The wallpapers

Links to some websites with outstanding wallpapers.

Here they go:
1. Interfacelift.com, filtered as the highest rated ones: LINK
2. Socwall.com, filtered as the highest rated ones: LINK
3. Deviantart.com, filtered as the most popular - all time: LINK
4. Desktopography.net: LINK
5. Wallpaperstock.net: LINK

6. At Flickr.com, Totally Awesome Pictures group: LINK
7. At Smasningmagazine.com, some good ones selected: LINK1, LINK2
8. At Myfreesoft.net: LINK
9. Vladstudio.com: LINK
10. Customize.org, filtered as the most popular ones: LINK
11. Jurko.net: LINK
12. 3dfiction.com: LINK
13. Wikipedia: LINK

Thematic Wallpapers:
- Debian - at glatozen.org: LINK
- BSD - at bsdnexus.com: LINK
- GNOME - at gnome-look.org: LINK
- KDE - at kde-look.org: LINK
- XFCE - at xfce-look.org: LINK

A movie - 10000 b.c.

This definitely seems (by now) a movie, which will be worth watching. It will probably be one of the great movies of 08. From the director of the "Independence day" and "The day after tomorrow" ... here comes "10 000 b.c.". The website of the movie has trailers and info about it. It seems to be released on 9th march. Well, looking forward to this :). Official movie trailer at youtube: http://youtube.com/...

How to make posts collapse/expand

I used the instructions from this webpage to be able to make posts with the so called "peekaboo" view by clicking at the "read more" link.
Also, while searching, I found some very useful websites, offering similar tricks for the layout. This webpage for instance shows how to make the side elements of the webpage with the same effect. Very useful is also this webpage, the sections of help for blogspot.com - this one and this one, and also the section, which explains how to make the so called "peekaboo" comments. That's about all of it, almost all of the things I've found so far.

How to show more than 20 results by the "labels" of blogger.com

The labels are the links sidelong the page, the ones with the number (xyz). When clicked on them, in blogger.com, they show by default 20 results. This is changeable by a small alteration of the code of the template of blogger.com. The exact way of doing it is shown on this webpage. I personally have set the [data:label.url + "?max-results=100"] on a number higher than 100.

Ideas worth spreading - simply TED

One of the most valuable things (besides information) are ideas. That's what this website [http://www.ted.com/] offers - ideas worth spreading. By talented scientists and professionals. Just my 2 cents.

Greeting cards

The main reason I would send a greeting card is if I liked the greeting card. Another reason is the feeling one gets for himself/herself. This site - Care2.com offers both - not only nice greeting cards, but (as to the website) the sending a card from there saves a little part of a rainforest. It feels sooo good!
Witty, nah?

And as I'm still at it, Happy new year!

Live earth - the appeal

It's been several days since the concert "Live earth", the concert aimed at bringing information to people about global warming stuff. More about the stuff may be found at the links at the end of this post and HERE. The site claims one can watch live videos at http://www.liveearth.msn.org/, but with a slow internet connection it takes forever for them to load. If one wants to watch some videos, there are www.youtube.com and http://video.google.com; with the keywords "live earth" there comes a bunch of videos, and almost all songs of this event.

Here's a video about global warming and about how crucial it is to act now:

Here's a trailer for the concert:


The global warming survival guide

Effects on climate change by 2020

Some more information about this stuff may be found at http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/
and http://green.nationalgeographic.com/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
and http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp
and http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html
and http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
and http://www.pewclimate.org/

Sharing files - free, safe and unlimited

There's an application, to which this post is dedicated - the Java based Qnext. I have all my thumbs up for this one. As described in Wikipedia, Qnext is a p2web application. What does this mean? It means, that Qnext allows you to share everything on your computer (if you want to) - files, photos, music - with a selected group of friends. And what's the best part of it, the friends even do not need to have Qnext installed on their computers; all they have to do is use their webbrowsers, for to reach the shared content.
With Qnext, your computer acts as a server for your friends; there is a big list of waht one can do with Qnext at http://qnext.com/music_streaming.shtml.
Qnext is p2p, which means there are no servers in the middle of the communication between you and your friends (which means no observation (as stated at their website) of the content being shared). And, as the http://qnext.com/faq.shtml claims (the FAQ section of the website of Qnext), logon is highly encrypted and every communication is encrypted at very high level, which is more secure than the standard for online banking. Which apparently should mean it is secure.
So, how do you know how to share with your friends? Qnext provides instant messaging services, which means, that you can share files from your computer with your buddies from ICQ, MSN and some other instant messaging clients; but that's not all of it. You can also enter the e-mail of a buddy you want to share with, and he/she will receive an e-mail with a link directly to the shared files (the so called "zone"). As described in the FAQ section of their website, your computer needs to be turned on, for to allow others to access the files. As good as it seems, qnext is free, multiplatform (java based), which means it runs on everything - Windows, Linux, OSX. One feature I have not tried yet is the video conference, but reviews at the ubuntuforums.org claim, that it works just great. I am not trying to convince anyone to use this; I just wanted to share my enthusiasm about this program, which had made the file sharing so easy (and pretty much secure). For the ordinary person, sitting in front of their computers, thinking about how to send fast this 100mb important files to somebody at the other side of the country, this would be a nice solution.
Links to some articles, related to qnext:
1. Pcworld (english)
2. Computers.bg (in bulgarian)
3. Wikipedia (english)
4. Linux.com (english)

A movie - Inconvenient truth

I saw a movie the other day, that impressed me - "An inconvenient truth" with Al Gore. Well, here's a link to the trailer I have found on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/...
I cannot determine the genre of the movie, maybe a horror one. As said in the trailer, "it shocked the audience wherever they saw it". The plot is well composed, and mr. Gore is playing well as an actor. I think it's been an interesting film. More about it may be seen at www.climatecrisis.net