If you had one day to live, what would you do? You probably know that question and I personally find it very hard to come up with an answer to that. Day Zero takes the question a step further by asking you what you would like to do in the next 1001 days. It is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Ambient Mixer, Listen To, Create Ambient Sounds
I recently began to take a closer look at ambient sounds and noise colors, e.g. white noise, to improve my sleep. I personally do not sleep that well which can be mainly attributed to working in front of a computer monitor all day, and to my sensitive hearing. To make matters worse, I live in [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Free Online ePub Converter
A few days ago I have reviewed the Firefox add-on GrabMyBooks which can be used to turn multiple web pages into an ePub ebook. Today I’m reviewing the free service 2ePub which is an online converter. The free service can turn several document formats into the ePub format, and several other output formats. All you [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
How Long Do You Give Fetch.io?
The new Bittorrent related service Fetch.io has been in the news ever since it was mentioned over at Torrentfreak two days ago. Fetch.io acts as a middleman by downloading torrents to their servers. The files that are downloaded this way are automatically transcoded into mp4 and Flash video formats before they become available for streaming, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
Microsoft Montage, Create Visual Albums Of Topics Of Interest
How do you keep track of topics of interest on the Internet? Do you visit news site, subscribe to RSS feeds, email newsletters, Google Alerts, Twitter? Many Internet users are overwhelmed by the information at their disposal. Montage is a new online service by Microsoft Fuse Labs that allows everyone to create visual web albums [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
WobZip, Uncompress Archives Online
The right archiving software may sometimes be out of reach to unpack an archive. This can be the case when using a public computer in an Internet Cafe or library for instance. Users who need to extract an archive but cannot do so locally can resort to online services to do so. WobZip is one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Turn Websites Into Geocities Pages
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
- Comments: 2
Image Error Level Analysis
Is an photo or image real or has it been tampered with? That is a question that sometimes needs to be answered not only because of curiosity but also for more important matters like solving a crime or deciding whether to publish a photo in a magazine or paper. The Image Error Level Analysis is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Aardvark Combines Yahoo Answers With Instant Messaging
Tobey mailed me an invite to Aardvark the other day which left me puzzled for a short time. The email basically stated that Tobey had invited me and trusted my opinion on blogging, computers and technical advisory. That’s actually a very nice way of inviting users to join a service that they know nothing about. [...]