Google Earth now has some really nice historical maps under the Layers pane, Featured Content > Rumsey Historical Maps. You may have to upgrade your version of the software before it will display though.

For all the haters – Flash is the new internet video medium! Here is a nice guide with information on compressing to FLV and serving it.

VideoLAN VLC media player is a streaming media server and client solution that runs on loads of platforms and goes for free.

This is a nice piece of software that starts up with the insertion of your USB drive giving your home address and a little message.

For some reason Internet Explorer has a problem opening websites containing the Google Maps API with a totally non-saying why error leading to a generic page. The linkielist contained this API, and it has now been removed, so IE users can get back to reading this.

Do something they should have done – and then for a supplier that will win! StyleTap has created a Palm OS emulator for Pocket PCs running windows Mobile. They will be releasing for Symbian soon. The emulator runs everything ever written for any Palm OS, regardless of version or chip architecture (something Palm can’t seem Read more about If your supplier can’t win[…]

If you’ve seen the future of UIs with Vista, Mac and Linux (search this site for ‘cube’) you know that Compiz with the flying cubes wins hands down – looks very very cool. There is, however some confusion as to how to get it to run – it’s not trivial, but not so hard either. Read more about XGL Compiz Window manager for Linux[…]

This guy has made a study of how to decrease web page load time using server settings, caching, code and browser settings.

Sysinternals PageDefrag defragments your registry and pagefiles on windows machines, optimising your performance as other defrag programmes leave these areas of your disk untouched.

This is a huge list of different tools for CSS.

Ever wanted to save that YouTube video? This page lists some good YouTube tools.

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[…]