How To Videos, 15 Great Places To Explore & Learn

Sometime simplest of tasks like ‘how to knot’ can be difficult to scrap through. Be it computer or daily life - here are 15 great resources with loads of ‘how-to’ videos to explore and learn new way of doing things.

1. Oodlebox TV(http://oodleboxtv.com/)

Get oodles of ‘How-to’ videos on this website. It is a digital community of do-it-yourselfers organized around video channels of how-to knowledge, techniques, tips and resources to add oodles of style and grace to your lifestyle, home, or garden.


2. HelpFulVideo(http://helpfulvideo.com/ )

This is personal favorite - helpfulvideo has loads of video that can be of big help. No login or registeration required, view any video and you can even download them with a click of button

3. ShowMeDo (http://showmedo.com/)

Learning programming languages by watching videos. Very geeky and unique videos to get comfortable with Python (nearly 100 videos), Ruby (and Rails), Perl, Blender and PhotoShop.

4. Tubetorial (http://www.tubetorial.com/)

Cool ‘how-to’ videos on Wordpress, hosting, database and other releated tasks explained in simplest of form in videos

5. Vidpedia (http://www.vidipedia.org/)

It is a virtual Wikipedia of ‘How-to’ learning videos. You can watch videos from different cateogries, download theme, embed them and even EDIT them.


6. TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com/channels.php)

Problem with maths? Problem reading and writing? Get basic things do in more simple manner by following elementary videos at TeachersTube featuring loads of educational videos.



7. VideoJug (http://www.videojug.com/)

Another excellent place to watch videos that include informative “How To” and “Ask The Expert” films that guide you, step-by-step, through everything and anything in life.


OTHER ‘HOW-TO’ VIDEO RESOURCES....

8. Youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/) has loads of ‘how-to’ and DIY videos.

9. Sclipo (http://sclipo.com/ ) help you learn new things with informative videos.

10. Metacafe ( http://www.metacafe.com/tags/howto/) ‘How-to’ video channel has lot of video worth a view.

11. Howtovdos ( http://www.howtovdos.com/) has selected computer how-to videos agrregated on the site.

12. Ubuntu Clips ( bhttp://ubuntuclips.org/ ) has video ‘how-to’ for everyone who is new to Ubuntu.

13. Expert Village (http://www.expertvillage.com/) has expert videos that to answer your everyday questions.

14. Puppy Linux (http://rhinoweb.us/) for how-to videos on performing basic tasks in Linux.

15. 5Min Life (http://www.5min.com/) Videpedia for one-stop for instructional videos and DIY projects.

40 Must Know IM Abbreviations For Quick Chatting

Want to put your IM chatting experience on steroids? Well, checkout 40 Must know IM Abbreviations to speed up your IM conversations with a dash of style and ease. Here goes:

01-10 | A TO F

• AKA: Also Known As
• ASAP: As Soon As Possible
• BRB: Be Right Back
• BTW: By The Way
• BAK: Back At Keyboard
• BBL: Be Back Later
• B4N: Bye For Now
• F2F: Face To Face
• FYI: For Your Information
• FYA: For Your Amusement

11-20 | G TO I

• G2G: Got To Go
• GFY: Good For You
• GL: Good Luck
• GTGB: Got To Go Bye
• IM: Instant Message
• ILU: I Love You
• IOW: In Other Words
• IMO: In My Opinion
• IRL: In Real Life
• ITS: I Told You So

21-30 | K TO R

• KIT: Keep In Touch
• LTL: Lets Talk Later
• LOL: Laughing Out Loud
• NYO: Need Your Opinion
• NP: No Problem
• LU: Looking Up
• PLS: Please
• POS: Parents Over Shoulder
• POV: Point Of View
• ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing

31-40 | T TO W

• TMI: Too Much Info
• TIA: Thanks In Advance
• TTYL: Talk To You Later
• TTFN: Ta Ta For Now
• TX: Thanks
• TY: Thank You
• TU: Thank You
• U: You
• U2: You Too
• WB: Welcome Back

15+ Free Tools To Play With Images Online, Get Creative

With more and more people clicking pictures with ever increasing digital gadgets, demand for easy to use image editing alternatives is on the rise.

