The Setup Wizard

Daily Accounts of the Muggle and Half-Blood IT team at Hogwarts

So, finally Hogwarts is getting to the 21st century, and they have mobiles, laptops, wifis and what-nots.. Can you imagine wizards with technology?! It's a disaster waiting to happen!
But Dumbledore, being the revolutionary that he is, decides to hire an IT guy who's going to manage and maintain the wifi/network related issues in Hogwarts.
Now, being Hogwarts, one man just can't magane it all on his own(don't know how Filch didn't go mad with all his work.. oh wait.. He did!). So he gets an assistant!

Read their blog posts directly from the Hogwarts!

It's an awesome blog that must be read in chronological order.

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Skysa - Free & Easy to Use WebApps, Toolbar, Chat Room, IM, and more.

Skysa helps you centralize many of your sites features, sharing links, and applications in one persistent floating toolbar that is easily accessible by your audience. Skysa helps you by cleaning up the clutter of WebApps in your website.
Skysa Bars are easy to customize, and display as a full bar across the bottom or top of your page or you can change to compact mode and display the set of tools in the corners of your website. It gives you an amazing level of control over how it looks and behaves on your website by just copy-pasting the html code you generate there!

A few links to help you get started-

• Features
• Plans
• Getting Started!

 

How to Save Money While Shopping Online in India

Digital Inspiration might be one of the best blogs I've ever come across,so, without further ado, here's the way to save money while shopping online-

1. Use Comparison Shopping-

   Comparison shopping sites like Junglee.com, MySmartPrice.com, PhoneCurry.com and Scandid.in aggregate prices from multiple online retailers (through XML feeds and web scraping) making it easier for you to compare prices.

   Read full article-->

Creating a Website....Made Easy

Want to learn the ABC's of creating a website? 
This is one of the few tutorial sites that encourage you to GET THE FACTS before you create a website.
Obviously For free...

The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard

What came first: the typist or the keyboard?

Read this awesome article regarding the origins of QWERTY, the story of all the alternatives and get to know the facts from fiction!

U.S. Patent No. 207,559. The first appearance of the QWERTY keyboard. (image: Google patents)

Uncyclopedia - The Content-Free Encyclopedia

Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies.
It is a project like Wikipedia, hosted by the Uncyclomedia Foundation, a non-profitable organization that also hosts a range of other projects.

Effectively its an encyclopaedia written by apes. The unfortunate thing is that its articles rarely go any further than this description did.

Its a great way to waste time though!!

First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley

The original reactant molecule that is resting on a flat silver surface is imaged both before and after the reaction, which occurs when the temperature > 90° Celsius. 
The two most common final products of the reaction are shown. The three-angstrom scale bars (an angstrom is a ten-billionth of a meter) indicate that the reactant and product molecules are about a billionth of a meter across...

>>Continue reading the article at phys.org<<

xkcd: webcomics & what-ifs

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It was started by a CNU graduate, Randall Munroe, with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, he worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.
The comic's tagline describes it as a "Stick-figure strip featuring humor about technology, science, mathematics and relationships"

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Since July 2012, there has been a branch of xkcd called xkcd What-If, which is updated every Tuesday. What If? answers unusual reader-submitted science questions in a creative and humorous, but always mathematically sound, way, and is presented more in the format of an article than a traditional comic strip.

Ideone.com - Online Compiler and IDE

Ideone is an online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages. Ideone uses their Sphere Engine™ API to execute code on a remote server within a complete & secure runtime environment and to retrieve results of the execution. You can also create your own account to save, review and share your code.

Languages supported by Ideone-

Here are some samples provided by Ideone in different languages.

What does space sound like? | I Fucking Love Science

Photo credit: The image is of the central 50 pc (~150 light years) of the Galactic centre showing ionised gas, hot and warm dust. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA’s Voyager 1 has passed the heliosphere and into the interstellar medium. NASA knew the spacecraft had reached this point because of the vibrations of interstellar plasma detected by Voyager's antennae. The sounds were recorded using an onboard plasma wave instrument, which detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.

The Voyager I & II Spacecraft have sent back recordings from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. You can listen to​ some more space sounds here.

>>Read the full article<<

 

English For Students

This site provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse all the pages and find useful links and plenty of information.

This website provides a variety of helpful information- from info about tests like TOEFL, GRE, GMAT to having collection of the most famous Nursery Rhymes.
Some of the Topics this website covers are-
 

Online Multiplayer Games - FunNode

FunNode is a modern gaming website that hosts some of the most popular board games and card games in the world. FunNode promotes competition between players by using the Elo rating system for all of its games. 
The visually-appealing and browser-friendly interface (no flash and no java gives players the freedom to play on various devices, including smartphones and tablets. 
Moreover, FunNode does not require you to register, and is completely Free to Play!

Browser based-HTML5-SUPER MARIO BROS!

Full Screen Mario is a fully HTML5 remake of the original Super Mario Brothers. You can play the original levels, play through some of literally millions of possible random maps, or create your own using the level editor. This whole project is open source and free - if you would like to use the code, check out the Github.

Just opening the site, and hearing the theme of mario- Worth it!

SyntaxHighlighter- For showing Code snippets on websites!

SyntaxHighlighter is a fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript. To get an idea of what SyntaxHighlighter is capable of, have a look at the demo page.

SyntaxHighlighter helps developers to display code on their website.
SyntaxHighlighter is currently used by Apache, Aptana, Mozilla, Yahoo, Wordpress, Bug Labs, Freshbooks and others...

Supported languages-

Compile and Execute your favorite programming languages online!

All the Major Languages are supported by compileonline.com
including-

Web Technologies, like- CSS-3, Javascript, jQuery-2.0.0, HTML, AngularJS-1.0.6.....

Text Formatting, like- MathML, Tex, Markdown.....

Programming Languages, like- Assembly, C++, Java, Objective-C, PHP, Python-3.....

A samsung Galaxy S4 Giveaway!

#nothingWired

Just follow the steps in the giveaway..

comGateway - Shop from USA and ship internationally for much less!

 

It's no secret, there's nothing quite like shopping online at U.S. websites. Just think of all the great stuff on Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Sephora & more that you can't find anywhere else. However many of these stores don't offer international shipping or charge a lot for it. 
This site provides you with a local US address and can even buy you a US credit card. You can get your package shipped to that domestic address, and there these people ship your package internationally to you.
It is relatively cheap, and you can enjoy shopping from any US websites now!

LinkedLists- Most Popular StackOverflow links

The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow.

It started as an exploration of what kinds of links people shared on Stack Overflow and grew from there.

All the links are mined from the Stack Overflow data dumps (March 2013). The link descriptions are mined by crawling the web and using Duck-Duck-Go which publishes a great free website summary API.

How to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-Old and How I understood It!

There’s a room that anyone can access. The room has security cameras that anyone can view, and every second of recorded footage is available online forever.

The room is filled with indestructible piggy banks made of transparent plastic. Naturally, these piggy banks have coin slots, and everyone can see which coins are in which piggy bank. These piggy banks can never leave the room.

Continue Reading-> 

 

An incredible time-lapse video

This video was shot by photographer Dustin Farrell in Arizona and Utah (yay!). He said, “Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 I again show off my beautiful home state of Arizona and I also made several trips to Utah. This video has some iconic landmarks that we have seen before. I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks.”
 In layman’s terms… he used a camera. Not a camcorder. A DSLR camera. And he put each individual picture together on a computer to make it into a video.

 This post first appeared on Danoah.com


A complimentary video-


View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.