Monthly Archives: June 2008
Receive RSS Updates in Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Live Messenger & AIM
Besides web browsers, I guess Instant Messaging are the most constantly used application in our daily life. Thus, folks in IMFeeds have taken this advantage and turn Instant Messaging into an alternative way for us to stay updated with subscribed RSS feeds.
In short, IM Feeds is a free service that allows you to receive RSS updates via IM; in other words, it is an instant messaging-based RSS reader. All you need to do is just have an account in Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Live Messenger or AIM.
10 Sites for Free Vouchers, Warehouse Sales, Special Promotions and Discount Offers
Update: If you’re not from Malaysia, Mashable has posted an entry titled :Bargain Hunting: 20+ Tools for Finding Coupons Online. They are pretty useful as well.
Informations like free vouchers and coupons, warehouse sales, special offers or any freebies giving away are actually very useful for us to lighten our life’s burden. Therefore as a smart consumer, why don’t we gather some useful information and grab some free or discount vouchers before we go for shopping?
Here’s 10 websites that giving away free or low price SMS vouchers, provide news on warehouse sales and places that giving discount at the moment.
Full list after jump.
A Mashup of GoogleMaps and Flickr – Earth Album
So you’re looking for a particular picture that represent a place? Or just want to explore the world through a huge database of flickr photos? Well, now you can do it with Earth Album.
In short, Earth Album provides a map (Google maps) which shows you a group of photos that represent a particular location if you click on the map.
The Bill Gates Timeline [Picture]
The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world’s largest software company.
Here’s a picture timeline that shows the entire life to this technology legend. Started with Bill Gates’ father, William H.Gates Sr.
Click to enlarge
Enjoy!
Web 2.0 World Map
Web 2.0 is a trend and that explains why people like to build something creative base on it. Regardless it’s serious or for fun, I think we should give some credits to their efforts to make Web 2.0 in a more interesting way.
Before this we had War of Computer Technology in Picture showing the current technology war. Today I gonna show you a mosaic world map which designed by 1001 Web 2.0 logos.
Summary of Second Adobe Director 11 Live Online Meeting
I have to admit that I didn’t make it for Second Adobe Director 11 Live Online Meeting due to some unexpected circumstance. 
Luckily Martin Schaefer, the organizer, recorded down the great discussion for whole meeting. So if you missed out the online meeting like me, visit http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p66505446/ to catch up one or two.
The whole recording takes 1.20 hours. So watch it patiently. 
Learn 101 Photoshop Tricks in 5 Minutes [Video]
Regardless you’re a Photoshop beginner or expert, the video below does conduct a good lesson in showing 101 photoshop tricks in only 5 minutes.
The above tutorial is showcased by Deke McClelland. If you feel it useful, you can even download it in low and high resolution. 
Extract Text from PDF Online with PDFTextOnline
Copying text from PDF can be a really tedious work to do. I hereby introduce a hassle free PDF text (and metadata) content extraction tool – PDFTextOnline which allows you to extract text from PDF and makes these text copy-able.
Copy and paste in PDF will no longer be an annoying job if you try PDFTextOnline. Everything will be processed online and no single software is required. Just upload your PDF file to them, PDFTextOnline will help you to extract all the text from head to toe and return it back in their editor.
Share and Watch How-To Videos in WatchDoIt
Do you agree that the fastest way to learn and absorb something new is through watching and imitating?
If yes, try WatchDoIt. WatchDoIt is another good resource for instructional and education videos which provides thousands of tutorials.
Videos in WatchDoIt are actually entertaining rather than merely boring step by step tutorial. Showcased videos are actually sent from different video websites like YouTube and Break.
Online Free SMS Service: Chawt
What would be the best thing to change in our lifestyle to cope with high petrol price? Drive lesser? Spend lesser? If so, I bet you’ll like Chawt which allows you to send free SMS online. Yes. Totally FREE!
Registration is needed in order to send free SMS online. Upon registration, an activation code will be sent to your phone to activate your account.
