Top 10 Best Presentations Ever

Top 10 Best Presentations Ever: "Recently I love to watch conference and presentation videos online, where I learned the materials, and different people’s presentation style. KnowHR has composed 10 Presentations that they consider the best. All of presentations are online and free to watch. Study their styles.

Couple of the presentations that I have watched and admire in the list:


Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984
Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech in 1963
Seth Godin talks about Marketing at Google in 2006
Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start speech at TiECon 2006

Which presentation do you think the best?

Top 10 Best Presentations Ever - [KnowHR Blog]


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Hordozható Drupal, telepítés nélkül, azonnal

Hordozható Drupal, telepítés nélkül, azonnal: "Avagy futtassunk Drupalt USB meghajtóról"

Productivity killer: Line Rider

Productivity killer: Line Rider: "What crude line-art flash game is getting more search hits on Google than Kim Jong Il? It's called Line Rider, and Time.com reports that it has attracted a cult following worldwide: Part Jackass..."

A History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads

A History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads: "Tiny Tuba writes 'PC World's Harry McCracken pulls together a compendium of vintage PC commercials posted on YouTube. There are commercials from the 1980s right up to the present. If you are looking for a laugh, you will have fun with the Atari 400, Commodore 64 and more.' Worth it for the Shattner Vic-20 commercial alone, but the others are well-picked too. Naturally, the Apple 1984 commercial is included.

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Gmail + Google Reader = Cool

Gmail + Google Reader = Cool: "Integration is good.

Mihai Parparita, frontend tech lead of Google Reader, goes ahead and releases a GreaseMonkey that integrates Google Reader with Gmail. Outcome is great, because you can read your feeds just like you read an email in Gmail.

It is an unofficial feature, but the integration makes Reader part of Gmail already, which in my opinion that it fits there very well (Google, you don’t have to launch another product - integrate Reader into an existing product instead).




Reader is in Google Labs, and that puts it in the “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” product family. I’m glad that people seem to have realized that this “throwing” and “seeing” are less passive than they sound. To stretch this metaphor further, if the spaghetti starts to slide off, engineers (and UI designers, and product managers, and others) will study the problem and figure out how to increase its coefficient of friction. Usually the changes are more subtle (wi"

Resizable kids' shoes for growing feet

Resizable kids' shoes for growing feet: "Cory Doctorow:
Inchworms are kids' shoes whose size can be adjusted up to three sizes -- press a button on the underside and pull or push to change the size. Link (via Gizmodo)

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9 Open Source Companies to Watch

9 Open Source Companies to Watch: "An anonymous reader writes 'A look at 9 open source companies to watch, focusing on everything from systems management to portals to apps servers. ' Silly bits like where their names come from to less silly bits like how much VC they got and what they actually do. I haven't heard of many of these, but it's encouraging to see a growing number of businesses being built around Open Source.

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Free Online Speed Reading App - Spreeder

Free Online Speed Reading App - Spreeder: "

With all those information process per day, large portion of them are reading. So speed reading is good skill to have for lifehackers. Here is an online tool called Spreeder which can train your mind to get rid of subvocalization and backtracing, by increasing the reading speed on the screen and steady output of text:



What is speed reading?

Reading with speed. ‘Nuf said. Actually, the idea behind speed reading is that we can process information much faster than we actually do in real life with a book in our hands. Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc.

The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other crap. So, by having a steady input of text, we erase our dependency on backtracing. By increasing the reading speed, subvocalization can’t keep up and eventually goes away. The key "

Teach yourself speed-reading with Spreeder

Teach yourself speed-reading with Spreeder: "Very similar to previously-posted Zap Reader, the Spreeder webapp trains you to increase your reading speed by displaying single words in succession at a high rate. Several factors affect our reading..."

Become a leader in your field

Become a leader in your field: "UCLA prof Philip E. Agre has a really good article on how to become a leader in your chosen field; it runs a little long but here are the main take-aways: Pick an issue. Having chosen your issue,..."

Reciting pi to 100,000 places

Reciting pi to 100,000 places: "David Pescovitz: It took Akira Haraguchi, 60, of Mabara, Japan, a total of sixteen hours to recite Pi to 100,000 decimal places. He claims it is a new world record. From the Associated Press:

'What I am aiming at is not just memorizing figures, I am thrilled by seeking a story in pi,' Haraguchi said...

