Computer and Web Articles

#1) www.fresharrival.com – Each day this site showcases one “amazingly cool thing”.You get a photo, a description, a price, and a link to where you can purchase the cool-thing-of-the-day.The first day I visited this site, the showcased item was a “no-drip umbrella”. Last week I stopped by the site and saw an iPod (nano) belt buckle.Oh, and sometimes the cool item of the day is free!

You’re just bound to come across something fun if you take a quick glance at this site on a regular basis. And if you go several days without remembering to visit the site, don’t worry—they keep a well-organized archive for people just like yourself.

#2) www.tinyurl.com/dkowz - Two words: SO COOL. This link will take you to a page with a small video on it; watch this video. I’m pretty sure you’ve never seen anything like it in all your life. It’s a video of an artist giving an on-stage performance with nothing more than an overhead projector and a bucket of sand.

Yep, the Hungarian artist featured in this video is a sand-painter.Along with the enthralled audience you can watch the projection screen as he creates scenes of people and animals, one flowing into the next; first you’re looking at a ram with big curly horns and then all of the sudden, with a smudge of his finger, the artist has morphed the sand into a monkey’s face.Wow.

#3) www.tinyurl.com/7hzxc - This fancy online Ikea advertisement is the result of mixing music, high quality photography, 3d motion, and Matrix-like frozen-in-time panoramas. It’s a very, very big download but just visit the link, grab a snack and something to drink, and soon enough the interactive “scene” will soon be displayed before your eyes.

Drag the scene to the left or right, watch the people and rooms and situations change. I You’ll most likely find yourself more interested in the visual material than the actual Ikea furniture showcased; the ad is a great form of entertainment in and of itself. You don’t run across that many sites on the web (yet) utilizing this type of technology.