Archive for March, 2007
Prevent RSI : great presentation
An excellent presentation on the causes and prevention of RSI.
Technorati tags: RSI, Ergonomics
Monitor site traffic in real-time with whos.amung.us
Wondering how many people are viewing your site right now? Find out with simple little widget called whos.amung.us. Just paste the code into your site, blog, social network, etc., as I did here and Presto: Instant traffic numbers.
There is also a Firefox extension that lets you monitor the site traffic from the browser status bar.
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Yahoo Widgets is a Virus ?
When I logged in to my machine today, I got a nasty shock. My trusted Symantec Antivirus reported that my recently installed Yahoo Widgets is a Virus…and so is my beloved media player silver bullet Democracy Player. I am not sure if Yahoo Widgets is really a virus but I am not going to use [...]
Multitasking slows you down.
Posted by theGeek in productivity on March 27th, 2007
The New York Times reports on another set of studies that show human brains slow down when they have to juggle tasks. Unlike last year’s TIME magazine article, the NYT cites new studies that show young people are not better equipped to handle interruptions having grown up with digital distraction. Read the article : Slow [...]
popuri – Know Thyself !
If you want to see quick statistics on a website, check out newly launched Popuri. You’ll quickly see Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, number of backlinks on Google, Yahoo and Live.com, Technorati inbound links, del.icio.us bookmarks and number of bloglines subscribers. You can also see whois information on the domain.
30+ Tools and Hacks for Gmail
If Gmail is your email app of choice, you might want to check out Gmail Craze: 30 Tools and Hacks for Gmail, including Firefox add-ons, Greasemonkey scripts, desktop apps and web tools.
Hack Windows XP for super performance
Black Viper suggests some useful tweaks to get the maximum performance from XP machine. Read all tips here – Super Tweaks for Windows XP by Black Viper
How to find the best web freebies – cool hack
Web design blog Bittbox has revealed the secret trick to find the best web freebies: Google + social sites.
Yep, it’s true – you can find the best of the best out there just by aiming the “site:” operator at most any active social bookmarking site. For example, say you’re looking for good WordPress templates. You [...]
Open Source alternatives
Open Source Alternative – Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software – a handy site to source out open source alternatives to popular commercial programs. Programs are sorted by category to easily browse open source options.
Learn to play the guitar
Web site Guitar Noise offers a huge knowledge base of free lessons and advice that can take you from guitar novice to guitar god.
Since I am a guitarist myself, I know that a lot of you out there must just be waiting for the right resource. With hundreds of lessons, articles, and an active forum, [...]