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Tab Mix Plus

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

I've found another FireFox essential: Tab Mix Plus which sorts tabs in multiple rows. So they're all visible instead of having to scroll right and left to find the correct one when you have many of them open.

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Cool image re-sizing video

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I wonder when this technology is coming to a WordPress/FireFox near you? I'm always frustrated by having to re-size photos to a specific column width (450 pixels in my blog right now), and then manually linking the pictures to larger versions (usually 1024 pixels wide). This cool technology should allow me to just upload an [...]

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Planet EMC

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Jeff Epler is putting together a feed aggregator for EMC and CNC related blogs and websites: Planet-EMC. A link to the planet-feed wasn't entirely obvious to me, but apparently it's here.

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YouTube gems

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Educate yourself on YouTube: Maths, Water, Computer Games, Recharging batteries,  Wifi antenna, etc. etc !. These are produced by Look around you, and Infinite Solutions.

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SessionSaver

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

SessionSaver is another FireFox must-have. FF automatically restores your session (tabs, urls, etc.) after a crash, but this plugin does it every time FF starts. Strangely the official looking page on mozilla.org has an old version (doesn't work with FF 2.0.0.4) of the plugin and the most recent one is here.

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Rules of blogging

Monday, July 9, 2007

I found these 20 blogging commandments quite fun.

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Firefox and doi:

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

I've just found this plugin for Firefox, which lets you type a DOI directly into the address field, and firefox resolves that into a URL. Nice!

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Noux in Colombia

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Peter Bright from Colombia in South America sent me this picture of his Noux building progress. He's using clay between plywood shadows to build a plug.

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Joost

Saturday, June 23, 2007

From the guys who came up with Skype and KaZaA: Joost is a new form of P2P TV ! Seems to work pretty nicely even over only a 1-2 MBit connection. Content is a bit limited right now - but it's supposed to improve over time.

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Calamity Game

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Calamity Game looks like great fun! A simple physics model with a flash-based user interface.

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