Top 10 Free & Paid Joomla Slider Extensions

Here are the top 10 most popular, highest rated, and recommended free Joomla Slider extensions for download at the Joomla Extensions Directory.

The first Symphony CMS Theme on Themeforest

Rocking Parallax iPhone App Showcase

This is the first Symphony CMS theme available on Themeforest! Themeforest announced a competition or race for theme developers to develop themes for Symphony. The first 10 submissions will get a reward of $4.500 in total! That is 10 x $400 + 1 x $500 bonus.

Latest Top 10 Business Cards from Graphicriver

Here is my pick of 10 Business cards for you to choose! If you're in the search for a new card check these designs out!

Latest Top 5 Wordpress Themes for News/Blog websites.

Here is my top 5 pick of the latest news/blog Wordpress themes.

Top 5 Youtube Science Channels. You Like Science?

Do you like science? If you're like me and like to watch science videos, here are my top 5 Youtube channels about science. They present science in a fun and entertaining way, that is really easy to watch and learn.

So here are my top 5 science Youtube channels

#1 sixtysymbols
#2 tdarnell (DeepAstronomy)
#3 1veritasium
#4 Scishow
#5 Minutephysics

Google Offices In Tel Aviv

Google has some of the best working environment than any other business on the planet. Check out some pictures from their new Tel Aviv offices. If you are at work right now, just look around and compare where you work with Google's offices. Enjoy.

More pictures inside!

ChipIn.com is closing its doors!

ChipIn.com announced the merger with InMobi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Chipin will close all accounts and all active campaigns by March 7, 2013.

Thanks For All The ChipIns

February 4, 2013

This is to notify all users of Chipin.com website ("Website") that ChipIn Inc. has been merged with InMobi Technologies Pvt. Ltd (collectively referred to as "Company"). We further wish to notify that InMobi has decided to discontinue the Website and all services thereunder on March 7, 2013 ("End Date"). Effective from the End Date, all registrations of any organizer/customer/user will be automatically cancelled/terminated without further liability to Company. Any personal data related to you, which may have been collected through the Website shall be destroyed as per the terms of the Privacy Policy provided under the Website.

InMobi will continue to own and hold on to the ChipIn brand, domain, and technology.

As of the date of this notice it will no longer be possible to create new accounts or ChipIns. Those with existing accounts will still be able to log in, copy and export data, manage ChipIns, update ChipIn pages, and accept contributions until the End Date. Chipin.com was started in 2005 as an easy way for individuals to raise money collectively and was one of the pioneers in this field. In six years Chipin.com helped thousands of users raise millions from contributors for wide-ranging purposes, including heart surgeries, pet adoptions, college graduation, disaster funds and much more.

Thank you for being part of the ChipIn community! It is gratifying to know that it has made a positive difference for many.

Free domain name and Web Hosting for 1 year!

Check out this offer by Google by following this link: http://www.gybo.com/

*** This offer is only available to US businesses. ***
If you have a business that doesn't have an "online presence" then you're probably loosing customers to competitors. Most people nowadays are search online before doing any purchases, so having an online presence is a must for any serious business, not matter how small or large.

What you get:
1 Customized Domain
1 Full year of Web Hosting
1 Webiste Builder powered by Intuit

Check out more here:  http://www.gybo.com/

200!! Dividends, Dividends And More Dividends.

I have changed my strategy on Empire Avenue to "Dividends Collection". Currently I'm building a strong portfolio of 100 profiles and with my new limit of 250 I get lots of dividends in return. I really don't care about my profile shares right now, but I do try my best in creating dividends for those who chose to invest in me!

One week passed with my new "strategy" and I have 100k in investment earnings/week. Yesterdays investment earnings were close to 15.000Eaves. Furthermore, I have some really big names in my portfolio like Chris Pirillo, Chris Voss, Bob Warren from ResumeBear etc.

I suggest you check me out and look into my portfolio for some great investments.

My Top 10 Investments ordered by Dividends (descending):
http://www.empireavenue.com/PIRILLO
http://www.empireavenue.com/MYSODOTCOM
http://www.empireavenue.com/CHRISVOSS
http://www.empireavenue.com/LOUIEBAUR
http://www.empireavenue.com/BOBW
http://www.empireavenue.com/NICHEPROF
http://www.empireavenue.com/FIXEDOPS
http://www.empireavenue.com/LIZS
http://www.empireavenue.com/ZAIBATSU
http://www.empireavenue.com/OVERTHROW

Bonus:
http://www.empireavenue.com/CLAU

Become a YouTube DJ With TurnTubeList

Found this interesting website where you can cross-fade YouTube videos almost like a real DJ. The service offers also a feature to create playlist and auto-play. Check it out here

The Evolution of Search | Video

Veedcast.com | Alternative Video Sharing

Veedcast.com is a new way of sharing videos from Youtube.

Imagine this:
You are at home and at your computer browsing the web, all of a sudden a skype call comes in. You accept the call and start chatting with your friend. Then your friend is starting to text message you on skype with links from Youtube. You now have to click on every link and open up a new tab on your browser wait for the page to load and then watch the video. And if you have friends that are quite active on Youtube you get a lot of links this way.

This is where Veedcast comes in. You simply take that Youtube link, post it on Veedcast, then Veedcast creates a "Channel" with a unique identifier and you simply share this link to your friends, and voila! Your friends can now watch your channel and see what you want to share with them. In an almost perfect sync. You take control of what video you want to show them, when to start it, seek to a particular position of time in the video and pause the video to comment on it.

