August | 2014 | education | technology | ai | design

Dropbox Alternatives: Chinese Cloud Storage Services | CreativeHunt

Dropbox is great and all, but Chinese versions of the versatile cloud storage platform offer much more space (up to 10TB, even), and most of them are free too.

Source: www.creativehunt.com

Because I am in China, even with my VPN Dropbox and Box.com don’t seem to work. When I found Weiyun, with 10 Terabytes of free storage I thought it was unreal. But it seems to work. Because it is in English, I would recommend this to anyone around the world. I am not sure if it would work though, because it asked me for a Chinese landline in order to connect the account.

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History visualized through the life of the most important humans

03 Aug

Art historian Maximilian Schich put together this pretty visualization that records humanity’s cultural history over 2,600 years. The blue and red dots you see above are the birthplaces and deaths for over 120,000 people who were “notable enough” to have their births and deaths recorded.

Source: sploid.gizmodo.com

This video and the Freebase website that it was built from must be very useful for humanities educators

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One Dumb Trick to Take Pro-Looking Product Photos With Your Phone

03 Aug

If you’re selling stuff online, a few high-quality photos can really set you apart from the hordes of shady-seeming eBayers and Craigslisters. But what if you haven’t got a DSLR camera and a bunch of spendy lenses? HouseholdHacker has a trick that’s so stupid simple, you’ll slap yourself for not having thought of it.

Source: gizmodo.com

This is a nice, simple way to take fancy small level photos.

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