Archive for September, 2007

Little Paris in China

Reuters Pictures reports some photos of this Little Paris in China:

An aerial view of Tianducheng, a residential area on the outskirts of Hangzhou in east China.
 

 

links for 2007-09-24

Transformer dresses

Geekologie published an amazing post including a video showing dresses made by British clothes designer Hussein Chalayan. The video shows various models wearing dresses that change shape. And at the end there is one that disappear completely into the model’s hat. Great idea.

links for 2007-09-23

Digital inspiration published a useful tip to check if your computer is connecting to the INTERNET without your knowledge.  Of course in most case a firewall properly configured should notify any unexpected connection to the INTERNET. But in some special case, the method proposed by Digital inspiration is useful to track what’s going on in […]

GmbmG or Give me back my Google is a custom search engine that cleanup Google search results, removing the annoying affiliate links (kelkoo, …). This is useful when searching information on a product. By default Google results are bloated with those links which are most of the time irrelevant. Here is a extract from the […]

links for 2007-09-22

links for 2007-09-21

Popularity dialer

The popularity dialer is a web service designed to simulate phone call:
With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that’s […]

links for 2007-09-20