There are number of new online services that allow you to edit photos without installing any software on your computer.

Besides being free, these are easy to use and make you a photoshop geek - without actually having to learn photoshop. So, here goes cool tools to play with images online:



1. Splashup(http://www.splashup.com/)

Formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.



2. Picnik ( http://www.picnik.com/)

It fast, free and fun way to play with images stored on Flickr, Facebook, PhotoBucket, Picasa, webshots or on your computer. It makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.


3. LunaPic (http://www.lunapic.com/)

It can for sure add life to your images. Animating images has never been so easy and quick before. Lunapic is a low profile yet a powerful Online Photo Editor.


4. FlauntR (http://www.flauntr.com/)

Another cool option to play with images online. Beside being easy and free, it has well designed and easy to use editing tool layout. This is for sure true - FlauntR is made for everyone, so that anyone can be a professional.


5. FotoFlexer ( http://fotoflexer.com/)

It allows you to render some cool photoshop like effects to your images. Besides being flexible, it has seamless integration with photo hosting services like Flickr, Photobucket, MySpace and much more. An advanced photo editor which is easy to use.


6. Phixr (http://www.phixr.com/)

A portable online solution to ‘Phix’ your photos. Besides the basic photo editing and effects, it has integration with photohosting websites like PhotoBucket, Flickr.

7. Graphita (http://www.graphita.com/)

It is more of a fun image editor minus the clutter of regular image editor. It allows you to add funny captions and all types of strange objects to images. You can also add bubbles, words and doodles. Strictly for fun with images.

8. Pixenate (http://pixenate.com/)

It is very basic image editing online tool. It does not advanced editing feature but a handy option for basic quick image editing needs like - resize, crop, rotate, zoom, adding sepia effect and few more.

9. CellSea (http://www.cellsea.com/media/index.htm)

Another cool alternative for basic images editing and manipulation. To get started, Simply upload image from your computer or enter image URL. Supported file format: jpg, gif, png, bmp, tiff, fpx and pnm, with maximum allowed file size: 10MB


10. 72Photos (http://72photos.com/)


It is like Flickr with image editing features. You can upload loads of photos, arrange them in galleries. Besides, you can also perform basic images editing operations on images in your account. It is a combo if images hosting and basic image editing.


11. OnlinePhotoTool (http://www.onlinephototool.com/)

You can edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online.It supports basic image functions - image Resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepia, black and white.

12. MyImager (http://www.myimager.com/)


Another online tools which support basic image operations. MyImager has a primitive interface with number of dropdown boxes and does not support images files greater than 500Kbs in size.



13. SnipShot (http://snipshot.com/)

It allows you to edit photos stored on your computer or on Flickr account. Free version has most of basic image editing functions. PRO version has more features to play with.

14. Pixer.us (http://www.pixer.us/)

With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser. Upload your photo using the ‘load image’ form and you can start to play with it.


15. Picture2Life (http://www.picture2life.com/)

It allows you to edit, collage, animate and share your pictures online. Upload the picture from your computer and get going.



16. PikiFx (http://www.pikifx.com/)

No need to register or login, just upload image from your computer or provide URL and start playing with it. It has basic image editing options like resize, crop, effects etc.

40 Ways To Watch Free TV & Movie Channels Online

Love your computer too much? Don’t get time to watch TV? Well, bring TV to your computer to ease out your Techno Life. Here goes list of 40 places to catch TV and movie content online:

Veoh

Watch loads of video clips and free TV online. Catch latest episodes of selected shows for free super quick viewing.
Link: http://www.veoh.com/

AOL Television

Free TV viewing service from AOL. Lot of shows and videos on-board to keep you busy and entertained.
Link:http://television.aol.com/in2tv

FreeTube

Loads of free channels on offer. Just select the category of your choice and live channel should load up in few minute for immediate viewing.
link:http://freetube.us.tc/

