SuperNext Finds

The End

2009-01-25T00:00:00.000+08:00

After two months, 61 posts, I decided to close this blog. Maybe I will reopen someday in future, we would never know.

Someone Once Told Me

2009-01-24T00:00:00.000+08:00

Someone Once Told Me is a interesting website, a person in black and white photo with a message everyday. You can submit yours.

Posterous

2009-01-23T00:00:00.000+08:00

Posterous lets you post stuff by email. I sent two emails, one is a plain text email, the other is with an attached image. You can see them here.

You don't have too set up an account (password), but if you do, you can personalize the name of subdomain.

I think this is a good idea, if you like to write in plain text, you only need to mail it out.

FotoFlexer

2009-01-22T00:00:00.000+08:00

FotoFlexer is another online photo editor.

FotoFlexer - The world's most advanced online photo editor via kwout

Javascript Super Mario Brother

2009-01-21T00:00:00.000+08:00

Javascript Super Mario Brother made with JavaScript. Really playable. Arrow keys to move, A to fire fireballs, and S to jump. The Map Editor has not finished yet as of posting.

Javascript Super Mario Bros + Complete Level 1 and 2 + Map Editor | By Guillermo Bruchmann via kwout

Twitter Grader

2009-01-20T00:00:00.000+08:00

Twitter Grader ranks your Twitter account.

livibetter | Twitter Grader via kwout

I am just an average Twitter user.

eBay

2009-01-19T00:00:00.001+08:00

Do I really need to say about eBay? and you should already be familiar with this song if you are addicted:

WordPress.com

2009-01-18T00:00:00.000+08:00

If you are a blogger and ever hosted your own, there is no way that you don't know of WordPress.com and get confused it with WordPress or WordPress.org. WordPress.com is a large blog hosting provider, I think bloggers don't use it mainly because of no your ads allowed or no your own template.

Sports-Reference.com

2009-01-17T00:00:00.000+08:00

Sports-Reference.com provides statistics of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and Olympic games.

Budapest

2009-01-16T00:00:00.000+08:00

A 360° view at night from Budapest, Hungary.

laut.fm

2009-01-15T00:00:00.000+08:00

laut.fm lets you host your own radio show. It seems to be a German website, therefore the language of it is in German.

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO

2009-01-14T00:00:00.000+08:00

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO gives you a place to showoff! Show your workspace or where you stay all day to people over the world.

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO via kwout

bit.ly

2009-01-13T00:00:00.000+08:00

bit.ly is another URL shortening service. You can also post your shortened URL to your Twitter directly.

bit.ly, a simple url shortener via kwout

The Buzzwords of 2008

2009-01-12T00:00:00.000+08:00

The Buzzwords of 2008 is an article of The New York Times.

twitority

2009-01-11T00:00:00.000+08:00

twitority is another search engine for Twitter tweets but the sorting is by the authority of the Twitter. Authority is acutally the followers count.

Cuil

2009-01-10T00:00:00.000+08:00

Cuil claims they are a better search engine. It has completely different layout of results page. You can choose to use 2 Column or 3 Column. The result entry even has a thumbnail if any.

Cuil via kwout

However, it has been called “FAIL”.

W3 Schools

2009-01-09T00:00:00.000+08:00

W3 Schools provides knowledge about XML/HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

ThinkWiki

2009-01-08T00:00:00.000+08:00

ThinkWiki is a wiki which dedicates to IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Linux users.

ThinkWiki via kwout

webcast.berkeley

2009-01-07T00:00:00.000+08:00

webcast.berkeley is a webcast directory of courses of Berkeley University.

webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events via kwout

SoundCloud

2009-01-06T00:00:00.000+08:00

SoundCloud helps you share music with your friends.

Welcome - SoundCloud via kwout

kwout

2009-01-05T00:00:00.000+08:00

kwout is a new way to quote from a website literally. It generates a screenshot of the region of the website you choose, and this is the quotation.

The following is the example (Note that the link in this example still works):

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

BookMooch

2009-01-04T00:00:00.000+08:00

BookMooch is a free book exchange service. It has point system, which lets you mooch (receive) books. This is a great idea to let more people read! What do you say? Let's read!

popacular

2009-01-03T00:00:00.000+08:00

popacular lists popular delicious bookmarks and links on Twitter.

One year in 40 seconds

2009-01-02T14:30:00.001+08:00

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

This is a nice project. Bascially, the creator took photos and edited them into a 40 seconds video. You can read more about this video on his website.

SUMO Paint

2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+08:00

SUMO Paint is an online image editor. Using Adobe Flash.

Open Yale Courses

2008-12-31T00:00:00.000+08:00

Open Yale Courses is just like MIT OpenCourseWare.

