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Web Apps

Getting iGetter & Rapidshare to Work

June 6, 2009

Hello! Thanks for dropping by. Its great to see you. This is a personal blog of Benson John, a 29 year old interior designer / photographer / 3D visualizer / music & movie lover living in Melbourne, Australia. This blog is a personal and growing archive of links, rambles, rants, thoughts, ideas, anecdotes and random [...]

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Style your Blog for Mobile Devices

April 26, 2009

I came across the WPtouch plugin while browsing through Alan Levine’s blog. This is primarily a Wordpress theme that formats your blog to make it slick and readable on mobile devices. Developed by BraveNewCode that makes an awesome array of open source projects. In their own words;
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire [...]

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Picto-Type

April 21, 2009

Web crawling tonight I came across a neat site called “Spell with Flickr“, which does exactly what it implies. It uses an assortment of images on Flickr that have text in them (graffiti, signage etc) to generate a word or phrase of your choice. You can click on any text that you don’t like to [...]

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Google Suggestions

February 5, 2009

I’m constantly amazed at Google Suggest‘  drop-down menu of “popular” web searches. It really isn’t all that great, but the results are as surprising as a smack on your face. Here is what I’m talking about… The first isn’t much of a surprise, but the second sure is…

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Wordpress Upgrade 2.7

December 11, 2008

Anyone with a wordpress blog, just has to to get Keith Dsouza’s Automatic Upgrate plugin. After a few ghastly upgrades before, it seems divine being able to do this, at work, with just a couple of clicks. And hello ‘Coltrane‘…

First impressions. Pretty slick! Beautiful, minimalist admin interface. Love it…
PS: The quickpress feature is a very [...]

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Fantastic Wordpress Plugin – Apture

September 27, 2008

I’ve spent almost all of today getting my mac network sorted. Setting up external storage, printers to be shared with both my Mac and Windows machines. And in my quest for some background on installing Bonjour for Windows, I came across Ben Metcalfe’s neat write up on “Bonjour on Windows and printer drivers“. Although superbly [...]

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Yearbook Yourself

September 1, 2008

An absolute time-waster of a site… But what a hoot! Find a picture of yourself looking straight at the camera and beam it up to YearBookYourself. And it gives you a fantastic morph of what you might have looked like in a certain period from 1950’s to the 2000’s. Here are a couple of images [...]

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Australian Streets via Google Street View

August 5, 2008

Australia becomes the third country in the world, following US and France to have its city streets mapped into the giant G’s belly. Google Street View lets a user take an online virtual tour of streets and landscapes from their computer screens by viewing a digitally stitched interactive database of a bazillion snapshots. The photos [...]

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Say it with Forvo

July 27, 2008

Since coming to Australia, I’ve always had an issue with people mispronouncing names of friends and family. In the same vein, I would be quite anxious to get the foreign names I would come across. pronounced correctly. I was fortunate to have come across Forvo in that quest.
Forvo is a completely user driven database of [...]

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Wordpress for the iPhone

July 25, 2008

Wow! Finally… In case you didn’t already know, Wordpress for the iPhone / iPod Touch is finally out at the App Store. Head on over for your free copy.

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Yahoo! NewsGlobe

February 25, 2008

NewsGlobe is an(other) interesting development from the search giant Yahoo! NewsGlobe is an animated globe with markers indicating breaking news stories from around the globe. You can set it to autoplay or interactive modes. The autoplay mode apparently spins the globe around in real-time gathering feeds from Yahoo! News.
There isn’t any ground breaking technology at [...]

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Rescuing Time

February 24, 2008

I stumbled upon a RescueTime article a while ago. Was impressed, but assumed it might be quite difficult to incorporate into my daily routine. And I let it pass. Till recently, when I spotted it on another review and decided to give it a go. It begins with a registration and a small application you [...]

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