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Download Squad has a nice little piece with 20 cool geeky facts about Windows 1.0.
My favorite is “Windows 1.0 included multitasking capabilities, but did not allow windows to overlap.” I assume the marketing reasoning for the fact that windows cannot overlap in Windows 1.0 was that “windows cannot overlap in reality, either.”
Sometimes when I have an idea I dismiss it thinking no one will ever buy the product. But then comes along a device called Internet Traffic Cop and makes me think my idea isn’t that bad after all. I mean if someone will buy a device which basically disconnects your computer from the Internet by pushing a button for $50, then I can sell pretty much anything.
(via Gizmodo)
Pretty much all of us, when we were kids, played with one of the world’s most popular toys – soap bubbles. For the past 11 years many things happened in the world, but also one important invention was created. Behold the Color Bubbles! (A Popular Science exclusive.)
(via Slashdot)
PocketMod, the free disposable personal organizer, is a very cool idea. It lets you create a small booklet out of one page with the content that you choose to put in it. There’s even an online version.
Google search comes in many languages. Some of the choices in the language page are pretty funny, like Bork, Klingon, Pig Latin and my personal favorites, Elmer Fudd (“I’m Feewing Wucky”) and Hacker.
I know there are many cool shirts, but here’s one that would actually be useful. It’s a “No. I will not fix your computer” shirt.
Today, at work, I bought a soda can from the vending machine. When I wanted to open the can, the push-pull tab broke off and I was unable to open the can. As a result, I decided that I will spend some company paid time to search for the answer to this question: “How to manually open (without any help of devices, such as a can opener) a soda can with a broken push-pull tab?”
I was pretty certain that I will find the answer, but was surprised that I couldn’t even get close to finding it. So I’m posting it as a challenge. If you find the answer to this very troubling question, post it in the comments section.
Thank you.
Oh, and if you’re interested, while looking for the answer to my question, I found an answer to another question: “Why do people tap on soda cans before opening them?”
Just a quick one – a funny movie about an Internet helpdesk.
To make sure that you watched the entire thing, answer the following question: What is a 12 o’clock flasher?
(Thanks to Doron)
Google Base was launched today. And when I say “launched” I, of course, mean that it is still in beta as per Google’s policy of releasing stuff that is not completely finished yet works well enough to use.
So much has already been written about Google Base that I will only say that this is a service, which lets you store items, so you can search in them later on. Basically, it’s a free database to store your public data (information and images). For example, a private person can use it to advertise the car he/she is selling, or a recipe for fruit cake.
The reason I’m posting about it is because I want to see how long it will take for someone to develop a Google Base plugin for WordPress (the software this blog runs on) so you can post and backup in Google Base.
On a side note, check out what a search for “all your base are belong to Google” brings up.