After getting tired of searching that perfect background image for my sites, I stumbled upon Subtle Patterns.

Subtle Patterns' goal is to be a high quality resource for anyone in need of tilable textured patterns, free to use (including commercial projects).

PS: Love their instant preview option too.

Link: http://subtlepatterns.com/

Very often we under-appreciate the acts of the illusionists and the Magicians.

Until I watched the movie The Wrestler, I never really understood the pain really taken by the wrestlers to entertain us, even if the act itself is scripted.

Similarly with this video. I myself love to perform card-tricks and am a huge fan of illusions. With the above video, I respect David Blaine even more.

A useful site to test out a website on various devices.

Link: http://responsive.is/

I often need to export a playlist items for saving them in a USB or just in a folder. Found this useful one line command for Terminal which exports or saves a play-list items as files.

Export your playlist to a m3u file. I called it playlist.m3u
Open a terminal in the folder where you have saved the file.

Copy & paste this:
sed "s/#.*//g" < playlist.m3u | sed "/^$/d" | while read line; do cp "${line}" '/path/to/output/folder/'; done

Remember to change the path to your desired output folder.
Note: Terminal will not give any …

Infogram

Found this handy tool to easily generate and design infographics from the browser itself. Infogr.am provides pre-designed templates where we can fill in the data and rest is a magic.

PS: Found another amazing tool for creating info-graphics: PikToChart

Stumbled across this website which can make you a hacker in minutes:

Step 1: Go someplace public with your laptop.
Step 2: Click HERE
Step 3: Press F11
Step 4: Start typing frantically.
Step 5: Make sure other people see your screen.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Profit

via Digital Ladybug Labs