Category archive: links

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

• 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 mockups that are quick yet standars compliant.
• Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Helping
  'I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know.'
• Excel Tutorials
  Very clear and accessible, from the basics to advanced topics, including VBA functions I'm looking into at the moment
• CutePDF – Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Edit PDF easily.
  Use the Print menu to create a PDF from a web page (handy for confirmation screens to take with you when travelling, for instance – just keep the PDF on your mobile or Gmail for reference instead of printing it).

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• 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 by Amazon S3
  'Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 ™ Storage Service [...] no minimum and no maximum amount of data you can store. You pay only for the actual amount of storage you are using.'
• WhoCallsMe?
  'user supplied database of phone numbers of [...] companies that don't leave messages, disconnect once you answer, ignore the Do-Not-Call List regulations, and simply interrupt your day.' (I used it to trace missed calls from an 0845 number).
• 5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter – ReadWriteWeb
  Twubble (people your friends follow), Twitter Local (tweets near a postcode), TwitterWho (tweets matching email addresses), Twits Like Me (tweets that share your interests), TwitDir (the top 100 followed, followers, favouriters, updaters).
• Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare
  'OCW is a free publication of course materials used at MIT. Get lecture notes, problem sets, labs and more. Watch lecture videos and demonstrations. Study a wide variety of subjects.'

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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• 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 are consistent with the BBC’s editorial values and policies.'
• How to backup Google Docs and Spreadsheets
  Backup scripts using the Greasemonkey Firefox extension to download your Google Docs to your local machine (MS Office or Open Office supported among other formats).
• How to unlock the supersecret Administrator account in Vista
  Vista has a secret Administrator account that is different from the normal administrator account. It is a kind of superadministrator, not subject to UAC, that is by default turned off and hidden. Here's how to unlock it.
• Make it work
  Cool shirt for Project Runway fans.
• The Blessing and Curse of the iPod Touch
  'It seems my non-mobile phone [iPod Touch] is better than my mobile phone in every way, except voice. But in this digital age of email relationships and chat-enabled offices, the human voice and my interaction with it is becoming less and less necessary.'
• 10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed
  Tips and tricks for Friendfeed, which can act as your feed reader, social network, and twitter-style mini blog all in one.

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 scanning, photo scanning, negative scanning, and photo restoration in the industry.' (approx 0.27 USD/paper photo)

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, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPod touch.'
• Axure | wireframe, prototype, functional specification
  'create wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and specifications for applications and web sites faster and easier than creating static mockups with their current tools'. Free tryal, then 589USD per license.
• knotler.com – your web and mobile shopping list
  'You create a shopping list at work – your spouse contributes from home – at the shop you read your list via cellphone.
• Kevin Kelly | Better Than Free
  In a world where copies are free and worthless, if you want to make money you must concentrate on and 'sell' qualities such as immediacy, personalisation, interpretation, authenticity, accessibility, embodiment, patronage and findability.
• Introducing Prologue « WordPress.com
  WordPress theme to produce a group weblog where each member can post Twitter-like short messages about what they are doing. All the usual WordPress goodies are included (gravatars, tags, RSS feeds, comments).
• Social Graph API – Google Code
  Google's Social Graph API finds publicly declared relationships between people's accounts and returns JSON data structures representing the social relationships discovered from all the XFN and FOAF.
• Declutter Your Desk
  How to mount all the things and cables that you do not need to keep on a desk underneath it using MDF pegboard and some wire.

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• 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 on the Social Graph
  Brad Fitzpatrick has 'been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc.'
• Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?
  Interesting analysis of what services should be kept, merged or sold should Yahoo accept Microsoft's offer.
• Skins | all the songs
  Thread in E4 Skins forum listing all the songs played in every Skins episode.
• GTD with ListPro : Getting Things Done
  How to implement GTD on a PDA using the ListPro software from Ilium.
• Sprout | Flash Widgets WYSIWYG editor
  Online WYSIWYG editor for Flash, easy to use to create, publish and track Flash widgets, websites and mashups.
• Website Baker
  Website Baker is a PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) designed with one goal in mind: to enable its users to produce websites with ease.

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 them from a Windows box at work, a Mac at home, and a Treo on the go.'