TVLand

Get hooked to classic shows like The Addams Family. Full episodes available for online viewing along with selected movies.
LINK: http://www.tvland.com/


BBC Online

Catch latest news from BBC online in widescreen format. Watch the BBC London evening news bulletin from any day of the week.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/06/03/tvnews.shtml


Yahoo TV

Featured video content from number of hugely popular TV shows. Get started by selecting a show of your choice. Some regions may not able to view show due to region blocking.
Link:http://tv.yahoo.com/

Hulu

Excellent place to catch latest television shows and movie. It is all free and accessible, only to US visitors!
Link: http://www.hulu.com/


Beeline TV

Watch free online TV channels from around the world. Enjoy news, TV shows, movies, music, entertainment and sports.
Link: http://beelinetv.com/


ITV

It is the biggest TV network UK showcasing their content online. It offer featured previews and trailers of various shows. There is not much full episodic content for free online viewing.
Link:http://www.itv.com/

SurfTheChannel

Latest videos served for free online viewing. It indexed video upload on 3rd party video websites and display them with a clean interface.
Link:http://www.surfthechannel.com/

TVShack

Another very cool place to watch free online TV with loads of featured, recommended and top viewed content neatly listed on the homepage.
LINK: http://tvshack.net/
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OTHER PLACES TO KEEP YOU BUSY ONLINE

Choose and Watch with over 300 channels. (http://www.chooseandwatch.com/)

Channel Chooser just pick, push and play.(http://www.channelchooser.com/)

TV Video for popular shows online(http://tv-video.net/)

BabelGum with free ad supported videos.(http://www.babelgum.com/)

ChannelKing free TV channels around the world.(http://www.channelking.com/)

Steamick for over 300 online TV channels.(http://www.streamick.com/)

Tioti to discover, watch TV everywhere.(http://www.tioti.com/)

ABC Player for ABC’s popular Shows.(http://abc.go.com/player/)

Current for online vieweing of latest events.(http://current.com/)

WorldTVpc for TV stream from around the world.(http://www.worldtvpc.com/)


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FEW MORE FREE ONLINE TV PARADISE

NewsFilm Library for vintage video viewing.(http://www.sc.edu/library/newsfilm/)

Live TV Online for lot of online channel links.(http://www.live-online-tv.com/)

Blip.TV for lot of popular shows online viewing.(http://blip.tv/)

Miro software to turn computer into online TV.(http://www.getmiro.com/)

Zap2it for recommended TV viewing list.(http://www.zap2it.com/)

Yahoo Video Search to dig videos you want.(http://video.search.yahoo.com/)

Food Network with video on cooking & recipes.(http://www.foodnetwork.com/)

TVU Player for variety of online channels.(http://www.football4less.com/streams/tvuplayer.html)

TV Muppet for Free TV shows, movies online.(http://www.tvmuppet.com/)

GreatOnlineTVfor indexed content from Youtube.(http://www.greatonlinetv.com/)


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NEED MORE? . .. HERE GOES 10 MORE PLACES FOR ONLINE TV

Wasabi TV with loads of Australia specific video content.(http://www.wasabitv.com.au/)

ElectroNeed for more online TV shows & movie viewing.(http://www.electroneed.com/)

CBS News Videos for latest news in videos.(http://www.cbsnews.com/video/)

Your TV Links to search TV stuff on the web.(http://www.yourtvlinks.com/)

WorldWide Media Project to search media on web.(http://www.worldwidemediaproject.com/)

LiveFotty for free football match viewing.(http://www.live-footy.org/)

Allue with loads of TV shows on offer.(http://www12.alluc.org/alluc/)

JOOST - GOOGLE VIDEOS - DAILYMOTION(http://video.google.com/)

5 Smart Ways To Search Multiple Search Engines

Search engines are very important for every netizen to search for required information. Generally we use Google OR Yahoo OR Live to search. How about replacing OR with AND by using multiple search engines at the same time?

