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Visuwords
Today more than 10 million children started using computers and internet.But i feel, not even 50% of them spend their time usefully.The reason is,useful sites are not so impressive(according to children).They love sites which uses some graphics.In that way,I am sure children will love VisuWords.
VisuWords is a beautiful online graphical dictionary.If you ask your kid [...]

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Book on User-Centered Web Design Available Online for Free

In this book, we primarily address universal usability at the functional layer, focusing on the challenges of designing pages that are accessible and usable on different devices by diverse users. We concentrate on the functional layer because, without it, the other layers are irrelevant. An intuitive interface and informative content are useless if the basic [...]

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MRI and xRay for CSS!! What?

Well, several tools that help troubleshooting CSS are available. Some come with the browser, like the Web Inspector in Safari, while others are plugins or extensions, like Firebug or the Web Developer Extension.There are occasions where you can’t or don’t want to install an extension though, and that’s where John Allsopp’s two bookmarklets XRAY and [...]

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We all know WOW!!!! well what is WOM

Word of Mouth. Yes.
WOMMA is the official trade association for the word of mouth marketing industry. WOMMA’s mission is to promote and improve word of mouth marketing by:

Promoting “best practices” to ensure more effective marketing
Protecting consumers and the industry with strong ethical guidelines
Evangelizing word of mouth as an effective marketing tool
Setting standards to encourage its [...]

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Best Tech Blog

Finalist Links
Smashing Magazine , Gearlog , GoodCleanTech , Tech Rivet , The Apple Blog , Lifehacker
Medgadget, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb , Gizmodo

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Most people sleep while studying but some people study sleeping

Yes, there is a terminology called Sleep study. Not sure how many of them know it. But today its been done across location mostly in US & India. Studies shows that most of them are from the IT and Business sectors who fall in the category.
In Chennai, we have Nithra Institute of Sleep Sciences who [...]

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World Usability Day 2007 @ Bangalore

November 5th and over 100 designers, technologists, usability professionals and public attendees gathered at the NIAS Auditorium at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The event: World Usability Day, which was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Organized and supported by UPA [...]

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Ulaga Nayagan, Uloor Nayagan – B’day!

Today, universal hero Kamal Hassan has turned 53. There will be lots of celebration in media channels like Vijay, Sun etc. I wish him a very happy b’day on behalf of Chennai Fans. And btw, more importantly its the B’day of Deepak Devadasan who is Uloor nayagan of Lake View Road,Chennai!.Yes its my B’day today.
Last [...]

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ICICI fined Rs 50 lakh!!!

Delhi Consumer Commission fined ICICI bank a whopping fine of Rs 50 lakh for employing “goons” to recover loan and deplored the practice of the banks intimidating consumers to pay the installments. In the significant judgement, the Commission deprecated the “audacity and impunity” with which the banks have been effecting forcible possession of vehicles and [...]

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TV Battle

On a Sunday morning (November 4), television viewers in Tamilnadu where shocked when Sun TV without any announcement or publicity ran a scroll that they were going to show the Tamilnadu government award night. The same programme was to be shown in Kalaignar TV as their Diwali special on November 8!Around 11.30am, as Sun TV [...]

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Morae 2-Usability Testing Software

Morae is software for usability testing and user experience research that helps you identify site and application design problems and share them with stakeholders.
With the insight Morae provides, you can make critical design changes that will improve sales and conversion rates, boost Web site traffic, and increase customer satisfaction. Improve application and Web site usability [...]

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Understanding Search Usability

The term “search usability” is widely misunderstood throughout a variety of industries: Web design/development, search engine marketing (SEM), online advertising, information sciences, human-computer interface (HCI), and usability industries. Even the term “usability” is misunderstood by search professionals.Every time I hear an SEO professional claim that his or her firm implements web site usability best practices, [...]

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Delightful Deepavali…

I have double this joy for this november as Diwali is falling right after my B’day Nov7th.
So, what do you remember when you think of Deepavali? Pattas, Tappas, Lakshmi Vedi, Laddu, Boiler, Mullu Murukku, Seyakkai, Marundhu, New Jeans, Rajini’s pudhu padam, Mathaappu a.k.a Susuravathi, Rockets, Patti Mandram, Pottu Cape. Which one comes first?
I have amazing [...]

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Linkdump!

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
http://tor.eff.org/
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
http://www.httrack.com/
http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gammu:Main_Page
http://www.jffnms.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak
http://www.imgseek.net/
http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
http://ascii.dyne.org/
Freeware Encyclopedia
softpedia.com
Gaming Station
ign.com , gamespot.com , actiontrip.com , justadventure.com , eurogamer.net ,
gametab.com , gamevideovault.com , gameaholic.com , miniclip.com
Kids Fun
kids.discovery.com , foxkids.com , nationalgeographic.com/kids , 4kids.com
big6.com/kids , haringkids.com , fbi.gov/fbikids.htm , sciencenewsforkids.org
familyfun.go.com , thekidzpage.com
Movie Magic
digitallyobsessed.com , apple.com/trailers , ifilm.com , movies.com , inetfilm.com
rottentomatoes.com , Top ten google apps

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Best4c : Online Chart Creator

Best4c [Best for chart] is a Web-based, online diagram tool that allows us to create, edit and share charts anytime, anywhere on the web. With it we can create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, Floor plans, Network diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram. It provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution [...]

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Gist of Flex

High level overview on Adobe Flex. Using a tree navigation to provide the overview aint a good idea.
Creating a Simple RIA: Watch Video of the Tutorial
Learning Points
* Flex applications are Flash applications.
o Flex is a programmer-centric way to create Flash-based rich internet applications.
o Flex applications are rendered using Flash Player 9.
o Like all Flash RIAs, [...]

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