Too long we have suffered in silence under the dictatorship of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly learned people. Then we were lost in the noise. The coming of user-driven web content has intensified the matter yet further, distorting our tolerance to the breaking point.

It's time to fight back.

An open-source filter software that can detect clear stupidity in written English is approaching. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines.

Eventually, once the research is completed, developers plan to release core engine source code for incorporation into content management systems, blogs, wikis and the like. Additionally, developers plan to develop a fully implemented Firefox plugin and a Wordpress plugin.

That seems like really great leap towards spam free websites/blogs. Stupid filter is under testing. You can enjoy randomized stupidity at http://stupidfilter.org/random.php yet.

Stupid Filter home Page 

Manage all your projects in one place

I have discussed an online project management and collaboration system Basecamp before. Now I thought to give my readers another good alternative.

Wrike is a Web-based application that makes it simple to trigger projects and tasks from the medium in which most projects and tasks originate, namely e-mail.
Manage from email, Organize tasks, Work together, Get things done...

Wrike is safe and secure. Wrike is a leader in on-demand Online Project Management. Wrike helps to save time for marketing agencies, software development teams, event organizers, publishers, financial services firms, process engineering companies and many others.

Wrike is project management web-based software that helps you save time on planning, processing, tracking and completing your projects. Wrike Individual Plan is free.

Wrike Website

You may have noticed that http://www.techmynd.com and http://techmynd.com  would bring same results. So why use www at all?

Use of the www subdomain is not required mostly and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

http://no-www.org have a whole logic to prove that.

Why is www deprecated? For that if we look at www (world wide web) meaning, It will come up with this statement:
"The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system."
or
"The complete set of electronic documents stored on computers that are connected over the Internet and are made available by the protocol known as HTTP. The World Wide Web makes up a large part of the Internet."

All popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient[at]mail.domain.com.

So world is better off without it. Geeks or Tech people do not usually put www while typing any URL. WWW has been considered a representation of URL that proves it to be an internet website address. Nothing more.

http://no-www.org recommends webmasters to redirect their all traffic coming to 'http://www.domain.com' to 'http://domain.com'. They offer a Class System to distinguish your website behaviour to analyze it at this standard.

Are you ready to set a redirect from your hosting control panel from 'http://www.domain.com' to 'http://domain.com' and forget about using www?

Design page curves in Adobe Photoshop by yourself. You can do it by many ways. I will describe here two easy ways to do it.

Method 1.
Draw a box shape using pen tool. Clicking p will select pen tool in photoshop.
Now you can add editing points to it because its not a regular shape but its editable.
Add points by Add anchor point tool beneath to pen tool in its sub menu, at the corner where you want to curve to appear (e.g. slightly near from top right corner and slightly near right side under top right corner).
Select top right corner by Direct selection tool and drag it inwards.
Add gradients at that corner. Two gradients I suggest. One darker one at top and lighter one, beneath dark gradient by Gradient tool. You are done.
Download psd example file and see how I have made it.

Download Psd File (Curve1)

Method 2.
Draw a box shape using pen tool or by rectangle tool.
At right corner as in my case place a white little rectangle so that it covers a part of right corner exactly. I have used polygonal lasso tool to select further triangle from that small box. Now I had white background. I placed white box at corner of blue box. I created inward selection of triangle from that box and gave it dark blue color. That curved triangle piece which you can see in image below was that selected triangle. After giving it some shadows and applying some layer modes and gradients you can get exactly the same result as shown below.
Download psd of this example to see how I have done it.   

Download Psd File (Curve2)

Share more techniques of creating fancy page curves with me.

Know about malware, adware or any file. 

This website provides a simple help for you to identify any unknown files on your computer. You can enter a filename and see if this file is a dangerous trojan, malware, or simply a standard Windows file. There is a huge database of very popular virus/trojan/malware and other riskful applications.

API is also available for your website to display records about any file at your own website.

Keep It Safe...

WhatIsThatFile Home Page
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Everyone related to computer somehow sometimes feels need to search photos/images, specially designers do more...
I design a lot. I need to get inspiration. Sometimes I search for royalty-free good quality images to use in my work. I have a list of some good search engines which are specific for image related search. I thought someone might find it useful.

http://www.thinkstock.com
http://www.imagebank.com
http://verseguru.com/?desktops
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.indexstock.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://openphoto.net
http://www.comstock.com
http://www.shutterpoint.com
http://www.hebus.com

I visit these for quality image search. You know how you fulfill your needs for images (get images from CD; get these from Google or anywhere else). Share resources for top fine quality image search with me.

Here is a program that goes a beyond what the average desktop calendar may have to offer. Calendar Magic provides a comprehensive coverage of religious occasions, 23 different calendar systems, including full-year and month calendar generation, date conversions, and month-by-month, side-by-side calendar comparisons. It can also double up as an alarm clock, stopwatch and a pregnancy calculator. It also covers observed days for around 230 different countries, and Christian, Orthodox, Buddhist, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindu, Islamic, Baha’i and Sikh festivals. It also has a Quick Notes feature for jotting down any information. Though it starts with a fairly unappealing colour scheme, it can be easily customised to your liking.

