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Search of Forever ZuneThings.co.uk - for those in the UK wanting a Zune + Accessories, etc. Cozi - new way busy families stay organized, manage schedules and coordinate with each other. Browsershots - test your site among a host of browsers and see how it prevails; so how well does my blog do ? Ask the Admin How to hide an airplane factory ? Bill G's...
Pure coincidence that #13 is posted on Friday the 13th! Goosh - the Unofficial google shell (very cool)! Zamzar - free online file conversion. FlashEarth - switch seamlessly between Google maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo!, etc. SiteAdvisor.com - McAfee's free offering that automatically alerts to Web sites that use or have links to spyware, adware...
.NET v3.5 Product Roadmap Information overload in Outlook? Check out ClearContext and Jello.Dashboard Nokia's nano-technology based Morph Concept - very interesting on where we might be heading! Oh how I am envious of our future generation. Although SQL 2008 benchmarks are out and quite impressive; if you want to run the CTP before March, it seems you...
Squeaky Geek to Silicon Saint ; number 5 is my favourite. Bar da Boa - wait for the flash to finish loading (be patient); enter your First and Last names and click on "Visualizer" - lol. MSR's InkSeine - which allows you to find stuff with ink, seems quite handy if you use a tablet; some videos here ; you can get it here . TSA is blogging ...
Synergy - one mouse and keyboard to control them all. 50 Tips, Tweaks and Hacks to make the most of Google Calendar . Wayback Machine - Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. e.g. how Microsoft.com looked 12 years ago. Awww ... I had forgotten the IE logo. Hamachi remote Wake-on-LAN tutorial . Virtual Wifi - connect to...
It has been a while since I posted some of the interesting find (been busy for a change). Slashtop - no more waiting for the OS to boot up; if you want to get online or make a call using skype then this is up and running in an instant; more details here . Exploits of a Mom - need I say more? 5 ways to share big files between co-workers or friends - quite...
Anywhere.FM can be thought as iTunes for the Web. It allows you to upload your music (yes including those songs bought from iTunes), so you can get to your music from anywhere. You can also "share" the music with friends like a "radio station" and of course browse other user's radio station. Sweet! If you travel a lot and need a decent...
Find editing host files a pain? Then check out HostsMan (v 3.0.45 is just released) which allows you to automatically update, enable/disable, backup, exclusion, etc. host files. Some old fun programs that we all enjoyed in our time. Fujitsu announces 1 TB 2.5" HDD's (i.e. for notebooks) - though it might be a little while before they hit the stores...
SOA in the Real World - Microsoft's eBook for free; alternatively go and buy my book . Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Microsoft SkyDrive now open to public beta, giving 500 mb of space; but not sure why you would use that when Mozy gives you unlimited online backup for $5/month (which is about £2.50 / month...
Fastest residential uplink in the world - 40 GB/sec! Updated programmer stereotypes - updated for "today's" world. Hotmap shows where people have looked at when using Virtual Earth . Advanced Vista Codec Package (note: I have not used these yet) Vista's (little known) recovery strategies . My Picture 3D allows you to see your pictures in...
Office Live Basics - get it for free. Google Talk Emoticons Speaking of google, they now have hot trends Jing , what is it and how do I use it ? Estetiikka - Free web gallery using PHP (v5) and MySQL. Interested in making Ubuntu look just like OS X ? Zen Computing - some guys are raving about this Linux distro as better than Fedora and Ubuntu. Live Earth...
Continuing the interesting find series, here are the next set of finds. Grasshopper 2.0 - is a free VS.NET plugin that allows you to code in .NET 2.0, build for Java and run on Linux, without rewriting any code! Sweet! IKVM.NET - is a implementation of Java for both Mono and .NET and includes a Java VM, .NET implementation of the Java class libraries and...
If you ever wanted to reassign what Ctrl+Enter does in IE from the default of adding http://www. before and ".com" after what you entered in the address bar. Say you wanted to change this to go to ".net" or ".co.uk" then it is a simple registry change as shown by Ramesh . Of course any registry change for the inexperienced is...
I keep stumbling along many interesting finds online (well interesting to me) which I keep storing in OneNote and finally decided to start posting them here under the .link category. These mostly would be for me when I want to get them to a later stage. Without further adieu, here is the first of many finds: The Phrase Finder - if you ever wanted to know...
I got this via the Avanade communities and was not aware of it. There is SyncToy v1.4 for Vista ! BTW this also works with XP and there is a white paper showing how to do this on XP.
This is an old but still an excellent list of free goodies and tools from Microsoft for Windows. You can also find a link there for Office goodies.
I stumbled across this very cool site called VistaBase which helps you track all the various products, betas, RC's, etc coming from Microsoft. I am quite surprised, I have not heard of them before - but as they say, better late than never. Check them out when you get the time. The best part being the one-stop shop for all the drivers that work with Vista...
There is an excellent selection of google mash ups in the Part 1 and Part 2 at google map mania. Below is an excerpt for some of those are listed (but make sure to check those links for the complete list). Nearby - Nearby.org.uk is a site with heaps of UK (and Ireland) location based information. They have taken this information and created a customisable...
Creating PDF's is relatively easy these days, but I have found so many instances, where I wanted to convert to other formats from PDF's for some reason or the other, and till I stumbled upon PDF Conversion Central it was not possible (as far as I knew), without too much trouble. But now I can convert it to word documents, RSS, html, xml, etc - even audio...
Google calculator now supports currency calculations. Want to know what $3.5 are in £'s ? Or how about the currency of UK in Indian money ? Or how about 5 British pounds in South Korean money ? How cool is that?
I stumbled across an interesting blog - all written in Hindi - and boy is my Hindi rusty! But this is an excellent example of the usage (and limitations) of a UNICODE implementation. Not sure of the content of the blog itself as it will .... ahem .... take me a little while reading up and understanding. Flame mails awaited eagerly.
Well, when you combine two great ideas then the outcome is simply mind blowing. This has to fall in the category of "Why the heck did I not think of it!” and is totally awesome! Paul has combined the power of Google Maps and Craigslist into one application where if you are looking to rent or buy a house you can not only see it on the maps but also...
If you are like me and shy away from RealPlayer because of all the "junk" it installs with and the persistent nagging, well you don't need to anymore. Check out RealAlternative (as of now at v1.33) which lets you play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer (or RealOne player). You do need a player that is capable of playing RealMedia. The included...
Fortune is running a story about the golden age of microchip graffiti is fading. But these images were never meant to be seen in the first place. "I saw something that looked different from most other things on the chip," Davidson recalls. He cranked up the magnification and looked again. "I saw this Waldo thing," recalls Davidson, referring to the character...
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