Deepak Sharma went on record with the Guinness Book for having sent the most SMS messages in a single month: 182,689. That's about 6,100 messages a day, 253 an hour, 4.2 a minute, a new one every 14 seconds or a 1,411 page bill.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Indian man sends 182,689 SMS messages in one month
Deepak Sharma went on record with the Guinness Book for having sent the most SMS messages in a single month: 182,689. That's about 6,100 messages a day, 253 an hour, 4.2 a minute, a new one every 14 seconds or a 1,411 page bill.
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Milk in tea 'blocks health gains'
Adding milk to a cup of tea can destroy its ability to protect against heart disease, according to research.
A small German study found drinking black tea significantly improved the ability of arteries to relax and expand to keep blood pressure healthy.
But the European Heart Journal paper also found proteins in milk, called caseins, blocked this effect.
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2007 predicted to be world's warmest year
LONDON (Reuters) - This year is set to be the hottest on record worldwide due to global warming and the El Nino weather phenomenon, Britain's Meteorological Office said on Thursday.
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Hungry baby goes after...statue!
The funniest picture you'll see today.
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Monday, January 08, 2007
Missile Game 3D
In this game you are piloting a missile through a large tunnel, and you must avoid crashing to make it to the end of each stage.
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Fix Mom's Computer Without Leaving Your Desk
CrossLoop is a FREE secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required.
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Remove Wrinkles in Photoshop
A video tutorial shows us how to remove wrinkles from any photo in just 8 easy steps, using Photoshop.
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Cite Bite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages
Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.
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Instant noodle inventor dies at 96
Momofuku Ando, the founder-chairman of Nissin Food Products Co, who was widely known as the inventor of instant noodles, died of a heart failure this evening at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, his family said. He was 96.
Born on March 5, 1910 in Taiwan, Ando initially ran clothing companies in Taipei and Osaka while he was a student at Ritsumeikan University. In 1948, he founded the precursor of Nissin, before introducing Chicken Ramen, the world's first instant noodle product, in 1958.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
Amazing Dice Stacking Skills
Coffee with a "drop" of milk
It took a LOT of images and about 5 hours of drip, drip, dripping milk into coffee with a pipette to get this one but it’s been worth it in the end. For the lighting I used a Nikon SB 800 on one side of the coffee and a Metz slave flash on the other. The biggest problem I had (apart from getting the splash in the first place) was getting the coffee colour bright enough without blowing the white of the milk. --IreneM
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Friday, January 05, 2007
A Bank With A Life Of Its Own
Here’s a piggy bank with a twist: The Bank of Life has an LCD on the front displaying a little tiny digital person whose quality of life depends on how much money you’ve saved. At first, he’s living out of a shoebox without a cent to his name. As you add money to the bank, he upgrades to better and better housing. When the bank’s full, he’s living in a luxury apartment! If that doesn’t get across the value of saving money, what can?
Sadly, the bank is designed to accept only Japanese 500-yen coins, and is only available in Japan right now, at a price of about $40 USD.
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Learn Chinese Online
Each lesson includes a brief transcript of the lesson as part of the audio file itself! You can view them on newer generation iPODS by clicking the center wheel a couple of times till it shows up. Or you can view them on any MP3 player that supports the viewing lyrics or descriptions.
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BitTyrant: A selfish BitTorrent client that improves performance
BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant is...
Fast – During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.
Fair – BitTorrent was designed with incentives in mind: if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced. BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair and only allocating excess capacity to other users.
Familiar – BitTyrant is based on modifications to Azureus 2.5, currently the most popular BitTorrent client. All of our changes are under the hood. You’ll find the GUI identical to Azureus, with optional additions to display statistics relevant to BitTyrant’s operation.
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Here comes the terabyte hard drive
Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.
The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Celebrities and their Mercedes Benz
It's a well known fact that wealthy people like to spend a large portion of their money on cars. But what are the stars' favourite cars?
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Take the English Proficiency Test
Transparent Language has provided this English test as a way for English language learners to evaluate their English proficiency. They have based this test on the standard American English vocabulary and English grammar that you would find in any English language learning material, so that this proficiency test can measure your command of the English language regardless of your English language learning background. So if you've been learning English, see how well you do!
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Web Trend Map 2007
The iA Trend Map shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Microsoft’s First Windows XP Commercial
Back in 2001, Microsoft released the first commercial for Windows XP. This commercial featured Madonna's song "Ray Of Light".
Snakes can predict earthquakes
Chinese experts believe snakes could sense earthquakes from 120 km, or 70 miles, three to five days before it occurs.
According to the China Daily Newspaper, the earthquake bureau in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, developed a system combining natural instinct and modern technology. Bureau experts run a 24-hour video feed to monitor snakes at snakes farms in their localities.
Jiang Weisong, bureau director said snakes are the most sensitive animals on earth when it comes to earthquakes.
When quakes are about to happen, snakes will come out of their nests even during winter. If it is a big one, they will bang walls in order to go escape, he said.
China is often struck by earthquakes. After what happened to Taiwan on Tuesday, Chinese experts believe that with the help of snakes, they will be able to prevent any untoward mishaps brought about by quakes.
