Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Why did they make this- The most useless sites

Well, i am in a good mood. For i found yet another stupid thing to share with you guys.
Just think about the number of websites you visit regularly. Very few,i guess.
If i think for myself, then it would be gmail, google, wikipedia, blogger.....hmmm.. and maybe a few more..
So there are very few sites which are useful for you. But what about the majority of sites which are "USELESS".
So i am gonna share my favourite Useless-websites with you.
These websites can be demotivating, absurd, mysterious but USELESS for sure.
Here it is:

12) Do you have a Spacebar
      You are a guy sitting in your office or a young girl sitting in college computer lab, you have got nothing to
       do, Then this is the most useless thing you can do.

11) People Clock
      Imagine the situation discussed in the above point. You have nothing and you just want to see something
      unique which is ,though useless, but no harm in visiting. I actually liked this one.

10) Cats that look like hitler
       Who the hell wants to see pictures of cats that look like Hitler. Are you so free? Don't you have anything
        else to do?  #$@#$@#%*&! Folks see it for yourself.
   
09) Rock Paper Scissor
      I assume that most of you would have played RPS in kindergarten or seen your siblings playing this.
      Hell, they have a global society dedicated to this game.

08) F my life
      Most de-motivational site i've ever seen. Here people discuss about whats screwing their life and
      responsible for their woeful plight.If you can take it, take it.
 

07) Rotten
      The home of the worst looking pictures in the world. You may end up hating me put putting it here.
   
06) Dirty Sounding
      For all the people who like belittling others, this site contains a list of names which may sound obscene
      or vulgar ,the first time you hear them.
 
05) My pet gold fish
       As a kid, i always wished to have my own gold fish in a bowl. I guess many of you had the same dream.
       This site is dedicated to all those whose wish could not be true. All you have to do is ...a big NOTHING.
       Just open and keep looking at your gold fish.

04) Which is worse
       This is like a golden timepass for all you people who are still reading my most useless post.
        Just sit and click  

Now its time for showdown. The top 3 most useless websites.

03) Peeling Wall
       If looking at a wall turns you on or you have a personal interest in that, open this page and just keep
       looking at it to know how the wall peels off. I felt like whacking my head into the wall after watching this.

02) Useless account
      You sign up to gmail, FB or blogger by creating an account and later you use it regularly for an application
       and customize it. But what if if you know that after going on the homepage of a site,there is nothing else.
     
01) Purple
      My personal favourite and most useless site i have ever seen. And trust me, it the cleanliest webpage i
      have ever seen- no scratch ,no dot , no overlapping elements. Just pure cleanliness. You may turn red
      and blue after visiting this and may even start hating purple. Go  to homepage, you will see an FAQ link
      for a second.

My sincerest apologies if you visit all these pages. :)
       

Monday, November 28, 2011

Cool FB emoticons

Check out some cool fb chat emoticons. I am sure u'll love them!!

:-)  or :)                Smiling
:(                          Sad
;)                          Wink
:-*                        Kiss
^_^                      Kiki
:P                         Tongue
:'(                          Crying
(y) or (Y)             You like this
:42:                       42 in red
O:)                        Angel
o.O                      Confused
:3                         Curly Smile
3:)                        Devil Smile
:O                        Surprised
B:)                       Sunglasses
<3                       Heart
:v                         Pacman
<(")                     Penguin
:putnam:              Chris putnam ( a facebook engineer)
:|]                        Robot
(^^^)                  Shark
>:o                      Upset
:/                         Unsure

And few symbols for your cool fb status too..

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

What are you searching for??? india vs rest of the world

I saw a picture somewhere that showed the difference b/w the type of searches made on Google worldwide vs those made on Google India. What it showed was typing the word "removing" and see what google suggests through its intelli-search technique. But trust me ,it dint really work out well for me..

So i tried something on my behalf and again trust me, it's crazily different.

Let's the pictures to the talking. :)
Just as a pointer, The images on the left are from google.com and right from google.co.in ( as you can see from address bar)

We Indians are very patriotic people. Proud of that!!!!


But just see the difference of opinions!!! :) :)

Google is great. But i wonder if google can answers this!!!!



