From Around the Web
10 Beautiful Web UI libraries – Are you looking for any interesting and beautiful Web User Interface libraries for your next web site or Rich Internet Application ? Take a look at this list with ten WUI I suggest you to try in order to simplify your work and develope faster beautiful and usable user interfaces.
David Pogue: When it comes to tech, simplicity sells – This video from TED is worth watching just to hear Pogue parody “The Sound of Silence.” In this talk, he talks about the problems that arise from complex user interfaces. Funny, insightful, and thought-provoking.
Flickr users make accidental maps – Billions of photos have now been uploaded to the internet, and many are tagged with text descriptions. Some are even geotagged – stamped with the latitude and longitude coordinates at which the image was taken. David Crandall analysed the data attached to 35 million photos uploaded to Flickr to create accurate global and city maps and identify popular snapping sites.
How To Make Microsoft Office 2007 Look Like Office 2003 – UBitMenu is a small plugin for Microsoft Office 2007 (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) that makes Office 2007 look like Ofice 2003.
Perfectly Safe To Remove Files and Folders – The Bold_Fortune Forums offers up a tutorial for slimming down you installation of Windows XP that will be especially helpful to Netbook users who need every megabyte.
Preserving Geocities – Yahoo! is shutting down Geocities soon, and Jason Scott is doing his best to archive what has survived Yahoo’s previous purges. It’s an important effort. Geocities contains some significant gems, like the this transcript of the first AOL chat with Koko the guerrilla.
Top 10 Ubuntu Downloads – The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. “Jaunty Jackalope,” rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? We’re recommending 10 downloads for everyone to try.
Warcraft on an iPhone – The Crackberry can kiss its monopoly on addiction goodbye. There’s a new obsession in town: World of Warcraft over Vollee.
Miscellaneous
Magnet drops super-slowly through an Eddy tube [video]
Late Line Special Report – Snuggies: Warm, Comfortable, Deadly!
Tech News
Computer Program to Take On “Jeopardy!”
First Android netbook to cost about $250
Personal Internet use at work out of control
Robots Evolve and Learn How to Lie (Cue eerie music)
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