Most Interesting Firefox Add-ons

July 30, 2008 · Filed Under Internet · Comment 

Mini Map Sidebar: The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel and get larger scale maps with the Map Tab. Import/Export KML, GPX, minimap xml file, CSV (export only). View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, local search, Google, Yahoo and Live Local directions, view in google earth, tagzania, platial, geourl and many more. Address/Location points are stored locally for later use. Geodiscovery reveals geoURLís or geotags as you browse, with microformat support available as an Operator plugin or natively in Firefox 3 (Adr and Geo). Read more

Symbolic Color Rings of the Olympics Flag

July 29, 2008 · Filed Under Sports · Comment 

Olympics symbolises with five colorful rings interlocked each other. You may be curious to know the story behind  these color rings. The five rings on the Olympic flag that is flown at both the summer and the winter Olympics which alternate bi-annually. The concept for the rings on the Olympic flag and the Olympic flag itself was designed after the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden by a Frenchmen named Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was also the same man who led the revival of the Olympic Games and formed the International Olympic committee in 1894. Read more

Testing Ruggedness- ELCOT Student Laptops

July 26, 2008 · Filed Under Hardware · 2 Comments 

As reported by PC World, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot), a goverment owned company in southern state of India uses an unusual way to test laptop computers that it plans to deliver to students of Tamil Nadu. It looks very unpleasant methodology followed in testing each machine. The laptops are placed on a hard floor and asks people weighing over 80 kilograms to walk all over them to ensure that the computers are rugged and durable.

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Bird’s Nest- Beijing National Olympic Stadium - View in Google Earth

July 25, 2008 · Filed Under Online Maps · 1 Comment 

Get the Google Sketchup 3D model view of Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium (National Olympic Stadium),  Beijing, China in Google Earth. The stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 29th Olympiad, as well as track and field, and soccer events. It has got total capacity of 80000, and with extra temporary seating arrangement, it can accommodate upto 91,000 people.

View Bird’s Nest Stadium in Google Earth

If you do not have Google Earth installed in your system, click here to download it (Windows)

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Create PDF files - Free Online Service

July 13, 2008 · Filed Under Internet, Software · 1 Comment 

Now you can easily convert your documents to PDF with a free online  service. PrimoOnline provides a super-fast way to create PDF files online, without the need to install any PDF software. Simply upload your file, enter your email address, and our server-based PDF creator will quickly convert it to PDF and deliver it straight to your email inbox. PrimoOnline can create PDF files from 300+ file types, but with 5 MB size limit per file. Read more

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