Whats Cooking Inside My HardDrive

The things that go inside the hard drive when you read, copy paste or delete something are explicitly shown with real life Hard Drive. Notice the movement of head in different situations:

Google Earth Workaround

I found a lot of tiny dots on the most beloved Google Earth (download it here). There are a lot of places marked by other and I am sure you will find one which is near your place of interest. My work started by searching Google. First I searched by keywords like "Google Earth Placename", later started searching with keywords like "site: filetype:kmz" or "site: filetype:kml". But then came up this great site containing a good amount of information on geographical locations. Tageo contains a lot of information about even the smallest of towns of the world alongwith latitude and longitude information, but on top of that it provides a link to KML/KMZ (to be opened with Google Earth) file for each place.

Now that I have located my place on Google Earth, in order to share it I must upload somewhere. In order to accomplish this "this wonderful site" came handy which allows the upload of KMZ and KML files. So finally I am able to share my location with you right here.

Sharing My Bookmarks

Until a month before I used to bookmark on a lot of sites, sometimes dedicate special blogs for it. But as my favorites grew at the speed of light I thought making one the chosen one and full stop. I chose Delicious. And until a day before I used to post links from my bookmarks to my blog. Now in order to increase the effectiveness and decrease the redundancy I got like "why reinventing the wheel" or for that matter why "Reposting the Wheel"(?).

Here's the thing: My Delicious Bookmark

Independent Music

If you are one of those singers who sing really well and their music do not get recognized for life or who simply who wants the world listen to her creation coz nobodys at home cares for it, or you are just a music lover tired of hearing from the same old artists. Here's a life for you. Independent Music comes under no piracy laws and their contents can be distributed and procured freely.

"In , popular music indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach." (Quote:Wikipedia)

A few of the sites of note that I have noticed in recent time are as follows:

• GarageBand
• IndieMusic
• WebCDs
• MusicIndie
• Independent Music Network
  

Sure Shot Search Engine for Video,Audio,Torrent etc.

As in Google no special keywords, no special signatures and you most of the times direct links when it comes to audio, video, torrent, documents or manual. Thats what Briefli is all about. What is beautiful is that you get links from both Amazon and the good old sites who share everything for free , direct links in the later case. Its upto you to choose from legal or illegal. One more thing, it is built upon the Azaxian Technology, so no more getting blanks between page loads.

Google's New Customized Search Engine

Google released its customized search engine facility called Google Co-op that allows to perform customized search limited to few chosen websites. This search engine can be owned by anyone with Google Account. Moreover you can customize it so that other users of your search engine can add relevant links/sites. More details on Techcrunch.

Check out my search engine Latest Tech Search Engine which I have customized to search only a few good tech sites such as cnet, slashdot, techcrunch, digg etc.

Firefox 2.0 Released

Mozilla just released its much hyped version of firefox. It can be downloaded from its FTP Server.

• For Windows 5.6MB
• For Linux 9.2MB
• For Mac 18 MB

Well, later I found that Mozilla still has not announced the release officially which is scheduled on Tuesday even though it is in its FTP server. Probably it's because Mozilla don't want heavy traffic building upon the FTP server ahead of time that could cost it a large amount of bandwidth charge.

Maps and Maps

Find from a single channel how Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, NASA locate your home !! FlashEarth provides a single interface to access maps as shown by different vendors.

Virtual World

The world, initially a vast stretch of never-ending terrains,seas and deserts, started evolving slowly but with a very fast pace. The whole of the world is now at your finger-tips, thanks to the virtual revolution brought by digitals. Here is a collection of virual realities which have changed our way of life in recent past.

• Maps and satellite and Ariel Imagery:
  
  While the baton is carried by Google Earth and Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth(combines MapPoint and Local Live Search) and Yahoo maps are making the competition tougher.OpenLayers ( an Open Source venture) and Ask.Com are also catching the race. Most of these include local search with GPS functionality which helps giving driving directions and lots more. There are also freely availabe APIs for these maps, so that they can be embedded in your site at your disposal and convenience.
  
  
• Virtual Computers/Platforms
  
  The virtual computers or platform helps to test all varieties of application to check for compatiblity different hardwares and platforms. Gone are the days when one used to acquire a lot of hardwares to test a single software.VMWare provides players for virtualization over windows and linux systems. Microsoft's Virtual Server provides a virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment, and is supported by Microsoft as a host for Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server System applications. Microsofts Virtual PC also provides a similar though slightly depreceted facillty.PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers.
  
  
• Virtual Keyboard
  
  Tired of typing SMS or emails on your Cell or Handheld? The solution is in the virtual world where you can project a virtual qwerty keyboard from your handheld onto any flat surface and could experience a real keyboard typing. Shown here is an example of I-Techs's Virtual Kbd which both infrared and laser technology to generate an invisible field and project a full-size virtual QWERTY keyboard on any surface.


• Chat Bots
  
  Chat bots are chat robots, who are such programmed through artificial intelligence that they give very human like answers in a chat session and they learn more and more as they go through the length of chat with wide variety of people. Here is a good list of these online artificial nerds.
  
  

Web Pages That Suck

Once in a while we come across a site that does nothing but sucks, the site's layout,patterns, user interactivity everything is enough to drive you nuts. Well, now before anyone sees your site and start advertising it as the Uggliest Site, in order to take a precautionary measure check www.webpagesthatsuck.com. This site has some good articles on the topic and they even list real world examples of real sucking sites (Hope they have not already listed your site !!!).

3D Engine Animation

Being a Mechanical Engineer I always had a passion for the knowledge of inner workings and structure of an automoible engine. But even if an engine lies totally uncovered before you its not easy to get into the details of its working, and i faced the same problem back in my college days. Our lab was full with diassembled engines but we really have to work hard on our imagination to see all the parts working together in synergy.

Now here is this video that shows everything in 3D view much like you have imagined in your mind (or is it). I guess it explains nicely every detail of a typical car engine.