If you read my last post, you would know i was looking for a website which provides inspiration without any distraction and when i couldn’t find one i made one (check it out). Since then i have found an amazing website which foes this much better.
GetInspired365 creates a inspirational videos everyday. The videos are really motivational and truly inspiring, especially when you realise each video has been made by Getinspired365 with love.
Revision is never fun and a little inspiration can go a long way. I was mid way through some revision when i needed some inspiration especially inspirational quotes. I found a couple of great websites but all were cluttered and dull. I was looking for something with one big quote. When i couldn’t find one i decided to make one.
Here it is. I discovered earlier BraineryQuotes have an RSS feed for their quote of the day. So i used this and a simple PHP script to get the newest element in the feed. Luckily this also counts towards my revision for PHP.
Hopefully it can inspire you too. #QuoteOfTheDay
Well not a phone exactly:
I recently discovered a pretty cool site with a nice idea. Its called Selfless Portraits. The aim of the site is pretty simple, you log in with Facebook and select one of your profile pictures. The site will then provide you with some one else’s. all you have to do is to come up with your artistic impression of their picture in any style you like. once you have submitted their picture, yours will be sent to a different ‘artist’ to be drawn. Although there are some stickmen here and there most of the pictures are actually amazing. Check out their gallery. The only problem with this site is that the process of you drawing a picture and a different person drawing you picture can be very slow and up to a week.
This is my attempt at drawing a nice lady from the USA
Here is mine drawn by someone else. Looking at the gallery really shows the class of some of the artists.
If you wanted to write something in Tamil or any other Asian and Indian languages it is not easy. You would either have to learn a completely new keyboard layout with over 200+ letters or copy and past from Google translate.
Now there is an easy option through the form of Google input tools found here. It uses google transcribe not to be mistaken with translate to transcribe each word after the space key is pressed. Transcribe means if you type mum it will not give you the Tamil translation but if you type amma the pronunciation of the Tamil word for amma, it will produce the Tamil word.
you can switch between both by using changing the keyboard by changing the keyboard in task bar.
Its so easy even my mum uses it. Only if Google added European languages with translation
Update: There is a chrome extension which supports all languages offered by Google translate
If you are a geek like me you are going to love this. There is an HTML5 version of command and conquer(here). So good bye free time.
This video was recorded from the back of a pick up. The roads in Sri Lanka are a little bumpy and caused the camera to shake. So i used the stabilizer feature on you tube to try to fix this. As a result the video looks almost fake.
Here is a small web app i built using JavaScript for instagram. It works with the instagram api to get the last few images tagged with #thesrilankangeek and when loaded it will automatically reload when a new photo has been tagged #thesrilankangeek. It has one major bug still which is when it check for new updates it uses the api endpoint with my access token and as the instagram api documentations states only 5000 requests can be made using the access token per hour. This should not be an issue if the traffic to the site is low. If you come across the page with only text and no pictures just wait an hour and try again.
Check it out here