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Ive always been a fan of optical illusions and how they work, you will find quite a few on this page, which is your favourite.





The original can be found here



On the next one Stare at the dots in the middle for a few seconds, then stare at a wall and blink your eyes really fast, what can you see. The original is here



The next is a man and a bottle the original can be found here





What about still images that appear to move





Stare at the next images cross for about a minute and see what happens

I like to use firefox and I find it has some of the best add ons for helping how I blog and view other blogs.

This is my top ten

1 Scribefire


ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.


2: Monster Blog Sack


The Monster Blog Sack toolbar allows users to surf blogs (according to your categories of interest,) sack (a MBS rating system,) tag, search, share, and add blogs to favorites.


3: Blogger Bar


Brings the power of Blogger into a single toolbar.


4: Submit'em now


Blog and RSS Feed Submitter. It already have build in database, so you can submit your blog to 100 blog and rss directories!


5: Snap Shots


With Snap Shots™ Add-On for Firefox, you can bring the functionality of Snap Shots to the websites you surf every day, enhancing Firefox with the right content at the right place and time. * When in you search in Google or Yahoo!, mouse over the links and get videos for YouTube, summaries for Wikipedia articles, product descriptions from Amazon and more * Mouse over profiles in MySpace and see pictures and descriptions without clicking away from the page you're on * Online encyclopedias like Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database become even more useful as links turn into summaries * Plus upgraded functionality on the major blog platforms, Xanga, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, and many other sites.


6: Deepest Sender


Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Note that the actual Deepest Sender website will always have the most up to date version.


7: Breadcrumbs


Breadcrumbs is a personal search engine for your browser. Breadcrumbs saves your visited pages and allows you to search your pages from the search toolbar. It stores data locally to protect your privacy. Breadcrumbs also allows permanent offline browsing.


8: OneClick Installer for Wordpress



OneClick is a companion extension for the OneClick plugin for wordpress. It allows you to install any wordpress theme or plugin from the context menu of firefox. This extension requires the OneClick plugin installed on your wordpress blog.


9: Adsense Notifier


Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.


10: Adsense Preview



Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.

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Its long been the talk of webmasters, bloggers and designers about which browsers are used and what should you use for optimizing websites.

I personally think you should try to make your site appear as near to what you intend for all of them (well the popular ones), but this is not always possible.

The following is a list of the browsers that I can find.


You may find something in here you like, or you may laugh at some of the attempts that companies have made.




Firefox



Internet Explorer



Opera



Safari



Flock



Maxthon



3b



Amaya



Arachne



Aweb




Browsex



Check&Get



Charon



Chimera



Dillo



Deepnet Explorer



Dreamkey



Emacs W3



Enigma



Gollum



Hv3



Ibrowse



Icab



Kidz CD



Links 2



Links Hacked



Netpositive



Netsurf



Netsurfer



Nintendo DS Browser



Offline Downloader




Oregan



Planetweb



Minefield



Right Web Monitor



Sleipnir



Spin



Superbot



VMS Mosaic



Voyager



X-Smiles



Lynx



Lynx


There are plenty of others besides the ones shown


The following is from evolt.org and can all be downloaded from there, most of the ones I listed above can be downloaded from here as well.

Cymru66.com

Cymru66 is one of those blogs that started out as one thing and has ended up as a must visit site for information on everything from making money to marathans and minis

The sites look and feel is very modern, as you can see from the screen shot of the sidebars buttons they have a very web 2.0 feel about them, the blogger has gone along way to make these so you cant miss them and I am sure alot of bloggers could take ideas from the layout and add them to their own blog

As you can see all the important things a blogger uses are added to the buttons, the rss buttons being so large are a must and will help to build readership.

Wales is a big part of the blog as that is where the owner was originally from, and you can see his stories about wales, mini car clubs and other odds & ends that the owner finds from around the internet and while he is on his travels on the blog. All are laid out nicely and are easy to read, no adverts seem to get in the way and the sidebar below the buttons is neat and easy to follow.

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Overall a great visit and well worth a look, while you are there have a look iin the top right at the neat little corner advertising, very nice looking and doesnt get in the way like some adverts do

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