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2011 State of Online Music

Next Big Sound a startup that tracks online popularity of music and artists published a study called ” 2011 State of Online Music”: The 2011 State of Online Music report includes major trends and highlights from 2011: overall consumption numbers, top networks and their most popular artists and days, the top 50 artists of 2011, [...]

Nirsoft released an utility to search for files  in Windows. The tools is very powerful as it offers many options as shown on the screenshot below:  Alternative to Windows Search For Files   Duplicates Search via kwout Here is an extract from the description:  SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard “Search For Files And [...]

The Top 21 Music Albums of 2011

Information is beautiful site published a nice infographic (Word cloud) of 21 top music albums of 2011 (according critics) :  The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists via kwout

BBC News published a very interesting chart to explain the euro crisis. And the root cause is private debts, no public debts. It looks like the ECB didn’t do its job well, and the Euro was to cheap in the period 2000-2010. The full chart is available after the jump. BBC News – What really [...]

The full chart is available after the jump. Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 – Marco.org via kwout   But it’s obviously made by an Apple fan. Here is the original comparison chart published by Amazon. The only things common to the 2 charts are the prices Amazon.com Message via kwout

Google Search Tutorial Infographic

The infographic linked below is a Google Search Tutorial. Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] – How-To Geek via kwout

Doghouse: Resume VS Reality

The full comic is available after the jump. DOGHOUSE | Resume vs Reality via kwout

Infographic: Eurozone Debts

BBC published an interesting interactive infographic to visualize eurozone debt:  For France we have: BBC News – Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom? via kwout   BBC News – Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom? via kwout   For UK we have: BBC News – Eurozone debt web: Who owes what [...]

Significant digits

A very difficult topic with computers are significant digits. This is summarized in the comic below: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal via kwout Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Found via Flowing Data

€CONOMIA – The Monetary Policy Game

Currently almost everybody seems to be knowing what the European Central Bank has to do to solve the European sovereign debt crisis. There is a game that allows to verify your central banker skills (link below). The game is available for both Web and iPhone. The goa is to set interest rate to limit inflation [...]