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Written By: Tompa on December 12, 2008 5 Comments

Do I choose Yes or No?

Written By: Tompa on October 5, 2008 One Comment

I wonder if Facebook are losing members?
Why would they otherwise publish 2 “invite” tools?

Written By: Tompa on May 27, 2008 8 Comments

Today they announced that Iphone will be released in Sweden in August.
Now I just have to figure out why I should get one.
Why should I?

Written By: Tompa on March 1, 2008 3 Comments

Going to Sweden and don´t want to be hungry?
No need, here is a great food dictionary for English speaking people visiting Sweden.

Written By: Tompa on February 29, 2008 One Comment

I can´t be alone with this problem. Almost every time I try opening an email in gmail I see this, but nothing more.
On top of the page it says “loading”, but then nothing more happens. I can click the “New window” link, but I should not need to.
Why and is there something I can do [...]

Written By: Tompa on December 16, 2007 One Comment

From Wired
Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, recently survived a moose attack by feigning death, “just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft.”
In WoW, “feign death” is a skill acquired by hunters at level 30 that allows them to take a page from the possum playbook, collapse to the ground, and [...]

Written By: Tompa on December 11, 2007 One Comment

If you are ever bored or just got some spare time and don´t know how to fill it, Paul´s tips lists 101 things you can do, here is a few examples:

Go rollerblading, if you don’t own any, hire them.
Take some dancing lessons.
Find a beautiful spot to have a picnic that you’ve never been to before.
Challenge [...]

Written By: Tompa on September 28, 2007 2 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://tompasworld.com/2007/09/28/there%c2%b4s-a-contest/’;My web host, TotalChoice Hosting, is running a contest to promote the user forums which I help moderate.
This contest is simple to enter. You need to register on the forums and take a photo of your workstation with the forums or main website displayed on your workstation and submit it.
What are they giving [...]

Written By: Tompa on October 5, 2006 One Comment

Do you want a pet or just feel that you have some money to spend on something more or less useless?
The USB Hamster Wheel is an utter delight. Plug it into your USB port, load the software from the CD provided and get typing. As you type, the hamster gets running, spinning the hamster wheel [...]

Written By: Tompa on August 22, 2006 2 Comments

Do you want a better looking cellphone?
If you do, perhaps one of the cellphones on gadgets.fosfor.se is something for you.
By just looking at them and skipping functionality, I want a Samsung SGH-E900.

Written By: Tompa on June 21, 2006 5 Comments

I just found a perfect thing for my birthday wish list.
The Le Million de la nuit phone. From one of the sites (engadget) that I have seen it mentioned:
This one-of-a-kind quad-band handset by Goldvish sports a blinding 120 carats worth of VVS-1 grade diamonds, according to designer Emmanuel Gueit, and as you’d expect from a [...]

Written By: Tompa on June 16, 2006 One Comment

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? These guys at EepyBird.com knows.
Don´t try this yourself!

Written By: Tompa on May 31, 2006 2 Comments

If you got nothing to do while flying, perhaps taking a shower in the air would be a thing to do.
I found this on the New Scientist site.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing to take a shower on a long-haul flight or a cross-country bus journey? But a key problem is that carrying enough water adds too [...]

Written By: Tompa on May 26, 2006 One Comment

PC World have made a list of what they believe is the 25 worst tech products of all time.
From their site:
At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it’s the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their [...]

Written By: Tompa on April 25, 2006 One Comment

Do you like Google and their services and perhaps using several of them?
Then perhaps Simply Google is something for you.
The site have links and search boxes to what I believe is every service Google have.
I haven´t tried every search box on the site yet, but it looks useful. And I don´t have to click my [...]

Written By: Tompa on November 1, 2005 One Comment

If you want to learn about Sweden and the swedish language, perhaps the blog How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons is something for you.
The blog is written by an American who moved to Sweden a few years ago. I didn´t know about this blog until it was mentioned in the Swedish news paper [...]

Written By: Tompa on June 12, 2005 No Comment

If you ever wanted your site to be multi lingual, perhaps gizoogle.com is something for you.
Enter your url in to the textbox and let it translate your site to Gizooglean.
A little warning is in place though, the language is a bit foul.

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