Monthly Archives: December 2011

DeSopa Circumvents SOPA — Despite its Anti-Circumvention Measures

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Leave it to the internet to find a way to circumvent impending laws designed solely to control it. Pro-internet developer Tamer Rizk designed a tool that can circumvent the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and ‘save the internet’. Rizk’s app is rather ironic given that it circumvents SOPA – despite its anti-circumvention measures. His new [...]

[nsfw-ish] Responsive b**bs, err, responsive content with html/css

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Working on a website that needs to be responsive. Client: Can we get the boobs of the images of those females be responsive. Make them bigger in desktop browsers, subtle in tablets and “ok” in Smartphones. Perhaps extra large on very big monitors. Me: Hmmmm, sure, why not. I can even do a “boobs.js” to [...]

2 ears, 2 eyes, 2 hands but 1 pair of lips

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Image Credit: A Japanese manga/character (let me know if you know).

Bulletproof your self-hosted WordPress blog: how to survive traffic spikes

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There is a rather complex, long and detailed article on how to Bulletproof your blog: a guide for surviving traffic spikes, but for all the other self-hosted WordPress blogs out there, here is a simple non-geeky solution suited for most of us. You don’t need to edit anything, pull or push anything – you’ve to [...]

Stop torturing yourself with plain CSS, code with a CSS pre-processor

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First, let me tell you, I’m pretty good with CSS. However, I’ve always hated writing CSS. Writing CSS is like using dried woods, leaves and rocks to lit a fire everything you need to cook something. You may become very good with it, but it’s an unforgiving task and you’ve to do the rigorous feat [...]

Tool Mobile App Maker ShoutEm Mobilizer

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Mobile application revolution is changing business, social and lifestyle landscape. They complement our online and offline presence and enable us new ways of communication and interaction. They are changing the way we live. They become our lifestyle. Where is your app? ShoutEm is tech startup located in New York and creator of ShoutEm Mobilizer – [...]

A (Virtual)sit-down with Andrea Chang and her brainchild BrainGig

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Most entrepreneurs go into business for the incredible experience or with aspirations of financial freedom – but very few go into it with a benevolent agenda like Andrea Chang. OK, quasi-benevolent. The technology/idea Andrea invented, BrainGig, helps connect individuals and teams with much-needed funding opportunities. When Andrea saw the disconnect between existing funding opportunities and [...]

How is it like during the first hour when your site is on top of Hackernews

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A tweet led to an article, which was fortunate to be on Hackernews. The above two-minute video is a cut of how my site experienced the traffic during it’s initial first hour on Hackernews. And yes, NSFW is a service I run. It’s been giving my site a run for it’s traffic for quite a [...]

Desingineer – the mythical person every Startups are looking for

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“Desingineer” -> mythical person startups are looking for who can do UI, UX and also excellent front-and back-end coding. That was a tweet from the Chris Dixon. Of course, many a founders who have also asked me, keep saying, “we need a designer who can code in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and Python/Ruby.” My usual answer [...]

Social Entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham Disrupts the Period Industry

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Arunachalam Muruganantham is a social Entrepreneur who decided to disrupt the period industry, specially for developing countries like India, where cost of sanitary napkins is not affordable to most women. He says that only 7% of the Indian women uses the modern-day sanitary napkins and his target is to make the remaining 93% have access [...]