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My week on the web

Monday 28 April 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

Rate Your Music
'international metadata database where musical albums, EPs, singles, videos and bootlegs (collectively referred to as "releases") are added, rated, and reviewed by users.'
Collins Lexibase online dictionary
'free online dictionay service which provides you access to a variety of electronic [...]

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My week on the web

Tuesday 22 April 2008

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Restore shell folder icons - Neowin Forums
How to restore shell folder icons in Vista. Including content of the various desktop.ini files needed for each folder.
A List Apart: Articles: Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop
Tips on slicing and exporting to present website [...]

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Monday 14 April 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
Microsoft project application that automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, allowing a user with no musical training to rapidly create accompanied music. Results on this page, pretty impressive.
JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered [...]

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Monday 7 April 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons
Webclip Icons are the new favicons
Gmail Shortcuts (printable cheatsheet)
From c to /, all Gmail shortcuts on a handy printable cheatsheet.

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My week on the web

Monday 24 March 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

BBC guidance on personal use of Social Networking and other third party websites
'[...] when someone clearly identifies their association with the BBC and/or discusses their work, they are expected to behave appropriately when on the Internet, and in ways that [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 18 February 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

Microsoft Popfly
Online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from others. Public Beta, free, requires Silverlight.
ScanCafe
'ScanCafe provides the safest, easiest, and most affordable slide [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 11 February 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

WMWifiRouter
'The application simplifies enabling Windows Mobile devices to function as a Wi-Fi access point, giving internet to any other device with Wi-Fi capabilities.'
Videora Free iPod touch Video Converter
'The software [...] can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 4 February 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

Move My Data
'Your content and data should be yours to manage and do with as you please. Your images, writing, tags, profile, blog entries, comments, testimonials, video, and music should be yours to download and move anyplace you want.'
Brad Fitzpatrick [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 28 January 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

Feed Count | Wordpress Plugin
WordPress plugin that displays the number of subscribers to your feedburner feed.
Tasks Jr. | web-based task manager
'Tasks Jr. is a basic but powerful web-based task manager/to-do list. [...] to keep track of [...] tasks and access [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 21 January 2008

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

Slamdot | easy web hosting and domain registration
Slamdot takes the pain out of web hosting. You can manage your website, domain registration, billing details, and get support — all from the same place. Smallest plan is 11USD/month but it gives [...]

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Monday 14 January 2008

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Musical Minifigs - a photoset on Flickr
Lego minifigs inspired by bands, musicians, and composers.
Free Barcode Image Online Generator
I used this to print out my Tesco Clubcard barcode on a tiny strip of paper that I cellotaped to the outside of my wallet. The [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 7 January 2008

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Scoop Fine Italian Gelato - Ice Cream London
Haven't been yet, Dr B. walked past it and assured me it genuinely looked like the many gelaterias we saw in Italy.
A List Apart: Articles: How to Size Text in CSS
Text sizing and line spacing in [...]

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Monday 31 December 2007

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MySQL AB :: MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1 Reference Manual :: 11.6 Date and Time Functions
This section describes the functions that can be used to manipulate temporal values. See Section 10.3, "Date and Time Types", for a description of the range of values each [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 24 December 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:

boxedup.com - universal social wish list (wishlist), gift list and shopping list
I had a wishlist here but it was not as dynamically updated as the one on Amazon, and only two items on it were not available at Amazon.com. Still, the tagging and [...]

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Monday 17 December 2007

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Stats for your account | flickr.com
Daily aggregate views, view counts, your most viewed photos (yesterday and all time), referrers (yesterday and all time) and breakdown of your photos.

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Monday 10 December 2007

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FireShot :: Firefox Add-ons
'FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations.'
Edit your photos on Flickr
Picnik/Flickr [...]

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Monday 3 December 2007

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APML Beginner's Guide
A very simple yet comprehensive overview of Attention Profiling Markup Language

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Monday 26 November 2007

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Move your iTunes music while preserving library data
How to move your iTunes music while preserving library data (when you don’t let iTunes manage your music library)
Hand-Crafting My FOAF
'[...] if you want to play around with FOAF take over control of your own public [...]

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Monday 19 November 2007

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Destination of 'recycled' electronics may surprise you
'Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.'
Firefox [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 12 November 2007

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DivX and Xbox 360: A Potential Win-Win For Everyone
The Xbox 360 may soon support DivX. I would love not having to encode video every time I want to enjoy HD on the big telly.
Nabaztag WordPress Plugins
'first Nabaztag API plugin for WordPress [...] every [...]

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Monday 5 November 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:

Gtd Bingo [Random!]
'Check off each block when you hear these words during a meeting, seminar, or phone call. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout BULLSHIT!!'
Add Wi-Fi to any Camera with the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Memory Card
The [...]

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Monday 29 October 2007

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Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown
Vista is not doing too bad after all.
ICO (Windows Icon) file format plugin for Photoshop
Free plugin that gives Photoshop the ability to directly Open and Save Windows icon (.ICO) files.
Best When Used By
'a simple website that helps you [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 22 October 2007

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At home with Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver recipes, I tried the carbonara and it's not bad at all.
William Hundley's 'Entoptic Phenomena'
A photographer. A camera. A sheet. A friend (jumping). Genius.
Windows Home Server in depth review
Windows Home Server, Microsoft simplifies how your files and backups [...]

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Monday 15 October 2007

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6 Things Star Wars Teaches Us About Our Money
'as crazy as it sounds, the entire Star Wars series itself offers some fantastic suggestions to get us on the right path towards success.'
Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit
'If you are an Outlook user, you probably [...]

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My unconscious mind is most driven by peace

Sunday 14 October 2007

I took Tickle's Original Inkblot Test online, to check if the lovely warm results you get are there to make you want to buy the full report.
Guess what? I'm a lovely, lovely person, and I can find out more lovely lovely things about myself if I cough up 8 pound 95 pence. This is what [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 8 October 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:

The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
Perhaps music will never be totally free as Techcrunch's founder argues. However, people will have to realise sooner than later that record labels have to reinvent themselves or disappear.
How to make a box out of a [...]

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My week on the web

Thursday 4 October 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account last week:

WP-DBManager
'control your complete WordPress database in your WP admin panel. Backup, restore, repair and optimize your database, without any knowledge requirement. You can even run SQL commands and add new tables to your database.'
How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
'With [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 24 September 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

SilverStripe - Open Source CMS / Framework
Simple. Flexible. Scalable. Fast. Standards Compliant. Modular. Template Freedom. Open source. Cross platform. Easy to install.
The XP alternative for Vista PCs
'While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 17 September 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog
'Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really don’t need, and it serves mainly to get in the way of your content and other vital information. Your content and important pages are the signal, and [...]

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My week on the web

Monday 10 September 2007

Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November?
A leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany promises a version of the handset with support for 3G using both HSDPA and UMTS, with theoretical download speeds reaching the format's full 3.6Mbps. It also suggests that [...]

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