2008-08-25

How to bypass automated phone prompts?

Dial A Human Cuts Through Automated Phone Prompts

When you've just about had it with an in correct bill, a faulty product, or anything else you have to call a 1-800 number for, waiting for the automated operator to finish listing all the buttons you can push can feel like rubbing salt in the wound. Dial a Human, a web directory of shortcuts and end-runs around unnecessary prompts, eases the pain. Right now, the site's just a long, single-page list of what button combinations to press to get to a real person, but user submissions can bolster the page to become a more universal directory. Take a quick read down the page, and you'll realize that jamming on "0" repeatedly just won't cut it any more.

2008-08-11

Crazy Badminton shots

2008-07-21

20 Baby Products Great For Traumatizing Infants

Hamburger Baby Costume


Baby Keeper


Baby Mop


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2008-07-11

Hide Your Valuable Stuff with Air Vent Secret Compartment


The Air Vent Secret Compartment is supposed to be a hidden place where you can hide your stuff. You can hide stuff under your mattress or behind various other things that a thief would want to steal, but that’s pretty unorganized. What if you could hide your valuables inside of something that’s so common, that it’s completely out of sight? With approximately one trillion air vents in the U.S. alone, the chances of a thief discovering your air vent safe are extremely minimal ( ofcourse if he doesn’t already ready Freshome and saw this post ). To install it, just cut out a section of drywall, and put in the compartment fastening it with screws. It opens with a mechanism that is hidden in the grill and no one will see your stuff thanks to a black divider. Is not to safe, but is very well hidden you have to admit. Price : $260



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2008-07-08

Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account

Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I'm sure, you don't always want other people to see. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.

If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to Gmail from multiple computers. I, for example, occasionally sign into my Gmail account from a friend's house when I need to check an important email. Usually I remember to sign out, but every once in a while I wonder if I really did. Now I no longer have to wonder.

At the bottom of your inbox, you'll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it's still open in another location:



Using the above example, a quick glance at the footer while I'm at work shows that my account is indeed open in one other location. But I recognize
the IP address - it's my computer at home. Turns out I left my Gmail account open when I left home in a hurry this morning.




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2008-07-01

Make Restaurant reservations online using real-time information

OpenTable: Restaurant Reservations. Right this way.When you book a table on OpenTable.com, your reservation is instantly recorded in the restaurant's computerized reservation book - the same one the restaurant's host uses to track all reservations. (It's the black terminal you may see when you arrive at the restaurant.)

Unlike other "online" reservation services which rely on faxes or table allocations, OpenTable has live Internet connections into the restaurants themselves. So restaurant availability information is up-to-date, and your reservations are confirmed.

2008-06-30

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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2008-06-28

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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2008-06-27

Bill Gates retires today..

Bill Gates from Seattle, Washington, USA founder of Microsoft is the world's richest man, with a net worth of US$59 billionImage via Wikipedia
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.



When is Manual Focus Better than Auto Focus?

Manual-FocusingModern 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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