Draw Professional Sketches

Heard or seen of a criminal got caught by the sketch made on the basis of witness. Obviously many times, if not in real live, in TV shows of course. The real Police here is the Artist who draws the face by merely following the descriptions of the witness. No doubt they are adept and very accurate. They envied many with their rare talents.

But now they might envy you when you draw the same face within seconds without even knowing 'S' of sketching. Thanks to the ever increasing realm of web services. I am talking about "flashface.ctapt.de". The site lets you choose from a range of types of hairstyles,eyes,noses,lips etc that just makes the coveted art of sketching a matter of few drag-drops. The drawn sketch can be saved online or distributed through emails. The wonderful thing is that its all online, without you to download anything and that is what we mean by Web Service, isnt it. [More details at Digital Inspiration]

I Want More: Online Drawing

World's Eldest Blogger

Senior netizens are on the rise and they have come a long way in spreading the wisdom of ages over net. Donald Crowdis, a 92 year old from Canada blogs about life and wisdom in his unique humoristic style. His blog Don To Earth has tints of wisdom spread allover, earned through years of experience and GenX has lot to learn from it.

Fun over Telnet

Telnet is a remote login protocol which is primarily used for accessing resources on a remote computer and for various administrative tasks. Some servers around the world have left some ports open to explore whats inside. Lets have a look on them:

For each of the addresses Go to Run ->type telnet followed by address(without quotes) ->Enter. (ex: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl)

♠ Address : "towel.blinkenlights.nl" -- Sit back and enjoy the ASCII Star Wars.
♠ Address : "193.201.201.131 4000" -- You need to register at Shadow-Lands in order to play this game.
♠ Address: " dr.nostrum.com 2000" -- I hear you love scary explorations.

Those were just a little glimplse. There exists a good amount of servers that allow remote login freely.

Educational,Entertainment and Foreign Language Telnets[ link1 ][link2][link3][link4]

Multiplication Made Easy

This multiplication trick uses lines and dots to calculate the result.

Porn -- Not to survive

A latest analysis has concluded that there are now only about 1 percent of total web-pages that contain sexually explicit content. The porn industry is falling steeply downside. The porn sites use to make money just by showing sexual content (in the form of images or videos mainly) which until recently attracted a large number of audiences. Of late these audiences have come to know about the cheap tricks played on them and thus the downside of porn. Here are some of the methods to filter porn:

♠ A simple way to block sexual content is to configure Content Advisor in Internet Explorer (open Internet Options ->Content tab), Firefox can be configured to block Pop Up windows (open Options->Content tab). There is no built in content filter in Firefox, this is where extensions come handy, Firefox extension Procon serves as good filter.

♠ There are also a lots of porn blocker softwares available for download.One example is NetDog which works with both IE and Firefox.

♠ In order to avoid those annoying porns appearing in the search results we recommend using Google Safesearch. It can be configured through preferences section on the Google homepage.

♠ PicBlock blocks the images based on flesh content by blurring them out "PicBlock blocks porn images by detecting the amount of flesh tones in images. Since the software is not based on offensive keywords list or known URLs, PicBlock may not be a substitute for your content filtering software." [via Digital Inspiration]

HOMELAND : Home is where the heart is.

Find out more about my home here.[http://www.flickr.com/photos/siddiqui]

Yourminis = Flashy Netvibes

Yourminis resurrected the Flash world which in the recent past had its thunder stolen by the much hyped Ajax. It also widened the coverage of flash to include homepage content management and not only games and videos. Netvibes [earlier coverage here] implemented Ajax as its backbone to serve contents to the users in a highly customizable manner. Yourminis' also offering the same but with a backbone of flash which gives it an "elastic look", functions are more or less the same i.e. you can include feeds, mails ,podcasts, widgets etc etc. What remains to be seen is that who wins the battle or if we are fortunate this will simply give rise to a healthy competition and end users will be only one to get the cheers.

File Uploads

The more the skill you have for creating things, the more productive you will be and the more space you will need to put up your content online. For a free hosting service like Blogger you
cannot upload all that you wish. Blogger, Flickr etc allows upload of photos, but then if you are a video photographer or a programmer and you insist on using Blogger to upload your creations, I am afraid that you first have to invent ways to convert them to images. So, lets better be a little adaptable to the atmosphere and make use of free upload services that a good number of sites provide. Here is a good review of sites that allow uploads, most of them are direct which means that you do not have to register. In most of them you can upload any type of file including executables. After uploading you can share the link provided. I checked out some of them, such as Zupload and Mega-File, and got instant results.

Picture Downloader

Not less than often we spot a guy who opens each picture on the net and decides whether to download it or not. Even if he wanted to download all the pictures from the site, he has to open all the pictures individually , and the wait between the page loads cause some to think about the ways of committing suicide.

