Geocities was a popular service back then that allowed its users to create basic websites. Many Geocities pages dated back to the beginning days of the Internet where webmasters liked to use animated gifs, sounds and other distracting elements on their pages. The Geocities-izer brings back those fond memories by offering to turn any modern [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Elf Yourself Redesigned
Last year, around the same time, we spotted a very interesting service that made it possible to dress five people as elfs and have them perform a dance afterwards. The Elf Yourself craze was born and it quickly became a popular website. On a sidenote, my nephew who was 4 at the time, loved to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Meet Emily
I’m loosely following the technological advances in a few sectors that are not directly related to the topics I write about at Ghacks. This includes advancement in new input technologies like Microsoft’s Surface but also character animation and robotics. Maybe once or twice in a year I come upon something that is so fascinating that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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List of problems solved by MacGyver
Today was such an evil day full of trying to solve a riddle with only a few clues that I had to find something interesting funny to post at the end of it. I loved to watch MacGyver when I was a kid, it was always cool to see how he was able to build [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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IP Spotting
Please be warned that there is no serious use for IP Spotting (via Donation Coder). It does provide a level of entertainment though for a while and is definitely a nice idea. IP Spotting is a website that analyzes the IP addresses of its visitors and scores it using an out of this world chart [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Convert Boring Units to Real Objects
1000 Kilogram are 1.3 cows, 5.6 female lions or 1 shire horse while 100000 kilogram equal 18 male African elephants and 7.1 Big Bens. The website Sensible Units (via Genbeta) converts boring units like Kilogram, Meters, Miles or Pounds into real world objects. There is obviously no real scientific value behind the calculations but it [...]
OT: Bridge to Terabithia remake for geeks
Are you a fan of “Bridge to Terabithia” movie? Are you fond of IT stuff? Both? Then check this out. None? Then check it out too, you might come to like it anyway. I loved that movie when I saw it and I still do. It even made me ignore my lack of talent and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Face in a Hole
It seems to be the tip day of the week because this is actually the third tip I received by email today. Carlos send me the tip, thanks for that. Face in a Hole is a website where you can put your face, or the face of someone else, on well known images. Ever wanted to have the Rock’s muscles, Audrey Hepburn’s body or Wolverine’s claws ?
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Mikontalo Lights Project
The Mikontalo Lights Project was created by the students of Tampere University of Technology in Finland. “The object of MIKONTALOLIGHTS was to create the world’s physically largest colored graphics platform by using the windows of Mikontalo’s D-staircase as light pixels. The platform was used to play Tetris and other games and present demos created by the students of Tampere University of Technology.”