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 plenty of storage, bandwidth, databases and accounts.
• Cellity | free text messages and Twitter
  Low-cost international and conference calls from your mobile, and free text messages and Twitter (best if you have an unlimited data plan)
• Layout Grid Bookmarklet | overlay a grid on any websit with one click
  Photoshop style Layout Grid Bookmarklet to overlay a grid on any website for design purposes. Also link to a related show/hide layout grid bookmarklet.
• FitDay | Free online weight loss and diet journal
  Get your free online diet journal and start tracking your foods, exercises, weight loss, and goals. View your Calories, Nutrition, Weight Loss and more.
• RealJock | online gay fitness community
  'Gay sports and gay fitness for gay jocks, athletes, and fitness buffs.' Good workout plans. And the eye candy's not too bad either.
• Performancing WordPress Themes | free and ultra-high quality
  'Performancing WordPress Themes are free, ultra-high quality WordPress themes for your blog.' Great if you can't/won't design or code and want a ready-made solution at the touch of a button.
• Float clearing | div clear or br clear all?
  A rule (clearit) to replace the deprecated 'clear' attribute.
• Simple, accessible "more" links | use CSS to hide the full description
  CSS can be used to hide the full description of the link (from CSS-supporting browsers) while allowing older devices and screen readers to receive the entire content.
• How-to style WordPress author comments
  simple tutorial on how-to style author comments under WordPress without the need for extraneous plugins. What we’re going to do is instruct WordPress to identify specific author emails and assign a unique class name to each.
• Coin Flip | application to flip a virtual coin on an iPhone
  Coin flipping application for iPhone. Marvellous. And of course absolutely superfluous (although true, these days I often leave all my change at home and only use cards).
• How do I design web pages for the iPhone? | CSS rules for smaller resolutions
  Because the iPhone looks at the "screen" media type, just like your desktop browser does, you need to specify that a set of CSS rules apply only when the screen is smaller than a certain resolution.
• Opera Mini 4 Released | The Death Of The Handheld Style Sheet
  As more and more mobile browsers ignore media=handheld, the future lies in media queries and CSS3.
• Handheld media type test | page to point your browser at
  Point your browser to this page, and it will tell you if your mobile device applies any of the links to 'media=handheld'.
• How to reduce file sizes in Word documents
  A few tips and tricks to reduce file size in Word documents considerably, especially if they contain many images.
• Favicon generator
  Free online favicon generator
• LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
  Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.
• ShowYourself Widget | Combine your profiles into one
  ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. [...] Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your myspace or anywhere on the web.
• Microsoft Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts
  Full list of keyboard shortcuts for Outlook power users

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

• 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 look on people's faces when I wave my wallet on the reader and the self-service till says 'Clubcard accepted' is priceless.
• Mobilesign
  Searchable A-Z of British Sign Language words shown as short videos. Very spare interface, perfect on mobile devices.
• http://www.3mindme.com/
  Email it anything and it will email you back at the date and time you specify in natural language in the email address (e.g. nexttuesdayat5pm@3mindme.com).
• 'Getting Things Done' In 60 Seconds
  I have read the whole book and it does make a whole lot of sense, but this is a very nice, very condensed and yet exhaustive overview of the whole process
• stikkit
  Online virtual sticky notes. You can share stikkits to work on, and update the notes by sending emails to them.
• Bokai Online Barcode Image Generator
  Tesco barcode type is EAN128C
• Just One Club Card – Combine All Of Your Club Cards
  'This is a simple web application I made. The goal is to fix the problem of having to carry around tens of loyalty, discount, and club cards every time I go shopping. I finally broke down and created this page when I realized my wallet was way too thick.'
• VentureBeat » Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the “feed”
  FriendFeed' and Plaxo Pulse let you designate friends, then easily add feeds of your activities from other sites. The result [...] a continuous stream of updates [...] – Twitter messages, uploaded YouTube videos, blog posts, shared Google Reader items'
• 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication'
  A quote by Leonardo da Vinci

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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 pixels, ems and percentages, including the Safari monospace problem.

