Random #1

Iam creating a repository of some good links on world wide web. Herez the first edition:

1. Celebrity Maps
Hey where does Pamela Andreson live? The question is about to be answered.. unleashing Celebrity maps which combines the power of google maps with celebrity address found across the web.

2. Guess-The-Google
Guess-The-Google is a simple web application in which a grid of images is displayed and the user has to guess the keyword which when entered in google image search will give the same result as is appearing on the grid. Simple but very addictive!

3. Protopage
Protopage provides you free personal start pages. You can have list of your favourite links, some sticky notes, panel amalgamating all search engines. This is how moronz start page looks like.

4. 10 ways to keep updated about new Google services
Google is officially releasing a new product every six days, and a new google rumor cuts the blogosphere’s fresh air every couple of hours. How to keep tabs on all the happenings? Click on the link to find out more.

5. Cool Animation
Click on the link to check out a very nifty and impressive animation.

6. Rtm86
A website made up of only images. Very innovative and very original!

7. Don't Click It
This site is making waves with HCI aficionado's. This site aims to remove the entire concept of mouse clicking.. interesting, isn't it?

Stay tuned for more such randomness.

Cheers!

Did you get an e-mail from FBI?

This is the question that is doing the rounds today in the computer society worldwide. This is because a mass e-mail purportedly from the FBI is circulating online, carrying with it an attachment that contains a variant of the Sober computer virus.

ComputerWorld reports of this fake e-mail scam:

In an announcement today, the FBI advised computer users that the agency never sends unsolicited e-mails and that they should not open the attachments in the fraudulent messages. The scam e-mail tells recipients that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI and that they have accessed illegal Web sites, according to the FBI. The e-mails, which are sent from e-mail addresses including mail@fbi.gov, post@fib.gov and admin@fbi.gov, then direct recipients to open an attachment and answer questions.

The text of the fake e-mails says: “We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites. Important: Please answer our questions! The list of questions are attached.” The messages then include a fake name of an FBI official and the real address and phone number of the agency.

No information was available early today on how many of the e-mails might have been sent or how many computer users might have launched the viruses on their machines. The FBI said it “takes this matter seriously and is investigating” the scheme. Recipients of the fake messages are being asked to report them online to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Hmm.. seems like even, FBI are vulnerable!

Google Base up and running

Yesterday Google officially released Google Base. Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that google will host and make searchable online. Google Base enables content owners to easily make their information searchable online. Anyone, from large companies to website owners and individuals, can use it to submit their content in the form of data items. Google will host the items and make them searchable for free.

Google says "our goal is to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible, and the world's information certainly includes almost anything you might wish to contribute. We encourage you to submit your item, whether it's your store inventory, collection of original poetry, or research paper on cancer receptors."

You can read more about google base at google's official blog but Iam off to try my hands at google base first hand.. you coming?

Cheers!

The 8 basic steps of Image Editing

Tweaking around with images is always fun but not everyone's cup of tea. To help dolts like me Matt LeClair author of Oreilly’s, “Photoshop in a Nutshell” has written an article explaining the very basic steps of Image Editing. Author claims that this article will also help you to understand how to use Photoshop’s tools together.

Know, The 8 basic steps of Image Editing and manipulate digitally your way to glory.

Cheers!

The Great Indian Dream aka CAT

The Great Indian Dream is left shattered.. shattered Big Time..

One year long fucking journey to 20th November ended in a huge disaster. Iam left depressed, demoralised and rejected. Life cannot be any more fucking full of shit! Hope the imprints of this Black Sunday are erased from my memory soon..

Letz go sightseeing

Want to go to exotic locations?
Getting in touch with Cox & Kings or SOTC?

No need!, Google Sightseeing offers you the pleasure of roaming around the world from the comfort of your own computer. It is an intelligent and innovative extension exploiting Google's excellent Maps technology.

Google Sightseeing is not a part of Google Maps or even sponsored by Google, it simply links to the data found there, but is an excellent way to quickly locate many of the most popular tourist destinations in the world via satellite images from Google Maps.

So try out Google Sightseeing, meanwhile Iam off to a virtual tour of NYC!

Cheers!

Take on Project Management

By any chance did you ever think that Project Management is a highly systematic and specialized thing? If yes, then your illusion is about to be eliminated..

In case you can't read:

Pic 1: How the costumer explained it
Pic 2: How the project leader understood it
Pic 3: How the analyst designed it
Pic 4: How the programmer wrote it
Pic 5: How the business consultant described it
Pic 6: How the project was documented!!
Pic 7: What operations installed
Pic 8: How the costumer was billed
Pic 9: How it was supported
Pic 10: WHAT THE COSTUMER REALLY NEEDED

Cheers!

World Usability Day: Making it easy

Today, Novemeber 3 is celebrated as the World Usability Day. World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better. The Usabililty Professionals' Association is doing that by encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring 36 hours of activities at the local level around the globe, all occurring on November 3, 2005.

Staying put on the same topic of usability, here is a piece of article, which says India is short of 60,000 usability professionals.