I once heard from a famous poet that in india,love is a subject for which we have only theory classes.
And well, it is true. That is why we are searching only for sms and quotes :)

But then i got to see that we have practical classes too.It was really shocking to see this!!???!!!!!




But soon the shock turned into surprise #$@!&(%$!##@!$$



And surprise turned into annoyance!!!!!


And later it took the shape of frustration!!!!



So it would be good to change the topic. I really wonder if those searches were made for real or for fun,or maybe by curious guys.. So no offences meant!!

And i'll leave the last two results for you to see that boys and girls are not really different throughout the world!




P.S - Not every post is meant to have a meaning. Some are just meant for a smile.
Happy reading!!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Have you ever visited fb.me

"Facebook me"- i heard these two words became very popular during the time when Facebook was still in gestation. Or maybe i should say, i heard about this in "The Social Network".
Interestingly, Thefacebook.com became facebook.com which later turned to fb.com and now there is an even smaller version, fb.me . And trust me, it sounds voguish.
Maybe or maybe not, the "Facebook me" thing is the inspiration behind fb.me . And this is a fast catching trend with website titans coming to join the brigade of shorter URL.

So, its time to spill the beans now. Well, this new trend is called URL shortening and there are many services which provide shorter,clean and suave URL's for your website.

The reason behind this trend is being attributed to messaging services ,probably twitter or maybe SMS which have limited characters for a message. So if you are to send someone a URL for,say, you google+ profile, then most of the messaging space is occupied by the URL itself leaving lesser space for the message. 

So here this short and sweet URL can be very useful. And that is why many URL shortening service providers are coming up, the most popular names being tinyurl.com, shorturl.com and bitly.com .

And when so many services are coming up, then how can the gigantic GOOGLE lag behind. So Google also has its URL shortening service at goo.gl . And moreover they also provide you another facility to shorten you Google+ profile URL at gplus.to . Sounds interesting!

So that is how twitter.com became t.co , yahoo.com became yhoo.it , amazon.com became amzn.to, youtube.com became youtu.be , flickr.com being called as flic.kr , just to mention a few names.

So guys , go ahead and search for a short URL of your social profiles or websites. May be you too hit upon an uber cool URL.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Feedback pls.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions
                                                                                Ken Blanchard


So guys! I too need your feedback. You like my stuff or you don't like it, you want some improvements or you just want to appreciate the effort, I would be more than happy if you could leave your worthy comments,compliments and suggestions.

Wishing you all the best and Happy Reading !!
Ciao !!!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

3 features- why they exist or do not exist

  • Every mailbox or social networking site has "Sign Out" button on the top of the page. But in Gmail, Facebook and Google Plus, signing out is a two click process. First Make a click for the dropdown and then click on Sign out. When Google changed this feature, many people could not even find out where the Sign out button is. I fail to understand why they made this change when its working perfectly fine on other google ventures like google books, orkut, google labs and so on.
  • Every website has a URL and when you go to that URL, the login page appears. But things are different with Google +. When you go to the URL plus.google.com, instead of showing the login page, you first have to click on a useless red button and then proceed. Any answers?,Google.
  • Facebook has given us so much freedom in choosing our friends,managing our privacy and connecting with the world. But till now, they haven't given a feature to delete multiple friends even when a large group of people are desperately waiting for this feature. It can be verified from "About 20,700,000" results that you get after searching "delete multiple friends in facebook". I am myself waiting for the feature or a useful script. Maybe Mr. Mark doesn't want us to lose contacts with our friends, err,and, not-friends too!
    Happy Reading!!!

Google Lookalikes but unlike google

"Looks can be deceptive".
                                  They may look like your best online friend and all time personal assistant Google, but beware! They are altogether different.
Here is a list of some URL's that your eye may not be able to catch in the first go. But surely, it hell lot of fun!

All you have to do is make a Google search and select the first link that follows. Or maybe you can use the "I am feeling lucky" to directly open the first link.

Check it out!

1)  Google Sphere
     Go to the first link and view it for yourself. Search "Google Sphere".

