What's Your Blog Looks Like in Words ?

Ever wonder yourself ? Well, here's zlythern in words via Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds !


This little fun tool will generate the so called 'word clouds' from any given url ^_^
Actually there are 3 input type that Wordle can accept ;) You can give url, text, and a del.icio.us username :)

As with any good tool, it must be simple to use, yet it gives wonderful result ! :D


After you provide the text / url / del.icio.us username, wait a while for the java applet to run it's job, and voila ! You can play around ! Experiment with the Layout and Color menu ;) Or simply hit the Randomize button if you're lazy enough :P

But be sure to put your work into the gallery ;) Just like i did with mine :D If you'd like leave a link to yours in the comment ;) I'll take a look of your art :D

Go ahead, make one Wordle yourself ! Have fun with this one ! I sure am having fun ^_^ I think i'm gonna print this one and stick one up on my desk :D

And a little donation to Jonathan Feinberg will keep this nice tool up ;)

Cute Little Password Bird

This cute little bird will generates random passwords from the information we provide. What's the easiest word for us to remember ? Why, it's a name of course ;) Add that with your favorite words and a date.


The result is a hard-to-guess word that is familiar and easy for you to remember.

This bird does the job well :) I got some which is quite nice such as qur07ern qurzly07 oonzly04. It indeed are familiar with me ;)

PasswordBird.com is highly recommended if you want to generate a password quick ;)



OR if you want a Perfect Password like below:


Then follow through ;) Every time you visit that page it will generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use :D I mean .. wow .. imagine if i have to remember those :P

The Place To Hear All National Anthems

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a country's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.

AllNationalAnthems.com is a website dedicated to collect all Anthems in the world, currently collected 184 countries (yup i count em :P). The good thing about this is the Anthem comes in video format :) So you can see some footage or overview of the country while you hear the Anthem (which probably you don't understand most of them :P)

There are 2 ways you can choose a country. First is using the Yahoo!Maps above, which is easy to navigate. Just scroll around click here and there.

The other is, you go straight away to the bottom of the page, search for the specific country, and click the link ;) If you have trouble seeing those link, then if you're Firefox users or IE7+ users, just press Ctrl + on your keyboard ;)


Inside you'll then find a brief summary of the country, followed by a video of the anthem :) Nice and simple !

Scroll down a little, you'll get to know the weather, the map, and basic information such as population etc.



The data so far is quite up-to-date. The population estimate is from 2007. Which is good ^^

So far AllNationalAnthems.com have given a pretty solid value, the Anthem and some basic summary and information ;)

The only thing that needs to be add is a home link/button. Once you go in to specific country, either you browse through another country using the Yahoo!Maps, or change the url address, and pick the link again from the beginning :P

Have a try and have a nice weekend ^^

Digg-less Feed

If digg.com has 1 weakness, it has to be it's feed, for the feeds leads us to the digg page, not the page that was being dug (or is it dugg?)

There are countless of bookmarklets, add-ons, greasemonkey scripts that pretty much can handle this problem. But i wanted to be able to do it while reading my feeds. Just like a regular action when you see the news on your feed, you just have to click the link, and voila! you're there.

Lately there's a new comer floating around the web: Feeddit.

Feeddit is an improvement to the standard rss feed on Digg.com, it's longer, fatter and more awesome.

There are 100 stories long rather than the regular 40 so you’ll never miss another story.

Each feed item has the actual link so you can skip past the Digg story page and get directly to the story.

The only downside of Feeddit is that we can't configure, or choose some category ourself.

But, if you need to optimize you digg daily reading, then this one will save one click time ;)


After you've subscribed, the above screenshot is a peek of what it'll looked like. You have the same (well, almost the same) feed as usual, but with:

• Header which will bring us the page and not the digg page (which is the main feature)
• A footer that have a link to the Digg page, the Comment section, the Category, the Submitter
  
• And another handy feature, the mirror link ;)

If you're a hardcore digger, who reads everything, this one might save your time ;)

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Some other useful links if you wanted to have a particular feeds, or maybe something that you can configure yourself, check this two out ;)

Direct-link versions of Digg feeds by Pascal Vanhecke


Super Digg Feed v2.0


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Enjoy your weekend everybody ^^

Fast & Easy Way to Get mp3 From FLV Files

Sometimes after i've downloaded an FLV files from YouTube or anything using your favourite tools, i decided i wanted to use some background sound, or songs, just for the sake of hearing it rings on my handphone :P



Well, moitah.net come up with just what i wanted ! A simple tool that can extract the Video and Audio into a separate files. AVI and MP3. Perfect !

