Sounds interesting, huh? Take a look at this demo video.

More details at Autonomous Car Project page.

FedEx: Statue of Sugarloaf

They merged the Statue of Liberty and Christ the Redeemer!

Veikkaus Football Betting: Rollercoaster

DHL: Page

McDonald’s: Pole

Guinness: Halloween

The idea is in the mirror the glass has no reflection.

Timberland: The world at your feet, Boots

Waterproof 6′’ premium boot wheat nu buck.

Prime TV True Blood: Vampire Lair

When work on one of Auckland’s largest developments stopped, the public were lead to believe the recession caused it. DRAFTFCB Auckland let them in on the real reason.

Axe: Puppy effect

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: America

Save the Children: Child worker

Laptopfriendlycafes.com: Cursor Cup

Hostess CupCakes: Filling 90 years with fun

IOM: Shopping Cart

What’s behind the things we buy? buyresponsibly.org

Sanyo SV-SS 10 Razor: Flat face

Ignores facial contours. Sanyo SV-SS 10 with 3D floating head system.

GettingRandom is one more ‘time waster’ like Omegle and a cool dating medium that harnesses the power of Facebook demographics. You can choose to chat by gender (ie. talk to guys or girls). Because this is a application built on the Facebook platform, it has access to profile data that helps make for better matches between chatting partners - whether by age, gender, location or interests.

The two chatters are still strangers to each other, but it can try to find optimal chatting partners thanks to Facebook profile data. “Currently, we match based on gender; soon, we will be offering the ability to filter by location (ie. same country, same city; choose to chat with someone in Italy, etc.) and even by interesting activity-like chat with someone who’s also passionate about tennis.” said Bob Chandra, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of GettingRandom.

A primary way in which GettingRandom differs from other stranger chat, is that this Facebook application is used a lot for dating chat. This app also lets you use a auto-translating service in case you need it.

As per Bob, “The idea is to create the best possible environment for chat and not let a few spammers/abusers ruin the experience for everyone.” Time will tell. What’s your experience so far?

Then how is Blogsome unique from others?

Blogsome is unique in the sense it also gives you the option to tweak the theme and customize it in the way you like. For example this blog was started using this theme. It also lets bloggers to take a maximum of five backups of their theme files. To elaborate a bit about the backend engine of Blogsome here’s what The Uvular R, the Blogsome site admin has to say:

Blogsome actually runs on WordPress Cognotent (Cognotent being the name of the company which manages Blogsome). As the name indicates, this software is descended from WordPress, but it is different in a number of respects. This means that the WordPress documentation is sometimes inapplicable.

The Blogsome documentation is available here.

Well I sometimes wonder too like you about what am I doing here and why am I not moving to my own domain? Why am I not growing up? There are two reasons: 1) This is my first blog 2) There are numerous limitations at Blogsome and I find it really challenging to overcome those barriers and tweak the code in my own way, just like you. Their service is also quite satisfactory (except that they don’t upgrade the Wordpress version which is still 1.5.1-alpha)

A few years ago I showed how to make a customized 404 error page which is SEO friendly too. In this topic let us discuss on how to distinguish or detect home page, category page, post page, archive page.

We will be using the ‘REQUEST_URI’ variable and match it with a string. You may use the following codes anywhere in your index.html, posts.html, comments.html file. If you are unclear about the codes at first try it in your blog and see the output. If you are still unclear leave a note here.

1. Home Page

The URI of the home page looks like http://webtips.blogsome.com/ But while doing URI detection, we will be only considering the portion after TLD (.com) which in this case is /. So to detect a home page we have to check whether the URI of the page is ‘/’.

{if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/'}This is the Home Page.{/if}

2. A Post or a ‘Page’

In both cases we need to match the exact URI we are trying to detect.

{if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/2006/09/15/javascript-webpage-preloader/'}This is a post.{/if}

{if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/javascript-website-preloader/'}This is a page.{/if}

3. Category Page

The URI of a category page looks like /category/blogging-tips/ Now to check a category page we need to see if the first 10 characters of an URI is ‘category’. We cannot consider the category name since it may vary.

