How many times have we seen a font used in a magazine, on a box, or in an advertisement, and wanted to find out what font it is? Up until I discovered WhatTheFont!, I had to go through every font in Word and compare it with the original. WhatTheFont! is a tool to help you discover, well, what font is …
Remember when you were young and the teacher would say, on the first day of school, “All right kids, write a letter to yourself one year from now, and at the end of the year, I’ll give the letters back to you?” Now, there’s a website for that (and maybe an app too, who knows?) FutureMe.org is a handy service …
I stumbled across this website a few days ago while I was flipping through the pages of Scientific American. The name of the website is “Old Weather“, and it’s a project that aims to fill the holes in the earth’s climatic record between the years of World War I and World War II. Now you may ask, who the heck …
Someone sends a link, comments on your Facebook post, or you see an interesting link somewhere on the interwebs, but it’s that annoying bit.ly or is.gd link. Is it absolutely safe to click, or could it infect your computer with viruses?
Who remembers the good ol’ ’90s, when the Internet was still in its infancy? There was no HTML5, no Adobe Flash, no Youtube, and Google had barely taken its roots on the Internet. Geocities came online around 1995 as a free web page service. Soon, gaudy-looking web pages with GIF animations and retro graphics were popping up faster than a …