The Worst Artery Cloggers in America

Breakfast of Caloric Champions: Denny’s Smoked Sausage Slam



Worst Appetizer: Chili’s Awesome Blossom



Worst Onion Ring: White Castle Home-Style Onion Rings



Worst Thing You Can Eat with a Spoon: KFC Mashed Potato Bowl



Worst Meal in Tin Foil: Chipotle Barbacoa Super Burrito



Worst Italian Offense: Pizza Hut Meat Lover’s Personal Pan Pizza



Worst Dessert: Outback’s Chocolate Thunder from Down Under


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Convert your Powerpoint presentation to Flash Video

Windows only: Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your
PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of
a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint
presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all),
but as Digital Inspiration points out, an exported movie even preserves
all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks. iSpring is
freeware, Windows only, works with PowerPoint 2000 through 2007.
Alternately, you can upload any presentation directly to the SlideBoom
web site (which appears to convert and host Flash movies made with
iSpring) if you don't want to host the presentation yourself.

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Bill Gates retires today..

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Not sure if you know of this... Bill Gates is retiring today.


Here it is, the definitive Bill Gates timeline. It may contain some bugs and lack some features, but it works: from his parents to the last day of his work at Microsoft, the Bill Gates timeline shows his personal and business adventure—on the top—in relation to the tech industry—on the bottom—as his company takes over it all.

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When is Manual Focus Better than Auto Focus?

Modern day Digital Cameras present photographers with an ever increasing array of Automatic and Semi Automatic shooting modes. Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots - however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (eg - auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects, single point focusing, multiple point focusing, face recognition focusing and manual).

It’s no wonder then that many photographers never make use of their camera and lens’ ability to focus manually.

Here are the scenarios where Manual focus might be of help to you:

1. Macro Pictures
2. Portrait Pictures
3. Shooting through Glass or wire fences
4. Action Pictures
5. Low Light Pictures

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Rocky & Terminator to star in Bollywood movie

There’s an interesting article online that talks about a Bollywood film that will be made for the first time at Universal Studios Hollywood. It’s going to be a huge production, the biggest of its kind in Bollywood history.

Now normally that wouldn’t be such a big deal, but this one features an interesting catch. It will feature “the Oak” himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside Sly Stallone. That’s right, you read it correctly. The Govenater and Rocky Balboa. According to the story the movie will be about an Indian stuntman who takes Hollywood by storm but cannot find true love there. The two will appear alongside the Bollywood stars Ashkay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in Incredible Love.

The article goes onto to confirm:

Sajid Nadiadwala, the producer, said his success in landing Stallone and Schwarzenegger reflected the growing power of the Indian film market and Bollywood’s increasing cooperation with Hollywood studios that are keen to cut costs.

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Shiptool Finds the Cheapest Shipping Rates

Find the cheapest way to send a package with web application Shiptool. After providing the site with your shipping and destination addresses and package type, Shiptool scours UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL, and returns all of your shipping options sorted by price to help you find the cheapest solution to fit your needs. The biggest thing missing from Shiptool is a column displaying delivery estimates, though some service types do explicitly state their delivery turnover (e.g., UPS 3 Day Select). Shiptool also does package tracking, but with all the great package tracking tools already out there, the shipping rates feature is what sets it apart.

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Enhance your pictures with HDR

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is a method where you can combine pictures taken at different exposures and combine that to one picture to bring all the dynamic ranges in the picture.

If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem:

›	Exposure Blending: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range.
›	Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures. The tone mapped image is ready for printing while showing the complete dynamic range captured.

HDR image (created from the 3 left photos) + Tone Mapping

Get PhotoMatix tool from here (for $99)

13 ways to use LinkedIn

Until now, I used to marvel in the number of connections I added to my linkedIn. It used to be my status symbol. However, follow this link to get more out of LinkedIn.

Excerpt:
Most people use LinkedIn to “get to someone” in order to make a sale, form a partnership, or get a job. It works well for this because it is an online network of more than 8.5 million experienced professionals from around the world representing 130 industries. However, it is a tool that is under-utilized, so I’ve compiled a top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.

1. Increase your visibility.
2. Improve your connectability.
3. Improve your Google PageRank.
4. Enhance your search engine results.
5. Perform blind, “reverse,” and company reference checks.
6. Increase the relevancy of your job search.
7. Make your interview go smoother.
8. Gauge the health of a company.
9. Gauge the health of an industry.
10. Track startups.
11. Ask for advice.
12. Integrate into a new job.
13. Scope out the competition, customers, partners, etc.

Firefox 3 on track to set Guinness record

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Firefox 3.0 is here and is all set to set a new record for number of downloads in 24 hrs. It is at 7.3 million downloads right now (far exceeding its self imposed bar at 5 million).

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Help the Firefox team to set a Guinness record by downloading Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008

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