Thought I’d hit you with a quick and random one today so brace yourself…
Have you ever wanted to find out what the shortest path between any two Wikipedia articles is? No? Why am I not surprised? However if you are so inclined XLTD.com can help you out with both the minimum number clicks, plus a list of the links themselves. Surely one of the more random websites out there.
I threw a few unrelated (or so I thought…) topics in, it’s actually fairly amazing how interlinked everything is. I’m not totally sure of any good applications for such a site, maybe it’s just here to help you win a bet with a friend that such a site even exists?
Needless to say it’s still fantastic in it’s own, rather strange, little way. Let me know what you think below.
Posted August 15th 2010 by Ben Norman [n0rman0] in Internet, Reviews
Email is great for sending small files, but how often have you tried to attach something only to find out that it’s too big? All too often I imagine… It can be incredibly annoying, especially when the damn thing’s a fraction of a megabyte over the limit.
Fortunately help is at hand, in the form of WeTransfer. As I’m sure you’re aware, services which offer help you transfer files aren’t exactly new, in fact some have been around for decades (for those of you that don’t know me I’m slightly prone to exaggeration…). So what does WeTransfer offer that others don’t?
How often has someone asked you a question which leaves you secretly wondering why on earth they didn’t just Google it? Worse still I bet you’ve answered questions you didn’t actually know the answer to with a cheeky Google whilst you’re still on the phone.
If you fancy a bit of a laugh at the questioners expense you should check out lmgtfy.com. Submit your desired search and it’ll generate a link for you that once followed shows an animation of you Googling the desired topic, followed by forwarding you onto the actual results.
The sites actually been around since 2008, I recently rediscovered it and thought that there’s bound to be people who missed this the first time around, hope you enjoy.
Good news! Skype have just updated their iPhone app to take full advantage of iOS 4, bring the much sought-after functionality of backgrounding the app. That’s right – you can now have Skype permanently running in the background on your iPhone! Ok, so I’m the only one who’s genuinely excited about that, but it is a handy feature, and is not noticeably detrimental to battery life (on which I keep a keen eye, so I’d have noticed!).
Skype will also let you receive calls while the phone is locked. If you hadn’t downloaded the Skype App for your iPhone yet, you should know that the app allows you to make calls over WiFi and 3G, and of course instant message over either, as well. One last thing to note, folks – as backgrounding an app obviously requires multitasking, this will only be supported on the iPhone 3g(s) and iPhone 4.
The guys at istartedsomething.com have made a fantastic video demoing the latest build of Windows Phone 7 , Microsoft’s newest offering to the smartphone market. I have to say I think it’s coming on rather nicely, certainly looking forward to trying it out on some real hardware.
For more thoughts and a second video demoing the ring tones you can read their article here.
Google have recently rolled out support for multiple signatures in Gmail, something I’m sure will be celebrated by anyone who uses it for multiple email accounts. At the same time they’ve also added rich text options, basically allowing you greater control over the look of your signature, even allowing you to include pictures.
If you want to check it out log into Gmail, click on settings and you should see ‘Signatures’ under the general tab.
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