Nurse your drink

Taipei seems to have a penchant for bizarre restaurants. The latest is D.S. Music Restaurant, a hospital-themed joint. Its bar lets patrons order 'medicine' and 'drip' it into their glasses from a transparent, suspended vat. Each 'bed' seats 10 and orders are taken by 'nurses' in starched white uniforms. The 130-seat restaurant has crutches hung from the walls and a wheelchair parked in the lobby. And the 'emergency room' sign leads to the loo! » Continue reading

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Useless Caps @ eMail

Lots of people still ask, "Does your e-mail ID use capitals or lower case?" But that question is a technical no-brainer, because it simply doesn't matter whether you use capitals or lower case -- meaning small letters -- in an email address. The email will be delivered anyway: you may type the address with all capitals, all lower case, or randomly combine both.

Yet there's one place where capitals can secure your emails: in your password. Having a password like "ScoRPioN" or "sCorpiON" instead of a plain "scorpion" makes it tougher to hack.

You might also be surprised to note that having an email address like "John.Smith@gmail.com" on Gmail is equivalent to "JohnSmith@gmail.com" or for that matter even any other combination like "J.ohnSmith@gmail.com" or "J.o.hnSmith@gmail.com" or "Jo.hnSmith@gmail.com".

That is, Gmail does not consider "." as part of the email address and removes all "." from the email address before delivering messages to the particular inbox. If you have dots in your gmail address or even if you don't have a dot, just try sending yourself and email by placing a dot somewhere or switching the position of the dot in your email address, before the @ symbol but ofcourse and look you've got a mail!.

It also means that if someone already has an email address say "a.bc@gmail.com" then all other combinations of the same letters in the same order with different numbers and positions of dots will be unavailable for signup. For example "abc@gmail.com" or "a.b.c@gmail.com" or "ab.c@gmail.com" will be unavailable for signup in the case of the above email address. » Continue reading

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Does the game ever end?

Tired of playing a video game endlessly without ever getting to the end? Do you ever wonder if there is really any end to the game you've been playing since time immemorial? If trying to get to the end seems to be practically impossible then just satisfy yourself having a look at the climactic final screens of classic arcade video games on the Internet at The Video Game Museum. You can even try to impress video game addicts by showing them how the game they play endlessly actually ends. » Continue reading

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How not to forget important engagements

You forgot to wish your mom on her birthday, your dentist's appointment, to pick up the dry cleaning. Maybe what you need is your own personal secretary -- or an e-mail reminder service. You'll find several ones on the Internet, like www.memotome.com. With this one, all you have to do is register and enter what you want to remember -- whether it's to pick up laundry detergent or a gift for your parents' 50th wedding anniversary -- and the service will e-mail you reminders as far in advance and as often as you like. You can also choose to be reminded of weekly, monthly, yearly or one-off events.

Before you register with any email reminder service, read its privacy policy: Some may share their registrant's email addresses with direct marketers or spammers. » Continue reading

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Tips to save printer ink

Color printer cartridges are costly, but there are ways to extend their lives, says Glenn Menin of PC Magazine Labs:

• Before printing, adjust your computer's print quality to "draft" and use less ink.
  
• When possible, use only the black-ink option, even when printing color pages.
  
• While printing web pages, just highlight (or copy and paste in a sparate file, preferably in a word processor to preserve the text formatting) only the text you want rather than printing everything on the screen.
  
• Most printer drivers today have a print preview option that lets you see what exactly you are going to get even before you actually print it. Use it to save wastages.
  
• Use your printer ink cartridges, both black and color, atleast once a week. Even if you don't have a need to take a print out, just print something small or run a diagnostic test.
  
• Use generic or compatible print cartridges which are almost half the cost of an original manufacturer brand OEM print cartridge. They are a definite money saver, especially for bulk black and white print jobs.

Looking for more tips? Here are some search keyword ideas to try it out on Google:

How to save printer ink?
How to save ink on bulk printing jobs
Ways to save ink when printing web pages
Printer utilities to save paper and printer ink
Printer software to save printer ink cartridges » Continue reading

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Cyber Hair

No need to try out wigs or believe your hairstylist the next time you plan to change your hairstyle. Explore new cuts and colors on the Internet for free at Clairol's Try It On Studio or iVillage's Makevoer-o-Matic. Pick a model who looks like you or just upload your photo, and have fun playing or take a printout or transfer it to your iPod / Mobile phone to show it to your hairstylist.

The Makeover-o-Matic has a dozen models with different face shapes, over 30 different cuts - short, medium and long - and full-color spectrum for hair and makeup. There are even accessories, such as glasses, that you can add to test the new you for all occasions. » Continue reading

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Why do computer monitors flicker when seen on TV?

Monitors are caught in the middle of the constant, super-fast loading of images that creates the picture on a computer screen, says Jennifer Ernst of the Palo Alto Research Centre. Most TV cameras capture images slower than computers produce them. Hence the flickering. » Continue reading

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