{if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI|truncate:10:'':true == '/category/'}This is a category page.{/if}

4. Archive Page

The URI of an archive page looks like /2009/06/ (i.e. /yyyy/mm/) To check an archive page we need to see if the number of characters in the REQUEST_URI variable is 9.

{if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI|count_characters == '9'}This is an archive page.{/if}

How to use the code for theme optimization?

You may use these codes in various ways. For example check the post header font size in the home page and in post pages.

Hope these tips help you in your blogging endavor at Blogsome. If your blog is not hosted at Blogsome and you still want to use these codes, just ask Google on how to convert the codes into your blog’s native language.

Not only can you read them, you may even save the pages in your desktop for offline reading and archiving purpose. And of course what you will read are actually latest versions of the magazines.

List of Popular Magazines that can be Read for Free

This tip will let you read any digital magazines that are exclusively available for iPhone users online including the following ones available at zinio.

U.S. News & World Report, Playboy (Adult), Saveur, Popular Photography, Men’s Health, Kiplinger’s, Popular Mechanics, Penthouse (Adult), Viv, Car and Driver, PC Magazine, Elle, Technology Review, Outside, Macworld, Esquire, NME, Macworld Espana, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, BlackBook, Foreign Policy, iPhone Life

A bunch of other mags are also available at texterity. Lets now discuss the tip.

Read Popular Online Magazines from Zinio for Free without using iPhone

(Zinio coverts popular magazines/books into image format and offers them for free to the iPhone users)

Open Firefox and follow these simple steps:

• Go to this page and install User Agent Switcher, an addon for Firefox
• Once you restart your browser, add a new user agent manually by following these steps:
  • Go to Tools > Default User Agent > Edit User Agents > New > New User Agent…
  • In the Description field write: My iPhone
  • In the User Agent Field write:

  Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419

  • Now click Ok and close the settings window.
• Now go to www.zinio.com/iphone and start reading your favorite magazine for free!

Thanks a ton to Scott for the tip!

In my next post I will show you how to Quickly Download Your Favorite Magazines from Zinio for Free for Offline Reading.

How Stuff Works?

Just like your personalized profile url, Facebook is giving you a personalized upload email address. Grab it, attach all your photos or videos to an email, specify a subject line and send it to the personalized email address. That’s it! Once Facebook receives your email, it will upload all the snaps, videos to the “Mobile Upload” photo album.

Advantages of this Feature

You can send as many images or videos as you wish. There are no size restrictions.
You no longer need to login to Facebook to upload your stuffs.
Facebook won’t keep you waiting till all the uploads are done. Just send the email and Facebook will take care of the rest!

To get started login to Facebook with your email address and password and go to the mobile page. Locate the “Upload Photos via Email” block and grab your personalized upload email. Now open your email client, attach a snap or a video, add a subject line and send it to the email address. Facebook will do the rest for you!

Upload and Share Photos, Videos via Phone

Uploading and sharing is even easier in case you prefer to do it via phone. Go to Facebook mobile page and get started by sending a text link to your phone. Apart from uploading you can also update your status, search for phone numbers, receive notifications for any friend requests, messages, wall post updates and status updates. Just too many reasons to activate Facebook mobile, isn’t it?

I will love to get connected to you on Facebook and Twitter.

Related Tips

• Tips to Optimize, Customize and Improve Your Facebook Profile Page
• How to Generate a Strong Password for Your Facebook Account

In Twitter itself we have seen many celebrity profiles getting compromised. In the following post I will share a few tips on how to generate and maintain strong and secure passwords. Feel free to effectively use these tips to generate a strong password for any sites including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Ebay.

Best Practices to Generate Strong Passwords

1. Do not use a password string that someone else might know/guess (like your name, date of birth, telephone number, etc.).
2. It should be AT LEAST 6 characters long, 8 characters for Windows NT.
3. Do not use a string that is sequential in nature and easily guessable (like password, asdfg, your name, 123, etc.) Try to randomize the string.
4. It must be alpha-numeric in nature (i.e. it must be a combination of alphabets and numbers).
5. It should contain both UPPER and lower case characters.
6. It must contain some special characters, punctuation marks (like @, $, ^, !, ?).

Step by step Guide to Generate a Sample Strong Password that You can Easily Remember and Use at Multiple Places

Lets take a test case. Lets try to generate a password for a Twitter account. For every step we are about to follow we will generate a ’string’.

