All articles from: January, 2010

Infographic : Satellites Orbiting Earth

This infographic depicts the number of  man-made satellites orbiting Earth as of this writing. The satellites are segregated country wise and are further divided into three groups namely – Orbiting functional satellites Orbiting dysfunctional satellites, and Space debris greater than 10cm size.

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CMS And Website Design

You will find  many articles on WordPress, Dokuwiki and other content management systems on this blog. It also contain good web design tips.  This post consolidates all the articles related to content management systems, web designing, and web hosting in one place. Check them out !

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Find Your Correct Ergonomic Posture While Working On A Computer

Computer posture is important. You will probably spend many hours sitting at your PC and how you do this will have implications on your health as well as your productivity.

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What Type Of Vegetarian Are You ?

I am a vegetarian. At home we do not cook / eat meat or fish. A large percentage of the populace in India are vegetarians. The motives for pursuing a vegetarian diet range from economical, to health, and religious reasons.

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The Well – An Interactive Horror Game From The BBC

The Well is an interactive horror experience which is a combination of movie and game play. Produced by Melvin Burgess, “The Well” allows you to explore the house, play games and discover the evil underneath the house.

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Play The Piano In YouTube

Would you like to play the piano ? Now it is simple and can be played in YouTube. Here is how you do it. Just let the following YouTube video fully load and then start playing the video. While the video is playing, pressing any piano keys shown in the video will play the corresponding  [...]

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VUE : A Free, Open Source Mind Mapping Tool

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an open source mind mapping software. VUE is designed with a motive to enable faculty and students integrate electronic content into their teaching and learning. Currently in the beta stage, this Java based mind mapping software is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

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imgopt – PNG And JPEG Image Optimization

Imgopt is a bash script that makes use of different image optimization command line tools to drastically reduce the size of your JPEG and PNG images with minimal loss in quality.

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Slidy : How to create an HTML Slideshow

It is possible to create a slide show / PowerPoint like presentation using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This article explains how you can create an HTML slideshow and display it in your web browser using Slidy.

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ZScreen – An Open Source Screen Capture Tool For Windows

ZScreen is an open source screen capture tool for Windows. However, unlike other screen capture tools, ZScreen is much more versatile. ZScreen is developed  in Microsoft  C# 3.0 language and requires .NET 3.5 framework to run. If you are a Linux user, you should take a look at Shutter which is also as powerful as [...]

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