Category: Geek

  • Google's Browser

    Google launches new web browser (called Chrome) to compete with IE and Firefox… and this cartoon explains why…http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome The seperate threads for running Javascript sound like a good idea, should cut down on the browser crashes and memory locks Firefox finds it self in now and then.

  • How about a nice game of chess?

    Wired looks back at the film War Games. Never knew John Lennon was being considered for the part of Stephen Falken. He's been contacted and was interested in playing the part. http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-08/ff_wargames?currentPage=all

  • Small talk with a web designer

    From http://www.themaninblue.com

  • WebToMail

    Free service that sends back webpage as email, mainly useful if your network is blocking a site you think you need to see.http://www.webtomail.co.cc

  • MicroTrack II

    The MicroTrack II offers two channel stereo CD quality recording (up to 100 minutes) in a light weight hand held unit, ideal for recoding gigs, live sets etc. Recordings are stored to Flash memory and can be moved to computer via USB 2.0. Selling in UK for £200 Extended input gain range Analog input limiter […]

  • Cubescape

    Create your own digital cube landscape, or lettering or what ever with this fairly pointless but quite amusing little cubic designer thing… http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/

  • Locate pin hole cameras

    Step by step guide to locating hidden pin hole cameras using a toilet roll, which is ideal really as that's the sort of place really don't want to be filmed…. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-locate-pinhole-cameras

  • Dissolved, but still working, Oyster card

    Flickr video of home experiment. Dissolving London Transport Oyster card and then trying different antenna and chip to operate platform gates

  • Simplify advanced searches

    Simplify advanced online searches with boolify – a graphical way to build up boolean logic searches. http://boolify.org/

  • What is XML

    Very good overview of what XML is …. http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points.html