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Twitter more than 200million tweets
July 1st, 2011
i’ve wondered how popular Twitter really is, and how many tweets go through their servers daily.
This blew my mind when I read it:
Twitter has achieved a new milestone: Its users now send 200 million tweets per day.
To demonstrate just how large a number that is, Twitter decided to do the math and see how many books could be written with 200 million tweets. According to its calculations, a day’s worth of tweets would be enough to write a 10-million-page book or 8,163 copies of War and Peace. Every second, 2,400 tweets are sent through Twitter’s servers, enough for 1.4 billion tweets per week.
Source: Mashable
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100 Websites you need to know and use
June 28th, 2011
Here is some of the 100 websites you should know about and use:
CURIOSITY & KNOWLEDGE
reuters.com
research.philips.com
readme.cc.png
podtropolis.com
papertoys.com
new7wonders.com
lipsum.com
thomasedison.org
beelinetv.com
useit.com
submarinechannel.com/titlesequences
visual-literacy.org
cartype.com
captology.stanford.edu
bannerblog.com_au
ge.com
curiosityshoppeonline.com
creativecommons.org
lawsofsimplicity.com
gnu.org
digg.com
To see the whole list, check out 100 websites you should know and use
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Web Browser Performance
September 24th, 2010
Some Really interesting facts and figures regarding Browser speeds and usage:
Check it out: Web Browser Performance
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Pyramid cam, live webcam of the pyramids
February 11th, 2009
I think this is a really great idea.
pyramidcam.com has a fixed webcam on the pyramids at Giza 24/7.
Purpose – PyramidCam was conceived principally to provide a unique high quality view over time of the Pyramids at Giza for those around the world who might never have the opportunity to visit – we meant for it to be the next best thing. We also wish to encourage Egypt tourism and judging from the millions of viewers we are reaching and the many many emails that we have received praising the site, wondering at the unique power and beauty of the Pyramids and (the writers) promising to make a visit at the first opportunity, we know we have succeeded, at least in some small degree.
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Things Google can do you might not know about
January 25th, 2009
Here is a list of things and shows you how to do it with Google. Really simple, and really helpfull.
Google, A leading search engine that we use every day to search content on internet. There is no doubt that this is a damn powerful search engine but Google.com is not only for searching the stuffs. In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google.com has many amazing features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for. Some of the most useful features that you can use in your daily life are discussing below. These are 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know, You can use these features without leaving the Google.com and I am sure majority of you did not aware of all the things listed below that Google can do for you.
Read the whole post here: 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know
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Bored of Windows calculator?
January 16th, 2009
Check out this very neat online calculator:
Much better than your standard computer calculator.
I am bored no more.
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Using µTorrent @ Work
January 8th, 2009
I thought I’d share some experience on how to hide uTorrent from those conniving little work sysadmins!
Lets first remove uTorrent from the Add/Remove programs list
1. Download CCleaner: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
2. Open up CCleaner, then click on tools. You will be presented with a “programs to remove” list. These are all of the programs which you have installed. Click on “uTorrent” and click “Delete Entry”.
Hide uTorrent in the “Windows” folder
1. Go to the directory where uTorrent is installed, cut and paste uTorrent into your “Windows” directory or any of its subfolders.
2. Now lets delete the empty uTorrent folder.
Rename uTorrent so thats its harder to recognise as a processes
1. Go to where you moved uTorrent and select the file.
2. There are many different legitimate windows processes open at one time, but one of the most abundant in Windows XP is “svchost”, there are usually about 6 or more of these things running at once, perfect camoflage!
3. Press F2 on your keyboard, this is the windows shortcut to rename. Rename it to “svcost” without the quotation marks
Create a shortcut
1. Right click on uTorrent and go to send to>desktop (create as shortcut).
2. Rename it “U”.
3. Right click, then go to properties and click “Change icon”.
4. If you go to your windows directory, there should be some pretty bland looking icons for applications, we will use the one which looks like a white box with a blue border, this is the icon used for shortcuts with missing icons which will be perfect!
5. Move the shortcut to wherever you like, but make sure it remains hidden somewhere.
Create a Boss Key
This will allow us to use a simple key to hide uTorrent completely from the system and taskbar:
1. Go to uTorrent
2. Click on Edit > Preferences
3. You should be under “General”
4. We will be using the tilde key, which as far as I know is a key nobody uses for anything except playing Quake 
Next to the words “Boss-Key” click in the window and press tilde (thats the button to the left of the number 1 on the keyboard)
5. It should assign a bosskey as Alt and tilde which means you just have to press Alt and tilde to hide uTorrent from prying eyes!
Minimize uTorrent’s signature
1. under UI settings, make sure you have the following:
Close to tray selected
always show tray icon selected
Show Balloon notifications in tray deselected
Minimize to tray selected
Enable Encryption
1. Go into uTorrent
2. Click options > preferences
3. Now click on “Bittorrent”
4. Under protocol encryption, next to outgoing, click “forced”. This should hide uTorrent from any proxy servers or ISP throttling.
And remember, leech from work the smart way! 
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Test your Internet Connection speed
December 31st, 2008
Have a look at this really good Internet connection speed test.
Internet Connection speed test by InternetFrog
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worst URL’s ever.
December 8th, 2008
here is half a list of realy companies with real websites. But their URL’s could be read slightly different.
1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com
Continue reading “worst URL’s ever.” »
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God explained by 8 year olds
December 1st, 2008
It was written by an 8 year old, Danny Dutton of Chula Vista, CA, for his third grade homework assignment. The assignment was to explain God. Wonder if any of us could do as well?
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