On potentials of nano tech

A funny self-depicting video about Bill Gate’s last day at work starring Bill himself and many celebrities…

In this day and age who wants to go to a photo store to take passport pictures? Take as many digital ones as you want and then use this guide to turn them into passport size and print away…

In our family we abandoned the paper calendar a while back in favor of an online one. This way you can access it from anywhere…this greasemonkey script gives you a integrated view of google calendar within Gmail. It applies only to FireFox and before doing anything you need to install the greasemonkey add-on to firefox.

And here is a guide if you have switched from PC to Mac….for faster acclimatization.

Good Resources for API Design

I was refreshing my mind about API design and wanted to see if there were any good resources online apart from the book that I have. Came across the following 3 hour lecture on how to design APIs which pretty much covers one of the better books I have read on API design. The presenter is the co-author of Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries which I found to be good and useful book.

Setting up new Computer

Some useful tools can be found here…and here is the list to replace built-in tools in XP[via Lifehacker]

How your eyes work on a webpage

A 30 minute interestingvideo on how your eyes actually work viewing a webpage/site. Mostly aimed at web designers and SEO people. Still, I learned a lot…

Can be found here