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TECH: WORLD’S 7 MOST DANGEROUS AIRPORTS
Updated: 04/17 17:00
PRINCESS JULIANA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT(SAINT MARTIN)
JUANCHO E.YRAUSQUIN AIRPORT(SABA)
COURCHEVEL(FRANCE)
GUSTAF III AIRPORT(ST.BART)
BARRA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT(BARRA)
MADIERA AIRPORT(MADIERA)
LUKLA(NEPAL)
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TECH: Color me crazy – 10 best online color tools
Updated: 04/16 14:27
If you’re tackling some graphic design project or maybe even your wall decor, getting color hints from ready made color templates from professional designers can be useful. Below are 10 of the better sites to help you out on your design challenge.
ColorCombos – nice color palettes to choose from. If there’s a particular website whose colors you want to snag, check out their “Grab Website Colors” engine. You just input the URL of the site you’re reviewing and ColorCombos extracts the palette for you.
COLOURlovers – this is pretty close to color mecca. This post should actually be filed as a Timewaster because you can spend hours checking out the various palettes and patterns and rolling your own. The site is full of features such as create your own palette from a URL you’re inspired by, join groups devoted to colors (srsly), shore up on the latest color trends, contribute your own content and vote on others.
ColorExplorer – another site that’s feature rich and full of color goodies. Color import from images, palette export to most programs, convert any number of colors into a matching palette, 1 click palette filters and adjustments, plus no requirement for site registration.
Kuler – not surprisingly, Adobe has a fetching web app to help you generate color schemes and if you have Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, Kuler is built in. Kuler has great tools such as color extractor from an image, theme creation from 1 to several colors, as well as a community you can join and give and receive comments on yours and other’s creations.
ColorJack – very nice color site featuring several apps such as Color Sphere which allows you to choose the right color scheme supporting 18 formulas and 9 color blindness simulations. There’s also Color Galaxy, an online color visualizer with colors from 27 libraries including everyone’s favorite forever and ever, Crayola.
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Color Palette Generator – not too fancy, but sometimes less is more. At this site you can upload a photo and get the corresponding color palette.
Color Hunter – allows you to create and find color palettes from photographs.
Color Scheme Generator – your basic color tool, nothing fancy. Nice online tool to generate color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.
Stripe Generator – this is a fun tool to help you design stripe patterns for your next project.
Let us know if there are other “must have” color tools you just can’t live without.
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WEIRD: Street Signs
Updated: 04/16 14:20
Street art is art created in public places, often without permission. Using a number of mediums, including stencils, posters, paint, sticker and sculpture, it is a subset of graffiti. Street artists often go by aliases to protect their identity and to avoid prosecution. The artists, along with the movement have a dedicated following and street art can be found cities big and small, around the globe.
TrustoCorp seems to be new to street art scene. Their medium is clever street signs, that from a distance often look like your typical city supplied signs. The altered, hand painted signs usually carry a social message or just a lighthearted, sometimes vulgar one. TrustoCorp’s street signs have been spotted in New York, Los Angeles,Philadelphia and Miami…and they’re spreading fast.
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TECH: 15 Sites We Can’t Live Without
Updated: 04/15 01:28From Google to Amazon and from Amazon to Wikipedia. Here is a list of 15 sites that we can’t live without.
The mother of all search Engines – Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail i.e Gmail, online mapping, social networking, and video sharing services.
The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California.
Youtube
YouTube, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees, is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.
Browse by channel or category, or click to view the clips that are Top Rated or Most Discussed or Most Linked etc.
Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is a social utility that connects people with friends and family. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and learn more about the people they meet.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries. The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily!
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it attempts to collect and summarize all human knowledge in every major language.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a United States public corporation and provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services.
Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
WordPress
WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database.
WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting website, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.
Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed. As of November 2007, it claims to host more than 2 billion images and counting.
Technorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo! As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
The name Technorati is a blend, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.
HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks founded by professor Marshall Brain in 1998, started the site as a hobby. This website is dedicated to explaining the way many things work.
The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language.
Digg
Digg by Kevin Rose, is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users.
According to Compete.com survey Digg attracted at least 236 million visitors annually by 2008.
Stumbleupon
StumbleUpon is an internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation system which uses peer and social-networking principles.
StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.
Ebay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com. Its the World’s Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis.
And the charity auctions at eBay Giving Works have helped buyers and sellers raise $100 million for more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations since the program started in November 2003.
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995.
Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to many product lines, such as music CDs, computer software, electronics, furniture, food, toys, etc, to name a few.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the world’s largest broadcasting corporation. The BBC was the first national broadcasting organisation. Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd.
It publishes Articles and audio in more than 33 languages, worldwide.
ESPN
ESPN – founded by Scott Rasmussen, is an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day. This site’s got everything a sports fanatic needs.
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TECH: 10 Things You Should Not Tweet
Updated: 04/13 15:55Ten things that you should not tweet about -
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TECH: Rare natural phenomena : Huge Stone Mushrooms
Updated: 04/13 15:53The village of Beli Plast in Bulgaria has a very specific natural phenomena. There you can find a huge stone mushrooms. There is a dozen of those strange looking ‘mushrooms’ in Beli Plast and they are limestone boulders. The largest of them is three meters height.
