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In the absence of free and proper vector based graphical material on the internet. Vectorportal.com now exists to provide a portal for finding vector graphics. There are several categories of vector graphics and most of the art is in the EPS fileformat. The portal also contains tutorials and a couple of links. When it comes [...]

TechCrunch wrote this morning about the New “Social” Dictionary a Web 2.0 service dubbed: Word Source. Among its features you can listen to a pronunciation, tag words, rate words and play games. This approach is rather different from Visualizing your Dictionary that I wrote about last week. And I do like its initial simplicity, the [...]

As rumored Apple aired an iPhone teaser at the Oscars last night. The so-called teaser can’t exactly be called a real ad, they have basically with an ounce of legal and copyright paperwork, whipped together a mixture of celebrity actors durnig the past 50 odd years answering the phone. And… saying, you guessed it: Hello! [...]

I have always been fascinated by ASCII Art since my first days using a UNIX terminal. Spending hours making faces out of the character only console. One of the top bookmarks at Del.icio.us today was Glass Giant’s ASCII Art. During last summer they even had live Telnet ASCII coverage of the World Cup, some quite [...]

This weeks picture provides some free advertising in my attempt to take some creative pictures. Saturday morning I was walking by the same location where my POTW 03 was taken, and spotted this formation of cars. The car model is Nissan Qashqai I assume. “The new – QASHQAI – Urban Proof” can be read on [...]

In December I wrote Study Effectively with Noise and Stu.dicio.us. However compared to actual studying for a quiz, test or exam it might not help you all that much. Quizlet on the other hand seems like a good cramming solution, finding its niche in the good tradition of “virtual” flash cards. Quizlets mission is to [...]