WhatTheFont

2008-12-30T00:00:00.000+08:00

WhatTheFont is a Font recoginzation service. You upload an image, it will try to recognize what fonts used in that image.

Guilloche

2008-12-29T00:00:00.000+08:00

Guilloche is fun to create interesting patterns.

Long URL Please

2008-12-28T00:00:00.000+08:00

Long URL Please reveals the original URLs for you. You don't need to click on a shortened URL to find out where the links lead you to. It's a Firefox plugin, it also has a bookmarklet for other browsers.

DRAWMINOS

2008-12-27T00:00:00.000+08:00

Like playing dominos? You can play it virtually with DRAWMINOS. If you happened to be a cat person, try Flippy Cat.

Hulu

2008-12-26T00:00:00.000+08:00

Hulu lets you watch TV shows and movies online for free if you seem to be in United Stats.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

2008-12-25T00:00:00.000+08:00

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google, photos from 1750s to today.

We Are What We Do

2008-12-24T00:00:00.000+08:00

We Are What We Do is like 43Things but more intended to make a big change to this world by small actions from lots of people. For each action, it also provide a wallpaper as a reminder. A quite good idea to keep working on.

It also have some country sites: Australia, Canada, Germany, and UK.

Simply Recipes

2008-12-23T00:00:00.000+08:00

Time to cook with Simply Recipes?

ShareTabs

2008-12-22T00:00:00.000+08:00

ShareTabs is a link to more links. You can set up a link which will provides some links like search engines. The page doesn't only give you link but screenshots and there are tabs for each link, whoever visits the page can simply switch to another tab (link).

The year 2008 in photographs

2008-12-21T00:00:00.000+08:00

The year 2008 in photographs: part 1, part 2, and part 3.

Stripgenerator

2008-12-20T00:00:00.000+08:00

Stripgenerator is a comic strip generator. You can make you own comic strips, even a strips blog.

Here is an example:

Safe Today

2008-12-19T00:00:00.000+08:00

Safe Today blogs one-liner posting everyday.

I'm safe today because I...

Reasons for living. Try to read it everyday.

Video Game Design Between 1990-2008

2008-12-18T00:00:00.000+08:00

Webdesigner Depot has a post "Video Game Design Between 1990-2008," but it didn't talk about the designs. So, just think it's a post with many many screenshots of games or a timeline of games. It's worth to look, not to read.

ZooBorns

2008-12-17T00:00:00.000+08:00

ZooBorns introduces you new born lovely (mostly) animals from zoos around the world.

ZooBornsgreat free widgetsWidgetbox

The Public Domain

2008-12-16T00:00:00.000+08:00

"The Public Domain" is a book about copyright, licensing, and Creative Commons. The author is James Boyle, a professor of Duke Law School, a chairman of Board of Creative Commons. It's free to download and you can purchase a printed copy. Here is an interview of the author at North Carolina Public Radio.

geoGreeting!

2008-12-15T00:00:00.000+08:00

geoGreeting uses Google Maps to let you greet people with quite different way. Basically, the letters of your greeting message are mapping into a real building which you can see on Google Maps.

It will spell the message below, letter by letter on Google Maps.

Internet Archive

2008-12-14T00:00:00.000+08:00

Internet Archive may not sound familiar but you should have heard of wayback machine. Wayback machine is like cached pages on search engine, not only one revision but more. Wayback machine is just a part of entire Internet Archive. It also archive movies, music, audio, and texts.

MrTweet

2008-12-13T00:00:00.001+08:00

MrTweet finds Twitters whom you might want to follow. It has lots of requests, so you won't get the result very soon. In my case, I waited for a week. Be honest, the list isn't useful for me. The top few people on the list are famous Twitters, I saw their Twitter usernames many many times. I won't follow those people, they don't fit my types.

Beside the recommendations, it also tells you who you don't follow back on the your follower list. Same useless for people like me. I am always aware who is just following me at the very first moment. I would check back to decide if I want to follow back. Since I have decided, why would I need to reject my decision before? Moreover, if one of those followers engages you with a nice conversation, you will definitely follow them back because you have a physical good conversation not just a list about whom you didn't follow back.

Jolicloud

2008-12-12T00:00:00.000+08:00

Is Jolicloud a new Linux distro specialized for Netbooks? And also about cloud computing? We will find out in 2009.

Here is an excerpt from the website:

"We used Linux and made it boot faster and we optimized it for surf and cloud computing. We redesigned the interface and integrated some cool stuff." — Jolicloud

Flash Earth

2008-12-11T00:00:00.000+08:00

Flash Earth supports many map sources: NASA, OpenAerialMap, OpenLayers, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, and Ask.com Maps. But no Google Maps.

go2.appspot.com

2008-12-10T00:00:00.000+08:00

go2.appspot.com is built with Google App Engine. It is a web proxy, usually used as anonymous proxy or to get through some blocking detection.

