BeautifulPeople.com is a dating site which has a strict ban on ugly people, and definitely proved that they aren't lying about that. They set some of their users back to the 'rating stage' (the same as having to apply for your account again). All of these users were people who had updated their profile pictures on the site to reveal that they had gotten fatter over the holidays. Existing and 'still beautiful' members then reviewed whether or not the re-applying users were beautiful or not. Over 5000 users, mainly from the US, Canada and Britain, were removed from the website. There are still 550,000 users, who all must have got quite a shock from the decision to remove chubby users.
iPhones, Wiis, Xboxes… over my time on twitter I’ve been sent a link to a picture of just about every gadget, piece of tech or console that has been covered in gold. Most of them even have some diamonds thrown in just to add a touch, and at least 10 times the original item’s cost -- probably far far more. Well, Engadget has found another one of these ridiculous gadgets.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t trade this one for a normal PS3, but as well as the fact that with the £199,995 (about $320,000) that this console is apparently worth you could buy some, in fact a whole lot of, more useful stuff, merely dipping something in gold won’t make it any better for gaming. A console isn’t as bad as the iPhone 3GS which was covered in gold with a diamond as the home button and apple logo of diamonds - imagine carrying that around in your pocket- but maybe someone who is crazy enough to buy this could think about donating the money to a charity instead.
The night before Christmas - computer version! Sent to me in an email.
Sizeablesend.com is a website which will probably help you a great deal when you transfer large files. It’s annoying to have to carry a memory stick everywhere, and even more annoying when you just want to send someone a few files and they’re ill and can’t come to school to meet you with a memory stick, or maybe because they live somewhere else, possibly in another country.
Well, Sizeablesend lets you effortlessly, easily and quickly transfer large files via email. Compared to the low amount of attachment size a normal email can send, Sizeablesend lets you send 20GB per session of maximum 10 files- with a maximum of 2GB per file. After one session, it’s easy to just start a new one. The emails will be sent immediately and I haven’t received any spam or advertisements from the website.
We all love seeing anything, especially if it's valuable, being demolished. Well, here's something which you'll enjoy a lot: Videos of both an Xbox 360 and a Playstation 3 being destroyed. Although these aren't working consoles, I'm pretty happy with 'Household Hacker' for making the below YouTube video.
Note: Select either 'Sledge the PS3' or 'Axe the Xbox 360' in order to view the videos of how they were being destroyed.
A group of US students will soon be performing their debut 'iPhone orchestra'. They have all made special iPhone apps some of which sound similar to normal instruments, and some don't. The iPhone musical instruments can be controlled using various features that the iPhone has like the microphone, touchscreen or accelerometer. According to the BBC, the students will be performing their unique concert on 9th December. This comes after a three month couse led by Georg Essl, an Austrian computer scientist and musician. There has been music made by computers and gadgets for a relatively long time, but this concert will feature only iPhone apps created by the performers.
For some reason, I subscribed to windows videos on YouTube. This video isn't even by that channel, and for that the video is hilarious- to be fair, there are some funny videos on the official channel Stewie Griffin explaining why Windows 7 would help him gain world domination by letting him draw rabbits in an easier way. You should check it out sometime.
BlogTV is a website which lets you watch user-generated 'video blog' videos live online. Many You Tubers use the service as their audience can chat in the chat section as the video is going on live, giving suggestions, answering questions, and normally making the experience more fun than simply watching a YouTube video.
The website, which was launched in 2006, is available in English, Russian and Hebrew. Although there are some pesky ads, it is free to use the website. As well as being able to watch videos, those who have accounts on Blog TV are able to easily make their own broadcasts. Other bonuses include being able to subscribe to videos by certain people (the subscriber can then choose to get emails either a few minutes before the broadcast starts - if it is a scheduled one- or an email when the broadcast starts. Yes, it is possible to earn money from BlogTV, but it'll take some time.
We all love seeing anything, especially if it's valuable, being demolished. Well, here's something which you'll enjoy a lot: Videos of both an Xbox 360 and a Playstation 3 being destroyed. Although these aren't working consoles, I'm pretty happy with 'Household Hacker' for making the below YouTube video.
Note: Select either 'Sledge the PS3' or 'Axe the Xbox 360' in order to view the videos of how they were being destroyed." title="Destruction: Xbox 360 vs Playstation 3" />