You get more results spread across different search engines in less time. Here goes five such web services to search multiple search engines.-

1. Joongel ( http://www.joongel.com/ ) - Search a keyword and get results from 10 leading websites in non-intrusive manner. Result page open in a new window with cut bar at the top, which you can use to get results from other search engine. Quick and fast..

2. SearchBoth ( http://www.searchboth.com/) - It allows you to search 2 specific search engines at the same time. For example search Google & Yahoo or Monster & Hotjobs at the same time.

3. Search.io ( http://search.io/) - It allows you to search multiple search engine with the comfort of ever so familiar tabs. Each tab represent a different search engine, click on get results.

4. Zuula (http://www.zuula.com/ ) - It allows you to search over 10 search engine from the same window. By default results from Google are shown. You can chose the search engine from the top bar and get results from other search engine. Works pretty good!

5. PolyCola ( http://www.polycola.com/) - Formerly known as GoogleYahoo, PolyCola now allows search results from number of search engines besides Yahoo and Google. Just like search both, results are shown in two panes on the same window.

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17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!

17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!


From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically, been around the world literally, and changed the way humans live permanently.

Nothing can replace it, nothing is like it, and it has no alternative. The internet is like a diamond mine for the people who wish to acquire wealth, a profound lake of information for those who have an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and an eternal form of entertainment for those wish to amuse themselves.

With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.

In no particular order, Skidzopedia provides you with a list of those people who have influenced the Internet greatly.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.



Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were defiantly not building steam engines!

They were, however, creating the internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.

Google was first launched on Stanford’s website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.

David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.



Yahoo! too is the creation of two Stanford University’s Electrical Engineer graduates, called Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and named it “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Then, he decided to switch it to Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

In December 1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified Yahoo! as a web portal.

David Filo’s net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and Jerry Yang’s is $2.3 billion dollars.


Bill Gates – Microsoft



William Henry “Bill” Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.

Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.




Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)

After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets.

Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company’s largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and industries.


Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook



One of the most admired and successful youngster of the 21st century is a 24 years old Harvard graduate – the world’s youngest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion

He founded Facebook, the online social networking website. Zuckerberg launched The Facebook (FaceMatch) from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and started promoting it to all Ivy League schools and some Boston institutions.

Soon, he bought over Facebook.com domain name. Facebook is now a household name with people of all ages, groups and interests, interacting with each other. Its business and pleasure at the same time!


Kevin Rose – Digg



You all know Kevin, don’t you? Perhaps one of the most respected internet idealist and TV show host, Kevin Rose has definitely placed a huge impacts among all Digg users.

He became well known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV’s popular show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! ) until his departure from the network on May 2005.

He also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 besides his popular Digg.com, social-bookmarking website. He created Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer who Kevin Rose paid $12 per hour through eLance.

Kevin Rose later bought Digg.com domain name for $1,200 and then went on to buy larger server space. Digg received an ultra boost of capitals when they received $2.8 million of venture capital from Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners.


Bram Cohen – BitTorrent



Best known as the developer, co-founder and author behind peer-to-peer sharing, Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent. The other day a cousin of mine said “Bit Torrent has made life easier!” That’s how easily we can sum up the achievements of this man.

Bram Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he quit his job at MojoNation to work in BitTorrent. He firstly revealed his ideas in a CodeCon conference and started luring beta testers by collecting free pornography.

He then spent some time working with Valve, but quit his job later to work in BitTorrent Inc. with his brother and business partner Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment


Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment



Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by Activision Blizzard.

He is best know for his creation of a popular online gaming fantasy, World of Warcraft (WoW). It has over 10 million online gamers, raking Morhaime at least $1.5 billion every year.

Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia



Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia: a free and open content encyclopedia launched in 2001. He is also the co-founder of Wikia, a privately own web hosting company set up in 2004.

Jimmy Wales at first started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia which is Nupedia. He then utilized the ideas of Nupedia with his “wiki” software to form today’s Wikipedia.

His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world’s most influential people.

