3D Video Panoramas

Making photo stitches into 360 degrees panorama are fairly common. Immersive Media is taking one step further by creating 360° video panorama, which is a very different experience of watching normal video. In the video, you can drag and move your mouse cursor along to view the content from different directions, which is amazing!! Check out the gallery here.

Hilariously misleading domain names

What is misleading domain name? For example, how do you read this:

www.TherapistFinder.com

or

www.TheRapistFinder.com ?

Now you get the idea.

Although I occasionally see some misleading domain names, I don't take notes of them like this guy. He compiled a list of misleading domain names.

In the future, do spend some times thinking about your domain name before registering it.

Top Singaporean blogger is featured in top American blog

I am surprised to find Xiaxue, one of the top bloggers in Singapore, is 'featured' in fake Steve Job's blog (Fake Steve Job is among the top 20 bloggers in USA). I seldom see Asian bloggers receive such 'honour'...

Check out Fake Steve Job posting about Xiaxue...

Innovation on CAPTCHAs

When posting comments on a blog or registering for web services, you probably asked to read a CAPTCHA to ensure that you are a human and not a bot.

To prevent the CAPTCHA being cracked by bot, some websites present very hard to read CAPTCHAs, but none of them is as hard as this one...


Source: Wellington Grey

Some people are even thinking of commercialize the CAPTCHA...like this one..

Source: JY's Weblog

Google's April Fool's joke 2008

2-stars joke from GMail Team:

Custom Time, a new feature of GMail, allows you to set custom time stamp of your email before sending, and specify whether the mail should be marked as read on recipient's inbox.




3-stars joke from Google China:

Google China is recruiting 25 million full time / part time volunteers now. Join Google China to build Google Human Search database. The idea is simple, current Google Search is too robotic, lacking human warmth, Google Human Search tries to remedy this by building is human-driven search 'engine'. When a user enters a keyword, volunteers from all over the world will response by generating contents for the users.........


3-stars joke from Google Japan:
Google Japan is introducing Google Search DAJARE beta. DAJARE is a search engine built on top of PigeonRank (PigeonRank is a web-page ranking system based on user clicks on search results). DAJARE releases web crawler called OyajiBot to serach for humorous materials and rate the materials using KudaRank. DAJARE is fully integrated with normal Google Search.




5-stars joke from Google Australia:

Google gDay allows to search tomorrow’s web. The core technology that powers gDay is MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). This technique can "predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!".

I think the creator will get a job in Wall Street immediately.




5-starts joke from Google Blog
Virgle Inc, a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google to establish permanent human settlement on Mars.

How many sex options should be available in a sign up form?

I found an Indonesian Digg clone website. When I get to the sign up form, the sex field is too...err...I run of out word to describe it....



I used to think 2 options (Male or female) are enough, but now, I know I am wrong. The most astounding option is actually 'None of the Above'.....hmm....my creativity fails me, I can't imagine what kind of homo sapiens would select the last option...

Can you do maths faster than him?

So there is an occupation called mathematics magician. Watch the impressive video over here.

I need to pay $19.95 for a FREE software?

Everything about Windows Vista is 'slow,' even empty Recycle Bin is slow. I can't believe I have to wait for ages to copy files to my external hard disk. I remember there is a utility called TeraCopy which can speed the the copying process and it works nicely in Windows XP.



So I tried googling and landed on the CodeSector website (the maker of TeraCopy), and I found this....



CodeSector is charging $19.95 for a free utility?? It actually means TeraCopy is free for home users and there is a charge of $19.95 for the Pro version. Apparently, combining two two statements into one sentence can be confusing.

Microsoft Excel as 3D game engine?

A smart guy is trying to use Microsoft Excel as 3D game engine. Smart..very smart indeed...



For more information on he did this, please follow this link.

Also, someone else has tried to port the Excel example to Open Office version too.

Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage

Last Friday, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered ISPs to block access to YouTube.com because of anti-Islamic movies. A PTA official said the ban concerned a Dutch movie trailer portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.

The block was intended with Pakistan only.Pakistan Telecom directed requests for YouTube videos from local Internet subscribers to a "black hole," where the data was discarded. Pakistan Telecom's mistake was that it then published that black hole route to its international data carrier, PCCW Ltd. (Hong Kong).

PCCW accepted that route and started directing requests from its customers for YouTube data to Pakistan. And since PCCW is one of the world's 20 largest data carriers, its routing table was passed along to other large carriers without any attempt at verification.

Hence the block was extended to about two-thirds of the global Internet population. The greatest effect was in Asia where the outage lasted for up to two hours.

Source: msnbc news

Obsolete skills - you don't need these skills to survive nowadays

• Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV
• Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
• Booting off a floppy disk
• Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
• Editing dates and time source code for Y2K
• Darkroom photography skills
• Faxing a document
• Getting to know your neighbors?
• Having your gas pumped for you and your oil checked at a full-service gas station
• Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work
• Loading data from a cassette tape
• Modem to Modem Computer Gaming
• Netware
• Operating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringer
• Propping an airplane to start the engine
• Putting a needle on a vinyl record
• Remembering telephone numbers
• Switching from TV mode to Game mode on the box behind the tv?
• Typesetting
• VCR Programming
• Walking long distances
• Writing email whilst offline and going online to send
• Using a DOS window on a computer

More...

Making music using only Windows theme sounds

This one is done in Windows 95 or Windows 98...using the Sound Recorder


This one uses theme sounds from Windows 98 and Windows XP...

Man arrested at gunpoint after police mistake his MP3 player for a gun

Be careful when carrying a MP3 player in public places, especially the black colour one. Click here to get to the news.

Roadkill Burger

In the design competition titled 'Dining in 2015', an Iranian team has made a crazy invention which allows you to grill burgers using the car exhaust pipe - mobile barbecue concept. It may be save you some energy and some time, but not sure how much it cost on your healthiness. For more information, click here.

Weee - Bomb the Internet Explorer

Watch this funny video clip. That 'weee' sound is a bit irritating....

Unwanted CDs as (useful) decorative

Ever wonder what you can do with your piles of unwanted CDs? I think this is quite creative, turning CDs into a decorative lamp:

Photo grabbed from here.