Features

• Full year and individual month Gregorian, Afghan, Armenian, Baha'i, Bangla, Chinese, Coptic, Egyptian, Ethiopic, French Revolutionary, Hebrew, Hindu Lunisolar (3 variants), Hindu Solar, Indian National, Islamic Arithmetical (8 variants), Julian, Revised Julian, Parsi Fasli, Parsi Kadmi, Parsi Shenshai, Persian (2 variants), Sikh Nanakshahi and Vietnamese calendars. A user option is provided to choose between displaying/printing calendars showing each week starting on a Monday (in line with the ISO 8601 international standard), on a Sunday for North American users, or on a Saturday for Middle East users.
• Alternative Gregorian "planning calendars".
• “Dual Calendars” – full year calendars in various calendar systems which show, not only the months and days for a year in any one of the calendar systems, but also the corresponding Gregorian dates.
• A month-by-month, side-by-side comparison of any two of the 24 calendar systems listed above.
• Date conversions among the 24 calendar systems listed above.
• Conversion between ancient Greek Olympiad numbering and calendar years.
• Lists of Western Christian festivals, Eastern Orthodox festivals, Hebrew festivals and Islamic festivals for any (Gregorian) year. In addition, Hindu festivals may be listed for any year in the range 2000 to 2043, Baha'i festivals from 1845 onwards, Buddhist and Chinese festivals from 1645 to 3000, and Sikh Nanakshahi festivals from 1999 onwards.
• "Observed Days" for any year from 1990 for over 230 countries and dependencies worldwide.
• "In Which Months?" command button to list, over a range of years, the months in which a specified day of the month falls on a specified weekday.
• The ability to create, display, update and delete reminders for events (birthdays, anniversaries, meetings etc.) for "this year", "next year" or "every year".
• A multi-sheet "Quick Notes" facility.
• An "alarm clock" facility for defining an alarm for a given time on a given date.
• "This is your life" information including day-of-the-week on which you were born, number of days you have lived, your Zodiac sign, some biorhythm data, and the day-of-the-week on which your next birthday falls. Your "Chinese age" and your date of birth in many other calendar systems are also displayed.
• Dates and times of equinoxes, solstices and Moon phases for any year from 1582 to 3000.
• Solar and lunar eclipse data for any year up to 3000.
• Sunrise and sunset information for any date up to the end of 2200 for 8000 locations across the world.
• Moonrise and moonset information for any date up to the end of 2200 for these 8000 locations across the world.
• Current local time and date in any of these 8000 locations, plus interpretation of time zone abbreviations.
• A Unit Converter for converting among 1722 units of measurement in 83 different categories including length, area, volume, mass, temperature, time, velocity, energy, power, pressure, computer storage etc.
• A Time Calculator.
• A Geometry Calculator for evaluating key attributes (area, perimeter, volume, surface area etc.) of various 2D and 3D geometric objects.
• A Factor Calculator.
• A stack based Scientific Calculator with a visible stack.
• An Expression Calculator.
• A Financial Calculator.
• A Fuel Consumption Calculator.
• A Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) calculator.
• A magic square generator.
• A reaction timer.
• Colour customisation of screen backgrounds, non-button text and button backgrounds.
• Support for printing any output displayed, and/or copying it to another program via the Windows clip-board.

Download (Size: 2.4MB)
Calmag167.zip

Website
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm

Get Projects Done

Basecamp is an online project management and collaboration system that does away with the need of sending e-mails here and there or making those urgent, last-minute phone calls. It works both for internal and external projects and allows sharing of information such as project details, dates, and contacts. Basecamp allows customised colours and logo setup to ensure the project has a personal taste while the Dashboard shows all the clients and projects on one screen (you can work on multiple project simultaneously). This utility also provides a To-do section that allows users to make lists and assign responsibilities. While the free plan does not allow any storage, up to 50GB can be bought from the manufacturers to store files online. The Message Board acts as the hub of communication by allowing common messages to be posted rather than being hurled around on paper on email. Basecamp will surely ease those project management pains with its useful built-in functions.

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Website
http://www.basecamphq.com/

Free Hide Folder

Sometimes the best way to keep people from prying into your personal folders is to keep their existence secret right from the start. Free Hide Folder lets users make any folder (and all its subfolders and other contents) completely invisible with just a little pointing and clicking. A useful function in this program is the password protection function so users can rest assured wrong hands will stay off your folders. The software also lets users back up their folders’ hidden states in case the computer encounters a problem at a later stage.

Screenshot

Features

• Hide your folder completely. Unless you unhide it yourself, nobody can find it.
• Password protection when running program.
• No file system structure modifications needed.
• Any number of folders may be hidden at the same time.
• Easy-to-use user interface.

Download (Size: 742 KB)
FHFSetup.exe

Website
http://www.cleanersoft.com

WildVoice Podcast Studio makes it easy to record and publish podcasts by using a computer and a microphone only. WildVoice Podcast Studio lets users record a show like a professional radio DJ in a matter of minutes. Talk live, mix music and other recordings (including adverts if you so wish to) and pass on your recording to other users to get ratings. This software is easier to use than complex sound editors that tend to discourage users from creating podcasts. WildVoice Studio will produce standard MP3 files that can be used anywhere. However, in order to create one’s own podcasts, users will need to sign up for a free account and WildVoice Podcast Studio will automatically upload and post the shows to the Web. WildVoice Studio makes it easy and fun
to record podcasts and other audio.

Screenshot

1. Record your show in clips, mixing in music and sound effects as you talk.
2. Edit your clips, cutting out the parts you don’t like.
3. WildVoice Studio merges your clips. Publish the finished show on WildVoice.com (right from WildVoice Studio!) or any other site that supports audio files.

Download (File Size: 25.3 MB)
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Website
http://www.wildvoice.com