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube



Chad Hurley (aged 28) and Steve Chen (aged 27) became the founders of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet.

Chad Hurley used to work for eBay’s PayPal in the designing department where he designed their logo. Together with PayPal colleagues, Jared Karim and Steve Chen, Chad founded YouTube in 2005.

Google later acquired YouTube at $1.65 billion dollars.


Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon



Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman of board, president and the chief executive officer of Amazon.com, a major e-commerce company that sells goods through the Internet. His net worth is currently at $8.2 billion dollars.

He was named Time magazine Person of the Year in 1999.


Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture



Inventor of Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platform, Shawn Fanning is a computer programmer who developed Napster when he was still pursuing his studies in Northeastern University, Boston.

Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately ended up causing the cessation of the service.

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool that facilitates profiles and communications of online gamers in World of Warcraft.


Pierre Omidyar – eBay



Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay, an online auctioning marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. With a net worth of about $7.7 billion dollars, Omidyar and his wife Pam, are one of those entrepreneurs that go beyond doing profits, which is by contributing to non-profits organizations and aiding start-ups.

He wrote the source code of eBay when he was 28 years old in 1995. Initially, he decided to name his auction site after his consulting firm, Echo Bay but unfortunately, echobay.com was already taken. To save up his Internet service provider cost, he registered eBay.com.


Jack Ma – Alibaba



A similar site like ebay, was founded by Jack Ma, in 1999. It is basically a China-based business marketplace site that serves international businesses.

Alibaba Group then founded TaoBao.com, which is an online auction website that is pretty much similar to eBay and instead of paying through PayPal, TaoBao’s currency is AliPay. Yahoo Inc. then acquires 40% stocks worth over $1 billion dollars.


Craig Newmark – Craigslist



Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur that invented the Craigslist, with over 14.1 million page-views a month, Craigslist.org is one of the most visited website on the Internet.

Craigslist is a centralized network of communities, featuring free advertisements and forums on various topics.


Matt Mullenweg – WordPress




If it weren’t for Matt Mullenweg creating WordPress, I would not have been here writing at this blog and you all wouldn’t have been reading this article.

At the age of 19, he invented the core of Wordpress, and later on when he turned 24, quit his job at CNET to fully focus on developing WordPress – a blogging platform.

He is also the founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress as well as famous spam fighter, Akismet.


Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web



Sir Tim Berners-Lee; the father of World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is also the founder of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology which comprises of companies that are willing to create standards and improvements of the Web.

From my point of view, if it wasn’t for him, none of the above mentioned personalities existed.


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Thomas Anderson – MySpace



Thomas “Tom” Anderson is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He is one of the people identified as a founder of the site, along with CEO Chris DeWolfe.

Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default “friend,” he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of November 20, 2008, Tom has over 250 million “friends”, a number which is constantly increasing due to new MySpace accounts being created.

In 2003, working for eUniverse under the preview of Brad Greenspan he and a few other eUniverse employs set up the first pages of MySpace and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking website in the United States, and is the most popular website for teenagers as well.

Interesting Fact: According to several sources, in 1985 then 14-year-old San Pasqual High School (Escondido, California) student Tom Anderson was a computer hacker operating under the alias “Lord Flathead“.

He was known for leading a team that broke into Chase Manhattan Bank computers, altered records and left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the system he would destroy records. He was never charged.


Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon



Garrett Camp is the co-founder as well as the chief architect of Stumbleupon, a social bookmarking site that lets you discover and share new websites from all over the world. StumbleUpon took-off in November 2001, and continued, until late 2005 when it was moved to San Francisco.

To be more precise, StumbleUpon was founded by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd during Garrett’s time in post-graduate school (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada).

The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O’Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco. Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith now reside in San Francisco, where StumbleUpon is headquartered.

According to its About page, Stumble Upon has over 6,443,266 users.The majority of which are between the ages of 18 and 45 (in English-speaking countries). Half in the United States, half abroad, and the majority using Firefox.


Linus Torvalds – Linux

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project’s coordinator.

Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed “Freax” – a combination of “free”, “freak”, and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system, but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds’ directory linux.

Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel

Top 10 Nations by Average Internet Speeds

At the end of 2008, approximately 19 per cent Internet connections around the world were at speeds greater than 5 Mbps - a 21 per cent increase over the average global connection speed at the end of 2007.

This is according to the State of the Internet report, a quarterly study by Akamai Technologies, the US-based Internet content distribution giant. The State of the Internet report tracks average connection speeds for countries around the world.

Check out the top 10 nations in terms of average Internet connection speed.

1. South Korea
South Korea rules supreme when it comes to Internet connection speed and broadband connectivity. It is the world's No.1 with average connection speed of 15 Mbps, ten times the global average!

During 2008, South Korea's rate of quarterly change appeared to be locked into a cyclical pattern, with quarterly decreases being recorded in the first and third quarters, and increases seen in the second and fourth quarters.

For the whole year, South Korea saw a modest 7 per cent rise in their levels of high broadband adoption. South Korea is also ranked first in terms of high broadband connectivity with 69 per cent connections above 5 Mpbs.

2. Japan
Japan ranks 2nd in terms of Internet connection and high broadband connectivity. Japan ranks 2nd in terms of high broadband connectivity. About 54 per cent of the connections in Japan are above 7 Mbps.

3. Hong Kong
Hong Kong ranks third with an Internet connection speed of 6.9 Mbps. The country ranks fifth in terms of high broadband connectivity with 38 per cent of the connection above 5 Mbps.

4. Romania
Romania is at the fourth position with a Internet connection speed of 5.7 Mbps. The country ranks third in terms of high broadband connectivity with 45% of the connection above 5 Mbps.

5. Sweden
Sweden is at the fifth position with a Internet connection speed of 5.6 Mbps. Sweden ranks fourth in terms of high broadband connectivity with 39 per cent of the connection above 5Mbps.

6. Switzerland
Switzerland has bagged the sixth position with an Internet connection speed of over 5 Mbps. The country however does not figure in the top ten list of countries with high broadband connectivity.

7. Netherlands
Netherlands ranks 7th with an Internet connection speed of 4.9 Mbps. The country ranks 7th in terms of high broadband connectivity with 28 per cent of the connections above 5 Mbps.

8. Belgium
Belgium is at the 8th position with an Internet connection speed of 4.7 Mbps. The country ranks sixth in terms of high broadband connectivity with 31 per cent of the connection above 5 Mbps.

9. Slovakia
Slovakia bags the ninth position with an Internet connection speed of 4.5 Mbps. The country does not figure among the top ten in terms of high broadband connectivity.

10. Norway
Norway ranks tenth with an Internet connection speed of 4.5 Mbps. The country ranks fifth in terms of high broadband connectivity with 38 per cent of the connection above 5 Mbps.

United States is at the 17th position with an Internet connection speed of 3.9 Mbps, up approximately 8 per cent from the average connection speed for the first quarter of 2008.

In terms of Internet connection speed, China is way behind leading economies with an average Internet connection speed of 833 kbps.
India has been ranked at a dismal 115th among 223 countries in terms of average Internet connection speeds. India has an average Internet connection speed of just 772 Kbps compared with the global average of 1.5 Mbps.

8 awesome web applications you never knew existed

ControlC

http://www.controlc.com/

ControlC I really like. It’s one of those websites that you think it’s a stupid idea but in theory, it really works. What it does is it acts as a online storage for your copypasta. It’s all encrypted with your password if you feel that you don’t want certain things to be shared.
Why do I think its cool? The fact it’s a tool that is incredibly useful and yet it’s one of those things that nobody has ever created. especially having it web based makes it easily accessible especially if you are not near your computer.