2) Google Vanish
     A trick for naive users. Just follow the link Google Vanish . Place your hand on the 'oo's of Google. Click
     anywhere on the page and wait for few seconds and remove your hand to view the trick.
     "A trick is no trick till you bring back the lost thing".
      So click again to bring back the two balls.
     Double click anywhere on the page to go the "REAL" Google.
    A nice trick to fool your noob friends but definitely not for the pro's. :)

3) Google Reverse
     See it for yourself. Just follow this link and make a Google Search. Do click on the Search button instead
     of hitting enter. Google Reverse

4) Google Epic
     Just like the title of an Epic movie slowly zooms out, check out this Epic lookalike. Google Epic

5) Google Loco
     This is a bungee jumping lookalike of Google . Its kinda sweet Google Loco

6) Google Pacman
     Play this legacy computer game right on your Google homepage Google Pacman

7) Your Own Google
     You can create your personalized Google Search Engine. And not just Google, you can create Yahoo and
       many more My Google
 

8) Google Chuck Norris / Google Rajnikanth
    American Martial arts master Chuck Norris and Indian Superhero Rajnikanth seem to have similar effect
    not only on villians but also on the best search engine. Just search for "Google Chuck norris" or "Google
    Rajnikanth" and follow the first link.
 
9) Google Rainbow
    The multicolor Avatar of Google. Search for "Google Rainbow" and click "I am feeling lucky"

10) Google Gravity
     Newton discovered gravity and its not just physical objects that are falling to the earth. Gravity forgives
     no one and google is no exception. Follow the first link on searching "Google gravity"


And here's the icing on the cake...
Most of these Google Lookalikes give "CORRECT SEARCH RESULTS".
Have fun folks!!!

Monday, November 21, 2011

Human Resource Management Project- Struts 1.3

Download the source to a small application i made myself. Perfect to learn about Struts framework, jsp and servlets.

Source includes the required jars.

Get it here

Javascript tutorial 1

Download the source to learn about Dynamic Menus, Browser detection, Text Manipulation, functions and clock display.

Download the Source here

Sunday, November 20, 2011

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Some Useful ebooks

Hey guys!! Now u can get some useful ebooks here too!!
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Do we really need a college to be successful?

The three most popular surnames in the world today- Gates, Jobs and Zuckerberg. Apart from being really popular names, do you know whats in common between them? Yes, ofcourse they are all billionaires. What else? Well, they are all College "Dropouts". While Bill Gates and The youngest billionaire in the world, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard, Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College just to pursue their dream. And they did really well. One made the dream of personal computers true,  other gave beauty to technology while the third one gave a whole new meaning to social life. But the list does not stop here.

In fact, Apple and Facebook gel really well together with dropouts. As Steve Wozniak,the co-founder of Apple was also a dropout from University of Berkeley. And even Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster and founding president of Facebook.com never graduated.

Larry Ellison-the founder of Oracle, Jawed Karim -the brain from bangladesh behind Youtube and big contributor to Paypal , Julian Assange who shook the world with Wikileaks , Azim Premji- once the richest man in India, Dhirubhai Ambani- the man with a dream to affect every indian's life, Mukesh Ambani- man who left Stanford to look after the family business and now the richest man in India, Ted Turner- the founder of CNN network and who was expelled from college after being caught in girl's dorm. These are not just names but a whole institution in themselves. 

Not just the business tycoons or IT gurus, but the people from media, art and sports are also premium members of the dropout club.Thoman Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Charles Dickens, Henry ford of Ford Motor company,James Cameron- the man behind Terminator, Titanic and most expensive movie in the world,Avatar dropped out from University of California,the great director and one of the wealthiest film-maker Steven Spielberg,Pop Sensation Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta popularly known as Lady Gaga, Se7en and Fight Club star Brad Pitt, Matt Damon popular for Bourne Series are all part of the dropout family. To name a few more, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio who said "Life is my college now", Jim Carrey, Jackie Chan, Daniel Radcliffe, Julia Roberts ,Walt Disney, Tiger woods and the greatest cricketer of all time, Sachin Tendulkar , never had a time to go to college or in some cases, to complete their college.

These "jewels" have definitely made a mark in their life that many generations are gonna follow. These are the people who knew how to dream, to dare and eventually dropout taking the biggest risk of their life. Maybe they wont have anything to write in the "Qualification" column of their resume but definitely the rest of their C.V. will be nothing less than an inspirational biography.

