Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012

Why do movies use 555 numbers?



The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962), with 555-2106.
In older television shows from the 1950s or 1960s, "Klondike 5" or "Klamath 5" was used, as at the time the telephone exchanges used letters and numbers in phone numbers. More recent works set in this period typically use this convention as well. For example, in Back to the Future Dr. Emmett Brown's 1955 phone number is "Klondike 5-4385" while the 1985 Jennifer Parker character writes the number 555-4823 on the clock tower flier telling Marty to call her at her grandmother's.
In 2011, the fictional Netflix Relief Fund satirized the company's price increase of that year and used the fictional number 1-555-368-7147...
(Text source Wikipedia)

555 Wikipedia
TV Tropes FiveFiveFive
A compilation of 555 numbers

Childhood memories with Sunkist



I was very surprised, Sunkist (sun-kissed) is a real american product and I found it last year at "Lidl". But unfortunately not in the famous sunkist tetrahedron package.

Sunkist is a brand of primarily orange flavored soft drinks launched in 1979.
Sunkist was first licensed by Sunkist Growers to the General Cinema Corporation, the leading independent bottler of Pepsi-Cola products at the time...

Sunkist Growers, Incorporated is a citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of 6,000 members from California and Arizona. It is headquartered in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles.Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totalled $956 million. It is the largest fresh produce shipper in the United States, the most diversified citrus processing and marketing operation in the world, and one of California's largest land-owners..
(text source Wikipedia)

www.sunkist.com
Tetra Pak
Sunkist Wikipedia

Montag, 30. Januar 2012

SnapIt a "needfull thing" from Digeus, Inc. Albany, New York



Screen Capture Software

Capture anything you see on your PC screen with SnapIt. It is convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click.

* Supports hotkeys, auto-saving, clipboard
* Automatically copies screenshots to the clipboard
* Tracks capture history, auto-saves captured images
* Saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats
* Auto-names captured images

Digeus Inc., founded in 2008, is a young and fast growing world’s provider of software for individual and professional use.