Splashup

Splashup is brilliant. It’s like the Internet having a child with Photoshop. It features many awesome features such as being able to take any photo from the Internet orcomputer. Within the web app you can search from your photosharing services such as flickr, facebook and picasa. The features of this website go on forever. It’s brilliant if you’re on the move or maybe you just don’t want to save space by not installing Photoshop.
Feature list

* Connect to photosharing services such as Flickr, Facebook and Picasa aswell as direct from your computer or a URL.
* Ability to open up more than one image just like in Photoshop
* Ability to use Layers and Blending tools
* You can apply different filters such as Sharpen/Blur and even edit the Hue and Saturation of the image right from your browser.
* Add Layer effects just as you would in Photoshop
* There is a mass amount of Brushes already installed and ready to be used
* Support for text in all shapes and sizes
* Grab a picture from any camera connected to your computer


Roxer - The easiest way to make a web page

Roxer is one of those free websites where you choose what you want but this is with a difference. Roxer gives you the ability to freely develop and easily maintain a website with no coding required. Roxer was co-founded by someone I also respect, Jeremiah Grossman more commonly known for being the founder of WhiteHat Security. Knowing that a security expert is on the development team really means that your website is gonna be safe as they can make it, even if Jeremiah says they’re not the best of developers! What appeals most I believe is the fact that it uses drag and drop content editing. You type up the content and the simply drag it where you want it. It’s a very simple concept and is really useful for people that aren’t tech-savvy.


orangutag.com

Orangutag is for TV fanatics, myself for example. What Orangutag does is it lists most, if not all of the shows on television in which you can “tag” yourself onto. Once you’ve tagged yourself onto a certain show Orangutag creates a RSS feed which gives you the latest updates on new episodes so you’ll never miss your favourite show.


MintEmail - Disposable/Temporary Email Address

Mint e-mail is a bit like one of those websites that give you an e-mail account but it gets deleted after a certain time so you can use it to sign up to things you’re never going to use again. The difference with MintEmail is that instead of logging into a e-mail server the page is shown via AJAX in the current page. so there’s no login.

The website also generates your account name and even copies it to your clipboard ready to be pasted but if you’re that picky about your e-mail you can create a custom one as well as being able to set up a custom e-mail forwarder to your address which can last longer than 4 hours which is what you get with an account.


FILSH.net - YouTube Download kostenlos und einfach

Filsh is a bit like that old YouTubeRipper website except this one has much better functions. What I really love about this is you can edit the video to how you want it to be before downloading it such as changing the BitRate of the video and even the format. This is also has a wider range ofwebsites that can be used with the program, Pretty much anything that has a “Youtube like” flv player can be used.


File Destructor 2.0 - Hype Magazine

I love this. It’s a good idea but it can however, get in you into a bit of trouble. What FileDestructor does is let you create corrupt documents so they won’t open or will appear incorrectly rendering them inoperable. As described on their site, it’s for the lazy people who don’t wish to do their assignments for school or college and rather be off doing something else.


Send RSS feeds to your email | Home

Fed up of RSS feeds being constantly updated? Dont like how unreadable the things are? Then why not setup a SendMeRSS e-mail. It takes the feed information and sticks it into a readable format without the hassle of having to set up a reader.

``` happy birthday to the internet ```

