5 different stories about how Google was named Google. This is mentioned as the probably correct version: “Lucas Pereira: ‘You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!’ But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell ‘Googol’ ‘Google’, so it worked out OK in the end.” Comments OverSkies 11 Dec 2008 8:29 am: Google’s founder’s son’s first words were : google.That is why they named it google
Philipp Lenssen analysis different kinds of events in the post Different types of Google trends. He graphs (using Google Trends) the search popularity of different types of keywords over time, and observes how known events have a steady rise and sharp drop (e.g. Christmas) while unknown events have a sharp rise and steady drop (e.g. tsunami). And so forth.
See how fast you can type. I averaged 100 words per minute. Comments Sri 20 Jul 2006 9:24 pm: WOW. @ 100 WPM even if each word had only 3 letters you typed 300 keystrokes in 60 secs not counting spaces. Which is about 5 keystrokes per sec. WOW. S Anand 21 Jul 2006 2:21 pm: I’m not the fastest typist I know. When I was at LBS, almost everyone around me typed (what seemed like) two keys for every one of mine. Sri 21 Jul 2006 5:17 pm: amazing. I have trouble hitting the keyboard 5 times while saying 1001,1002. Thats like hummingbird speed. I can manage 100 CPM and about 50 WPM. S Anand 22 Jul 2006 2:05 pm: Practice, practice, practice :-)
How to safely land a plane - by blowing one of its wings off. Strangely, that’s what Superman does in Superman Returns. (see video of Superman saving a plane).
In his article on The Power of the Marginal, Paul Graham suggests (among other things) a way of picking courses at college. One way to tell whether a field has consistent standards is the overlap between the leading practitioners and the people who teach the subject in universities. At one end of the scale you have fields like math and physics, where nearly all the teachers are among the best practitioners. In the middle are medicine, law, history, architecture, and computer science, where many are. At the bottom are business, literature, and the visual arts, where there’s almost no overlap between the teachers and the leading practitioners. It’s this end that gives rise to phrases like “those who can’t do, teach.” ...
Are video games going the TV show route? Will we have game mega serials? Is this the next wave? Personally it would be a welcome relief. I don’t often have the time to complete a full session of Age of Kings these days. Chunks of half-hour scenarios would be great.
McDonald’s video game is a full-fledged business simulation game (like SimCity) based on McDonald’s. It’s written entirely in Flash. You don’t need to download it – just play the game on your browser. Comments emily burns 28 Feb 2007 8:33 pm: i think that this game is awesome.. i love it soo much love emily burns
In the long run, people tend to regret having missed out on opportunities for pleasure – and they wish they hadn’t been so diligent about working. Based on research at Columbia University. Clive has a nice article about it titled In the long run, we regret virtue more than vice. Comments joe bosco 3 Jul 2006 1:12 am: finally - some math that buttress my arguments. enjoy maaadi :) - indulge in sinful pleasures
Fred Gratzon’s advice on work I just do what I want to do and learn what I want to learn and enjoy what I want to enjoy and sometimes I get so wonderfully and powerfully caught up in some project and I start dreaming expansive daydreams and I go for it with every ounce of energy and enthusiasm and love that I can muster. And the money . . . it just takes care of itself. ...
55 ways to have fun with Google. Comments Dhar 25 Jun 2006 7:59 am: Just finished the book, didn’t find it too interesting. :(( S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:52 am: Me neither. :-(
How to remove carpet impressions. Just steam iron the carpet. Comments ankit 24 Jun 2006 5:58 pm: it really works.. http://virtuously.blogspot.com/ S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:52 am: You actually tried it? I was planning to, except without using steam.
According to the hygiene hypothesis, exposure early in life to infections from household dust, germy siblings or surfaces may reduce the risk of developing disease in adulthood.
Mathematics, marriage and finding somewhere to eat has a simple solution to all these problems. Whether you’re hiring someone, or picking a partner, or finding a house – or any problem that requires you to pick the best among N choices – here’s the rule. Scan the first 37% of choices. Then pick the first one that’s better than anything you’ve seen so far.
