Five designs that changed the world

“You know a design is good when you want to lick it,” says Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer. But a truly iconic design must do more than make you salivate. It must have social impact too.

Great design should marry aesthetics with practicality, providing solutions to everyday problems – even if you didn’t know you had them before they came along.

CNN has picked out five great designs from the last 100 years. They are all products which have fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people.
• Volkwagen ‘Beetle’
• The Leica camera’
• The ballpoint pen
• The iPod
• The London Underground map

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Google’s GOOG-411

Google’s new 411 service is free, fast and easy to use. Give it a try now and see how simple it is to find and connect with local businesses for free. Learn more

Teen trades hacked iPhone for new car

The Teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.

George Hotz, of Glen Rock, N.J., said he had reached the deal with CertiCell a Louisville, Ky- based mobile phone repair company. more in detail here

World’s Highest Website

Trek the World’s highest website which is currently 18,939 kilometers high. Guys who are tired of trekking can take elevator too. Here you go World’s highest website.

Create your own Video Sharing Social Applicaton

You can build your own video community Social Application using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos). I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd’s mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

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History of a ATM

Did you ever wonder about the history of ATM’s. The disruptive technology which bought a revolution in the traditional banking and changed the very dimension of banking. The world’s first ATM was fixed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, North London, around 40 years ago.

Inspiration had struck Mr Shepherd-Barron, now 82, while he was in bath. “It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash.”

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one line of html and css crashes ie 6

A blogger [HamaChiya2] from japan had found that a one line combination of html and css code would crash ie6, and the code is

<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>

Dare to try it? click here to check it out. The above piece of code is rendered fine in firefox, safari and opera.

Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

“Information Design/Architecture to the core” thats what I thought after seeing this Web Trend Map 2007 which consists of 200 most successful websites on the web ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective . This Trend Map is presented in the form of a tube map. I have really enjoyed browsing this link. So I thought it is worth to put on my blog

Here is the resized and smaller version of the Web Trend Map

5 reasons to have a wiki at work

1. Operations Guides
2. Dashboard
3. Posting Ads and stuff
4. Fact and Faq List
5. Making Plans

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Google’s Human Face Image Search Filter

Here comes another creative search filter from Google. It is a Human Face Image Search Filter which solves the problem where in searching for a persons image or photograph with a person’s name and you get to see unrelated results of the Keyword like places and things and other stuff.

For example lets assume you want to check out the images of Paris Hilton and when you see the results for the Paris keyword you find images of Paris city, Eiffel tower, images of Paris Hilton. To avoid all the other images other than human faces by name Paris you need to put in “&imgtype=face” after your URL something like this:

http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&q=paris&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Now add “&imgtype=face” at the end and which looks like this:
http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&q=paris&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&imgtype=face