Interesting things you can do to improve your working experience with XP.

With the EU software patents going to vote on Oct 12th, this could be controversial, especially if it indexes code left and right wildly. Slashdot also has links to a few other code searching sites.

Just after VMWare went free, Microsoft has opened up as well – I haven’t researched it, but probably for the good monitoring tools etc you’ll have to pay up to MS. Download it here.

I didn’t know about this service – it’s a bit obscure like Google Sitemaps, but by entering a little code in your pages, Google tracks and analyses your referrers using pretty pictures and graphs. It integrates seamlessly with adwords, so you can track the succes of your campaigns easily. It also integrates with other such Read more about Google Analytics[…]

Google has just released around 200 years worth of news archives on their new page. They are not telling how many sources they have, but for some reason the OCR is mediocre and when I click on the pictures I keep ending up at newspaperarchive.com. Of course, I did go looking for current events in Read more about Google News Archive[…]

Nimbuzz is the new Skype for mobile phones – free phonecalls and text messages to other mobile phones connected to the Nimbuzz network (over GSM, not GPRS/UMTS/etc). It seems to be out for a lot of brands, including a version for the Palm Tungsten C as well as the usual crop of Nokias etc. It Read more about Nimbuzz[…]

Note: I got this email in from Moondust, but thought it was well worth posting here. This compares interfaces from Ubuntu, Mac and Windows – it’s great how far Linux has come: it looks way better than Mac and Windoze… So, check out these videos and tell me which interface you’d rather use. 1. Windows Read more about Flying Cubes[…]

This tool allows you to search Flickr and download the images all in one go when you are ready.

Orb is a freely downloadable slingbox type software alternative – allowing you to record TV, stream TV, videos, pictures and mp3s over teh internets to any device you might pwn at any location.

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These pages have a few benchmark tests for PHP4 perfomance to do the same thing using different methods.: READ LOOP: foreach() vs. while(list()=each()) MODIFY LOOP: foreach() vs. while(list()=each()) For-loop test Using the &-ref-operator as so called “alias” $obj = new SomeClass() vs. $obj =& new SomeClass() using the =&-ref-operator double (“) vs. single (‘) quotes Read more about PHP speed tests[…]

You submit your site and it puts the request into a queue. You can return to the site later to view the screenshots it makes of your URL using 30 different browsers.

An interesting way to organise your PC desktop more like a table top with paper documents floating around on it. Practical? dunno. Looks very cool though. NB. check out the ring on the guys hand in the first few frames 🙂

Creating an XP CD with predefined answers to all those questions and drivers for printers, as well as applications fully automated without user intervention is not a quick chore, but will save time in the future. At least it is fairly trivial. This guide tells all. (NB. navigation on the left side, not in any Read more about Unattended Windows XP Installation[…]

The Daily WTF is a site that has a daily example of programming gone completely awry. Some are hilarious, others are just sad, and some are too deep for me to figure out – if you’re a programmer, this site will most certainly have you in tears.

OGLE is a project that captures 3D objects on your computer (eg. in games) and then allows you to re-use them for other purposes.

There are a few ways to visualise internet and the traffic on it. One way is to map it. The BBC has a good article on this. The following programmes take a starting point and use linking for distance. The amount of links to and from a place is used for size. I/O/D 4 (the Read more about Viewing the internet[…]

A bit late, but apparently due to some patent issues, MS launched an update on April 11 which breaks Flash object interactivity in IE: you have to click the object before it will do your lovely mouseover type stuff. Well done Eolas, you’ve broken a large segment of Internet. This is yet another example of Read more about MS Patch destroys Flash interaction[…]

Huge list spanning spyware, audio, business, and a whole load more types of software – all freeware

This little program turns the windows hotkey into a slider for your volume control. You press the hotkey and use the mouse scrollwheel to change the volume. Small and neat.

So maybe these maggotboxen will be good for something: comparing them with PCs running the same OS… Has Apple finally seen the light? Their new bootloader, Boot Camp, allows users to run MS Windows or OSX in a multiboot configuration.

Using NASA’s Blue Marble, you can recieve high resolution updates often on the state of the earth on your destop.

Because every so often it would be nice to just have Windows turn itself off. Or on. This is a lovely little scheduler for system tasks, not limited to powering up and down.

Nice article running through the features of Vista which make it a quantum leap away from Windows XP. It’s nice to see that the OS2 Warp desktop has FINALLY been incorporated into windows. And if you don’t know what that means, you’re a n00b.

Microsoft has been using those dance dance dance mats to (among other things) stamp out (literally) spam. Apparently stamping with two feet to delete that email is a satisfactory thing to do. Also healthy! They will present it sometime soon – give it to meeeeeeee! (Link = PDF file)