Friedbeef’s Tech

“If you are dealing with an international contact but don’t know if they are a man or a woman, try typing their first name into a image search engine like images.google.com (e.g., “Priti“). Watch out for unisex names, though.”

via Tricks of the Trade

This is one of those tips which are very simple, pretty damn obvious, but yet never crossed my mind.

I deal with people from other countries all the time, but have never been good with names - To test this, I used Vietnamese and Thai names, which had always given me most trouble. Works beautifully.

Related Links:

Yahoo images
Google Images

Update: Welcome to all Reddit.com readers!

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Firefox continues to break new ground when it comes to grassroots marketing. It’s army of volunteers chip in because of their love for the browser, and such is their marketing clout and that among other things, they have taken out full spread 2 page ads in the New York Times, recorded countless video testimonials, and created CD starter kits for physical distribution.

Now they have taken it to the next level with the Firefox flicks project, centered around a Firefox video advertisment contest which garnered 250+ entries from around the globe. Most of which are pretty good, and have relatively high production quality.

My personal favourite at time of posting: Daredevil
Which one do you like best?

Related Links:

Firefox Flicks
Spread Firefox
Firefox Once Click Challenge
Get Firefox

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A funny look at the Ipod packaging and how it would look like if Microsoft took a stab at it :)

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