I was one of them until recently when I came across a lot of "Picture Downloaders" (see how) across the net. I picked up one called Abacre Photo Downloader from Abacre [download] , while a lot more were available here (nice collection).

These tools provide filters like what type of image to download (jpeg, gif, png etc), file size of image (in kb), size/dimension of image (in px). Download the whole album and delete the ones that doesn't suit your taste.

Just Married -- Orkut and GTalk

Today Orkut and GTalk were integrated, which means that you can see the online status of you friends and invite them for chat or give 'em a call. Now you can import your Orkut friend's list to GTalk. All that is needed is to go to the settings page on Orkut and check a simple radio button. Its even easier to send scraps from GTalk. Here is the help by Google and download GTalk here.

Download of the Day

Ook? Video Ook! -- This firefox extension lets you to download embedded videos from sites like YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe etc (of course when opened in Firefox browser).

[Download]

A Wonderful game based on Theory of Gravity

Remember good old days of school, bragging about gravity, now its time to rejuvenate those "horror moments" with this addictive game. The aim of the game is to let the comet burn completely without colliding with any of the planets. See how the comet bends/curves when it comes in the vicinity of a planet.

SpringerWidgets -- Same widget for my Web and my Desktop

SpringerWidgets is integrating the widgets what we commonly differentiated as "widget for web" and "widget for desktop". The widget will work with same look and feel whether its embedded on the web or put up on your desktop. They have developed some samples for this. One of the sample widget to read RSS feed is shown here. Remember although this widget is embedded on this blog you do not have to come to this page everytime to view it (unless you are a die hard fan of this blog :-) ), instead you can download the desktop version of the same from here.

Get this widget!

Writing Hindi with Hindi Kalam

Writing in Hindi was never this easy. HindiKalam has a very good interface that allows to write Hindi online with the very much acronyms that Indians use while chatting on IMs (such as kaise ho for कैसे हो) etc. It also lets one embed English into the Hindi Writing as I am doining now.

हींदी is fun. हींदी िलखना अब काफ़ी आसान हो गया है

Cross Site Chatting

Geesee launched its cross site chat facility a few days back. As reported by Techcrunch : "Geesee is an embedded chat service that lets users communicate across any number of web sites in common chat rooms organized by tags". While this service was continuing to gather applauds from the web community, ChatCreator stepped in to steal the thunder. It provides much similar interface like Geesee but with a better look and feel with its sleek design.

Heres an example:

Download of the Day

Google Earth 4 (beta) -- The latest version of Google earth is doing round the corners. It comes bundled with some extra features which were earlier provided as paid service. This includes 3D, polygon and path drawings. [Download]

If and only if -- Passion==Drawing && Creativity+=1

Creativity, a very abstract term for even most creative people, manifests itself through as many acts in the world as possible. The act of doing something gives a vent to the creativity nurturing inside a living being. The act could be anything from a highly applauded painting on canvas to a mere act of thinking, its just that the way of expression doesn't matter.It could even be Online Drawing if you are not biased towards those conventional paintings painted by some bearded weird looking creature.

Cumulatelabs displays a fully featured drawing canvas to get your hands dirty, provides a drawing experience much like a drawing software only with a little slower speed.Earlier it was compatible with IE only but Firefox support is also included.

Now, some out of the box creation with ImaginationCubed which has very sleek user interface with great speed and feel of elasticity. Its greatest feature is that the "piece of art" can be created online with two or more artists participating simultaneously in the same drawing. You can send invitation to your friend (or your love) to take part in the creation. Wow, now unlike good old days we will have paintings patented to a bunch of people rather that bearded single guy. After the completion of the grand act, the art can be viewed in an animated fashion -- the pencil moves the same way as you did while drawing, to recreate your piece.

Now in order to add something that people called "professional look" Drawspace can serve as a wonderful mentor online.

Netvibes - Unifying Web

The very first page that I got after entering the url http://www.netvibes.com/ to my surprise contained all my favorites. It was like whole of internet before you, and you are confused but amazed. The site boasts of providing everything and all customizable, it provides a tabbed interface where feeds, news,web searches , webmails, bookmarks , photo organizers, social networking, API search etc can be customized according to your taste. These all occurs in real time.

Download Of the Day

Express Talk -- A voip soft-phone by NCH which provides dial up facilities to VoIP numbers and ids. It can be used directly for audio blogging at Gabcast (see more detail). [Download]

Online File Conversion

Zamzar provides a cool service when it comes to converting your image, document, audio, video from one format to another as per your taste or necessity. The interface is simple and sleek, and you get your converted file through email. Now atleast you do not have to download different readers for different formats or conversion tools to your desktop.

Really the world is moving towards better web solutions second by second. Kudos to the realm of Web Services.