To use this tool, one 9 year old boy can even do it after you teach it :P Simply drag-and-drop the FLV files (yes, you can do it multiple files !!)

After that wait a while, oh wait ! You don't need to wait ! After you drop it, the extracted files is there ! IT REALLY IS THAT FAST !

There can't be any other program that'll beat this one.

No-installation, drag-and-drop, simple GUI, BLAZING Fast, and (another plus for the nerds) comes with a FULL Source Code !

YAY ^^ Glad i found this FLV Extract :D


p.s: in case you're wondering the flv file i use in the above screenshot, here you go Centurions ;)


[via: Freeware Genius]

Human Anatomy Online

Innerbody.com brought us a great site of Human Anatomy Online :) What really catch me is their motto.

To provide high quality educational content through low bandwidth Internet access to children, parents and schools worldwide.

You see that 'low bandwidth' thing ? Now that is just perfect :D Well, on a technical side, it's AJAX :D It's those thing that whenever you click something, the page is not being refreshed yet the content is updated ;)

To begin with, Human Anatomy Online have a comprehensive databases from my point of view, since i'm not a doctor or somethin' :P At least i found it that it may have hundreds of graphics, and thousands of descriptive links.

You will have 10 selections to begin with :)


After you click for example, the Skeletal section, then you will see the detail structure of the Skeletal. And to use this Human Anatomy Online tool, it's simple ;) All you have to do is point and click :D

There are dots that mark places, as you can see in the picture below, if you point to one of the dots, the definitions will show up just like a tooltip. And if you're interested in finding out what the heck is this Coracohumeral Ligament thing is ? Then just click it, and the description will be shown to you on the left area ;) All this was done without the page being refreshed ! VERY NICE !


On the right area, there are a quick list of reference if you know what you're looking for, but does not know where it is on the body :P If you point to the one that have a magnifying glass icon on it and examine carefully, each time you point to it, all the other dots will be disappeared, leaving only one dot, one animated dot, yes, animated, which makes it easy to find ;)

Overall, this Human Anatomy Online is a fun, interactive, and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors ;)

Give it a try, at least you have a glimpse of how it feels to be a doctor ;P

Oh, by the way, there's some Animation and Tutorials too ;) See if you can find it :D

Get Your Facebook Notified by FizzBoost !

Lorien Benjamin Gamaroff developed a really useful desktop application. A Notifier. Yes, FizzBoost a Facebook Notifier!

With recent Facebook hype everywhere around the world, you can get many notifications, message, invites, zombies, slayers, etc.

FizzBoost aims to bring the best in alert program. It's the perfect companion to Facebook.

FizzBoost for Windows exploded onto the scene in mid 2007 and immediately made an impression on Facebook users. Bringing together the best of all the other alert programs, its clean interface and snazzy alerts, FizzBoost is the perfect companion to Facebook.

No need to logged in to your Facebook every ten minutes or so. You won't get caught easily by your boss if you had this FizzBoost, while you can still now what happenin' in your Facebook world ;)

FizzBoost is packed with a complete feature you can expect for ;)

• View Facebook Feeds directly in FizzBoost!
• Update your status directly in FizzBoost without having to go to your Profile Page.
• A sound for your notification.
• Twitter Status Updates You can now sync your Status between Facebook and Twitter.
• Notifications of Friend, Group and Event Invites.
• Notifications of Pokes, Unread Mail and Unread Shares.
• The ability to view your friends with convenient shortcuts to Message, Poke, View Profile.
• Notifications of Wall Posts.
• View Friend Photo Albums from within FizzBoost.
• Upload Photos to Albums and Create Albums from within FizzBoost.
• Nifty Event Viewer

More importantly Lorien the developer of this application is really active on the FizzBoost Applications and Discussion Board ;) This is a very nice situation, i certainly choose an application that really had an active developer, not like others who just create and then ignored it completely! Well, i'm not sayin' that the developer should be there 24/7, i mean if the application was 100% perfect then you can do that. Well that might be a little exaggerating :P but again, it's always nice to see the developer are still around right ?

Anyway, like Lorein said,

Try it... you won't be disappointed!

FizzBoost is the best desktop notifier for Facebook ! Highly recommended for you to try it out ;)

Do You Understand "Teen Speak" Language ?

Parents out there, who have kids lurking around the chat room, myspace etc. nowadays these kids have no worry when they chat each other.

