Stack your tabs vertically on Firefox

This is a very useful Firefox Add-on: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en

The add-on allows you to stack your tabs vertically (instead of laying
them horizontally like a tool-bar). What makes it more useful is that
it maintains the tree structure for tabs. For example, if iGoogle
created a new tab when you clicked on a link on its page, it shows
that the tab has been spawned by iGoogle.

The add-on also allows you to collapse the tree view if you wish to see only the parent pages.

Google is pretty scary..

Gmail is asking if I am considering toastmasters. Toastmasters is a non profit organization helping one another developing public speaking and leadership skills.

I've had some email traffic regarding toastmasters and it is asking me if I want to consider visiting www.SpeakingWithoutFear.com. By looking at the URL, I can pretty much assume that the web site maybe offers a manual or some training materials for improving public speaking skills.

How much scarier is this AI going to get? I wouldn't be shocked even if someday an actual person shows up on a pop-up window and talk to you about something that they want to sell.

Google did it again! - April Fool's Prank

Despite the skepticism that Google might not do the april fool's prank this year, Google definitely did not disappoint us this year either. This is a brilliant prank - I managed to get some of my friends totally falling for this. Thanks to Google for allowing me to have this fun!

see for yourself! - http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/

Google provides the pdf file for the glasses layout and even lets you download Google Chrome with 3D - try it yourself

Google also did not leave out those users with other locales. Since I can only understand Korean other than English, I can only talk about the korean one though..

If you type '끝말잇기' (keut-mal-it-gi), Google tells you you can play the game. The rule of this game is that a player takes the last syllable of the opponent and use it for the next word. If you can't come up with the next word, you lose.

Next to the panda, it says, it wants to start with '대한민국' (dae-han-min-gook) which means Korea in Korean. Since the word ends with 'gook', I typed the next work '국가' (gook-ga) which means the nation.

Then Google continues to play the game. When Google fails to come up with the next word, it tells you that you are a good player :)

Do you know about Tinyurl?

This is an interesting idea. As Twitter is becoming more popular,
there is definitely a good use for this tiny version of long URLs that
we commonly encounter these days. As shown in the following
screenshot, tinyurl.com offers the front page that allows you to enter
a long URL. You can give it a name and http://tinyurl.com/[yourlink]
will be the tiny version of the long URL!

You can also see these tinyURLs being used on Twitter

This service definitely made me think about how they make money. I was not able to find any official information but people infer that they insert amazon or ebay affiliate code if it does not already exist. What a thought!

What is more powerful thing about it is that tinyURL can also occasionally add a intermediate page that displays an ad. Who said that we will never see another remarkable web service like Google? It definitely seems that we are just in the beginning of discovering more.

WhoCallsMe?

I had an incoming phone call on my Skype from the number I did not recognize. I figured if it was important, the caller would leave a message or call back, but at the same time I was curious about who called.

When I searched the number on Google, I found that the link to “WhoCallsMe?” was the first link on the search list. This web service lets users to search and enter phone numbers of those annoying people you do not usually want to deal with.

http://whocallsme.com/

It turned out the number I was concerned with was some random telemarketer who advertises their service with recording in Spanish.