Those mushrooms were created as an consequence of erosion caused by water during thousands of years in the past. Now when water has disappeared from this area, those eroded lime stones became pretty interesting natural phenomena for visitors and tourists.
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TECH: 9 Bad Habits You didn’t realize you had
Updated: 04/12 14:26Brain is certainly the most amazing part of human body. It becomes more interesting when it does not work the way you expect it should. Psychology frequently establishes our intuitions about how human mind works, but it reveals a number of surprises as well…
Although some psychology students will have heard one or two of these before, here’s a list of brain habits you probably didn’t realize you had:
1) The maximum capacity of your short-term memory is seven.
Humans have basically three forms of memory: Sensory, Long-term and Short-term. Long-term memory is just like hard-drive space. Similarly, Short-term memory functions like a very small RAM. This Short-term memory is capable to hold only about five to nine (seven is an average) items at a time.
Retrieving information longer than this will need you to either pack it together into seven units or store it in Long-term memory. Have you observed that the most phone numbers have only seven digits?
2) The most visible color is Chartreuse.
Yellowish green, chartreuse, is naturally placed right in the middle of the frequencies of visible light. Human eyes have receptors for green, blue and red colors. Being placed in the middle, chartreuse actuates the most of these receptors to fire, making it distinct and easier to spot. For the same reason, in some metropolises, firetrucks have been modified from red to a yellowish green color to make them more visible and obvious to the eye.
3) Subconscious is smarter than you.
Subconscious is smarter than you. In other words, it is more powerful. In a recent study, a square was attributed to a location on a computer screen through a complex pattern. After watching it out, people began to get results better than the chance of recognizing where the square would crop up next. However, when they were inquired to consciously find out the pattern, even given a few hours, nobody really did it!
4) There are two nervous systems.
We have two sets of nervous systems. One controls excitation, while the other controls inhibition. If you hold out your hand, you might observe minor tremors. This is actually stimulated by slight, random differences in the amount each of the two systems are firing.
5) Brain is exceptionally bad at probability.
Your high-school math teacher might have told you about this one. Here what’s interesting isn’t that your brain is bad at probability. But how? In one study, recipients were asked:
Jessica is 31 years old, single, candid, and very promising. She graduated in philosophy. As a student, she was anxious about discrimination issues and social justice, and also took part in anti-nuclear demonstrations.
Assign a rank to the following statements from most probable to least probable: Jessica is a teacher in an elementary school.
- Jessica works in a bookstore and takes Yoga classes.
- Jessica is active in the feminist movement.
- Jessica is a psychiatric social worker.
- Jessica is a member of the League of Women Voters.
- Jessica is a bank teller.
- Jessica is an insurance salesperson.
- Jessica is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.
Nearly 90% of students responded that #7 was more probable than #5. This is despite the fact that to be a bank teller and in the feminist movement is entirely contained within the set of #5 (just being a bank teller). It is observable that our minds like to think more details make events more probable, not less.
6) Memory isn’t great either.
Research has revealed that people are highly probable to misremember past events. Even worse, it is quite easy to suggest a memory that never happened. Due to this fact, so-called “repressed” memories should be given a lot of consideration. It is extremely easier to suggest a memory of a situation that never encountered, than it is to recover one that actually did.
7) Depth is perceivable with one eye.
It’s not quite true that depth perception is totally the result of having two eyes. Binocular vision does help in making a three-dimensional image. Still, most of your capability to perceive depth comes from inside your brain. It has been wired to look at angles and proportions to measure distance.
If you needed two eyes to perceive depth, then most optical illusions wouldn’t work and it would be extremely difficult to gather information from two-dimensional images. Not to mention a great number of one-eyed pirates walking overboard.
8 ) Long-term memory closes up during sleep.
The components of the brain that carry information to Long-term memory turn off while sleeping. For the same reason, dreams quickly fade out after you wake up. Although you may have quite a few dreams in a night, they aren’t being memorialized into Long-term memory. Normally only the fragments of a dream left in Short-term memory have a possibility to be converted after you wake up.
9) The Brain has an amazing instant playback feature.
The last form of memory, i.e. Sensory memory is actually your brain’s equivalent to an instant playback feature. Functioning for both your vision and hearing, your thalamus can resend signals a few seconds after they were originally sent.
Let’s suppose being at a party and overhearing someone call your name. Often you can recall what they said even if you were concentrating on another conversation. This is because your sensory memory re-sends the signals when it feels something important, such as your name. If you missed this form of memory, activities such as multitasking or taking notes from a speaker would not be practicable for you.
If you’re supposed to repeat something you just said because the other person wasn’t hearing, just wait for a few seconds. Often they can replay the message in their head and cause to a reaction.
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TECH: Top Rated Apple Wallpapers
Updated: 04/12 14:15Check out some of the top rated Apple Wallpapers -
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TECH: Top Firefox Wallpapers
Updated: 04/09 15:14From the humble beginnings, FireFox has become the world's most popular browser. Check out the top firefix wallpapers -
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