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

• 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 date and time type has and the valid formats in which values may be specified.
• Convert mysql datetime into something more friendly
  Using mysql's DATE_FORMAT to convert a mysql time format into something more meaningful with the select statement, no need to mess with the date in PHP.
• Showing a WordPress post's 'last modified' date | Ardamis.com
  How to add a 'last modified' timestamp to the post metadata section in WordPress.
• Micro Persuasion: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader
  How to take Google Reader to the next level. Rubel's approach can be summed up as 'subscribe to everything, read some of it, keep the rest as searchable data, use tags'.
• FL Studio 6 Reference Manual
  Trying out audio software to play my new E-MU Xboard49 midi keyboard
• Yahoo! UI Library: Reset CSS
  The foundational YUI Reset CSS file removes and neutralizes the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements, creating a level playing field across A-grade browsers and providing a sound foundation upon which you can explicitly declare your intentions.
• Grid Designer 2
  Very easy tool to try out fonts and sizes for p and h1 to h6 on a grid. You choose the number of columns, total and gutter width, then export it all as a style sheet.
• Save wrapping paper with this simple formula – Times Online
  '… the minimal area of paper needed to wrap a box-shaped gift is twice the sum of the height times the width, the width times the depth and the height times the depth, plus twice the square of the depth'
• ikordo.com: The intelligent free and fast meeting organizer and scheduler
  Set up a date range and times options, tell ikordo the participants' email addresses, and it will contact them via email with date/time proposals, to which they can reply in plain english. It keeps trying until a consensus is reached.
• VectorMagic | Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion Online
  'This site converts bitmap images to vector images – it's an online auto-tracer. Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you. Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.'
• Powerful WordPress Include Hacks : Thought Sparks
  A simple conditional include file, and an include file for a section of your site.

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 links to other people who want the same things are cool.
• mail2web Live
  The best couple of quid I spend every month. Complete, seamless synchronisation between outlook and mobile, with an exchange server.
• Musicovery
  Interactive webRadio with mood browsing. Had forgotten about this, found a bookmark on my seldom-used laptop.
• What's Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It
  'There's a reason why the iPhone's browser marketshare is already 0.09% when the entire Windows CE family (which includes Windows Mobile, among other things) is only at 0.06%. Why? It's because nobody wants to go online with that version of IE. They'd rat
• St Mark's Hotel, New York, NY
  Newly decorated 64 rooms in the East Village. I haven't been, it has been recommended to me by a friend.
• Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave
  Mozilla Labs project to blend the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services, exploring models for how a user can open up their browser metadata to friends and third-party applications.
• IDEA – The International Dialects Of English Archive
  'The International Dialects of English Archive, IDEA, was created in 1997 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. [...] All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both
• Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting | The Register
  Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely is not solved with Service Pack 1.

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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.

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

• 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 collaboration allows online photo editing of your Flickr pics. Will try if I ever sit at a machine without photoshop. Not a great fan of photo editing anyway. What you snap is usually what you get.

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

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

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

• 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 data, I've included detailed information on how to get started in hand-crafting your own FOAF file.'
• Tim Berners-Lee on the Giant Global Graph
  'It's not the Social Network Sites that are interesting — it is the Social Network itself. The Social Graph. The way I am connected, not the way my Web pages are connected [...] I express my network in a FOAF file, and that is a start of the revolution.'
• Fair Share Fountain
  '6 champagne glasses, each one a bit smaller than the other, hand made out of Pyrex and each one has a tiny lip so that the champagne will flow over into the next smaller glass and all 6 together hold the content of one standard bottle!'
• Block Facebook Beacon
  How to block Facebook's advertising partners to send you cookies that post stories on your Facebook profile detailing what you did online.
• Internet Commenter Business Meeting
  'This is what happens when corporations change pwn3rship.'

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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 Exploit can Hack Gmail
  '…Google user accounts can be accessed through a dangerous Firefox exploit. The vulnerability, which is still in the wild some 10 days after its discovery [...] allows hackers to access Google accounts, including Gmail'
• Android Demo on YouTube
  Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

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

• 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 time a user will leave a comment (not moderated by Akismet as spam) the bunny will notify via Text-to-Speach API [...] in the future I'll work on ears and light support too.'
• Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
  'a transparent and fully automated solution [...] all addresses that appear on our website are safe—even the ones that show up in blog comments.' Includes elegant fallback solution if JavaScript is unavailable.