The appetite to acquire - Mantra of IT world

I wonder what do the multi-million dollar companies do with their revenue apart from investing in launching better,expensive and exquisite technologies, giving their CEO's not just a silver spoon but maybe worth gold and diamond mines and obviously paying their employees magnificently well.

But then , IT world is all about creating new, giving the world something better, something easy , something suave. And for that, these brands are shelling out amount worth a fortune to expand their business, diversify or just to get something unique. Here is where the concept of acquiring and expanding comes in.

And trust me, this is not new but going on since years. Back in 1997, microsoft bought web based email service , hotmail , for a whooping $500m, big enough for that time. Since then there has been lots of additions in their acquired list, with the latest popular being skype-the worlds best voice-video chat service over the internet for $8.5b. Microsoft even has stakes in AT&T and surprisingly even worth $150m in Apple bought back in 1997 to share some softwares so that the companies don't end up suing each other.

The company that does not need an advertisement, Google, has been really lucky in its biggest acquisitiosn like Picasa, Android, Youtube and latest being Motorola. Android inc. was just a 24 month old startup when Google bought it. Android and Youtube can be called as the two most popular acquisitions. Also, apart from 17000 patents that google got from Motorola, it bought additional 1023 patents from IBM. This is the importance of intellectual property.

Another popular story has been of Oracle purchasing Sun Microsystems for $7.4b. The first thought that came into my mind on hearing this news was that what would be Sun's certifications be called now. Will SCJP become OCJB?

Not just acquiring companies , these business bosses even have a fetish for unique domain names. Unarguably, The most popular phone in the world - iphone has a dedicated website called iphone.com that is rumoured to be bought by Apple for $1m. The social networking giant facebook shelled out 200 thousand dollars to buy facebook.com while changing the name from TheFacebook to Facebook. And now they even have fb.com that came with a price tag of $8.5m. And with the advent of cloud computing, Apple once again adding to its i-series legacy bought the domain icloud.com for $4.5m.

Now i know, where these big companies spend their money !!! And i am a really big fan of Apple, Microsoft and facebook. Credits to "Pirates of the silicon valley" and "The social network". :)
happy reading!






Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Photoshop Grass Text Tutorial

I came across a beautiful tutorial for grass text and created one of my own and will try to explain it in the easiest possible way.

Lets go for it layer by layer.
Step 1: On first layer, Use a radial gradient tool to create a gradient comprising of dark green and light green colours. I chose #105002 and #70d223.
Step 2: Search for grungy paper texture on google and get the image of your choice. Cover your canvas with the texture image . Go to image>Adjustments>Desaturate . Use overlay style with opacity around 70%.
You can use more than one textures for a rough look. I even used Filter>Texture>Grain to make it look rough.
Step 3:Search for grass images and select the one you like and cover your canvas with the grass image.
Step 4:Choose a font of your choice preferably bold and thick and write text using white colour in overlay mode with 50%  opacity over the grass layer.
Step 5:Now select the boundary of text in bit rough manner using the pen tool. If you dont want to make its edges rough , use magic wand. But pen tool offers a better look. Select the path you just created with pen tool for future use. You can save it by going  to path tab and clicking on a small arrow to save.
Step 6: After selecting the path using pen tool on the text, right click on it and select 'make selection'. Select the grass layer of the image and hit delete. It will delete the grass surrounding the text and what you will get is your text written with grass. You can hide/delete the text layer as it gave a better look in my case.
Step 7: In similar way, create another layer of grass and use the pen tool path you saved and cut the text in grass as you did earlier. And place both the grass text layers one over the another with the lower layer acting like shadow of the upper ,hence giving a 3-D effect.
Step 8:Play with some more gradients or lightning effects to give glow to your image. An eco-friendly logo acts likes defining the meaning of the image and give some finishing touches using blending options. I used the following effects.


Step 10: Enhance your image with some glow effects or beautiful creatures. I preferred butterflies for the same. An eco-friendly image is ready!!!

