old-school Mac users might remember a little application called HyperCard. Originally a database application, it doubled as a casual animation tool--letting users create fairly basic cartoons, frame by frame. This morning I've been playing around with AniBOOM's ShapeShifter, a Web-based animation creation tool that brings back those old feelings of black-and-white computing, with a new social bookmarking twist.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Good code snippets again from digg
25 Code Snippets For Web Designers
"Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy
pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web
designs."
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tutorial for Adobe - Tools
Has tutorials for adobe-tools
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/04/adobe-dreamweaver-tutorials/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/04/adobe-dreamweaver-tutorials/
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
javascript snippets
15 Javascript Snippets You Can't Live Without
"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can
provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to
affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making
great sites that bit extra special."
These are the 15 javasript snippets i can try out some of them in holidays.
Pretty cool
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Tutorial for Photoshop effects
Digg - FREE Special Effects Tutorials in Photoshop
FREE Special Effects Tutorials in Photoshop
Check above link
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Mytoons.com
Mytoons.com is a cool wesite for designing online anomatiton. check out this link
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/14/user-generated-animation-site-mytoons-launches/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/14/user-generated-animation-site-mytoons-launches/
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
CVS
Concurrent Versions System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System is an open-source version control system invented and developed by Dick Grune in the 1980s. CVS keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers to collaborate. CVS has become popular in the free software and open-source worlds and is released under the GNU General
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Friday, March 09, 2007
Free + Database= Freebase
This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and kills us all
Freebase launches today, a new startup that intends to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. If that last bit sounds familiar, it’s because it’s actually Google’s mission, but Freebase seems intent on doing it, too.
Like Google Base, Freebase is a massive
database. The purpose of the database is to centralize as much data as possible, and allow participants to freely add and access data - developers can extract information from Freebase via a
of APIs and add it to their web applications. It also builds relationships between highly structured pieces of data, something that can’t easily be done with distributed data controlled by different entities. Tim O’Reilly gives a great and in depth overview of the service and why it’s important. The Time’s John Markoff explains it to the masses.
O’Reilly says:
But hopefully, this narrative will give you a sense of what Metaweb [the company that created Freebase] is reaching for: a wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. But unlike the W3C approach to the semantic web, which starts with controlled ontologies, Metaweb adopts a folksonomy approach, in which people can add new categories (much like tags), in a messy sprawl of potentially overlapping assertions.
Now, the really powerful thing about this is that all these categories, these data types and the web of fields that define them, provide new hooks for applications that will be able to extract meaning from the data. That’s what makes Metaweb a kind of semantic web application.
If Metaweb gets this right, this bottom up approach will build new connections between data, new categories and ways of thinking. It will likely be messy and contradictory for a while, but as I told John Markoff for the story on Metaweb that he was preparing for the New York Times tonight, they are building new synapses for the global brain.
Freebase has already sucked in data from Wikipedia and other sources, and individuals can fill in their own data, too. No word yet on how bad data will be purged from the system.
Freebase looks to be what Google Base is not: open and useful. I imagine there will be more than one forehead self-smacked at Google HQ tomorrow, as they think “We could have done this.”
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New my yahoo
There’s an all new My Yahoo
(upgrade URL)
launching today at 11 am PST. This is the web’s most popular
customizable home page by far, with 50 million or so worldwide users
and half of the total market (the other half is controlled by Netvibes,
GoogleIG, Pageflakes, Live.com and others). So when they make a change, it affects a lot of people.
(upgrade URL)launching today at 11 am PST. This is the web’s most popular
customizable home page by far, with 50 million or so worldwide users
and half of the total market (the other half is controlled by Netvibes,
GoogleIG, Pageflakes, Live.com and others). So when they make a change, it affects a lot of people.
I had the opportunity to meet with Tapan Bhat (VP, Front Doors) and
David White (Director, My Yahoo) and see a demo of the new product
yesterday. There is also a screencast of the demo here
But the most significant changes are are under the hood. Instead of
presenting a default set of content to new users to start them off, My
Yahoo is now analyzing known data about the user (zip code from IP
address and the areas of Yahoo that the user visits often) to create a
customized version right at signup. So, for example, if the user tends
to go to the Yahoo Movies property occasionally, a Yahoo Movies module
will be auto added when they create a new My Yahoo account.
Yahoo is also adding new sharing features. Any page that a user
creates can be shared with other My Yahoo users via email or IM. If
accepted, that page is added to the new user’s My Yahoo account as
well. In the future, the team says, they’ll be allowing users to
publish their own pages, as Pageflakes does today.
Users can also choose between a 2, 3 or 4 column layout and a number of themes.
There are a couple of areas where My Yahoo is still lagging
competitors like Netvibes. Widgets cannot be added to the site,
although that is coming eventually, the team says. Users also can no
longer have bookmarks linked right from the main page - that feature
has been moved to a drop down control panel. That makes some sense from
a user interface perspective, but I’ll miss being able to access
bookmarks with a single click. Finally, My Yahoo has a large ad unit on
the site that cannot be removed - something none of the other services
force on users.
Overall this is a very welcome step forward for My Yahoo. And from
what the team is saying, there are a lot of additional features to be
rolled out in the near future as well.
Like most Yahoo product upgrades, this is being rolled out to users
slowly. If you’d like to test it out, you can create an account or
upgrade your existing one at cm.my.yahoo.com/upgrade
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