Play electronic games of your childhood with Pica Pic

If you want to rediscover the video games of your childhood, then I suggest you have a look at Pica Pic.

Pica Pic allows fans to play all electronic video games from the 80′s online . This website emulates perfectly many console models with the same graphics, the same keys, and the same original soundtrack. You will find many fanny games as Donkey Kong, Penguin Land, Fishing Boy, Parachute, Octopus or Zelda.

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Magnifying the Universe: between the Infinitely Large and The Infinitely Small

Magnifying the Universe is a wonderful interactive graphic illustrating precisely a journey from galaxies to atoms, just by scrolling the slider. It allows direct access to galaxies, nebulae, stars, planets, animals and atoms.

Whenever you zoom out, or in, the object size increases or decreases by a factor of ten. We realize that our universe is immense and very small at the same time.

Illustration of the infinitely large and the infinitely small:

Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe.

Magnifying the Universe illustration. You can zoom through to explore and compare the size of planets, mountains, molecules, and more.

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FlightRadar24: International air traffic in real time

Flightradar24 is an online tool based on Google Maps that displays the International air traffic in real time. This site is a Virtual Radar that allows you to see air traffic in real time with small planes on a Google map.

By clicking on one of the planes of the map you can see the flight number, altitude, speed, the company, the airport of departure and arrival.

International air traffic in real time:

NB: You can add this page to your favorite to return later.

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Hyperlapse: Creating Your Own Moving Timelapse on street view

Hyperlapse photography is an increasingly popular technique in which standard time-lapse imagery is brought to life with camera movement. Google has recently launched a new service that will allow you to travel at great speed on the roads of the world.

If you’ve ever wanted to visit the famous Road 66 in the United States, this site should definitely please you. Its operation is simple. You choose a place where you want to go, then you place two points A and  B on the map. Hyperlapse then generates a time-lapse video of the road. The sequence obtained is uses images captured by Google Street View, which are assembled as a time-lapse.

Select the angle of view

On the map you can also play with a third point that will define the angle of view for the video. So depending on where it is set, the camera will rotate for you to enjoy the surrounding scenery.

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Google Helpouts: the new service for personal assistance

Google has officially launched a new service called Google Helpouts accessible to everyone. A product intended to allow the public to get personal assistance over live video from real persons on real time.

Google Helpouts was initially launched in private mode last August. Today, more than 1,000 experts are registered to share their expertise. Originally, eight categories are proposed: arts and music, cooking, fitness and nutrition, education and career, computer and electronics, home and garden, fashion and beauty, and finally health. This new service is available  as a market place where you can learn how to fix a computer, take music lessons, prepare a cake, and many other things.

Google Helpouts is a marketplace for advice. Each expert freely setting its rates, the payment is made after the session from Google Wallet only (for now) and Google receives a commission of 20% of the amount received by the expert.

But, if the user is not satisfied with the service provided, he can claim a refund of the amount paid. The assistance is 100% money back guaranteed by Google. Google always keep a copy of the video delivery to judge if the refund is legit.

Note! Google Helpouts is also available for android phone on Google Play

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TypeWonder: preview fonts writings on its website

Type Wonder is an online tool that lets you preview different fonts of writing on the site of your choice. No need to go through the code of your site, everything is done directly via the interface of TypeWonder as a simulation. Every change is immediately reversible.

To use this tool, simply go to the home page TypeWonder and enter the URL of the website in the search bar. The next step is to choose a font from the list of those that are automatically proposed. For this TypeWonder uses Google web fonts.

To validate your choice, just press the “use” button and it only remains to see the result: the test site is displayed on your screen with the chosen font.

Once the test site displayed, a menu bar at the top of the screen allows you to change the selected font, click  ”Change font”. To permanently apply your choice, click on the “Get Code” button to get the HTML code to embed on your site.

Note! TypeWonder also exists as an extension for Chrome .

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Intel The Museum Of Me: A virtual museum of your digital activity on Facebook

After explaining how to create an Infographic of your Facebook page, we will introduce you to a new tool that will help you to get a virtual museum of your digital life. Indeed, Intel offers to generate an animation of two minutes, retracing your route from your registration on Facebook.

To start, simply connect your Facebook account to the site and the visit will begin. This is a real small animation integrating data on the social network: friends, photos, your location, your likes and shares. The short film ends beautifully with a view of all your links.

Your data staged in a virtual museum

therefore, You will be able to roam between showrooms to contemplate your footsteps, sometimes old, left on Facebook. It looks like a little museum staged with sets of lights, tables, screens and even characters.

Intel The Museum of Me, propose to make some history of your digital life on Facebook. A fun way to remember old memories on the social network!

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