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Time’s 50 Best Websites 2009

Friday, March 19th, 2010

If you haven’t gotten a chance to check out these sites last year I highly recommend it, they’re all very useful in one way or another.

  1. Flickr
  2. California Coastline
  3. Delicious
  4. Metafilter
  5. popurls
  6. Twitter
  7. Skype
  8. Boing Boing
  9. Academic Earth
  10. OpenTable
  11. Google
  12. YouTube
  13. Wolfram|Alpha
  14. Hulu
  15. Vimeo
  16. Fora TV
  17. Craiglook
  18. Shop Goodwill
  19. Amazon
  20. Kayak
  21. Netflix
  22. Etsy
  23. PropertyShark.com
  24. Redfin
  25. Wikipedia
  26. Internet Archive
  27. Kiva
  28. ConsumerSearch
  29. Metacritic
  30. Pollster
  31. Facebook
  32. Pandora and Last.fm
  33. Musicovery
  34. Spotify
  35. Supercook
  36. Yelp
  37. Visuwords
  38. CouchSurfing
  39. BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager
  40. Mint
  41. TripIt
  42. Aardvark
  43. drop.io
  44. Issuu
  45. Photosynth
  46. OMGPOP
  47. WorldWideTelescope
  48. Fonolo
  49. Get High Now
  50. Know Your Meme

You can see a write up about all these here: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918031_1918016,00.html

How to Change System Hosts File (Vista)

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

So I was waiting for a domain to propagate today(rush rush for a site) and my co-worker showed me a nifty little trick. Change your hosts file:

1)  Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
2)  Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
3)  Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
4)  Click File -> Open
5)  Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
6)  Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
7)  Select “hosts” and click “Open”
8)  Make the needed changes and close Notepad.  Save when prompted.

Changes needed in this case are as follows(IP address, domain), example below:

127.0.0.1 www.yourdomain.com

New HTML5 Tags

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The task that had to be accomplished by the developers was to create the richer and meaningful semantics for HTML5 version – plus the fact that new solution was supposed to be flexible, strongly efficient and of course to correspond to all modern web standards. Now here comes the list of the new tags that will available in HTML5.
<article> tag defines an article
<aside> tag defines content aside from the page content
<audio> tag defines sound content
<canvas> tag defines graphics
<command> tag defines a command button
<datalist> tag defines a dropdown list
<details> tag defines details of an element
<dialog> tag defines a dialog (conversation)
<embed> tag defines external interactive content or plugin
<figure> tag defines a group of media content, and their caption
<footer> tag defines a footer for a section or page
<header> tag defines a header for a section or page
<hgroup> tag defines information about a section in a document
<keygen> tag defines a generated key in a form
<mark> tag defines marked text
<meter> tag defines measurement within a predefined range
<nav> tag defines navigation links
<output> tag defines some types of output
<progress> tag defines progress of a task of any kind
<rp> tag is used in ruby annotations to define what to show browsers that do not support the ruby element.
<rt> tag defines explanation to ruby annotations.
<ruby> tag defines ruby annotations.
<section> tag defines a section
<source> tag defines media resources
<time> tag defines a date/time
<video> tag defines a video

Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Hawaii

Friday, March 5th, 2010

In all the messiness of life’s day-to-day, one tends to forget the majesty that is the universe on a grand scale. Let this stunning time-lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii remind you of your insignificance.

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