When it comes to The Simpsons cartoons, there may be no bigger fan than illustrator and art director Adrien Noterdaem. Noterdaem has quite the flair for drawing “simpsonized” renderings of pop culture figures, including the casts of Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, Steven Spielberg, Don Draper from Mad Men, the Big Lebowski, and even the musical group… Continue reading 11 Illustrations of Pop Culture Characters Simpsonized
Month: July 2013
Internet Explorer Uses Unicorns and the Man on the Moon to Tout the New IE Web Browser
When it comes to life, things aren’t always what they seem. For example, despite what you were told when you were young, you still wonder: is Pluto really a planet? What is a Macklemore? Is Iceland really made of ice? Can lightning strike the same place twice? Is Internet Explorer as bad as they say? These… Continue reading Internet Explorer Uses Unicorns and the Man on the Moon to Tout the New IE Web Browser
Cloud Storage Report: Google Drive Tops Dropbox in Speed and Reliability
Are your important files floating around somewhere in the cloud? Which cloud storage service do you fancy? Storing data on the Web is convenient because you can access it from anywhere on the go – as long as the service is reasonably fast and reliable, that is. Last year the Royal Pingdom investigated the reliability… Continue reading Cloud Storage Report: Google Drive Tops Dropbox in Speed and Reliability
How to Add a Feedly Follow Button to Your Blog to Increase Traffic
After the Google Reader funeral many of us turned to Feedly to host our blog feeds and RSS subscriptions. Considering how many people are using Feedly now, it might be wise to add a Feedly button to your blog or website to encourage readers to directly subscribe to you on that service too. Providing users… Continue reading How to Add a Feedly Follow Button to Your Blog to Increase Traffic
Visualize Your Personal Networks with MIT’s Immersion Tool for Gmail
Did you know you could extract simple information from your emails to visualize how you and the people in your life are interconnected? Three researchers at MIT knew, and they created an online tool to map your personal networks by analyzing metadata from your emails. The tool, called Immersion, uses only the From, To, Cc,… Continue reading Visualize Your Personal Networks with MIT’s Immersion Tool for Gmail
7 Creepy Things You Can Do with Facebook’s Graph Search
Today Facebook announced that the beta version of a tool called Graph Search will soon roll out to all its US English users. Unlike traditional Web search, Graph Search lets you ask questions like, “What restaurants do my friends like?” or perform cross searches like, say, “Pictures of my friends who are models.” Over the… Continue reading 7 Creepy Things You Can Do with Facebook’s Graph Search
How Many Followers do You Really Have on Twitter?
Lots of jokes have surfaced recently suggesting that most followers on Twitter are either fake, robots, spammers or some other entity which doesn’t actually read anybody’s tweets. Is this really true? Maybe, because Twitter has taken a step to try and bring more authenticity back to the art of the follow: it banned any auto-following… Continue reading How Many Followers do You Really Have on Twitter?
Twitter to Kill Auto-Follow-Backs and Bulk Following in New API
In a bold move, Twitter has prohibited automated following and bulk following of other users in the new version of its API. Previously you could use tools like Social Oomph to automatically follow-back anyone who followed you, or tools like Tweepi to follow/unfollow profiles in bulk (up to 200 at a time, with a limit… Continue reading Twitter to Kill Auto-Follow-Backs and Bulk Following in New API
