Pranav presents in this (embedded) video how his project Sixth Sense brings the physical and digital worlds closer with the help of a device that has a webcam and a projector. It tracks your gestures and then follows the commands assigned to those gestures. It’s really quite amazing! Check it out for yourself.

Load Impact gives you the opportunity to see whether your website will be able to stand different loads. By registering you can test your website for free and save the results from up to 5 runs.

They also have different plans for different loads and different tools.

Happen to be on nytimes.com and then seeing a word you have never before seen? Use your mouse to select it and a small question mark image will appear. Click it and you get a pop-up with the word explained. The service is provided by Answers.com. I’m not sure if it’s new I just played around while reading. Definitely a useful feature.

Screenshot of the reference library feature on NYTimes.com

Vector Magic

I found this great service that converts an image into a vector file. It was exactly what I was looking for. It processes the image in a few steps and you select things like what quality the original image was in, choose a palette and at the end of the process you get to download your image (once you have signed up). You get 2 free tokens when you sign up. One image conversion = 1 token. It really saved my day, so I wanted to share it.