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Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year 2010

By Pallab De on January 1, 2010

A humorous look at the events that shaped 2009.

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Three Really Cool Futuristic Tech Videos from Microsoft

Three Really Cool Futuristic Tech Videos from Microsoft

By Pallab De on November 13, 2009

Three futuristic videos from Microsoft, which are not only uber-cool but also gives us a glimpse of the future.

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Tech Dreams Aggregates Weekly Top 10 Music Videos

Tech Dreams Aggregates Weekly Top 10 Music Videos

By Pallab De on November 4, 2009

Tech Dream music service utilises iTunes RSS feed to fetch the top 10 songs (for the current week) from iTunes and generates a playlist of YouTube videos of those songs.

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The Best Job Posting Ever

The Best Job Posting Ever

By Pallab De on July 10, 2009

Recently I came across possibly the best tech job posting ever on Craiglist(via @psam). Its geeky, smart and humorous (again in a geeky way).
I am quoting portions of it below :
To all who Think Themselves a Programmer
We don’t like you. You are a weak, oblong programmer.
We only like amazing, bad ass programmers.
You, dude, [...]

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Top 10 April Fools Day Jokes - 2009

Top 10 April Fools Day Jokes – 2009

By Pallab De on April 1, 2009

April 1st is here and people all around the world busy acting silly. Here are some of the best April Fools Day jokes from the World Wide Web :
10. Youtube – Upside Down
Youtube decided it would be fun to flip all the videos for a day. Although this one lost points for being slightly [...]

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Spamlets - Spam Can Be Fun

Spamlets – Spam Can Be Fun

By Pallab De on June 27, 2008

Spam is undoubtedly one of the biggest nuisance on the web. It’s everywhere – its in your mailbox, its in your blog comments, its there on social bookmarking sites and so on. While spam filters continue to wage their war against spam, spammers are getting creative – often with hilarious results. A twitter hash-tag [...]

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6+1 Totally Useless Products

6+1 Totally Useless Products

By Pallab De on June 11, 2008

They say “necessity is the mother of all invention”. I am not sure though what led people to create the following products. Not only are they totally useless they are almost always weird and funny and sometimes even dangerous.
6. Sree Yantra : What is Sree Yantra? I would let the product’s website describe [...]

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Awesome (Le) Parkour Videos

Awesome (Le) Parkour Videos

By Pallab De on May 17, 2007

From Wikipedia :

(Le) Parkour (English: the art of movement) is a physical art of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything [...]

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Telephone Songs

By Pallab De on April 1, 2006

It’s a long time since I posted anything in the Boredom Killer’s category.So here is something you can try when you are really really bored – Composing songs with your Landline telephone set.
If your phone supports Tone dialing then you can create various sounds by pressing the keys. With some effort you can [...]

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Can you complete Mario in 5 minutes ?

By Pallab De on October 28, 2005

Most of us have spent hours playing Mario. But believe it or not a guy called Trevor Seguin has completed it in a little more than 5 minutes(5 minutes and 6 seconds to be exact)! You can download the video of it from here. Can you beat him?
Dont forget to check out the full [...]

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