Some interesting sites...

Came across this website from someone shared on Facebook. While thinking of what to do as time passers, I decided to play with the quizzes. There are a lot of quizzes that very appealing to me. I did a few. Here's one of my result. It was fun, but I didn't take it seriously mainly because quite a number of my answers are not one of the choice to be chosen. :D You can actually create your own quiz as well. Oh, you can create poll and list there too! :D Feel free to visit http://www.playbuzz.com/ . Wish you have a great weekend!

Almost a year since my last post. Anyway.... Got to know about this website from my colleague. I love the music and the animated background pictures. It's so soothing. I tried the 2 minutes guided calm in the office. I guess that's the longest luxury I can have in the office to go through an uninterrupted guided calm session. :) At times, I'll just play the music from this website and keep it looping. I just want to calm down the uncontrollable, hyper-active mood swing. Try this, if you have a hectic day. http://www.calm.com

I was in the midst of converting "manually" from hexa to binary, regroup the binaries, and convert it to decimal, then check on the Base64 index table to get the "characters" for some comparison to prepare this post . I found this website. http://calc.50x.eu/ Thanks to this web site, it can directly convert from any base of number to the other base. I can save my brain power in this. :D

I was looking for movie making software. Somehow, I was unable to install Movie Maker 2011 in my laptop. I gave up, and search for other alternative. In one of the search result, and somehow, this website attracted me, Shape Collage. I saw my friends posted photos similar to this using Picasa, however, I really do feel Picasa is not so user friendly, thus I gave up using that apps. I do found this Shape Collage very easy to use, it automatically generate the pictures based on your selections and settings. You can even specify how the picture collages looked like! If you would like to edit the picture, you can save it in PSD format, and edit using Photoshop or GIMP. (If you would like to use freeware all the way, GIMP is your choice!) One thing that confused me while I am using Shape Collage is, the review button is to view the shape of the picture collages, not to view the end result. You’ll have to save the file first before you can check it out. And one great thing is, it sup...

If I recall correctly, I attended the forum last week. My peer chaired the forum, and he used this tool to collect the inputs from the forum. It’s called XMind. He said it is very handy to be used when doing brainstorming session. It is related to mind mapping and etc, etc, etc. I did go and check it out, and tried to use it. It is not bad, it helps to organize your thoughts into a more systematic and graphical way. I used it in today’s class. I haven’t really gone through it thoroughly. This type of applications does help a lot, but not necessary work for me, as I am a super not-organized person. I saw my colleague put his data and research information in MS Office OneNote in a very organized way. I tried, it just won’t work. :P Hope you find this application useful, and do help you in organizing your thoughts. :) http://www.xmind.net/

If you notice my recent blog entries in another website (provided if you are aware of it), you’ll find out I put some “enhanced” photos. I don’t really like to edit photos (taking the originality and time consumption into consideration, and of course, the lacking of the skill to photoshopping the photos is another main reason to this...). However, my blogmates use a tool called PhotoScape to copyright our photos, and add some effects to the photos to keep us “anonymous”... (Oppsss... did I reveal anything here? nope. :D) This is a great tool, where you can add frame to your photos, resize them, adjust the colours, combining photos, crops the photos and etc. This is one of the amazing things that shown in the website of what this tool can do. This is the interface of the tool. I forgot did I downloaded the Chinese version, or it’s due to my PC is set to Chinese language; the function shown in the tool is in Chinese. :P This tool is freeware, and you can download it freely at http://www....

I found a very interested website from my company internal blog. :P I did play around with it, and my friend asks me not to post it until her T-shirt design is completed. :D I use song lyrics as the input for the text processing. The song I chose is “That I’ll be good”. Yeah, I know, it’s a sad song, but I just can’t help it, especially I still feel hurt, and try to comfort myself on my own, telling myself that I’ll be good. OK, that’s too out of the topic. Here’s the snapshot of the website, and one of the output that I captured from my “work”... :D This site or I would say this web application process the text that you provide, and depends on the frequency of the word that resides in the text to decide which word to be included in the “design”. You can change the clouds of word with different layouts and colours. I just click on the “Randomize” button. :P It’s rather slow, because it’s using java application. However, once it’s up, I think the speed is tolerable. http://www.wordle.ne...

I come across this URL again on a local newspaper couple of days ago. I have faith in almost all of Google’s applications. (shh… I didn’t try all, but those I tried, I am very satisfied.) If you click on the planets listed down there, it will bring you to the planet location in the sky. Each planet seems to have its own symbol. I didn’t know about that. I think this should be included in our school syllabus. We would be easily draw and identify the planets. It’s fun to learn about planets this way, personal opinion. One funny thing happened was, I click on the Earth. I was expected it to bring me to the Earth in the sky. It pops up to the Google Maps instead. Hahahaha~~ I wonder if an alien is using this tool, what would he/she/it think. As a conclusion, I think this tool is not alien-friendly. :P Anyway, I do wish there will be some enhancement on the zoom in. It stops at the last 5th zoom in scale. :-s http://sky.google.com/

It's been long time that I have never put any new URL here. I always have problem to remember this simple URL, so I better put this down before I need to google for it again! I am a Malay-educated, at least for my secondary school education, or even partially of my university life. There are some terms, I know in Malay, but not in English or Mandarin, so I normally visit this site, to get the translation. Anyhow, when I need a word in Malay, but I only know it in Mandarin or English, I'll use this site too. It's quite handy to get the word in other 2 languages using this site. A lot of time, the words that I am looking for are not there. For example, the word "logamaya" in Malay. I have to use Google to search for "Malay + logamaya" to figure it out. Mirage is the English word for logamaya. Anyway, even though it's slow, and limited vocabulary offered, but it's a quite handy site when I need to find the right word for my writing. :) http://search...

I think before I continue to introduce some other interesting site or page, I should introduce this online tool. I visit a lot of sites in Mandarin, thus for those who can't read Chinese, but wish to follow my trail in the Internet world should know this tool. It's a translator tool by Google. I know that Google has a lot of online gadgets and web-based tool that I don't realize. However, this is one of my most frequently used tools beside Google search engine that helps me a lot. Alas! I only able to get the snapshot in Mandarin version… hmm.. A highly intelligent tool that can capture my default language in Traditional Chinese... http://translate.google.com/