December 2, 2011
When it comes to a social trend, most of don’t like to left out. Flash mobs are the latest hysterical rage. Though they appear to be unplanned, they are in fact orchestrated with the help of mobile and social media. Facebook and Twitter help to spread the word to the world.
December 1, 2011
Single serving websites are those pointless, often one-page sites that mostly exist for laughs with very little real-world value. If you’ve ever visited YTMND (You’re The Man Now Dog) then you’ve already experienced this flavour of Internet humour, and people are more than willing to spend their own money on proper domain names in the pursuit of comedy.
November 17, 2011
By training your unconscious mind, you can influence and potentially change your behavior. You can for example do this by repeating affirmative statements to yourself. A much more subtle method is to use subliminal messages, that you pick up unconsciously. Wouldn’t you like to find out whether this zero effort technique can be used to train your unconscious mind?
October 25, 2011
When I was originally working on this article, I thought to myself, “Why don’t I go take a photo of a ninja for the readers at home?” Fortunately, I did, and that photo is to your right, but unfortunately, it would seem that you simply can’t take a photo of a ninja. They are practically invisible to photos, so I guess they are like vampires – but more violent.
October 21, 2011
I’d like to think that after being immersed daily in the technology industry for years now, I can tell when a trend has begun and generally how things are likely to pan out – so these are my personal predictions for Windows, tablets PCs, mobiles, gaming – over the course of the next few years.
October 3, 2011
Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg was born in 1883 in San Francisco, California. He worked as a sculptor, engineer, author and inventor but nothing made him more famous than his cartoons. Rube Goldberg also drew cartoons of overtly complex contraptions, made using every day materials, designed to perform a simple task.These days the internet is full of complex-yet-pointless Rube Goldberg machines in action, and here are a selection of the best.
September 27, 2011
Remote webcams peeping into your lives may make you go all choleric, but when they point at some fascinating places around the world, they can make you gawk. Real-time webcam feeds that capture unique events (or non-events) always prick our interest because there’s something in our psyche that makes us want to be voyeurs.
July 22, 2011
Who knew that 140 characters could be informative, opinionated, controversial, and hilarious? Well, Twitter is all that and we continue to revel in it. There are lots of Twitter apps out there -some useless; some interesting; and some bit of both. But all in the all, they are fun tools to play around with just your Twitter user name.
July 19, 2011
Chances are if you are the typical Internet user, your nights will likely run into your mornings, give or take a few Red Bulls. But inevitably, there will be that situation in which you will actually have to go to bed early and wake up on time. Thankfully, there are three Mac apps you can use to break away from your REMs and into the real world.
July 17, 2011
One of the key factors in growing your own vegetables is ensuring you rotate your crops every year to avoid a build up of disease and prevent a complete depletion of nutrients. For this particular dilemma, you could make use of VGALive, a free online vegetable plot management system and encyclopaedia.