This is because they use Acronym to cover their sentence :P and best yet, they use it to type quickly to tell their friends if the parents are coming or nearby :P they called it P911 i never knew this too :P


Not until i found out Teen Chat Decoder ! This super easy to use, accessible everywhere, is a MUST BOOKMARK for you !

You can enter the word in, and the definition will be displayed, and the best thing is, the results are out in AJAX manner :D uh, well, basically you just typed in the word, and you don't need to hit ENTER and wait the page to refresh ;)

Yup, it's so clean and easy, type the word in, and there you have it, NO REFRESH on the page !

AWHFY ? I bet you will l8r ;)

Congratz ! You're All Genius !

According to The Blog Readability Test that is ;)

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If you wanted to know more on How to Measure Your Post's Readability, feel free to check my old post :P

Vector Magic (Beta) IS AWESOME !

Few days back, i was posting a screencast on How to Enlarge Vector Picture Easily Without Losing Quality, this is one way to be able to enlarge an image IF you DONT have the original vector image !

Today when i go through my feed, Simon Willison posted an AWESOME tool to CONVERT ANY IMAGE TO VECTOR ! Brilliant ! And you know what ?! It's Flash ! Flex to be precise ;)

Vector Magic is the result of a Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda.

Vector Magic is capable of tracing images and convert to a vector file, and with a PRECISE results ! Just upload your image and Vector Image will do the converting :D

I will try to give a few Highlights of what this Vector Magic is capable of (it's still even in BETA and am already very impressed)

1. Image Classification



First thing after you upload a picture if will automagically detect your picture's type. Currently they still only have 2 types, photograph and logo. This is not 100% accurate, so be sure to double-check, after it do the detection. But it should get the choice right most of the time ;)

2. Bookmark !



This simple information is brilliant ! If you had big picture to vectorize, and you can't even see the progress bar running, usually you leave the page open. But not anymore ! Just hit Ctrl-D and do somethin' else with your browser ;P

3. Zoom and Swap Your View !



After you get the result, the only thing you can do to check whether this Vector Magic did the job right or not, is to ZOOM in the result ;) Because you can see the quality of the vector more accurately if you can ZOOM in ;) And of course you have to compare it with the original image. And the Bitmap button did was a useful button ! Just a click, then you can view the original image :D NICE !

4. Geeky Enough ?



If you're curious, then play around ;)

5. Still Not Enough ?



Learn more about Vector Magic, they have a very descriptive screencast ;)

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The result is very nice :) maybe because the original image is nice too :P It might not look very good here (because i scale-down the image) Try to see the real size result by clicking me :D

Bottom words, you should really give Vector Magic a try ;)


[via: Simon Willison's Weblog]

FLV Player is 2.0 !

Martijn de Visser the creator of the first standalone FLV Player, now is back with FLV Player 2.0 ! Yes, the FLV PLayer is 2.0 !

This new FLV Player 2.0 settings offer you some goodies !

I especially found the need of option to remember last used volume ! And it's here now ! Very nice !

Another BEST thing in this new player ?
You can DIRECTY copy-and-paste a YouTube url ! It will retrieve the video and played it ! Brilliant !

Not to mention you can do a CTRL-Enter too ;)

Say goodbye to the old FLV Player 1.3.3 :) The new FLV Player is BLACK ! Elegant ! Simple !


Go get the FLV Player 2.0 while it's FRESH ! :D

Tabs Have Never Been Easier !

The famous duo Alex 'Pit' La Rosa and Fabio Fidanza, the brain behind the Stripe Generator (find out more here), and introduced the TARTAN movement (find out more here) :D has done it again !


The newest addition is the Tabs Generator ! Boy, how their tag-line hit the bullseye ! Tabs Have Never Been Easier !


Although the interface is not as AMAZING as the previous stripe generator and tartan maker. The feel of easiness still there. And that is all we need ;)

Every time you change some of the value, there'll be a Refresh button to generate the new tab ;) This is good, as we don't have to wait everytime we change a value, then the picture will load again. We can just set the whole value, and hit Refresh ;) Well, maybe a minor change here and there, and Refresh again :D

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Overall this is very nice tool, if you happen to need a tab fast :D There's not much can be done on tabs i think, but it will be nicer if we can have more style for the tabs (something like Button Boost done quite well), and maybe a nice gallery to show off too like in Tartan Maker ;)

Write Your Name in Arabic

[Update 2007-10-09] The link to Efendi in Arabic is back again ;) Thanks Reem :D

A little while ago i posted about My Name in Arabic.

