Teleport Yourself - Globe Genie

You may have seen lot of movies like Jumper or like Hiro Nakamura of Heroes where they teleport to the different place in a split of a second. Well, now you can teleport yourself to anywhere in the world just on a click of a button.

Globe Genie is the website where you can do all the teleportation. Google has captured almost whole of the world. The Globe Genie website just puts you into a random place on the Google Street view. Most of these views are scenic and you would love it. Just go the link given below and enjoy virtual teleport! 

The URL to the Globe Genie website is - 

http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/

Well enjoy the beauty of Google Street view.

Google's URL Shortener Goo.gl goes public

Its a great news that goo.gl is now open for public. The much awaited goo.gl debuted in last december and was integrated in various google apps but was never out for public. Now Google has finally launched a website for people who're willing to shorten their URL.

The website goes by its name

goo.gl

and is going to compete with many other URL shorterners like bit.ly and TinyURL. Goo.gl promises security, stability and speed. It has an inbuilt spam detection and being a Google product, I'm sure the availability would be better than the others already in the market. Along comes the URL tracking feature which you can view if you're logged in to your google account. It gives you history of number of clicks, the browsers from where the clicks were made, the country and variety of details.

Blogger in Draft

http://draft.blogger.com

I'm not sure how many of you know about this. I've been using it from quite sometime now.

Blogger in draft not so different from Blogger but with added functionalities. People behind blogger add new features to blogger in draft before releasing them to rest of the world. It has a better editor with some great features. All that you need to do is to log in to draft.blogger.com instead of using blogger.com and you can switch between them anytime.

You can find more FAQs here on their blog.

Using third-party templates has always been an headache in blogger, but not anymore. Use Blogger in Draft's new feature to design your own template, released just today. The best part is, it is highly customizable. You can choose between 4 of the templates (as of now), and you can customize it with hundreds of cool backgrounds and a variety of layout designs in adjustable size. You can change just about everything.

There are some more features that you may like in Blogger in Drafts. The WYSIWYG editor is more powerful and handling pictures and videos is very simple.

Snapshot below can help you find the template design feature.

"Template designer", new option under Layout Tab

Here are a couple of snapshots of what they offer at their template designer.

Basic Screen of Blogger Template Designer(click to expand)

click to enlarge

This is the secret behind my new theme ;). Kewl ain't it?

1473MP Picture taken during Obama's swearing-in Ceremony.

Simply awesome!

 

I had heard that a high-clarity picture was taken during Obama's swearing-in ceremony. Picture in which you can zoom to see a high clarity picture of a person standing a kilometer away. Considering it as just an hoax, I ignored it. But today, I got a mail. Wow! And that hoax is no more a hoax to me. Its real. I know you people won't believe. But seeing is believing. So I have the photo for you. Check it out yourselves and zoom in to see some famous personalities. You can see people sleeping, count the stars on the flag, what is in Bush's hands and anything. The clarity of picture is just superb! No words to describe that. You can see an Exit board which is out of the field. I mean you can read the letters on the board which is more than a km far. You can see every person's face. So good!

Click on the picture above or just click here to zoom and enjoy the clarity.

Bangalore routes - www.vidteq.com

www.vidteq.com

Haven't seen a site like this. Simply great! A new bangalore based startup has brought us this amazingly good and helpful website.

Bangalore is such a big city that remembering all the routes is not so possible. Now vidteq has brought this wonderful site that comes in handy if you are moving around in Bangalore. Vidteq gives you the complete direction for driving between any two places in Bangalore. Just enter the starting point and the destination place. Vidteq gives you the driving map on the right side of the screen and the driving directions at the left bottom of the screen. And above this driving directions, you get a video terminal which shows you a pre-shot video of that route. Being on time is easy now. :)

Enjoy!

Google Calculator

Google calculator is a hidden feature of Google search. No need of separate URL. Just log in to Google.com and type in whatever you want to calculate. You can type anything like 100+130 or it can even be trigonometry of sin(30) or it can be anything. Operators that can be used are

Operator	Function	Example
+	addition	5+3
-	subtraction	9-4
*	multiplication	8*5
/	division	23/2
^	exponentiation(raise to the power of)	6^4
%	modulo	8%7
choose	X choose Y determines the number of ways of choosing a set of Y elements from a set of X elements	19 choose 3
th root of	calculates the nth root of a number	6th root of 64
% of	X % of Y computes X percent of Y	20% if 150
sqrt	square root	sqrt(25)
sin, cos etc...	Trigonometric function	tan(45)
ln	logarithm to the base e	ln(4)
log	logarithm to the base 10	log(pi)
!	Factorial	8!

 

It also understand the value of 'pi'. Like, you can use sin(pi/3). You can also use parenthesis to make a perfect equation. The equation inside the parenthesis will be evaluated first and then the rest.
You can also use this as converters. If you want to know x kms in terms of miles, then just type in 10kms in miles.
Conversion from decimal to binary is easy. For example, type 54 to binary. You can use hexadecimal, octal and binary numbers. Prefix hexadecimal numbers with 0x, octal numbers with 0o and binary numbers with 0b. For example: 0x7f + 0b10010101.
It also understands when you say speed of light or just c. 
Not all the features of Google Calculator are included here. You can convert decimal to hexadecimal or even roman numerals. Just as described above with binary conversion. Google Calculator also understands some complex statements like this G*(6e24 kg)/(4000 miles)^2. It understands these 'kg', 'miles' and even the constants like 'G'.

Not all the features of Google Calculator is described here. Just get on Google and start experimenting with this. 
Isn't this cool? A search engine not just a search engine.

