Stewart Butterfield has the best beard in Silicon Valley

I would like to quote what Michael Copeland says in the latest issue of Fortune.

It takes more than leading-edge technology and a Stanford MBA to make it big in high tech. Apparently it takes whiskers.

It’s weird, but true, there are so many Silicon Valley CEOs sporting beards these days. The magazine has even organized a contest: The Silicon Valley Beard-off!. It combed the Silicon Valley and put together eight unshaven execs and invited a panel of three distinguished judges to choose the best beard of the Silicon Valley!

Silicon Valley big names

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Get one way backlinks from my Top Commentators list

If you have been blogging long enough or have accessed the Internet for a few hours and know a little bit about SEO, then you should have came across the term “backlink” at least once. However if are still clueless what a backlink is, and why they are important, especially “one way backlinks” then for your benefits I will explain it very briefly.

Backlinks are links that are pointing towards your website. They are also knows as inbound links or incoming links. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website. Logically, the more backlinks you have to your website, the better is your website, and search engines will tend to give you better rankings.

Top commentators list

Now, in order to encourage comments, I have decided to give you backlinks in my Top Commentators list. Very easy, just read my blog posts and put down your comments or whatever thoughts you might have. Not only these backlinks are one way and do-follow, but they are placed strategically where most readers will notice and thus you will get more visitors too.

Thank you for reading this post and do keep the comments coming in. I appreciate each and every comments/feedbacks. See you in the Top Commentators list. 🙂

Cool things you can do with your webcam

I believe you have watched The Incredibles in ASCII format and wants more. Now, instead of watching other movies, why not watch yourself on your webcam in ASCII? That would be so COOL!

ASCII

Haha… I look like a zoombie. Trust me, in person I look much better.

Anyway, to stream your webcam live in ASCII format, first make sure your webcam is hooked up on your computer and jump over to Krazydad ASCII Cam. The flash video will detect the presence of your webcam and request for your permission to access it. Click on “Allow”.

Within a few seconds you will see your webcam live… in ASCII format. Click on the “Snap” button to generate a text snapshot which you can then paste in your instant messaging, email and etc and amaze your friends. Cool, isn’t it? 🙂

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Edit Your Photos Online

Picture this.

You are using the PC at the computer lab in your college or university and someone sent you a picture that you really like, well, except that there is this idiot in the picture that you would like to cut out before you post it up in Facebook. Let’s face it, it’s a PC in the computer lab, what are the odds that this particular PC will have some simple image editing software? 50% chance? 10%? Or none at all?

Well, it’s not an uncommon situation to be in. To be honest, it happened to me a few times before, but it was my own laptop that has no image editing software. To be fair, I just format the machine and had no patience to download anything via a 56k modem.

But fret no more! Don’t bother with looking and downloading a software off the Internet just to edit a few photos. You can just edit them online.

There are a few image editing websites on the Internet now, and most of them are free of charge too! One of them is Phixr.

Phixr Site

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The Incredibles ASCII movie

I know this isn’t something new and can be done quite easily these days with the many video-to-ASCII converters. But hey, I believe it’s still pretty entertaining to watch The Incredibles in ASCII format. Although it’s only a very short scene.

The Incredibles

The whole short clip was created by tonnes of images pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard in 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). If this movie clip was done by hand coding, that would have been hell of an achievement, right? 🙂

Watch The Incredibles ASCII movie now! The movie clip takes a while to download. Patience is a Virtue, my friend. 🙂

Steve Ballmer uses a MacBook for presentations

Can you believe this? Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) was seen with a MacBook at the podium while he gave his presentation. Not sure if he was actually seen using the MacBook though.

Steve Ballmer, presentation

Haha… anyway, as some Flickr commenters pointed out Steve Ballmer didn’t actually use the MacBook for his presentation. The picture was real and authentic, and that was also his presentation slide which was most likely driven by another computer. That MacBook in the picture was left behind by some other people, perhaps the conference organizers or a previous presenter.

Too bad, I actually hoped that was his MacBook!

On another thought, even if he was using a MacBook for his presentation, there is nothing too surprising, right? Macs run Windows just like any other laptops, and also PowerPoint for Mac OS X. So, as long as he’s still using Microsoft Windows, there isn’t anything to shout about. 🙂

Huge list of FREE RSS directories and RSS search engines

I believe most website owners and bloggers have RSS feeds to distribute their content to a wider audience. We have all heard of web directories for regular link submission, but do you know that there are many directories specifically developed for promoting your RSS feeds? And the good news is that almost all of them accept free submissions, and the even good news is that I have painfully went through the 100 plus RSS directories and search engines and stripped out the inactive, slow, poor quality ones.

The following are active directories and search engines that receive visitors and FREE submissions. Yes, they are all FREE and requires no payment and no reciprocal links. You do not need to register first also. Go to these sites and submit your feeds now to get more visitors and readers!

Take a break. 🙂

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3G iPhone and EDGE iPhone speed comparison

We have been talking about 3G iPhone and perhaps some other cool features in the next version of Apple iPhone. But folks at Applicando couldn’t wait any longer and did a speed comparison between iPhone’s EDGE download speed and a mimicked 3G iPhone.

In the comparison video two Apple iPhones open up the same web page side-by-side.

The 3G iPhone is demonstrated by using a WIFI connection, sharing the internet connection of an iMac which was connected to the internet via HSDPA (Huawei E172 HSPDA modem).

Not surprisingly, the winner was the “3G iPhone” which took 16 seconds to load the web page while the EDGE iPhone took nearly twice as long! This comparison test is merely a likely experience of 3G/HSDPA surfing on a future real 3G iPhone.

Virus Authors Accessing Their Rights To Their Virus Codes

Honor Among Thieves

Virus Author and the License

Now, we all know about the licensing agreement that we have to agree to whenever we want to install a program right? It’s some long winded statements that tell us what we can’t do with the software and how we can be persecuted if we do this and that to the software. I don’t know precisely what it contains because I just never did have the time to bother to read them. I see a tick box and I ticked it, and then I press ‘Next’. Easy.

Well, looks like the malware and virus authors are lining up side by side with those legitimate software authors and companies with their licensing terms. They are now protecting their rights to their virus codes as well. Who would have thought? What an honest thing to do!

According to the news at wtopnews.com, there are professional virus authors out there that are selling a suite of software on the Internet with a highly unusual attachment; a detailed licensing agreement that promises penalties for redistributing the malicious codes without permission.

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