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Taiwan telecom won't build additional backup
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's largest telecom company said Friday it will not invest more in backup lines to protect against disasters like the recent earthquake that snarled telephone and Internet service across Asia, affecting service as far away as the United States.
The quake, which damaged undersea cables off Taiwan on Tuesday, was so rare that there is no need to spend money on extra lines, said Wu Chih-ming, a senior official at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest telecommunications company.
Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at magnitude 6.7 while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.1.
"We won't consider laying more backup cables for now because such an incident might not happen in another 100 years," Wu said.
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DivShare - free file hosting service
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Girl gets RM9.8 mil award
PAHANG, Malaysia - A Kuantan Sessions Court awarded RM9.8mil to a 10-year-old Sophia Isabel paralysed from the waist down because of a road accident. She was only two years and three months old when the car she was in, which was driven by her mother, was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry at the 67th kilometre of Kuantan-Maran road on Jan 3, 1999.
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Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) - A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Cheat sheet for typing odd characters
Alt Key + Calculator Number = Symbol
Hold the ALT key & type the number next to the symbol you want on the CALCULATOR part of the keyboard, then release Alt Key. Symbol will appear.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Help!!! I'm an Idiot
Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop".
Customer: "OK" .
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No" .
Tech Support: "OK. Right-Click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No" .
Tech Support: "OK. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure. You told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'".
Tech Support: "OK. In the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"
Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"
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Anonymous donated $286,800 to Wikipedia
One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800. Wow!!!
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Taiwan Quakes Disrupt My Internet
Two quakes measuring 6.7 and 7.1 on the Richter scale on Tuesday that struck off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea cables carrying Internet traffic, causing slowdowns in Internet access throughout the Asian continent and wreaking havoc on the financial markets. Damage was bringing down data transfer by as much as half in some cases, and it could take weeks before service is fully restored.
Undersea cables that carry both voice and data run throughout the Pacific, many of which are routed through Taiwan. As of early morning Wednesday, only about 10 percent of international calls were completed. The worst of the disruptions seemed to be in Taiwan itself, where only half of the normal telecommunications capacity was available after two out of the four lines were cut.
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Using "No to all" while replacing files in Windows
This dialogue box is displayed each time a file with a similar name already exists in the destination directory.
Noticed there is a 'Yes to All' button but it doesn't have the 'No to All' button?
But do you know you can still use 'No to All' function from here?
Just Press and Hold the Shift key while you click the No button.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor
Anyone familiar with Photoshop should find Fauxto's very similar Layers tool easily accessible. Pretty impressive stuff for a web-based app.
fauxto.com
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
You park like an asshole
Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it. Simply download a notice and place it on the car's windshield. The owner of the vehicle will be informed of their asshole staus as well as the proper tips to improve their poor parking techniques. It's time to put an end to asshole parking, or at least to make fun of it.
Download Notice 1 | Notice 2
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Get Firefox Ad
Using IE is like having sex without a condom? LOL
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Monday, December 18, 2006
The penguin who goes shopping
Japanese penguin who likes to carry his Penguin Backpack to the fish market. The cutest part is when the old lady at the fish store says: "See you again tomorrow, Lala-chan!" and the penguin nods furiously.
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Lamest 11:00 News Hook Ever
A Sacramento News Channel Broadcasts a Cat stuck in a tree as a hook to watch the 11:00 News. Huh, Media these days..
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Sunday, December 17, 2006
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A Gamer's Wedding Cake
That's an Xbox 360, an Xbox, a PS2 and a GameCube on Top. Crazy Awesome.
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Greatest Video Game Collection Ever
Now that’s what I call a video game collection. This person probably owns every game, console, and accessory in existence.
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Strange “Humping Dog” USB Drive
This year's Christmas present? :P
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Why most Watch Ads show the time as 10:08?
10:08, 8 minutes past 10, is roughly the time analog watches are set to in most advertisements, though actual times shown vary between about 10:08 and 10:10. There are several reasons offered by watch companies, many of them psychological, and none of them verifiable as the actual origin of the practice:
- The form of the hands has a positive effect on the viewer: the short hand pointing at 10 o'clock and the long hand pointing at 8 minutes is reminiscent of a check mark, which commonly means "ok" or "fine." Some observers further identify this appearance with a smiling face.
- The position of the hands does not obscure the date on watches with a date-function at 3 o'clock or any other functions at 9 or 3 o'clock.
- The position of the hands does not obscure the company logo, which is often printed under 12 o'clock.
- The hands are nearly symmetrically balanced on the face of the dial at 10:08. The minute hand is 48° right of vertical, while the hour hand is 56° left of vertical. Exact symmetry would be achieved at 120/13 minutes past 10:00, approximately 10:09:13.8. Other symmetrical times would not meet the needs above.
- At 10 o'clock in the morning, the day is young. There is still time to accomplish many things.
- 10 o'clock is the time at which people typically wake up if they are able to sleep in. 10:08 is thus associated with weekend, leisure and relaxation.
Not all watch companies use this type of setting in their ads, though the majority do.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Never run out of toilet paper again
Have a big wall next to your toilet and don't like running out of toilet paper? Mounting more toilet paper holders on the wall is a simple way to keep it from happening.
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