Edmund Tay

Designed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher and included in most editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the map of Middle-Earth is one of the best-known examples of fantasy cartography. The iconic map shows the fictional continent in which the action of the three books takes place, from Forodwaith in the north to Haradwaith in the south, and the Gulf of Lune in the west to the Sea of Rhûn in the east - Edmund Tay

"As the internet continues to retain its Wild Wild West characteristics where individuals find ways of posting content that many feel is only appropriate for adults, Parents will continually look for ways to control what their children have access to while browsing the web." - Edmund Tay

"PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted." - Edmund Tay

"Enter the wonderful world of social calendaring with Google Calendar, and then sync those shared calendars back and forth with iCal on the Mac and the iPhone using the CalDAV protocol. Ars shows you how." - Edmund Tay

"A graphic designer by trade, I've been creating, modifying, optimizing and color correcting images for business and pleasure for over 28 years. I have fully embraced digital photography wholeheartedly. Recent experiments with High Dynamic Range (HDR), and panoramic photography have recharged my creative senses and inspired me to try new things." - Edmund Tay

"Ah, SimCity. While all the other video games out there were teaching us to become violent, antisocial little monsters, SimCity was quietly showing us the positive, constructive side of life." - Edmund Tay

"LucidChart allows users to create, collaborate on, and publish attractive flowcharts and other diagrams from a web browser." - Edmund Tay

Now that they have launched a Personal subscription plan at $20/year, the pricing is finally attractive to a casual flowchart user like me. - Edmund Tay

Cool, I made a prototype for this once. Looks great! - Michiel Sikkes

"We discover and distribute high quality open-license (Creative Commons) digital media and art, and provide support to Content Creators. We host creative content in its entirety, ensure fast, reliable downloads, and enable users to directly sponsor Content Creators and their work." - Edmund Tay

"Livemocha blends engaging online lessons and the world's largest language learning community to create the most natural way to learn a language." - Edmund Tay

"Heyzap syndicates and distributes the best casual games on the internet, allowing publishers to increase traffic and user time on site." - Edmund Tay

"What follows is a round-up of the top 10 readily-available monospace fonts. Many of these fonts are bundled along with modern operating systems, but most are free for download on the web." - Edmund Tay

"The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure." - Edmund Tay

"If role-playing games have one thing in common, it's that almost all of them use specialized dice. You know, the kind of dice you won't find in casinos; the dice with more (or less) than six sides; the dice that you might carry in an elaborate leather pouch; the dice that cause your parents, classmates and even some fellow nerds to look at you with disdain. Unfortunately, these people have a point -- there is a fine line between dice being 'special' and dice being 'retarded'. Here now are ten of the dumbest dice ever constructed for role-playing games." - Edmund Tay

"Many new bloggers approach comments quite casually or unconsciously… without realizing if you get more organized and systematic about leaving comments, you can build a strong reputation and generate highly-targeted traffic for your own sites and content" - Edmund Tay

"Modern processors incorporate features beneficial to security. SecurAble displays the status of the three most significant security-related processor features" - Edmund Tay

"Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight & WPF. Visifire is a multi-targeting control which can be used in both WPF & Silverlight applications. Using the same API, charts in both Silverlight & WPF environments can be created within minutes. Visifire can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. Visifire is independent of server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML." - Edmund Tay

"This document summarizes the initial research for adding distributed version control as an option for Google Code. Based on popularity, two distributed version control systems were considered: Git and Mercurial. This document describes the features of the two systems, and provides an overview of the work required to integrate them with Google Code." - Edmund Tay