Free Cartoonist Software

If you want to add a touch of humour to your photos, then this free Cartoonist software is for you. This compact and easy-to-use graphics software enables even a computer novice to create funny caricatures or realistic images applying creative warping effects in a matter of minutes. Cartoonist has a simple, easy-to-grasp interface so that the user can easily and quickly operate the program.
Cartoonist lets you watch the results of each operation in real time, allowing you to undo any operation at any time or jump to the original image, if you don't like the results. So, with Cartoonist you can make the best use of your creativity or just relieve stress by warping images of your friends and celebrities!

Get Cartoonist at this link.

Free Image Editor - Picasa by Google

If you are looking for a good and free image and photo editor, then you need not look too much further than using Picasa from Google. Picasa is a free full-featured editor and photo management software, and is available in a variety of languages.
Some features of Picasa:
- Picasa instantly locates and organises all the pictures on your computer: Picasa organises your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date
- Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa
- Make an album: Use the "Albums" collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa.
- Add a star rating: Helps you find popular photos easily
- Password-protect collections
- Allow a lot of fixes / editing: Crop, fix red-eye, fix contrast and colour, enhance images, 12 new visual effects (sepia, black-and-white, and numerous others)
- Add captions for images
- Zoom, pan and tilt
- View EXIF data
- Share photos with friends and family via email, on a web site, slide shows
- Many options for home printing
- Backup photos for safety
- Convert photos to movie
- Make a screensaver or set as desktop background
- Make a picture collage or poster

If you are interested in downloading Picasa, just click on the button in the Free Software section to the right and select Picasa as part of the Google Pack (of course if you are interested in more software, select them as well)

Convert documents to PDF through the internet

Now, most means of converting a document (Word / Powerpoint, etc) are through a utility installed on the system. This utility will mostly rest as a printer, so that when the user wants to convert a document to a PDF, he/she will print to PDF. But there are other ways of doing this as well. One way is to utilize a service that will allow you to upload a document, ask you for an email ID, and then will actually send you the PDF to that email ID for free. And this is done for a fair number of different formats as well.
One site that does this is called PDFOnline, and is available at this link
These are the formats that can be converted to PDF through this service.

-MS Word (DOC)
-MS Publisher (PUB)
-MS Word (RTF)
-MS Excel (XLS)
-MS PowerPoint (PPT)
-MS PowerPoint (PPS)
-JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, WMF, EMF
-HTML (MHT)
-Text (TXT)

Tool for reading and writing Exif Information

If you are interested in digital photography, there is a good chance that you will be interested in the Exif information for the photograph. It would be nice to get a tool that allows you the facility of reading, writing and editing meta-information in various files, whether they be image files, audio files or video files.
One tool that can do just that is ExifTool (click to visit site). It has the following features:
ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
It works on both Windows and Mac. Essentially, ExifTool is a Perl library along with a command line application. Other features are:

• Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
• Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
• Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
• Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
• Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
• Sets the file modification date from EXIF information
• Processes entire directory trees
• Creates text output file for each image file
• Automatically backs up original image when writing
• Organizes output into groups
• Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
• Ability to add user-defined tags
• Recognizes thousands of different tags
• Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
• Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs

The mysterious number 6174

I was roaming around the web, when I saw this particular web page, explaining the mystery of the number 6174. Read it to the end, and you will feel happy that you learnt something new.
So what's the mystery of the number 6174? Well, it's sort of like a mathematical puzzle. You need to do the following steps:
1. Take any 4 digit number where all 4 digits are not the same (so you can't select 9999), so for example, take 3456
2. Rearrange the digits to get the largest and smallest number: so you get 3456 and 6543
3. Subtract them, so you get 6543-3456 = 3087
4. Do this again with the resultant number, so you get 8730 - 378 = 8352
5. Again repeat 4, so you get 6174
6. Do it again, 7641-1467 = 6174
The number repeated itself, and will do so again and again, no matter which 4 digit number you take.
For 3 digits number, you get 495

Some great tongue twisters

Enjoy these great tongue-twisters

1. Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now, See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed
Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
just because See's saw sawed
Soar's seesaw.

2. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

3. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Recognize this sentence

See whether you can undertand the below sentence better. As per research, the below sentence is easily recognizable:

You cluod hvae udnertsood waht he was wniritg if you had cnostenrated bteter. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Some maths calculations resulting in visual similarity

Sometimes maths can be real fun in terms of how some simple calculations can result in some visually interesting results. Take a look at some of the equations below, and you can't help but admire the way that these work out

Multiplication and addition with increasing numbers
0 x 9 + 0 = 0
1 x 9 + 1 = 10
12 x 9 + 2 = 110
123 x 9 + 3 = 1110
1234 x 9 + 4 = 11110
12345 x 9 + 5 = 111110
123456 x 9 + 6 = 1111110
1234567 x 9 + 7 = 11111110
12345678 x 9 + 8 = 111111110
123456789 x 9 + 9 = 1111111110


Multiplications with similar increasing numbers
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321


Another Magic of Math

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

Then... Check this out ...

1 x 18 + 1 = 19
12 x 18 + 2 = 218
123 x 18 + 3 = 2217
1234 x 18 + 4 = 22216
12345 x 18 + 5 = 222215
123456 x 18 + 6 = 2222214
1234567 x 18 + 7 = 22222213
12345678 x 18 + 8 = 222222212
123456789 x 18 + 9 = 2222222211

Linking the space shuttle to Roman horses

Here is a pointer to how important tradition is to our current life. If somebody tells you that things are under your control, you should throw this story at them. You would think something as simple as why train tracks are a certain width would be based on scientific evaluation, but here goes. Follow the argument and go back in history:

1. The wheels on the Space Shuttle are a certain distance apart, really narrow in proportion to its huge size.
2. This is so they can haul it on railroad tracks when they move it to different parts of the country.
3. The width of the railroad tracks is based on the companies who manufactured railroad cars way back in the days when the same companies were converting over from manufacturing wagons.
4. Wagon wheels had to be a certain distance apart to fit in the ruts in the road so they bumped less.
5. The width of the road is based on Roman design, the most convenient width for Roman chariots, since ancient Rome defined the basis for road-making in ancient times.
6. The width of a chariot was based on the width of 2 horses running together.
7. So basically, part of the design of the Space Shuttle is based on the width of two horses butts!

Gotcha, that would start to make sense to you.

Incredible street drawings

People paint for a variety of reasons, and some of the painters can be extremely gifted. Can you visualize somebody painting on the street in such a way that, when viewed from certain angles, it seems that a three-dimensional object is actually there on the street ? For example, you can think that blocks have been removed from a street surface, that the street is full of garbage or rubbish, or a small boat is sailing on a small water puddle on the street. Interested, well take a look:
http://www.rense.com/general67/street.htm

Google completes your seach term

A lot of us use the Google search engine when we want to search for anything on the internet. In fact, to a lot of people, Google is the default home page that they go to when they launch the internet.
So let me show you a trick from Google. When you search, there is a special type of search where you can start entering your search item and Google will use searches made by other people to try and provide you options for completing you search terms.
The first time I saw this, it was pretty incredible. So let me show it you directly:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
Just go to this search term, search for anything. As an example, say you want to search for Britney Spears. Start entering B, then r, then I and see how you search term displays options for you to choose from.
Seems magical, does it not ?

Some cool eye teasers

Read out loud the text inside the triangle below

More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........
if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see that the word THE is repeated twice! Sorry, look again.

Next, let's play with some words.
What do you see?

In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very physiological too, because it visualize the concept that good can't exist without evil (or the absence of good is evil ).

Now, what do you see?

You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. Look again! Can you see why this painting is called an optical illusion?

What do you see here?



This one is quite tricky!
The word TEACH reflects as LEARN


Test Your Brain
This is really cool. The second one is amazing so please read all the way though.

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process "OF".

Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.

Three is normal, four is quite rare.

Send this to your friends.
It will drive them crazy.!
And keep them occupied
For several minutes..!

O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Psas Ti ON !

Google Images Cool Stuff

1. Go to Google
2. Click images
3. Type "flowers" or any other word.
4. You will get a page which is having full of images
5. Then delete the URL from the address bar and paste the below script

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI= document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0)

6. See the magic.

Actually, this will work on any page that has images on it. Looks very cool.