1. String 1: Think of a string that you may associate with the term Twitter.

   Lets assume it to be ‘tweet’. For Google account you may use ‘goog’, for Facebook use ‘fb’.

2. String 2: Think of a 3 digit character string that will be common to all your online accounts (Twitter, Google, Yahoo, etc.).

   In this case lets assume it to be ‘pass’ (the first 3 characters of the word ‘password’).

3. String 3: Think of a 3 digit number that will be common to all your passwords (Twitter, Google, Yahoo, etc.).

   In this case lets assume it to be ‘246′ (instead of 123 which is sequential I multiplied it with 2).

4. String 4: Separate the string 2 and 3 with a DOT or SPACE or UNDERSCORE or HYPHEN and add them.

   In our test case lets use a DOT. Adding string 2 and string 3 we get: pass.246

5. String 5: Capitalize all the alphabets of string 4.

   So ‘pass.246′ becomes ‘PASS.246′

6. String 6: Add string 1 and string 4.

   So we get: tweet + PASS.246 = tweetPASS.246

7. String 7: Now follow this rule set (or create your own) to replace all the alphabets with special characters:
   • Replace ‘a’ or ‘A’ with ‘@’
   • Replace ’s’ or ‘S’ with ‘$’
   • Replace ‘i’ or ‘I’ with ‘!’
   • Replace ‘o’ or ‘O’ with ‘0′ (zero)
   • Replace ‘e’ or ‘E’ with ‘3′
   • Since many sites do not allow SPACES, replace ’space’ with ^

So following the above rule set the final password becomes tw33tP@$$.246 which is not only strong but easy to remember as well. For Google account the password can be g00gP@$$.246 , for Facebook fbP@$$.246

Now use the steps above to generate your own password.

How to check the strength of a password and store it online securely?

Passpack is an online and offline password generator, password strength checker and manager that will do the job for you. For a detailed review please check Passpack Review: An Online Password Management Tool that works Offline too

[Image By BrittneyBush]

Via: @mattcutts | Detailed discussion at Reddit.

Related:

• Enhance your Google Search Experience with CustomizeGoogle
• Make your Google Homepage look Gorgeous
• How To Use Your Gmail Account Id To Login To Your Yahoo Mail?
• Gmail Tip: How to Check If Your Gmail Account (Google Account) is Getting Hacked?

Feedcompare provides an online tool that allows you to compare the number of subscribers of upto four Feedburner feeds over a given period of time. You may compare the metrics in the following date range: 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 months. To use the tool you have to provide the feed names (http://feeds.feedburner.com/webtips) and click on the compare button. There is zoom feature that allows you to scrutinize the stats more precisely. The functionality of the tool is very similar to the ones provided by Alexa and Compete.

Here is a sample feed comparison of Techcrunch, Readwriteweb and Mashable, the three popular web 2.0 blogs:

Click here to subscribe to the WebTips RSS feed and stay updated.

Here is a list of 11 popular Bollywood celebrities who are not only present in Twitter but are pretty active as well.

Gul Panag ( @gulpanag )

Verified: Yes
Followers: 9,045
Following: 88

Mallika Sherawat ( @MallikaLA )

Verified: Yes
Followers: 7,932
Following: 124

Priyanka Chopra ( @priyankachopra )

Verified: No
Followers: 7,184
Following: 13

Preity Zinta ( @preityzinta )

Verified: No
Followers: 4,699
Following: 28

[ You may also follow KingsXI Punjab @kxip ]

Rakhi Sawant ( @rakhisawant )

Verified: No
Followers: 821
Following: 6

Sonam Kapoor ( @sonamakapoor not @sonamkapoor )

Verified: No
Followers: 960
Following: 19

Ayesha Takia Azmi ( @Ayeshatakia )

Verified: No
Followers: 537
Following: 11

Dino Morea ( @DinoMorea9 )

Verified: No
Followers: 335
Following: 13

Uday Chopra ( @udaych )

Verified: No
Followers: 874
Following: 2

Purab Hersh Kohli ( @onephk )

Verified: No
Followers: 1,003
Following: 22

A.R.Rahman ( @arrahman )

Verified: No
Followers: 3,044
Following: 0

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