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 Eye-Fi Wireless memory card adds Wi-Fi to any camera that uses SD memory. It looks like a SD camera memory card. It holds 2 GB of photos. And it wirelessly uploads your photos to your computer and to Flickr or one of 16 other photo sharing sites.
• DorS DIMMING from Megaman
  According to an article in the guardian, this is the only energy-saving lightbulb that can be dimmed. It works with ordinary switches, every on/off click dims it 1 step
• Google’s Response to Facebook: 'Maka-Maka'
  OpenSocial is just the first stage of 'Maka-Maka', a larger project to combine all of Google's apps and services. Google already has so much data on you, it now wants to bring it all together.

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

• 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 keep track of your foods' expiration dates [...] Simply enter the name of the food and its "Use by" date, and we'll send you a reminder a few days before it's due to go bad. We'll also include links to relevant recipes'.
• Signstation
  Signstation – a web site devoted to those people who want to know more about British Sign language – BSL and Deaf people. Information about Deaf people and British Sign Language – BSL.
• Sign language for your cellphone
  'If you live in the UK, you now have an access to a dictionary of 5,000 words in British Sign Language (BSL) and their accompanying downloadable videos for your cellphones.'
• BritishSignLanguage.com
  This site uses moving pictures to show the basic signs for British Sign Language.
• Facebook | Birthday Exporter
  'This application exports your friends' birthdays directly to your Google Calendar. No need to worry about iCal or CSV files! Export all or only a subset of your friends to any one of your calendars — not just your default calendar.'
• make crystal clear ice! – The World's Biggest Show & Tell – life, home, diy
  How to make crystal cear ice without any special equipment. Essentially, double-boil filtered water to eliminate dissolved air and decompose minerals.
• bbc.co.uk/programmes
  Information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC. Microformat-structured (schedules can be saved easily into calendars). Use the A to Z, or search by genre or by format. In Beta as of 23 October 2007.
• Dumbledore pride T-shirts
  Two versions: 'I Always Knew', and 'Wizards Are Gay'.
• Microsoft Outlook categories | Outlook categories tutorial
  Article on how to use Microsoft Outlook categories to organize information.

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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 are stored. Additional features: remote access and media sharing. This review confirms it's an outstanding solution. Getting one as soon as it starts shipping.
• S-XL Cake Mold
  This silicone 11.8" Cake Mold 'pre-shapes' any cake into 15 separate pieces, in a variation of 'sizes'. From Small, to Extra Large.

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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 have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook.'
• Barbie's Fashion Fever fosters bad credit
  Barbie Fashion Fever Boutique features a credit card reader. The fake plastic obviously never gets rejected or hits a credit limit. Not very educational, but since when were you meant to learn anything about real life playing with Barbie?
• Ce Matin Un Lapin
  New location (old bookmark had stopped working) for this lo-fi fantastic Flash movie starring Laetitia Casta, music by Chantal Goya. As old as The Internets, but it still rocks!
• Cleret squeeges
  A bit pricy, but I'd rather have one of these in my shower than the heavy-duty tool from Selfridges hardware section.

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 I got:

Your Unconscious Mind Is Most Driven by Peace.

You have a deeply-rooted desire to make peace in the world. Whether through subtle interactions with loved ones, or through getting involved in social causes, it is important to you to be able to influence the world in a positive way. You have a deep respect for humankind.

You care about the future of the world, even beyond your own involvement in it, and you inspire others to feel the same way. Your innate drive toward peace guides you in daily life towards decisions that are respectful toward yourself and others. Your psyche is very rich; the more you learn about it, the more you will understand who you really are…

[via garoo]

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 post-it note
  Instructions (flash file) on how to fold a square post-it note and make a lid-less box. No cutting at all involved!
• Vaio Zoom laptop concept
  'Featuring a holographic glass screen that goes transparent and a keyboard that turns opaque when turned off, it's slick and beautiful.' Check out the images that illustrate the article!
• Facebook Status now allows updates from Twitter
  By simply accessing your Facebook account and adjusting the Twitter application [...] there now appears at the top a NEW option asking if you would like to update your Facebook status directly from Twitter.
• Facebook's Killer Feature Coming Soon
  You will be able to group your friends (work, uni, personal, whatever) and decide who sees what. LinkedIn is doomed!
• Second Rotation
  Estimate your gadget on the website, ship it for free and get paid for it (probably less than selling it on eBay, but hassle-free). The modern equivalent of the pawn shop.