New in Picasa’s beta: geotagging (place photos on the map) search by colour (find photos with red and yellow) hide pictures: that’s useful, sometimes… upload to Google video and to Picasa Web FTP your photos Comments Anand 15 Jun 2006 11:39 am: I got an invitation from Google to try Picasa Web Albums. How does one selectively share some photos and not all in an album ? I do not want to mail these photos instead would like to make only some public. Could you highlight the major differences between this service and that from Flickr ? S Anand 15 Jun 2006 8:51 pm: You can select photos from your Picasa album to upload – you don’t need to upload all of them. When compared with Flickr, PWA is more for sharing with friends and family than for photo discovery. So no tagging, no groups, no top-10 photos now browsing for other users. Anand 16 Jun 2006 1:52 pm: I know I can selectively upload photos from Picasa to web albums. I may want to recover space on my PC by uploading all the photos from my hard disk to web albums. from that collection of photos online i may want to share only some publicly. I suppose then I have to create a pair of albums online for every album in Picasa so that one album online can have the private pictures and the other can have the public pictures S Anand 17 Jun 2006 10:25 am: Yes - you can’t mark individual photos as private. Actually, PicasaWeb doesn’t have any such thing as private. Even if you mark an album as unlisted, if a person knows its URL, they can always access it. Anand Srini 17 Jun 2006 4:33 pm: If a user has not chosent to make any album public then knowing the URL does not reveal those pictures. try it out. make all your albums unlisted and see for yourself what you can see using your URL.I have tested it. the only solution to my problem is to move private pictures from one album to another album and make it unlisted S Anand 25 Jun 2006 8:54 am: Oh, OK. But looks like privacy problems will continue to plague Picasa Web Albums for a while. Just do a google search for site:picasaweb.google.com
Google has released Picasa Web Albums and I managed to sign up. See my web albums. The bad part about Picasa Web is that it’s a long way from Flickr in terms of tagging and sharing. But it probably wasn’t built for that. The good part is that it’s integrated with Picasa (integration with Flickr was my top wishlist item for Picasa) and best of all, with Google Earth. You can geotag photos on the new Beta version of Picasa. ...
Teenagers use it in classes, to avoid detection by teachers. Shopkeepers use the same technology to drive away rowdy teenagers, by creating a loud sound that doesn’t affect adults. This works because adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds. (via NY Times) Comments Livy 12 Nov 2006 5:33 pm: I can here the sounds up to about 18KHz.
I almost fell for this piece of spam.
If you’ve forgotten your Windows password, but you’re still logged in as an administrator, you can change your Windows password without confirmation of the old password. If you’re forgotten your Windows password, and not logged in, you can still access your system using a little known hole in Windows XP. Check Vic Ferri’s article on I Forgot My Administrator Password. Comments windows 7 Mar 2009 2:51 am: Forgot Your Windows Password? A lot of people think that after having lost their Windows admin password, they absolutely have to reinstall their OS. Let me tell you something: They are wrong! Here I’m posting a few methods / utilities which can be used to recover Windows password: 1st Method: The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account “Administrator” and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this: Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press + and Del keys twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows. Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”. Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen. 2th Method: There are many 3rd party utilities which claim to recover forgotten Windows password: Windows Password Recovery Tool Service: windowspasswordsrecovery.com Windows Password Recovery Tool is a program that works instantly to remove any lost or forgotten password. Simply boot your PC from the supplied Boot CD, and get access to forgotten Windows and administrator passwords in just seconds. Their method is so much faster/easier, and works great! http://windowspasswordsrecovery.com zhuismile 13 Jun 2010 8:36 am: Can’t remember your windows xp admin password?Windows password key 8.0 has a neat trick that will get you back in.This method is easy for everyone to follow. Download the utility from http://sn.im/xd5sa and install it then burn the software to a CD/USB drive,then insert the newly created CD/USB drive to your locked pc and reboot your computer,then press “F2” to enter your BIOS setup,following the instruction to reset your lost windows password.
Using the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox, you can access your bookmarks, tabs, history, saved passwords and cookies from any machine. You can browse from office, go back home, and continue browsing where you left off. Gina Trapani of Lifehacker says Google Browser Sync is not a privacy risk after all.
I got an invite for Google Spreadsheets. Very impressive AJAX interface. Comments Dhar 9 Jun 2006 11:36 am: Tried Google Spreadsheets. Love the concept, but I seem to be missing the Grand Picture. How is Google going to integrate things like Calendar, Spreadsheets, Notebook, Browser Sync to give us an “Aha” moment? The glue that should hold these applications together seems to be missing. Quite a few of them are very average and scratch the itch for a small section of web population. Nothing earthshaking like Gmail or search. :( S Anand 9 Jun 2006 2:31 pm: Funnily, the very apps you mentioned (Calendar, Notebook, Spreadsheets and Browser Sync) are the ones I use the most – as much as GMail and search! You’re right, there isn’t much integration, except perhaps between Calendar and GMail. Maybe it’s coming. But even as standalone apps, I’m surprised at how much I use them. I’ll write about how I’m using these sometime… Madhu 12 Jun 2006 7:03 pm: Its more when than how i think