If you are a blazing fast typist looking to stare down other typers from around the world, or just an intermediate typist working on increasing your WPM, TypeRacer is the website for you. Like the WikiGame, you race players around the world in a digital competition, aiming for the glory of first place and possibly top in the leaderboards. However, …
This article originally appeared on Lifehacker on October 14, 2011. The post is below. When you have a large file or group of large files that you want to send to someone, but you don’t want to clog up your Dropbox account and you don’t have time to just drive over to your friend’s house with a USB drive, Justbeamit …
Person 1: “Hey, we should all meet up sometime” Person 2: “What time?” Person 1: “I don’t know, what time are all of you available?” Person 1: “Well, Thursdays work for me. I’m busy Fridays, and Saturday afternoons.” Person 3: “And for me, I have a soccer game this Thursday evening, and there’s a concert on Saturday” Person 1: “What …
I’m sure most of you have clicked on a link, only to discover something like this: Sometimes, you may have wondered, “What does that 404 stand for? And why?”
Microsoft is well known for their operating system Windows, their Zune HD player, and the XBox, but did you know they’re making what’s called a “contextual thesaurus?” It works just like a thesaurus, but thesaurusizes entire sentences in one fell swoop.