The Traveler IQ Challenge

How well do you know your world? Well, with The Traveler IQ Challenge game you will surely get an answer. You will have to point on the map the places you are asked to indicate.  The hints will help you, and I hope you’ll find the game fun and useful.

Stuff you think about but don’t talk about

Free TV Online

I wonder when the television will be swallowed by the Internet… With the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion, and with the explosion of free tv online sites, I think we are quite close. Until then I recommend you to get familiar with this kind of applications that offer access to various tv channels for free… Here is one:

Is Google the best search engine?

In Romania, there are a lot of people who use exclusively Google as their search engine. While I respect their point of view, and think that Google is very good, I believe that there are tools that, in some cases, can bring you better results.

I hope you’ve all heard of Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking web application. If you hadn’t, Del.icio.us is just an online collection of favorite links. The interesting part is that you can search through others bookmarks. In many cases you’ll find sites that are really cool, and are not that high in Google’s hierarchy.

Those who use Del.icio.us are above average internet users, with very good skills in finding interesting information. So, Del.icio.us, depending on what you search, can offer you more high quality results…

Great music: Andy Mckee

  I hope you’ll enjoy this video as much as I did…

The first 15 registered domains

The first registered domain was symbolics.com on March 15 1985, by a company which designed and built special computer systems for developing and running object-oriented programs in LISP.

So, the first 15 registered domains are: SYMBOLICS.COM, BBN.COM, THINK.COM, MCC.COM, DEC.COM, NORTHROP.COM, XEROX.COM, SRI.COM, HP.COM, BELLCORE.COM, IBM.COM, SUN.COM, INTEL.COM, TI.COM, ATT.COM.

Your personal desktop for the web?

Symbaloo is a very interesting web 2.0 app, which aims to become your personal desktop for the web. The interface is cool and easy, and the interactivity is provided by simple drag and drop. Another cool thing is that you don’t have to register.

Violin virtuoso Alex DePue

Just great music and pure talent:

Cool resources only for you

Do you wanna be a student at MIT? Learn from the best teachers in the world? Read cool material, structured in an intuitive and comprehensive way? Now you have the opportunity to stay at home, enjoy your coffee, and watch great video lectures from top universities like MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford.

I have two resources for you guys, one of them is www.lecturefox.com/ and the other is http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/ .

Passing by

Here is a link to an innovative application called Passingby . It simply shows you some videos from the road, giving you the opportunity to virtually travel through different countries. The footages are taken especially from cars and trains, and give you a strong feeling of authenticity. It is really cool to see London at night, and after a few seconds to admire some forests in Finland. I didn’t see any videos from Romania, so I’m counting on you guys to do something about it.