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 built-in support for tagging and tag clouds, there is no longer a need for hard-to-configure plug-ins. WordPress 2.3 is going to offer two simple to use API calls that can be plugged into any theme.'
• Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique
  '…how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations'. Go check your filter list NOW!
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs
  'Maslow's theory contended that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy. Maslow studied exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass'.

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• 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 to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP.'
• How to clean your home in 19 minutes
  Fabulous – I thought, as I clicked through, only to realise that they meant '19 minutes A DAY'! Two hours and thirteen minutes every single bloody week. I think I'll start naming our dust bunnies instead, they are family now.
• How to make a vertical, ergonomic keyboard
  The tie-fighter keyboard allows you type in a neutral, handshake position with your arms and shoulders supporting your hands. Very interesting concept, must see, hard to explain.
• DailyLit: Read books by email and RSS.
  'DailyLit brings books [...] in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read. This works incredibly well not just on your computer but also on a Treo, Blackberry, Sidekick or whatever the PDA of your choice.' Email or RSS

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 blog clutter is the noise.'
• Mash
  Yahoo!'s new social network, currently in beta and by invitation-only. A consistent structural layout (like Facebook) with style customisation (like MySpace).
• Last.fm Audio Fingerprinting beta application
  The future: a free API that lets you grab clean metadata based on an audio fingerprint. For now, it sends fingerprint data to bootstrap the moderation system. This doesn’t change any MP3 files on your computer.
• Create JPEGs automatically with SVG
  'Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an image format [...] based on XML, you can generate images through stylesheets and other XML scripts [...] In this tip, I'll show you how to use SVG to generate images automatically, such as from statistical data.'
• LastGraph
  'web-based system for making pretty wavegraphs of your Last.fm musical profile. The charts have time along the horizontal axis, and number of plays on the vertical; think of it as sort of a stacked line graph, but centered, smoothed, and generally nicer.'
• Kosinski will program Disney's 'Tron' sequel

'Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct "Tron," described as "the next chapter" of Disney's 1982 cult classic.'

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 the device will carry 16GB of memory.

• Microsoft bringing Internet TV feature to Windows Media Center
  'Microsoft plans on unleashing Internet TV on or around September 27th, which will enable Media Center users to watch a variety of on-demand, ad-supported content free of charge [...] this feature will simply be delivered as a normal software update'.

• Happy Webbies
  Happy Webbies are like Happy Bunnies, but for web nerds.

• FitDay – Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal
  'Get your free online diet journal and start tracking your foods, exercises, weight loss, and goals [...] Completely Free. Track your Foods, Exercises, Weight and Goals. View your Calories, Nutrition, Weight Loss and more.'

• TV series for 'adult' Famous Five
  The Famous Five [...] are set to be "reimagined" as middle-aged grown-ups in a new TV drama for adults. Julian, Dick, Anne, George – with a descendant of the original Timmy the dog – will be reunited 30 years after their original exploits.

• Son of a Witch: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
  '…masterfully imaginative sequel to Maguire's 1995 blockbuster Wicked'

• iPod hoodies
  Saw one on the tube today. Probably completely impractical, and treading that fine line between cool and lame.

• Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids
  Panographies (super wide-angle panoramas) are made up of dozens of photos of a scene, assembled in a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you're not looking through a viewfinder.

• Silly Tube Maps
  Including: the tube map showing the distance between stations, the one with travel times between stations, the one showing stations with toilets, the one superimposed on a physical map…

• 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
  '…It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid of the clutter so you are left with only that which gives you value.'

• Don't Call Me, I Won't Call You
  I have always had exactly the same attitude (problem?) and favoured asynchronous communication. It feels better knowing that we are many.

• Dieux du Stade 2008
  First photos from the French Rugby team 2008 calendar

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

• Tafiti
  Experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Requires Silverlight running on your machine.
• On Firefox 3 and microformats with Michael Kaply : Mozilla Links
  A talk with Michael Kaply, the owner of the microformats support module and author of Operator, a powerful extension that allows Firefox to interact with microformats and act as a data distributor between different web services.
• Email from Facebook
  You can enter a friend's email address into the To: line when you send a message or share an album, and Facebook will email them the message. Your friends will be able to reply without signing up, and they will be able to see content you share with them.
• PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer
  The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card.