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sizeasy: Figure out how big it is before you buy it
sizeasy is one of those simple things that seem kind of obvious but which I probably never would have thought of myself. It's a web service that does one thing: Helps you visualize the size of things when shopping online. You can enter the dimensions of any number objects and then pick a familiar object to compare them to, like a pack of playing cards, a wine bottle, or a standard sheet of paper. It will show a representation of all of the objects alongside eachother in 3D as well as top, side, and front views. The concept is probably best demonstrated on sizeasy's "featured comparisons" page, which compares the sizes of an iPod, iPod nano, Microsoft Zune, and a deck of cards (at right--the orange one is the Zune). sizeasy lets you enter dimensions in a variety of scales (feet, millimeters, etc.), and though I do wish it had some bigger objects to compare things to, it's definitely hand and is going straight into my bookmarks.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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leander said 4:38AM on 9-20-2006
Damn very nice find
i am a bit frustrated because i had a very very similar web 2.0 service planned (even the catchphrase was almost the same) but as i am not a programmer i guess i can't blame them, i had this idea in the back of my head since about half a year. It's like when i wanted to patent a special kind of toothpaste and i check the patent and it was already registered from 1992 ;) but this time i wasn't actually too slow.
Well thanks for the find you saved me some time starting a startup,
Leander
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