Word Nerd, Supernifty’s crossword solver, is now available as a web application. Try it out at Word Nerd. No installation required. Available on both desktop and mobile. On first visit, a substantial download is required (approximately 30Mb), but with browser caching, subsequent visits are fast to start up. As with the installable version of Word […]

Archimedes lived from 282 BC to 212 BC. He made many contributions to mathematics, engineering, physics, and astronomy. He invented an interesting method of estimating Pi. He noticed that you can calculate a lower and upper bound for the ratio between the radius squared, and the area of a circle, which can estimate the value […]

Magic recently completed their listener survey for the top 500 songs of all time, and Supernifty has put together a web page for exploring the countdown. There were big changes from the last survey of 2012, with over 200 new entries in the list. There has been a shift in the radio station’s playlist since […]

It’s always been difficult to compare tennis players from different generations – not any more! Now you can compare tennis players by looking at how many grand slam titles they have won over their careers. How does Pete Sampras compare to Rafael Nadal? Can Novak Djokovic match Roger Federer’s career? Who’s better, Steffi Graf or […]

Supernifty has made available an online regular expression tester. Of course, there are already numerous online regex testers available but in our defence, this one is fast, free, simple and easy to use. Also, regular expressions are seriously cool; if you don’t already know them, you really should. We have plans for more regular expression […]

Confessions of a Public Speaker provides a glimpse into the world of public speaker Scott Berkun. This relatively short book consists of a series of amusing public speaking related anecdotes – typically some unpleasant event personally experienced by Scott – followed by some advice on how to prevent said unpleasant experience from happening to you. […]

MemShot has a new home. We have spun out MemShot to its own website: http://www.memshotapp.com/. All learning sets remain unchanged and in general, everything will work exactly as before. What you need to do If you normally sign in to Supernifty with your email and password, you don’t need to do anything. Head over to […]

Graph Databases provides a concise introduction to this particular alternative to the relational database. Having lots of experience with relational databases and very little experience with graph databases, I found this book to be an interesting read. The book effectively describes the weaknesses of relational databases and explains how graph databases address these weaknesses. After […]