Get the psd from here


Monday, November 14, 2011

Running linux on windows

Most of us have windows installed on our system and its become tougher to learn linux in that way. We usually go for intalling solaris or ubuntu or any other flavor of linux for that. But there is a way to run unix commands right in our command prompt in windows.
The tool's name is Cygwin which you can get from here.
You can install the latest version but i suggest you to download a little old version because it is more stable.
After installing ,all you need to do is copy the cygwin bin path and add it to environment varible 'Path'.
In my system,the path was C:\DevEnv\cygwin\1_5_18\bin which can be different as per your installation directory.
In this path , you can see that you have scripts like grep.exe,chmod.exe,chown.exe and so on which makes linux available in unix.

After that, just open your cmd and type a demo 'ls' command and you'll see linux working.
Enjoy!!






Android versions

Google really has a sense of humour. That's why they named the android versions after Desserts!! Yes.. Desserts..And that too in alphabetical order.
Earlier maybe they had some test versions but then after, their naming convention began and here's the list.
CupCake (Android 1.5)
Donut  (Android 1.6)
Eclair (Android 2.0,2.1)
Froyo (Android 2.2)
Gingerbread (Android 2.3,2.4)
Honeycomb (Android 3.0,3.1,3.2)
Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)

Now the next one in the series is going to be "JellyBean".
Maybe we indians can get a "Kheer" for "K" in coming versions ..
Google is gonna rule for long time to come. Wonder what they gonna do after "Z".. :)

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A nice collection of Photoshop brushes

A collection of some grungy, cool and natural looking brushes for your PS.
Just follow the link and get it going..
Its in here .. Enjoy!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Some fun things to try.

1)Go to google.com > type "do a barrel roll" > hit enter .. see what happens


2)Go to google.com > type "googlerajinikanth.com" > Click on first link.. and enjoy


3)Go to google.com > type "google gravity" > select first link and see what gravity can do


4)You cannot create a folder with name "con" on windows system. And not even by name "com1" , "com2" ,"nul" , "lpt1" , "lpt2"



5)Open MS-word and type "=rand (200, 99)" > hit enter > Try to find out the reason why it
happens.


6)Open a word document and type "Q33 NY" (the license plate of plane that hit the world
trade centre) > change font size to 48 > change font to "Windings1" > see what it shows

Some Google tricks here.

My angel image - girl image plus brush work

This pic is one of my favourites. Steps are simple. Choose a girl picture of your choice preferable full length.

Cut the image to shape using any tool of your choice. I prefer magnetic lasso. Now place the image on your blank sheet and cover it with loads of sea brushes, cloud brushes, dust brushes and rain brushes. Add a bit of ghost effect to the girl image by making a shadow or stylish design brush, Filter\blur it and Filter\ lifuify .
I prefer black and white for the mystique it offers to the image.


Meaningful simple picture using photoshop brushes.

Here is one of the simplest yet suave picture you can create using photoshop.
All you need is few nice brushes, like a dry tree brush, cloud brush and dust brush.
Create a new image with white background. Choose tree brush to create a dark tree and its lighter shadow.
Now use cloud brushes in different hues to create a nice sky effect. Create little bit of dusty effect using different hues of black and brown. And for the icing on the cake, select a quote of your choice to make it more meaningful. A simple yet convincing image .


Add life to your photoshop imagination with brush work

Helloz.. PS has always been the best hobby to me. And there's more to PS than just filters and effects.
Brush can add loads of creativity to your imagination.
Heres a list of best url's to download brushes from brusheezy , brushking ,  myphotoshopbrushes  or deviantart ..

Now how to add new brushes to your photoshop.
1) Open your flavor of PS.
2) Select brush tool and go to brushes dropdown.
3) Click on the small arrow that appears on the dropdown and select 'load brushes'.
4) Browse to select your brush and you are done. Enjoy!!

For ease, you should save your downloaded brushes in ProgramFiles\Adobe\AdobePhotoshop\presets\brushes.

Edit Website elements just by dragging 'em

I found this funny way to edit components of a website.

1) Open any website
2) Paste the following code in the address bar and hit enter

         javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

3)Let your mouse do rest of the work

P.S : Your work cannot be saved. It is just for fun. Or maybe to trick your n00b friends. :)

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