URL shortening services are Websites, which offer redirections from one of their pages with short URLs to your page (with a long URL). URL shortening services are great when you need to print URLs. I don’t like them on Websites / in Emails as I can’t see the target, but I don’t want to type [...]
Archive for the ‘The Web’ Category
How Chrome could be improved
April 6th, 2012
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Google Chorme is the browser of my choice. It is fast, has developer tools and looks great. But it could be improved. I’ll describe some features I miss. Disable sound for tabs Sometimes I watch a movie while I play a flash game. Some flash games don’t offer an option to mute them. So I [...]
Incredible Optical Illusions
March 27th, 2012
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Some really great and short examples of illusions. If you want an explanation of them, I have added a link to the corresponding Wikipedia article. Checker shadow illusion Checker shadow illusion: The pieces A and B are of the same color. Ebbinghaus illusion Ebbinghaus illusion: the first central circle seems to be smaller than the [...]
Learn how to type
March 26th, 2012
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keybr.com is another service that helps you to learn how to type.
Stuxnet
February 24th, 2012
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The following clip is a nice, short explanation of Stuxnet, a computer worm discovered in June 2010:
Impact of SOPA protests
January 24th, 2012
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It seems as if the SOPA protests were quite effective. 162 Millionen visitors of Wikipedia did see the message. Zuckerbergs Facebook post got half a million Likes. Thousands bloggers downloaded protest plugins which blacked out their blog. See also SOPA Opera: Where Do Your Members of Congress Stand on SOPA and PIPA? ArsTechnica: PIPA support [...]
SOPA protests
January 18th, 2012
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Some of the biggest sites in the internet are currently calling US citizens up to protest. SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act – is endangering some key aspects of the internet. I am a little bit disappointed that Google had no special doodle today and twitter had no message at all Well, at least [...]