Veedcast is now in Beta so go ahead and try it out with your friends.

The steps to follow are:

1. Find a Youtube video and copy the URL.
2. Open up the page www.veedcast.com :p
3. Paste the link on the input box below the Logo and click "Create a Veedcast Channel"
4. There you'll find a link below the video player with your unique identifier and social media buttons to share on Facebook and Twitter.
5. Share the link and start posting videos.

Have fun!

Facebook vs. Google Plus

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Google+ First Thoughts

Got an invite to GooglePlus yesterday and went immediately exploring all the features of the beta. So the current features are the following.

1,000,000 Members Join SkillPages in 150 Days

An incredible 1.000.000 subscription in under 150 Days for the social network, SkillPages. SkillPages is a social network for networking with other people that may need your skills, or with others that you might need them. An opportunity opens up for the users of SkillPages to be found by new employers, customers and business partners.

“We set out to enable a simple way for people to create a credible online presence for their skills.” commented CEO, Iain Mac Donald “Our user growth is a reflection of how people are reacting positively, creating a SkillPage and getting found by new customers and employers.”

The company celebrated the one millionth user by launching a new feature on the site called "Opportunities". SkillPages is free and anybody can join regardless of the skill they know.

UPDATE:
There have been a lot of complaints about some tactics utilized by Skillpages. There are a lot of reports of spamming and unauthorized access of email account contacts list. This is an old post so please don't take your rage out on me.

French Government bans mentioning of Facebook & Twitter on TV and Radio

The French government passed a law that bans the mentioning of the popular social network sites, facebook and twitter. What that means is, TV and Radio presenters can no longer mention either social network by the brand name. So phrases like "find us on facebook/twitter" are not allowed anymore. They can however mention the brand names if either of the companies are the focus of the news story. No more free advertising.

Christine Kelly, spokeswoman for the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), the government broadcasting authority, said: "Why give preference to Facebook, which is worth billions of dollars, when there are other social networks that are struggling for recognition. This would be a distortion of competition. If we allow Facebook and Twitter to be cited on air, it's opening a Pandora's box. Other social networks will complain to us, saying 'Why not us?'"

This doesn't mean that they are blocking the use of those social networks. It gives a chance to other social networks to gain more recognition.

Source: Guardian

Google Chrome Extension For Artists

If you are an electronic music composer, you will probably know about software suites like Qbase, ProTools, Fruity Loops and Reason. What you might not know is a new application for creating music that runs on your browser. That's right, a high quality music production extension for your Google Chrome browser called: Audiotool.

Million Dollar Earth turns 24...days old! First copycat emerges

It took only 16 days for Jerry Li to create the first copycat of MillionDollarEarth.com, called FortuneEarth. A cheap ripoff of a clever and original idea by Ryan Hart and Scott Dahl. Visiting that site, you get introduced to ads and a not so elegant design.

 

Ryan Hart said in a blog post on MillionDollarEarth, "You may be thinking that my reactions was OH NO YOU DON’T! but rather it was THANK YOU. Copy-cats validate the feasibility of a venture. Imitators show you that you are on the right path. Everyone loves a good cover song."

The ripoff site appears to have sold 3 cities already for a total sum of $40.500 US. The original project (MDE) has sold 43 cities for $58.250 US, but you get to keep the city for yourself and can later resell for a better offer. Unlike FortuneEarth were you pay ridiculous amounts for exclusive ownership and without the ability of re-selling it for a better offer. Meanwhile MDE gives 10% of the proceeds to Charity:Water, a non-profit organization that brings clean water to millions in need.

There is also a contest to win a $1000 city on MillionDollarEarth. I've already signed my email and if I'm lucky to win, I'll resell and give the earnings to the same charity! Since I live near a spring of fresh water that is just a couple kilometers from my home, I'm in no need of fresh water unlike millions.

http://www.milliondollarearth.com/ 

NVIDIA 3D Vision now on Youtube

If you are an owner of a NVIDIA 3D Vision equipped PC, you will be able to take the browsing experience into a new level. Nvidia announced that Youtube is giving the ability to view high-quality 3D content to users with a 3D vision capable PC and Firefox 4+. Using HTML5 and WebM, Youtube made thousands of 3D videos available to users.

"We're excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube," said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. "By embracing these open standards, NVIDIA 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube's library of 3D content."

"Firefox with 3D Vision creates a stunning and smooth 3D video experience using HTML5 video based on open standards," said Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla. "3D Vision from NVIDIA is a great example of the rich, innovative experiences that are being built on top of the speed and graphics power that Firefox delivers to the Web."

With all the consumer grade gadgets out there having the capability to shoot 3D, you'll be expecting a lot more 3D content to come online on Youtube and similar sites.

In order to watch 3D videos on Youtube, you will need a 3D vision capable PC with the latest GeForce Drivers (version 275+) and Firefox 4+ which has HTML5 video streaming support. You should switch to HTML5 viewing on Youtube as well  http://www.youtube.com/select_3d_mode. 

Stuck in Space Break

I was viewing and playing with Google Chrome's "experiments" and found this Arkanoid-style game called Space-Break. After breaking some blocks in a level, I've managed to get the game stuck in an endless loop... watch me trying to get it un-stuck unsuccessfully in the vid below:

You can find the experiments here: LINK
And Space Break here: LINK