The Great Geek Manual

Artwork

Elias’ Pi Page – Why is pi always written in the decimal number system? Read, listen to, and look at pi in the simplest of all number systems, binary.

Pi Patterns – A collection of images and illustrations created by using the digits of the mathematical constant.

Pi 3 point 1416 – A sight that explores mathematics as the language of nature. Centers around the movie Pi.

Sliding Pi – a mosaic tile in a Toronto subway station based on Pi.

Three poems by former CalTech student Eve Andersson: Beauty (Pi in several languages), Pi and Friends, Pi is Transcendental
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Resources

100 Useful Social Sites for Every Kind of Job Seeker – Finding a great job opening in an economy where unemployment is skyrocketing is a tough task indeed. You can help pave the way to success by using some of the great tools and forums the web offers for those on the hunt for employment.

Awesome Highlighter – This is a web-based service that lets you highlight text on any web page, then provides you with a small link to that highlighted page. Great for research and note-taking.

Bubbl.us – Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online with mind maps that can be embedded in web pages.

Flame – A really nice web-based experimental painting program from Slovak animator and designer Peter Blaskovic. It’s really useful for making desktop wallpapers.

Kodu – I realize that this is going to be old news to most people, but I discovered Kodu after reading about a guy’s efforts to teach his young daughter how to program. It’s a programming environment designed to be accessible for children that’s almost entirely a visual event based system and requires basically zero effort to learn.

Packrati – Add links you tweet to your Delicious account, automatically tagging them with the hashtags you use in your tweet.
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Resources

15 Awesome Google Services You Never Knew Existed – The big G is everywhere, but it turns out that there is also a whole library of Google web applications and services stacked up behind the everyday services you may have come to take for granted.

35 Great Social Media Infographics – Panorama has rounded up a great collection of infographics that are as beautiful as they are informative.

40 Best Social Sites for Science Geeks – Great social sites for science geeks. Whether looking for an old friend, classmate, colleague, or looking to meet the new, they offer loads of help.

ComparePSD – A utility that compares two Photoshop files layer-by-layer, which can come in handy in when you’re trying to remember which of the fifty layer files on your desktop is the one that you had gotten just right before your computer crashed.

How To Read Scratched CDs or DVDs In Windows – Ever had a CD or DVD that contained critical information but you could not get to it? Don’t throw it out there might still be hope! Read the rest of this entry » » »

Resources

CodeOrgan – Type in a URL, and this service scans the words, removes all the non-musical letters, and makes “music” out of whatever is left over.

Craiglook.com – Craiglook is a mash-up of Craiglist feeds (read through Yahoo Pipes) and Google Maps. Its location radius-based search is the site’s most useful feature, and its content is always up to date with the main Craigslist directory.

FillAnyPDF – a fairly simple web app which allows you to upload a PDF file, then easily write on it wherever you want. This allows you to easily fill out any form, even if they’re not in an editable PDF form.

Gethuman.com – A directory that tells you—on a company by company basis—exactly what number to call and what buttons to press to get through to a real, human operator. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Resources

15 Internet Annoyances, and How to Fix Them – PC World explains how a few simple fixes can make surfing the web whole lot easier.

100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs – While the big names like Google and Yahoo will likely always rule the search engine market, sometimes you want something a little more focused when it comes to finding what you need on the web. That’s where these niche search engines come in handy.

Aviary – One of the best image editors on the web is now available for free!

ShadyURL – Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. That way, no one will touch it!

SmartyPig – This online service bills itself as a “social banking” website. Basically, it’s a savings account that allows other people to make deposits while helping you to keep track of your savings goals. It’s not revolutionary, but it looks like a better solution to collection donations than PayPal.
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Resources

Bing Maps – As much as it pains me to say it, if you’re still using Google Maps, you should stop. Bing has seriously kicked Google’s ass in the maps department. Check out the latest upgrades.

How To Add Google Buzz Share Button On Your Wordpress Blog – The Share button is actually a Google Reader Button and if you have added Google Reader in your Buzz connected sites, then it will only share the item in your Google Reader + Google Buzz.

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz – Google’s new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here’s how to customize and use Buzz–or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.

Kumby.com – a site that streams hundreds of anime series online. The site features discussion forums, series information, movie reviews, games, and a chat room.

KickStarter – an excellent platform for raising funds. Post your project, expected returns, and sit back. Indispensable for fundraising campaigns.

The Material Costs of 6 Consumer Gadgets – iSuppli recently analyzed the components of several popular consumer electronics to figure out just how much each item costs to manufacture, and how much of your purchase price goes straight into their “profit” column. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Resources

10 Alternative Uses for WordPress – WordPress is the best and most popular blogging platform around. It’s free, easy to use, endlessly customizable and supported by hundreds of excellent plugins. With WordPress setting such high standards, many people have started to question why other types of sites are so much more difficult to set up and manage.

10 Web Browsers You Probably Haven’t Heard Of – Ever heard of Stainless? It’s a browser that lets you log into one website using two different accounts in separate tabs. How about Maxthon, one of the most secure browsers out there?

100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Here’s an enormous directory of some of the nifty things Google can do to make your life easier. I was surprised at how many of these I didn’t know. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Video, Photos & Specs

• The Apple iPad — What You Need to Know
• iLounge: First Looks: Apple iPad Case
• JoyStiq: Hands-on: Apple iPad
• Mashable: iPad: A Comprehensive Guide
• Mashable: Official Apple iPad Demo
• UnCrate: Apple iPad
• Wired: Hands-On With the Apple iPad

Tech News

• Boy Genius: Apple iPad recap
• CNet: Apple’s iPad Ambitions
• CSMonitor: On eve of Apple iPad launch, AT&T pledges to improve network
• Inhabitat: IS IT GREEN?: The Apple iPad
• PC World: Apple’s iPad and the Flash Clash
• Yahoo! News: Nintendo chief unimpressed with Apple’s iPad

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