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The secret of white noise
Jan 8th
White noise is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. – Wikipedia
A white noise can help the brain to relax, aid sleep, suppress distractions, improve memory, soothe migraines etc. Due to its property to cut through background sounds, it can be used to cut unwanted sounds coming into a room. Thus, white noise is a soft noise to help you work in peace.
White noise is impossible to generate by any automated algorithm. But some complex algorithms can generate white noise quite closely. The random noise generated can be used to create totally random numbers. Simply noise is an online white noise generator which can produce white noise right on your browser. It is a flash based application, with a volume control slider for your custom comfort volume level. Use the simply noise application while you are working or sleeping for a soft ambience that helps you.
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- Does noise help or hurt concentration? (boingboing.net)
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5 places for fantastic desktop wallpapers
Jan 4th
1. Veer
Collection of beautiful and unique wallpapers. A place which you can’t skip looking with google images as an excuse. No you can never find these through google image search.
Veer needs a free 2 minute registration process before you can download the full resolution wallpapers.
2. Vlad Studio
My personal favorite website to find great wallpapers. The drawing style wallpapers, you rarely find anywhere else. Vlad studio isn’t the place if you are searching for photo realistic wallpapers. The wallpapers they feature are more of a modern art type. It is a one man support website. All those come from the graphic skills of a single person.
Then there is Interfacelift selected as the best by people. In a recent poll by lifehacker, interfacelift won. Interfacelift was voted the best by 36% of the lifehacker readers. Presently 2041 wallpapers, each handpicked.
4. Deviantart
Deviantart is a online art community. People share their piece of art or photography on the website. Search for wallpapers in the search box of Deviantart. The pictures that get a tag “wallpaper” among number of other tags, land on your search page. Deviantart scored 2nd highest number of votes on the Lifehacker poll.
5. PixelGirl
Not mentioned at many places, Pixelgirl hosts beautiful wallpapers. coolest Mac OS X Windows icons and desktop images for your computer and mobile gear as well as offering tutorials, articles and links.
Gaming geeky wallpapers: Desktopgaming
Windows 7 theme wallpapers: Howtogeek
Guitar wallpers: Howtogeek
Other great websites via Lifehacker I haven’t used till date: 4Chanwallpapers
and Mandolux
Free 20 Google wave invitations giveaway
Jan 2nd
Image via Wikipedia
There are just 20 invitations, so people who do the following first will be getting the invites. “First Tweet First Get”
To score a Google Wave invitation. Do this:
1. Re-tweet this message: “RT @mrpant Grab google wave invites at http://mrpant.com”
2. Click on “x minutes ago from web” below your Tweet message and comment the tweet link here, with your email ID.
3. Subscribe Mrpant newsletter to mail.
4. Be a fan of Mrpant on Facebook.
Note: Offer valid only till stock lasts. STOCK: 20 invitations.
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WordPress Image upload problem
Jan 1st
Today when I was writing the previous post. The screen shot of the free extended task manager didn’t upload. There was an error saying “The parent directory …/wp-content/uploads/2010/01 isn’t writable.”
I opened up the file manager and navigated to the uploads directory. I have had a similar problem before. So, I made a new directory and named it 2010. The default permissions were 755. I changed it to 777 and then tried to upload again. The upload was successful. Now, there won’t be any such problems till jan 1 2011. I’ll have to repeat the process again for the new year 2011.
My web host isn’t a popular one like the Hostgator or Godaddy, so I face some problems like these often. Probably it isn’t optimized for wordpress. Hope I find a way to fix this soon. Otherwise, I’ll have to shift to a better host from may.
Make your own WordPress theme without coding
Dec 30th
It is always tough to find a WordPress theme that matches your blog theme exactly. Divine lets you design your own theme. With the basic knowledge of photoshop all you have to do is design a page in photoshop. Then simply export it to wordpress using Divine. All the CSS slicing and page elements are created automatically by this free photoshop plugin Divine. The free version of the program has significant limitations in its functionality. The process of template creation with a glance at these limitations is described at page How to create a theme with Divine Free version with videos. The program works with Windows only. Mac version is expected soon. You will need photoshop version CS2 CS3 or CS4 to install this plugin.
The FAQ page clears all the questions.
The free version has some minimum and maximum limits for the page size. Other limitations of the free version.
You have send them your email address. The download link is sent to your email. [download]
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