The site have gone through a lot of changes. Reem had a long break on providing the service for free. Then Reem decided to take a small fee in exchange for the service, which make sense for me, since Reem provided your name with a nice font with a beautiful frame, and even provided it with a .pdf .doc and .jpg :)

But now Reem is announcing that My Name in Arabic is free of charge again ;)

And the site is really is Undergoing Changes. Previously the Archive have many many names, including my own (dead link now), which is now disappear. Efendi in Arabic is up again now ^^.

I recall there are quite many of western name have been done back then, so you can always find it first. But right now, it's like going back to zero again. And am still not sure if Reem still working about this.

Meanwhile, Nomadturk left a comment, pointing out to a nice Arabic Name Generator ;) Thanks for the hint Nomadturk :)

Arabic-o-matic will the job for you, all you hafta do is enter your name, and voila ! The arabic version of your name will be prompted just as you type ;)

While the result are not in the arabic letter at all, which mean you cannot copy paste the result, but still this is quite handy if you need a free arabic name ;)

There are some notes about this though

This gadget may be used to write your name in Arabic letters, but be careful... Arabic has only three vowels, a, i and u. That's why the "i", "y" and "e" keys here just trigger the same Arabic letter. So do "u", "o" and "w".

Such contraptions cannot work very well, first because you need to know a lot of things about the sounds of the Arabic letters to cast your name into Arabic letters the right way, and second because the font is not very good.

So Reem's My Name in Arabic provides more accurate result, since Reem knows real well on how the sounds of your name is, and write it precisely on arabic letter.

You can see my name in arabic which Reem did for me إفندي (note that i can copy paste it ^^)

I think those of you who can understand Arabic will definitely choose Reem's My Name in Arabic version ;)

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So, if you really need it fast and free arabic name generator, then Arabic-o-matic will do just fine while you wait for Reem to do your name ;)

Grow a World from Network Traffic

Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.

With each day of network activity a new world can be generated, each of which are stored as tiny files for you to browse, compare and visit as time goes by. You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.

Each time we use a computer and connect to the internet, there are ports that were open and sending out tiny little packets all around your network.

It can be Peer to Peer applications, Instant Messaging applications, checking an email, browsing on the web, uploading a file through FTP, or even playing games online.

All of that generates information which is used and presented with a beautiful visualization called Packet Garden.

Packet Garden was developed by Julian Oliver, originally an experimental artwork that seeks to provide an alternative and accessible approach to visualizing daily internet use. It runs on every platform that we had Windows, Linux, and even OS X computers :D

You will have a unique 3D virtual world that built to your network usage :) For example, if you download something, then it will be represented as valleys with the size matching how big the data are ;) and vice versa for uploading which represented in hills :D


For each type of traffic, you'll see a different type of plant for each type of traffic ;)


After you installed the Packet Garden, you need to capture a traffic first, and then you can grow a world :) you can load it the next time you wanted to visit this world :) if you go inside the world, you'll become a little ball :P and can move around, too bad you cannot zoom out/in :P

Anyway, if you have a decent PC, this will run pretty smooth ;)

Have a try :) it's fun :D




[via: o'reilly radar]

HTML Playground

HTML Playground is a nice way to present a reference ! It is an (X)HTML and CSS reference by example ;) A perfect companion for learning the YAML (X)HTML/CSS Framework ;)

HTML Playground present the reference in a nice way, they make learning fun ;)
They brilliantly give all of your need in just 5 steps

First is of course, the list of all HTML tags, which you can browse through and select one of it ;)

Back then, i always refer to Emil Stenström's Encyclopedia of HTML Elements from friendly bit, which is very simple that even an elementary school can understand ;)

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After you select a tag, a description will be shown to you.

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Along with the description, it provides an example code, consisting the tag that you've selected in the first step.

The example are made with the correct structure, complete from title to body.

There are other tags here which you can also click to learn about it ;)

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And if you're not satisfied yet, you can add a style to the tag ;)

This come in an easy way !

For every tag you click, it will list all the possible style, in which you can add to the code ;)

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All of that, of course, come with the rendered Results ;)

So you don't need to fire-up and editor, save it to an html file, and then open it in your browser :P

All the hassle are gone :D

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Now, HTML Playground is sitting in my bookmark ;) This sure come handy when in needs ;) And if you're more curious, there are 3 little buttons on the Example Code area that you might wanna click on it :P


[via: fortysomething]