Let Internet solve your mathematics homework

http://www.mathway.com 

Now here is some thing like a boon for all the lazy goons who don't do their maths home work. This site is basically a calculator. But gives a complete explanation of a problem. Enter the math problem to be solved. Be  it  calculus, trigonometry, simple math or anything, mathway.com  gives you step by step methods of solving the problem. Isn't that wonderful??? Its a teacher! It explains everything in words. Have fun doing your homework!

PS: Sorry, parents!

Know Your Death Date - FUNNY

He he! I got into this site somehow and this is seriously funny...

http://deathdate.info or
http://deathclock.com

Both the websites are do the same work. They are equally funny and good enough for a 2 year old to believe. Enter your information and it gives you back your death date. He he! Isn't that funny? :P

Along with that, check http://oracle.deathdate.info/reincarnation. This will take you to one of the pages where you enter your name and date of birth to know what you'll be in your next life. If you don't like to be that thing in your next life, then change your name(add initials or remove) and try again.

Tiny URL - Shortening Long Links for SMS or to use in Twitter

http://www.tinyurl.com

This is a URL suppressor. I mean if you have a URL to some article in some newspaper or in some blog and it has more than 30 or more characters, then you can just use this site www.tinyurl.com to suppress it and make it tiny. Go to the website. Paste the long link that has to be suppressed. And click submit. The site returns you with a link that in this format www.tiny.com/<some code>
where <some code> is a string of random characters and numbers.

With this feature, posting URL in twitter or sending SMS is easy and helps save time. :)

TinyURL needs no registration and its simple and cool. Try out!

Windows SkyDrive

This is pretty popular on the net yet most people are unaware of it. So this post if for beginners. This is an online file sharing web site. By Microsoft! Yeah! The "Microsoft" tag itself drives people insane.

Windows Skydrive : www.skydrive.live.com

All you need is a Windows Live account.

SkyDrive gives 25GB of space! What more? huh? its Almost 1/4th of my hard disk. Check it now! Since this is already popular, I have nothing more to say about this.

Self test your handwriting

Ever heard of Handwriting specialists? He is one who checks your handwriting and tells what kind of person you are. Yeah! This always amused me. Ever since childhood, I was fond of getting my handwriting to a handwriting specialist to check and to see how they do it. But never found one. But no worries! Here it is online too. I happened to stumble upon this website which says "Self test your Handwriting". Yeah. Link's here

http://www.handwritingwizard.com

Start the test by entering your name and the wizard starts by asking you a series of questions(contains pictures) related to your handwriting. You got to answer them. And you get the results mailed to you. As easy as that! Try it out and see what handwriting specialists have for you. ;-)

Meebo - Online IMs

Meebo! How many of you have not heard of this?








Its a site where you can log into your various mail ids of various networks, and chat with all your friends at one place.
If you have a gmail account, a yahoo account and a facebook account and you want to use all of them at a time, and you find it irritating to switch from browser to browser to reply your friends, then log on to meebo. All IM's under same roof ;-). You can create your meebo account and save time in entering passwords and ids of all the accounts. Very useful site for those who use multiple IMs. Works very fine.
I give this a 9 on 10 rating.
All for its simplicity.

Photoshop.com - Web app

Adobe photoshop is now on web... :)

It cannot happen that you don't know Adobe Photoshop. But for those who operate more on the web and want to edit pics on internet, then this is the site.
www.photoshop.com
Provides you 2 GB of storage space. You can also login to your flickr, photobucket or picasa album and Copy pics directly from these sites on to your photoshop account by just drag-n-drop style! :)
Creating albums, watching slideshows and many more. Got all the features that you find in other such sites. But photo editting is one thing thats unmatchable.
Its elgant looks and great interface makes it better. Embeding slideshows into your website is just a click away if you have a photoshop account. Check it out today.

Online FLV to Other format converter

In my last post on downloading you tube videos, i gave a small tricky website that does all the job of downloading movies in .flv format. Downloading in .flv format is not always handy. And downloading in .flv and then converting it to other using softwares is lot of work. So here are 3 simple websites for your simple work. Clicks away are your videos in your desired formats.

• http://www.flv2mp3.com/
  Use this site if you only want the audio track from it. Enter the link and the website will give you back another link. Save that link and you will get that particular video's audio track only. That too in a convenient .mp3 format
  
• http://www.videoconvertx.com/
  Enter the link of the video that you want to download. Select the output format of that video. And you'll get that! As easy as that. Takes no time.
  
• http://www.convertdirect.com/
  This site is a combination of www.videoconvertx.com and downloadyoutubevideos.com which i told in my last post. You can either download video directly in .flv format or you can get it converted and download in your desired output. If you are downloading the converted video, then you need to give your email id to which the link will be sent to. Better hang on to the other 2 sites given above.
  

Isn't that easy?

Download Youtube Videos! http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/

Ever felt like downloading a youtube video and wondered how? 

There are lot of software available on the net to download youtube videos. But the simplest and the online way is here :)

Go to 

http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/

Enter the URL to the video that you want to download into the box given and press submit. It gives you the download link in return. As simple as that. No need of third party softwares. No need to register in that site. Works fine. :) Downloaded file will be in FLV format. 

Note: Beware of the adult ads present in that site.

Where to download audio songs from?

People ask me where to download songs from?

I say I just buy them.

But for those who are not bothered about piracy, visit http://123musiq.com or http://www.123musiq.com
This is one easy site where you get all the latest songs (english, hindi, tamil, telugu, malayalam and pakistani) for free. This site isn't that good. Their servers crash every now and then. So its recommended to use download manager to download.

For english songs, I prefer mp3000.net

Its a cool site except that you get bugged by some of the adult ads that site hosts. Beware of it when your parents are over your shoulders :P