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InRumor.com gives you a great ScreenSaver for Free!
InRumor.com gives you a free ScreenSaver for your desktop.
It’s not just a ScreenSaver!
You’ll know what time it is, what’s the weather in your preferred location, the 2 days forecast, the calendar and what are the latest rumors in the world. It’s a mini desktop on your screen!
Get your Local Weather … read more
The Sphere Creative Contest
The Sphere Contest is one of the most beautiful and generous ideas I have ever heard! Starting from – probably – the most simple, yet fundamental form in our world you are asked to submit a work of your own in which you can show your most creative skills. I’ll … read more
Happy New Year!
I really wish you a Happy New Year and I honestly thank you for staying close to Visual-Things.com! I’m not gonna show you right now any interesting visual things, I just want to wish you all the good luck in the world, I wish you to be inspired, to be … read more
The InRumor.com Phenomenon
Whether you know it or not, there is a new website which tells you all the whispers behind the curtain.It’s fresh and dynamic, it has a young team of enthusiasts who search the answers and asks the questions. Among many intriguing subjects they found that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp … read more
The New iMac is the most beautiful computer in the world!
A Mac is designed to give you the best computer experience possible. Because Apple makes both the hardware and the software, everything just works. Like a computer should. So whether you’re accessing a Wi-Fi network, organizing your photos by faces, or video chatting, everything is surprisingly simple.
10/GUI: reinvent desktop human-computer interaction
This is indeed a revolutionary approach to change the way we interact with a computer.
The video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes C. Miller’s proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers.
He proposes a new desktop software interface in which the windows – for example – are lined up in a linear dimension. I think his way of using it would be a limitation of the hardware rather than putting it in the spotlight. The real amazing thing would be to use the 10/GUI on the actual OS’s on the market.
Harvard Justice Course with professor Michael Sandel
Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth?
What do you think, and why?
Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship.
Single Photoshop PSD file with … 15,000 layers
This is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.
Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel Literature Prize
By MATT MOORE and KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writers
Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism’s collapse.
The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy’s pattern of awarding the prize to European writers.
Mueller, a member of Romania’s ethnic German minority, was honored for work that “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” the Swedish Academy said.
The New Trabant nT
If you live in US, you probably don’t know about this car and the history behind it. In a few words, Trabant was a car produced back in the late 50’s till 1991 in the former East Germany. It rapidly became one of the symbols in the East Germany as well as in other communist countries. For advocates of capitalism it is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning as even refueling the car required lifting the hood, filling the tank with gasoline (only 6.5 gallons), then adding two-stroke oil and shaking it back and forth to mix. It was in production without any significant changes for nearly 30 years with 3,096,099 Trabants produced in total.
Playstation 4 Concept Design
While Playstation 3 still has a few more years of left in its lifespan of relevancy, designer Tai Chiem has come up with a stunning concept of Playstation 4. The PS4 console would feature transparent surfaces made for adaptive touch screens, with a glossy black round compartment to place the discs of your choice. PS4 will give the gamer a unique cable-free gaming experience with its Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. Moreover, the transparent display of the main unit can show thumbnails of different part of a disc and allow the user to select a part by simply touching the respective thumbnail.
have a coffee: free wallpaper for download
This is another free to download wallpaper. You can use it as you like, you can redistribute it and promote it wherever you like. It would be nice if you’ll mention the source. 
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The Visual History Of The Internet
History of the Internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. You can already download a pre-release of all picol icons on blog.picol.org/downloads/icons/
how a MacWorld cover is made
Many people don’t pay attention to covers. They mostly don’t even have to. But there are techniques involved in the making process of a cover. That’s why, when you pass by a newspaper kiosk your eyes end up on a shiny, colorful or even black & white cover. Because, eventually, nothing is left to be random there.
In this video, you’ll see – in a compressed time lapse – the entire work of making the cover for MacWorld Magazine.
Enjoy.
crows are intelligent
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.