Viral Media in Retrospect

So you just bought one of those hi-tech looking optical mouse…yeah, those that don’t have heavy and nasty roller/tracker balls in them. That doesn’t only mean that from now on it would only be smooth sailing for you in the days ahead. The Optical Mouse can be as fragile as any other PC-accessories and might drop out of service any time soon. But that doesn’t mean you have to throw it out like any other junk…You can recycle its vital parts and make a home-made “SCANNER”! (say Aieeee) . The scanned documents might look crappish, but hey where on earth can you get a scanner (even one made with your own hands) for 8-9$ ? Jeroen has an excellent page on how to turn one of those optical mice into a made-shift scanner. Let me explain the main excerpts in short. (more…)

Although, Kevin Rose the founder of Digg has directly denied the truth behind this delicious rumour that is sweeping the blog world right now, but I still think there is some credibility to it. Clearly digg has redefined the way social bookmark/link sharing is done. It has created a new standard in the Web 2.0 rev with its great “Diggs” system and also the fun yet useful podcast called “Diggnation” that accompanies some of the week’s top stories. Thousands of visitor pour in on digg (more…)

This is a whole new offspring of the Web2.0 rev, the “Flickr logo maker” . It creates Flickr style logos with the text of your choice. It also colours the last letter in pink and the rest in blue, so that the generated image looks similar to the actual Flickr logo. It also offers a link to download the generated image and a url to the acual icon making procedure. So check it out and make your own flick logo. It looks pretty cool and under the tone of the whole Web 2.0 mambo-jumbo. The footer is kinda interesting too, it says ” Flickr logo maker. since 2006″. So check it out now over here. (more…)

Favicons are tiny little icons that represent a website in the address bar of the browser. In Firefox  when you bookmark a page, usually an icon is generated and then put by the side of the bookmark itself. But those who use the bookmark toolbar (a toolbar that is visible in every new window/tab and can be enables from ‘ View>Toolbars> Bookmark toolbar ‘ in Firefox ) will notice that bookmarks brought into the bookmark toolbar (usually by a drag n’ drop procedure ) doesn’t have an icon beside them. Thats where the Favicon Picker extension for Firefox (more…)

Ever wanted to backup your Firefox extensions so that you can restore them later when you have to make a fresh installation of FF? Here’s a step-by-step guide on “How to restore your extensions again and again and again“. Its taken from the mozillazine forum. I hope this works for those who have lost all hope of restoring their favourite FF extensions. (more…)