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Microsoft’s IT department has used the Theory of Constraints in software development. Comments Suresh 17 May 2006 5:39 am: Interesting and informative

Will Google Calendar go live today?

Dogs laugh.

Human memory capacity is about filters, not storage.

10 places you must use Ajax.

Trend sweet trend shows recent trends in del.icio.us bookmarks.

Firefox 1.5’s canvas tag used to create games. A first-player shooter type with textures. Impressive. (You need Firefox 1.5 to view this). Comments sLaSh 4 Dec 2005 2:28 pm: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Science/Physics/Fits-of-Reflection-and-Transmission/15197

Dr DivX is now open source. You may prefer it to Virtual Dub.

How to survive worst case scenarios, like a riot, plane crash or car without brakes. Also includes an alien abduction scenario. Comments Rajiv 5 Dec 2005 7:50 pm: Are you still at BCG? S Anand 5 Dec 2005 9:08 pm: Infosys Consulting right now.

Who’s afraid of Google? Everyone

HTML keyboard shortcuts using the “accesskey” attribute.

The Blind Search Engine Test. My vote turned out to be for Google.

Capturing movies on the fly. Comments Sumit Dhar 30 Nov 2005 1:28 am: SnapZ is a Mac only application? For Windows, I use VirtualDub. Not very intuitive or easy to use, but does the job. S Anand 30 Nov 2005 11:07 am: So do I! It’s pretty effective. I do my video compression on VirtualDub as well.

Coloured soap bubbles.

IMDb Torrent linker – a GreaseMonkey script that shows torrents available when you browse the IMDb.

Why we love rounded corners.

Some interesting ads on Google video: FotoPrix: perfect pictures for an imperfect world. Nike ad in Lisbon. Honda car assembly (a classic). Google Video also has Google Current, which is a newsreel about Google’s top searches. But the find was a 5-hour Google factory tour. Comments ritzkini 23 Nov 2005 9:07 am: Thanks for your interest in Google Video.Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn’t available in your country.We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience. S Anand 23 Nov 2005 7:25 pm: That is truly a pity. Wonder if any of the proxys will take care of it…

Google may acquire Riya. Riya can recognise faces and lettering in your pictures. Comments Sai 8 Dec 2005 11:50 pm: Hi, do post the rest of the tips for excel when you get the time. Good Stuff.

The ultimate irony. Amazon has written an API that invokes humans. Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web services API to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the answers into their software applications. To the application, the transaction looks very much like any remote procedure call - the application sends the request, and the service returns the results. In reality, a network of humans fuels this Artificial Artificial Intelligence by coming to the web site, searching for and completing tasks, and receiving payment for their work. ...

What economists can learn from currency traders.