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desktop

If you have seen beryl in action on ubuntu, you would’ve said “wow” atleast 5 times!!!

yod’m 3D does some of it on windows. Multiple desktops with a slick cube rotation to switch sides.

Deskpot is a decent virtual desktop manager too.

btw… this is how to embed youtube videos into blogpost on wordpress.com

[ youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=_dIya1aJJKA]

TCP video

Animated video of communication over TCP: warriors of the internet. Thanks Pat!

Sudoku

This may be the worst time for an expert player, but I took 18:55 to solve my first sudoku. I thought it was a silly game and kept away from playing all these days fearing addiction; but atlast tried it out today. I must admit I liked it. Download offline playable game.

Google Doodles

Once a while you can see a cool redesigned google logo on the home-search page of www.google.com, with a theme celebrating an event or a holiday. Check out the logos for holiday (official), art, fun and other topics. Some great creativity between the six letters. Now, it never needed a hi-tech graphics designer to design them. See this to believe what I’m saying. via: googleblog

In case Google and eBay merge, what would it be called goobay!!! Meanwhile, if you want your name/text to be doodalized, follow this link logogle. Here is how the doodle for the text [search] would look!

|\|3\/\/ P057

\/\/0l\ld3r, what it is called to write text by replacing l\l0r/\/\4l characters. Hey, I’m not saying anything cryptic. Its just another way of typing in text! Here is what microsoft says and what google does about it!

Update 1: Its called l33+ err.. i’mean LeetSpeek!
Update 2: Photoshop contest If hackers ruled the world.

cyborgname

bumped onto the cyborgname generator from here; anyways mine looks like this

bcp online

bcp… for this time… is not for bulk-copy. Its bangalore city police. Was pleasantly surprised to find that they have a website running. There is a form to submit complaints online, information page for foreigners and … a most wanted list! Ofcourse, also available in ಕನ್ನಡ

for the record, these are websites of Mumbai Police, Delhi, NYPD, LAPD, LondonPD, CBI, FBI

MIT weblogs survey

If you are interested and have the time to take a survey on weblogs by MIT:

My rot13!

I wrote a javascript to do rot13. Getting to show up this as a post in my blog seemed difficult than writing the script itself! Anyways, here it is now: Link