Rhine II, record setting image sold at $4.3 Mil, makes an OK desktop wallpaper
You may have heard of this photograph taken in 1999 by Andreas Gursky, which sold at Christie’s in New York at auction for a record setting $4.3 Million on Nov 8 2011. The buyer was not disclosed, and there is lots of speculation in the media as to why the three meter chromogenic color print [...]
Reduce spam and information overload with Shortmail
Shortmail is a new web based email service that promises to reduce your spam levels, among other things. Designed to “re-invent email” Shortmail offers some interesting solutions to the problem of inbox overload, especially where spam is concerned. When I was first looking at Shortmail, I was rather taken aback by their concept. Their solution [...]
Challenge yourself with “Keys of A Gamespace”, an ‘expressive’ point and click adventure game
It’s rare that a game comes along these days that really creeps me out. With such things as the Resident Evil series, Dead Space, Silent Hill, and all the other games that are in the horror or survival horror genre, I sometimes get the feeling that I’ve been de-sensitized to anything really scary or creepy. [...]
Free eBook Giveaway: Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks
Users of MS Office 2010 take note: Microsoft Office 2010 Tips & Tricks is an ebook that offers insights on advanced MS Office functionality valued at $6.95, but offered for free through Wednesday Nov 16th 2011. This ebook contains tips for Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook, and covers many of the features of Office 2010 [...]
Track changes to folders with Track Folder Changes
Ever wished you could keep track of changes to a folder? This actually can be useful in many different circumstances, not just for a shared folder on a network but also on your own folders (esp. frequently used folders) in order to keep track of development and updates on your projects, etc. There seems to [...]
Add labels to data points in an Excel XY chart with free Excel add-on “XY Chart Labeler”
It is very easy to plot an XY Scatter chart in MS Excel, which is a graph displaying a group of data points that intersect across related variables (such as performance vs. time for example, or sales vs. profitability, etc). What is not easy, however, is adding individual labels to these data points, requiring users [...]
Read your eBooks on your Android with Cool Reader
There are plenty of eBook readers out there, and even more than a few for mobile devices like Androids. That means, of course, that you have tons of options for which reader you choose to use. How, then, do you decide which one? The simple answer is to use Cool Reader. Cool Reader(CR) is an [...]