Venice under water

2008-12-09T00:00:00.001+08:00

Venice under water is another photo set by Boston.com. This is my second time to view photos by The Boston Globe, so I think that may be a good idea to subscribe to The Big Picture RSS. Their photos are high-quality and easy to understand.

OECD Regional Statistics

2008-12-08T00:00:00.000+08:00

OECD Regional Statistics provides some statistics, such as population, GDP, employment rate, etc. Data covers Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A, Mexico, and Canada. You can also filter data out by different ranges on different indicators.

bestiario.org

2008-12-07T00:00:00.000+08:00

I am not sure what bestiario.org is for, but I know it's awesome. The home page seems to be a projects gallery, you can click on some. They all look fantastic, but I don't know what the project really is, I guess they are trying to present or to visualize data or information.

Block Posters

2008-12-06T00:00:00.000+08:00

Block Poster allows you uploading an image and downloading a sliced version of that image. You can print each piece out and put them all together to a whole big wall poster. You can also submit a photo of your big wall poster to its gallery.

Make Me Super!

2008-12-05T00:00:00.000+08:00

Make Me Super is kind of silly. You can upload your photo, then it recoginze the face from the photo and .... Well, see the picture below, you will see:

The photo I uploaded it this one:

I guess this website is made by Japanese team.

Zoomii.com

2008-12-04T00:00:00.000+08:00

"Zoomii.com" is an amazing website. It creates virtual book shelves (with books, of course), which makes you feel that is the same as in real book store. But you can't smell the books, I believe that I am not the only one would smell a book.The speed isn't fast on my computer, I don't know if that is a connection speed problem or my computer runs too slow.

Asiavision

2008-12-03T00:00:00.000+08:00

Ever heard of "Eurovision?" It seems that Asians will have similar contest in 2009, Asiavision Song Contest. But I really doubt that how this will work? Eastern languages and people do not like in Europe. Languages are quite different, they usually start with their own language branch. They don't like western lanuages mostly can be categorized under Indo-European branch.

Even an Asian can speak second language, that would probably the local dialects or Engligh. If all contestants sing in the mother language, then who are qualified to choose the winners?

Fresh Generator

2008-12-02T00:00:00.000+08:00

FreshGenerator generates image elements like the one below:

Honestly, I have no idea where to use the images. Header image of widgets? or Site's header images?

Auditorium

2008-12-01T00:00:00.000+08:00

Auditorium a beautiful puzzle game in both visual and audio. But you couldn't take a break, then continue to unfinished level. No level codes, so you can't close your browser if you love this game. My last level is 3:6 SPRING, it's not hard to get there, just keep move things around.

Mumbai under attack

2008-11-30T00:00:00.001+08:00

A photo set by The Boston Globe about these shocking attacks. Started on 2008-11-26, so far, caused 151 deaths and 327 injures (possibly more than the numbers). I realized the situation after I looked at those photos. The videos or news reports didn't reveal the horrible parts.

More videos on YouTube.

Sun Tzu's Art of War

2008-11-29T00:00:00.000+08:00

Sun Tzu's Art of War is well-designed for the book, "The Art of War" [wikipedia], which was written by Sun Tzu (孫子) in 6th century BC, a military treatise. this book. You can search the content of the book or download the PDF or Text version from the website.

Zahada

2008-11-28T00:00:00.000+08:00

Do you like solving puzzles? If so, then Zahada is the website for you.

(I am stuck at level 4. :shame:)

HTTP errors Depiction Set

2008-11-27T02:32:00.002+08:00

Do you know HTTP Status Code? No? At least, you know of 404, right?

404 Not Found

Here is the set of 4xx Client Errors.

aguse: URL Buster

2008-11-26T01:40:00.002+08:00

aguse seems to be a nice service from Japan. Don't worry about that you will have to guess, you don't, most of text are in English.

It provides a screenshot of the website, location of web server and tracing routes on map, formatted whois information, and blacklist checks.

I checked this Blogger.com blog and this is listed in The spamhaus project's blacklist with IP 209.85.133.191. But the record actually is about another blog, I guess the system is not good enough for checking a service like Blogger.com.

aguse has another service called MailBuster, similar report to URL Buster.

Bookmarklet

I made a button: aguse it (drag and drop onto your bookmark toolbar, it opens result in new window)

About this SuperNext Finds blog

2008-11-25T22:47:00.001+08:00

I created this blog because I want a place to write down things I find interesting on the Internet. That could be another blog, website, or a picture.

The posts here would not be long or too short like tweets. I will write a short introduction about things I find. Mostly, they are discovered by this SuperNext.