Flickr ID badge using your digital photographs

Make your own (unofficial) Flickr badge. Print it out, laminate it, wear Flickr with pride!
Show the world how truly photographically geeky you really are! (Original idea by LarimdaME.)

You only need to enter few fields and Badge Maker will create a great looking flickr badge for you, unofficial though.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

This summary of the ideas in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People will help anyone more effectively build relationships and motivate others. The following has been reorganized and edited down to simply establish the book’s core ideas for our modern reader. It should take less than five minutes to read.

Worst-Case Scenarios

You're vacationing in Cap Haitien, Haiti, when you hear a commotion outside your hotel. Thinking it's some kind of festival, you step outside ready to party. Uh-oh! This is no celebration--it's a riot. What should you do?

Remain indoors.
Stay away from the windows. Listen for reports on the radio or television. If you believe the crisis is out of control or threate...

Science section of PopularMechanics has got something interesting called as the Worst Case Scenarios. The current featured worst case scenarios include:

• How To Survive An Airplane Crash
• How To Stop A Car With No Brakes
• How To Find Your Way When Lost In The Woods
• How To Survive A Riptide
• How To Navigate A Minefield (not needed I guess unless until your location is in Iraq or Iran)
• How To Survive A Volcanic Eruption
• How To Survive A Sandstorm

For further worst case scenarios, do check out their archives section.

Creating a page curl in Photoshop

Amazed how people create those page curl effects in their photographs?

If you have Adobe Photoshop installed in your system, getting this effect is just a 2 mins job. This tutorial describes how easily you can make that most need page curl effect.

Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

We've seen numerous exciting sites and pages for the general class of people. This one is exclusively for developers. The article is published by Apple Developer Connection (ADC).

This article introduces you to Ruby on Rails by building a trivial web application step by step. Consider it a ride on the express train—an overview of what Rails can do, including a look at features new to Rails 1.0. In the end you'll be better equipped to consider the advantages of powering your web application with Rails.

The topics covered in this article includes:

• Why Ruby on Rails?
• Installing Rails
• Creating a New Rails Application
• Jump-Starting the Application
• Tiptoeing Through the Generated Code
• Linking Models Together
• Working with Web Forms
• Adding Business Logic
• Writing Tests

Spot the Fake Smile

This one is for those who love psychology tests. So here it goes: BBC's Spot the Fake Smile

• This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one
• It has 20 questions and should take you 10 minutes
• It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University of California
• Each video clip will take approximately 15 seconds to load on a 56k modem and you can only play each smile once
  

TerraFly: Virtually "FLY" over the entire United States

TerraFly changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and the TerraFly system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth.

It is a public service from Florida International University sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the United States Geological Survey, and IBM.

World Heritage Tour

It was yesterday I came across the World-Heritage-Tour website. Here's what it says as its mission:

• Making of a documentary image bank with panoramic pictures and interactive virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO.
• Dissemination of these virtual reality movies for documentation and promotion of the World Heritage.
• Using multimedia techniques in an edutainment mode to raise awareness on the preservation of the World Heritage.
• Promoting the notion of sustainable tourism in the head of local administration, tourists and travelers.

Below is a panos sample from India:
Each panography entry is provided with its UNESCO ID, panos, type (Natural or Cultural) and the time of formation.

A great tool to find out UNESCO acknowledged panographies in your country.

Shelfari - A Virtual Bookshelf

Create a virtual shelf to show off your books. Connect with your friends. Discover exciting new titles. Voice your opinion. All for free. Read.Share.Explore

The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!


Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations.


With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about.

McDonald's Hamburger Secret Recipes

McD is your favourite?
You are not unique. You are just one among the millions who can't just live without the delicious recipes from McDonalds. Now that the catch is.... you can make those recipes, and yes you need not have to go to a McD outlet anymore if it is for merely eating those delicacies.

Stuffucanuse.com has a wonderful post which discusses few of the most famous recipes from McD.

Recipes covered includes:

• McD Regular hamburger
• The Big Mac
• Old-School Cheeseburger
• Bacon-Double Cheeseburger
• Quarter Pounder
• French Fries
• Filet~O-Fish

It is high time that you try it out for your own.

ASCII Generator

ASCII Generator is a tool from network-science which will convert any text to its ASCII form.

A great tool to stylise texts, especially the ones to be used in forums or orkut. The best part is that it is completely free.