Haraguchi, a psychiatric counselor and business consultant... took a break of about 5 minutes every one to two hours, going to the rest room and eating rice balls during the attempt, said Naoki Fujii, spokesman of Haraguchi's office.

Fujii said all of Haraguchi's activities during the attempt, including his bathroom breaks, were videotaped for evidence that will later be sent for verification by the Guinness Book of Records. Link

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how to recognize a stroke

how to recognize a stroke: "A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim quickly he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed and getting to the patient within 3 hours, which is tough. Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. But doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

1. Ask the individual to SMILE.
2. Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
3. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently, ie: It is sunny out today)

If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

-- Passed along by Michael Hawley

(via cool tips)"

PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock

PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock: "
All notebooks come with tangible and intangible costs, where the loss or theft of a notebook is made all the more depressing when you realize how important the data contained within is. The PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock aims to offer protection for those who carry a notebook wherever they go. It comes in a lightweight, compact design that does not take up much luggage space. Features include a multi-purpose self-locking design and a convenient push button lock that ensures your notebook stays put even when you have to leave it unattended answering nature's call.


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Shoe Lacing Methods

Shoe Lacing Methods: "Frankly, before I read this post, in my life I only know one way of lacing shoes by criss-crossing. Ian’s Shoelace Site shows me over 30 different ways to lace shoe, from tradition criss cross lacing, to lattice lacing. Look like some of them are quick hacks - those lacing style make the shoes “loose fit” or even can make your shoe to a “slip-on” without any knotting. For me, I don’t like to spend time on knotting, so this style caught my eye:




Checkerboard Lacing - This interwoven lacing forms an attractive 2-colour checkerboard pattern that looks fantastic on today’s wide fronted runners.

Shoe Lacing Methods - [Ian’s Shoelace Site]


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ActiveCollab - Ingyenes project management szoftver

ActiveCollab - Ingyenes project management szoftver: "Akárcsak az elõzõ bejegyzésemben, ismét egy olyan webalkalmazásról lesz szó, amely megkönnyíti a project management-et."

Never Check Your Email First Or Last

Never Check Your Email First Or Last: "Many people know you should not check email first thing in the morning - It gives you peace of mind to finish other stuff in the morning before opening any hauling emails and being obligated by not answering it immediately. LifeDev takes this to the next level and says checking email at the end of the day is not a good idea as well:



Checking my email at night before I went to bed soon started to affect other areas of my life. The most obvious thing was that I was staying up much later than I planned. Email is great at distracting you, mainly because you can open it up and anything can be waiting for you inside. A work proposal, one of 10 uninteresting forwards from your grandma that day, a really weird Japanese game show video; anything can be in there. And because you can’t plan on what’s in there, you have to check it all. And it will distract you, mark my words. You’ll watch the movie, and then you’ll want to watch more because it was sooo funny"

Motionbox tags sections of video clips

Motionbox tags sections of video clips: "My friends at Motionbox are doing more innovative work with the most interesting parts of your video clips: they just launched 'deep tagging,' the ability to label subsections of your videos with..."

USBCell recharges via USB

USBCell recharges via USB: "When you look at the USBCell from Moxia, you will probably slap yourself on the forehead and ask, 'Why didn't I think about it before?'. The simplicity of the USBCell comes across as a surprise - it is a rechargeable AA battery on the outside with a very different mechanism on the inside. You do not need to lug around any more huge chargers as you go on your travels, all you need to do is to plug the USBCell into any available USB port and you're good to go. A pair of USBCell batteries can be picked up from U.K. only at the moment for £12.99. Now, if only somebody will fit in a flash memory chip sometime down the future.


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Back up your phone contacts online with Zyb

Back up your phone contacts online with Zyb: "Web site Zyb backs up and syncs your cell phone's contacts and calendar data so that you'll never have to go through the pain of manually entering in contacts on a new phone again. As if that..."

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath: "Cory Doctorow: Make your next romantic bathroom scene a little more post-apocalyptic with this $15 glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath. Link (via Gizmodo)


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