``` happy birthday to the internet ```



The 'Internet' turned 40 today. It may sound strange, but today it is quite impossible to think of world without the 'World Wide Web'.
On Sept 2, 1969, around about 20 people gathered in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles and two bulky computers were used to pass test data through a 15-foot gray cable. That was the beginning of the Internet. Now, 40 years later, we take a look at the Internet timeline.
Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet
1969: On September 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network. The first connection between two sites UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California takes place on October 29, though the network crashes after the first two letters of the word "logon." UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah later join.
1970: Arpanet gets first East Coast node, at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Mass.
1972: Ray Tomlinson brings e-mail to the network, choosing "at" symbol as way to specify e-mail addresses belonging to other systems.
1973: Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway.
1974: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop communications technique called TCP, allowing multiple networks to understand one another, creating a true Internet. Concept later splits into TCP/IP before formal adoption on January 1, 1983.
1983: Domain name system is proposed. Creation of suffixes such as ".com," ''.gov" and ".edu" comes a year later.
1988: One of the first Internet worms, Morris, cripples thousands of computers.
1989: Quantum Computer Services, now AOL, introduces America Online service for Macintosh and Apple II computers, beginning an expansion that would connect nearly 27 million Americans online by 2002.
1990: Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
1993: Marc Andreessen and colleagues at University of Illinois create Mosaic, the first Web browser to combine graphics and text on a single page, opening the Web to the world with software that is easy to use.
1994: Andreessen and others on the Mosaic team form a company to develop the first commercial Web browser, Netscape, piquing the interest of Microsoft Corp. and other developers who would tap the Web's commerce potential. Two immigration lawyers introduce the world to spam, advertising their green card lottery services.
1995: Amazon.com Inc. opens its virtual doors.
1996: Passage of US law curbing pornography online. Although key provisions are later struck down as unconstitutional, one that remains protects online services from liability for their users' conduct, allowing information and misinformation to thrive.
1998: Google Inc. forms out of a project that began in Stanford dorm rooms. US government delegates oversight of domain name policies to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Justice Department and 20 states sue Microsoft, accusing the maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system of abusing its market power to thwart competition from Netscape and others.
1999: Napster popularizes music file-sharing and spawns successors that have permanently changed the recording industry. World Internet population surpasses 250 million.
2000: The dot-com boom of the 1990s becomes a bust as technology companies slide. Amazon.com, eBay and other sites are crippled in one of the first widespread uses of the denial-of-service attack, which floods a site with so much bogus traffic that legitimate users cannot visit.
2002: World Internet population surpasses 500 million.
2006: World Internet population surpasses 1 billion.
2008: World Internet population surpasses 1.5 billion. China's Internet population reaches 250 million, surpassing the United States as the world's largest. Netscape's developers pull the plug on the pioneer browser, though an offshoot, Firefox, remains strong. Major airlines intensify deployment of Internet service on flights.

" 50 things that are being killed by the Internet "

The Internet has been touted as one of the most useful tool for the last two decades, and has had a huge impact on our lives, but along with its benefits, the World Wide Web has also had some negative impacts on people.

While tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have become redundant.

The Telegraph has compiled a list of 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the web and other tools of modern communication, from products and business models to life experiences and habits.

These things are:

1. The art of polite disagreement

2. Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity's death

3. Listening to an album all the way through

4. Sarah Palin

5. Punctuality

6. Ceefax/Teletext

7. Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase

8. Telephone directories

9. The myth of cat intelligence

10. Watches

11. Music stores

12. Letter writing/pen pals

13. Memory

14. Dead time

15. Photo albums and slide shows

16. Hoaxes and conspiracy theories

17. Watching television together

18. Authoritative reference works

19. The Innovations catalogue

20. Order forms in the back pages of books

21. Delayed knowledge of sporting results

22. Enforceable copyright

23. Reading telegrams at weddings

24. Dogging

25. Aren't they dead? Aren't they gay?

26. Holiday news ignorance

27. Knowing telephone numbers off by heart

28. Respect for doctors and other professionals

29. The mystery of foreign languages

30. Geographical knowledge

31. Privacy

32. Chuck Norris's reputation

33. Pencil cricket

34. Mainstream media

35. Concentration

36. Mr Alifi

37. Personal reinvention

38. Viktor Yanukovych

39. The insurance ring-round

40. Undiscovered artists

41. The usefulness of reference pages at the front of diaries

42. The nervous thrill of the reunion

43. Solitaire

44. Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes

45. Prostitute calling cards/ kerb crawling

46. Staggered product/film releases

47. Footnotes

48. Grand National trips to the bookmaker

49. Fanzines

50. Your lunchbreak

How do popular websites looked when they launched

1. google.com - launched in 1996


2. facebook.com - launched in 2004


3. myspace.com - launched in 2003


4. yahoo.com - launched in 1994


5. youtube.com - launched in 2005


6. wikipedia.org - launched in 2001


7. msn.com - launched in 1995


8. apple.com - launched in 1987


9. flickr.com - launched in 2004