Kill a Patent

If your wanting to kill some time, try this. Took me about 10 or 15 min to find a good one.

Ask Patents puts out recent software patents for the public to dispute. You think of an existing software or website that does what the patent says and submit it as prior art.

Poof - The patent is dismissed.

Awesomeness.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html
How to Read a Patent in 60 Seconds

Recent Bookmarks

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/web-designers-who-earn-passive-income/

Best Stock Charting Sites:

These sites seem to be stock charting right

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/

http://www.freestockcharts.com/

OpenID Tutorials

Facebook - http://qpleple.com/authenticate-users-with-their-facebook-account/

Google and Others - http://qpleple.com/how-to-make-people-login-into-your-website-with-their-google-account/

Repost - Install VLC in Chrome for ChromeCast

From:

http://gusclass.com/blog/2013/07/30/installing-vlc-in-chrome-to-playback-all-kinds-of-video/

Just like everybody else I know, I have tons of video in random formats that I can’t seem to get to play back in my web browser.  Video LAN offers an amazing video player and its installer includes a chrome extension.  This post will cover the basics for installing VLC and testing that it works as a chrome plugin:

1. Download VLC
2. After the download completes, click the installer.
3. Install VLC with all of the extensions / plugins
4. From your Chrome web browser, browse to chrome://plugins
5. Now, you will see an option, “VLC Web Plugin”. If this line is available, you have successfully installed the VLC player plugin for Chrome.

To test the VLC plugin, you can visit the VLC Plugins demo page.

Where did my Tax Dollars Go

Interesting data visulization:

http://fchasen.com/taxday/

Find more at http://www.datavizchallenge.org/