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The Most Popular Month for Birthdays
May 15th
Amitabh Chandra , a professor of public policy at the Harvard University , earlier published a data table detailing how many babies were born in the United States on each date between 1973 and 1999. September 16th happens to be the most common birthday while December 25th is the least popular birthday Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPR, converted this NYT table into a static heatmap for easy visualization (the darker the color, the higher the probability of births happening on that date) and Andy Kriebel made an interactive heatmap of the same data using Tableau – this version lets you hover over any cell and you can see the underlying data.
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The Most Popular Month for Birthdays
The Most Popular Month for Birthdays
May 15th
Amitabh Chandra , a professor of public policy at the Harvard University , earlier published a data table detailing how many babies were born in the United States on each date between 1973 and 1999. September 16th happens to be the most common birthday while December 25th is the least popular birthday Matt Stiles, data journalist at NPR, converted this NYT table into a static heatmap for easy visualization (the darker the color, the higher the probability of births happening on that date) and Andy Kriebel made an interactive heatmap of the same data using Tableau – this version lets you hover over any cell and you can see the underlying data. Going back to the data, it turns out that September is the most popular month to have babies and, according to Wikipedia , this is likely due to the fact that the holiday season is nine months before.
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Amazon Cleaning Up The Kindle Blogs Store
May 10th
I am not sure how many Kindle owners use this feature but Amazon does offer you an option to use your Kindle device as an offline RSS reader. You can subscribe to any of the blogs listed in the Kindle Blogs directory and new stories will auto-download on your Kindle when you sync the device to check for new items. The Kindle Blogs program was initially available to publishers worldwide but they have limited the scope in recent months and only bloggers from U.S
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Amazon Cleaning Up The Kindle Blogs Store
How to find out where a picture was taken?
May 10th
Say you are exploring interesting places on the Internet and come across a gorgeous destination that you would like to visit sometime in future. The only problem is that the web photograph carries no text caption and you therefore have no clue of the location where that picture was possible taken.
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How to find out where a picture was taken?
The Kindle Best Sellers that are currently Free
May 8th
Meet Zero Dollar Books , a Pinterest style page that offers a visual listing of best-sellers that you can download on your Kindle, Windows PC, Mac or any mobile phone for free. You can also download and read these Kindle books in your browser without requiring any software or mobile apps. All you need is a free Amazon.com account.
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The Kindle Best Sellers that are currently Free
Your Facebook Account has Three Passwords
May 1st
This is interesting. You can log into your Facebook account using three passwords – one is the main password that you created and the other passwords can be constructed by toggling the case of characters that form your original password. For example, if your Facebook password is operati@nGeronimo! , you can convert the uppercase characters to lowercase (and vice-versa) and the toggled password string – OPERATI@NgERONIMO! – will also get you into Facebook
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Send your Gmail Attachments to Google Drive With a Click
Apr 30th
Imagine this. You are reading a Gmail message on your mobile, the message contains one or more file attachments, you apply a label (say GoogleDrive ) to that message and automatically all those attachments are saved to one of the folders on your Google Drive. And since Google Drive will automatically synchronize with your desktop folders, the saved email attachments will instantly download and become available on your local disk as well for offline viewing.
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Now Send Bigger Emails through Mail Merge
Apr 17th
If you have been using my Mail Merge scripts in Gmail to send personalized emails to a large group of people, here’s one bit of news that may interest you. The maximum allowed size of file attachments that you can send through Google Docs (or Google Apps Script) has just been increased from 5 MB to 25 MB per message (see release notes ).
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How to Bypass the Social Reader Apps in Facebook
Apr 10th
Some stories appearing in your Facebook newsfeed, like the one shown in the screenshot above, require you to add a “social reader” application to your Facebook profile before you can access the underlying story. This social-reading “feature” is enabled for quite a few popular sites including Yahoo, The Washington Post, Guardian, Huffington Post, Daily Motion, and many more
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How to Bypass the Social Reader Apps in Facebook
Take a Virtual Tour of The White House
Apr 3rd
If you are curious to know what it is like inside the residence of the world’s most powerful person, take a tour from the comfort of your couch. Search for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC on Google Maps and drag the street view icon on the White House building. Or maybe you can use this direct link
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