http://www.bitful.com UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.bitful.com/2009/07/21/my-week-on-the-web-69/ http://www.bitful.com/2009/07/21/my-week-on-the-web-69/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:48:52 +0000 Luca http://www.bitful.com/2009/07/21/my-week-on-the-web-69/ Here are the websites I bookmarked into my del.icio.us account over the past seven days:

• The Computer Hardware Chart Identifies Your PC's Parts
  'Whether you're a first-time computer builder or a seasoned pro, deviantART user Sonic480's computer hardware poster, which helps you identify countless different types of hard drives, RAM, ports, CPU sockets, power connectors, and more, is a great reference.'
• Visio Killer Gliffy Gets A Makeover – ReadWriteEnterprise

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• Mobile phone recycling, Compare mobile phone, recycle mobile phone, Sell mobile phone, trade in mobile phone or recycle your old mobile phone for cash
• Spanish to English Dictionary | Translation | Translator
• Functions : Cross-workbook references – Google Docs Help
  'Google Spreadsheets lets you reference another workbook in the spreadsheet that you're currently editing by using the ImportRange function. ImportRange lets you pull one or more cell values from one spreadsheet into another.'
• Verify your identity on Google Profiles | Webware – CNET
  'Google has carried over a feature from its Knol sites that let people verify that they are who they say they are. People who go through the process–Google executive David Glazer is one–get a green "verified name" tag on their profiles' (last time I checked it was only available in the US though).
• Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites
  'Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites.'

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• Free Foreign Language Lessons (Download to MP3 Player, iPod or Computer) | Open Culture
  'A great way to learn 37 languages for free. Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Russian and much more. Why pay for Rosetta Stone when you can learn a new language for free.'
• Free Stanford course on developing iPhone software
  'The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well.'

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• How to disable visual voicemail on the iPhone for UK users – The Watchmaker Project
  'Dial 1760 to disable your voicemail service altogether [...] When you get home, call 1750 to switch your voicemail service back on'
• HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles
  'keeping up a consistent image across the web and keeping your content fresh is vital to good business and strong relationships. With a little upfront effort, the task of maintaining multiple profiles can be less tedious, freeing up time to better connect with other people.'
• How to give yourself Britney's 'If You Seek Amy' hair…
  …because you never know when it will be handy

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• Downloads: bitRipper is a Dead Simple Solution for DVD Ripping

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• Stretching Exercises for Plantar Fasciitis – Plantar Fasiciitis Treatment Stretches
• How can I get my books in the Fictionwise eReader format from my desktop to my iPhone? | Lexcycle
  'Since Stanza Desktop does not yet support opening books in the eReader format, this is the alternative solution for transferring your eReader format books from your desktop to Stanza on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This works for eReader format books only.'
• RW's 10-week 1:50-plus half-marathon schedules – Runner's World Racing
  'This band covers beginners and those who have been over the distance once before, in around two hours, and would now like to try for something a little faster. The schedules assume that you have already got into the running habit and are doing two or three miles at a time, about three times a week.'
• The Simpler Sub-80 10-mile plan – Runner's World Racing
  A repeatable 2-week build-up to a sub-80 10-mile race
• 6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck
  Six words to avoid writing on your CV, and several ways to replace them with evidence from experience.
• Create PDF from web pages in Chrome, Opera, or on your iPhone – Download Squad
• Hack Attack: How to hack a marathon – Lifehacker
• Audio Books: Download free audiobooks at LibriVox
  'Web site LibriVox offers free audiobook MP3s of books in the public domain.'

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• Tweet Replies / Get notifed when someone @replies you!
• Outlook: How Microsoft Adapts Getting Things Done for Outlook
  Using Outlook 2007 out of the box, dating and flagging items and assigning categories. The trick is not to look at your inbox but as various views according to what you set out to do.

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• Troubleshooting: Are My Sites Up? Tracks Multiple Web Sites' Availability
  'Are My Sites Up? is a web-based application for tracking the up time of web sites and sending notifications when they are down. [...] The service requires no ownership of or modification to the web sites you are monitoring, you can use it on your own site or any site you want to keep an eye on.'
• tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift miniatures
  1. upload your photo 2. select the area in focus 3. your tilt-shift picture is ready.

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• Top 10 Free iPhone Apps to Lose Weight
  'From calorie trackers to fitness tutorials, you can find pretty much anything you could ever want for managing your diet, weight, and fitness goals — best of all, they’re all free.'
• 12 Changes For 2009 | Success Begins Today
  Success Begins Today has 'taken 12 synonyms of the word change and listed something positive for each one that may help you improve your situation in 2009.'
• Protein Food — nutritional balance for optimum diet
  'The protein food list provides examples of foods ranging from high to low for common protein food sources.'
• Homemade Protein Bar Recipe | MuscleHack
  Made with nut butter, whey protein and cream. High in protein, low in carbs.

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• Best WordPress Themes » The Best WordPress Themes of 2008
  '2008 has been a massive year in the world of WordPress themes, with the emergence of a number of professional design houses selling premium themes, accompanied by a steady stream of quality free theme releases.'
• Tweetree – Birds in a tree.
  'Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post.'
• 50 Ways to Improve Your Life 2009 (usnews.com)
  50 links to tips to improve your money, your body, your mind, your world and your play next year.
• Twitter On Crack
  Your regular Twitter page, refreshed every fifteen seconds.
• outside.in – GeoToolkit
  Map widget that scrapes your blog's RSS feed and places posts on a map. Requires an US postcode to register.
• SlideShare – SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint (SlideShare is the best place to share powerpoint presentations)
  'The SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint 2007 lets you use most features of SlideShare from within PowerPoint. You can download and upload files, search, view usage metrics for presentations, and lots more.'
• 5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5 – ReadWriteWeb
  'HTML 5 will redefine how web developers mark up content. It will provide a better way to describe the content displayed on a web page'. Still under heavy development and only for candidate recommendations by the W3C in 2012.
• Ocarina sheet music
  Music scores submitted to the ocarina forum on Smule.com.
• DIY: Stash Valuables in a Full Soda Bottle
  'An apparently full Pepsi bottle gives way to a nifty space for stowing valuables. While it's not locked in any way, it's the last place thieves will think to look.'
• Unsharp Mask: How Do You Actually Use That Thing?
  A 'no-nonsense, jargon-free guide to sharpening your photos using Unsharp Mask'.
• Dataopedia.com – All you need to know about a website
  Handy display of all data related to a website (stats, ranking, mentions on Twitter, Flickr, etc) in one place
• fizy / videomusic.
  Huge database of songs. Search and play (with video where available).

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