Happy New Year
Menmonics : Art of remembering
From Wikipedia :
Mnemonics rely not only on repetition to remember facts, but also on associations between easy-to-remember information and to be remembered lists of data, based on the principle that the human mind much more easily remembers data attached to spatial, personal, or otherwise meaningful information than that occurring in meaningless sequences.
My friend has developed http://www.mnemonicdictionary.com/ which is kinda database for mnemonics. It allows you to submit words that can be related to mnemonics, and then you can disscuss them in forum. It also allows you to search words in database. This uses mnemonic approach to encode the meaning of words using some mnemonic idea (Any idea which can somehow relate the word with it’s meaning).
For example :
Word: Onus
Meaning : burden
Mnemonic : ON-US you are ON US ie. you are BURDEN to me
Word : Brazen
Meaning : bold
Brazen : Bra+zen hey isn’t his girlfriend “zen” looking hot only in a bra.
Visit www.mnemonicdictionary.com for more such words with mnemonics. Also, please give your suggestions and feedback regarding the website.
Video: 3D Face Morphing Animation Software
The future of animation? The Morphable Face Model shows how movie stars can be appear in films they never worked on, or even star in new films after they die! One person quipped that they should have delayed the release of The Polar Express until this program became available
I need a BREAK !!
Tooooo BUSY
Happy Diwali !!
Happy Diwali to all !! Enjoy !
Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights and is an important festival not only to Hindus but pretty much all Indian nationals.
so I am going home for 4-5 days…till then Diwali Break
Enjoy the Festival of colours!! Happy Diwali
Block Writing with Unicode
????? ??? ? ??? ??? ??? ???
????? ??? ? ??? ??? ??? ???
????? ??? ? ??? ??? ??? ???
My Name in Hindi: अजीत
Unicode characters.
The character encoding can be specified in the charset parameter of a meta tag in the of an HTML document, for example:
<meta equiv=”content-type” content=”text-html; charset=utf-8″>Complete set of unicode characters
To write unicode characters in html file, first you will need to add above meta tag in your “<head>” of html. Then write charater as :
add a ‘&#’ at the beginning and a ‘;’ at the end
so, take out the spaces in this:
&# 9619 ; // 9619 is unicode corresponding to ?
and you get this: ?
Greasemonkey script to Replace URLs in webpage
Yesterday night i made this script which replaces urls with their alternatives in a webpage. What r its usage :
- Ad blocking (Replacing such URLs with blank so that clicking them will result in nothing.
- Unblocking some sites
. At many places sites are just blocked by url names so it replaces them with ip.(for example i did same for youtube as its blocked in my college). you can modify script to include more such urls.
You will need firefox with Greasemonkey extension installed to use this script.
Here is the script : Right Click to install
Resources : Dive into Greasemokey
It’s not too late to be a genius
Nice article from creating passionate users :
In the web/tech world (and many other domains), it seems the Big Ideas belong to the Young. Barely 27, David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, has changed the world and given the Ruby language a reason to live. Then there’s Caterina and Stewart, creators of Flickr. Then there’s Larry and Sergey, the “boys” behind Google, and Jeff Bezos was just 30 when he founded Amazon.
It’s never too late to make a difference. Just…keep…trying s***. And remember the quote from the 90-something woman who, when asked about her regrets said, “If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken up the violin at 60. I’d have been playing for almost 40 years by now…”
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A visual walk through of a couple of the new features in Vim 7.0
This informative article gives the readers a visual walk through of some of the new features found in the latest version of Vim 7.0. It gives a detailed explanation of some of the commands which allow one to use the new features to ones advantage.
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The Best Places To Launch A Career
The top 50 employers for new college grads
It’s now clear, for instance, that to attract the best and the brightest, companies are no longer competing only with others in their industry. More open to career experimentation than previous generations, college grads are applying across a swath of industries. The result: No. 4-ranked Goldman Sachs (GS ) could just as easily be vying with No. 43 Teach for America and No. 13 Google (GOOG ) as with No. 9 JPMorgan (JPM ) and No. 22 Lehman Brothers (LEH ) for the very same applicant. The intensely competitive market for top young talent means companies have to fine-tune their game.
From : http://www.businessweek.com/index.html
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