Do you know how easy or difficult is to crack your password. There is a tool for that. Just type in any random word or combination of characters, the tool will automatically tell you how long it would take a computer to crack your code. Really cool! Try it out here.
Note: It seems [...]

Here is an insightful deck of slides from Drew Houston, CEO of the online backup company Dropbox. Lots of valuable stuff for other start-ups.

Checkout some brilliantly executed videos of Google Chrome browser speed tests. Amazing!

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The Visible Body is an online, 3-D Interactive Tool that lets users explore the human anatomy and all its various system of the human physiology.
Visible Body is produced by Argosy Publishing, provider of content and technology to the medical, pharmaceutical, scientific, consumer products, television, and educational communities.
Check out the video embedded below for an [...]

Chirpframe turns your iPad into a gorgeous digital photo frame or Twitter frame. Enter your twitter name, drop the iPad in your dock, start Chirp Frame app and enjoy your tweets even while watching television.
The app comes with three different themes and works in both landscape and portrait modes. Get it from the Appstore [...]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, says that The “//” in “http://” could in fact be just a single “/” if he had coded it properly. Interesting. Read the complete article and watch the video of the interview here.

Portrait Machine is an interactive photography installation that visualizes the connections between visitors. It makes these connections based on a number of features, such as clothing choice, hair color, facial expression, and composition within the frame. It presents both similarities and differences in these characteristics, remdining us of our connectedness and uniqueness, creating strong visual [...]

Casual clothing brand Uniqlo has created the most captivating web calendar, featuring a random assortment of stop-motion tilt-shift imagery from different locations around the world and charming background music by Fantastic Plastic Machine. Highly addictive. [via]
I just created a widget for Los Angeles, CA. You can create for other locations here.

When major newspapers are closing down, UK’s Guardian is opening up. Guardian announced their “Open Platform”, which allows anyone to access their content for free.
Open Platform is the suite of services that make it possible for anybody to build applications with the Guardian. It consists of two products: the Content API, is a set [...]