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Table of contents

• Reference
• Online tools
• YouTube videos
• Videos from TED.com (Ideas Worth Spreading)
• Other videos
• Blogs
• Charities I support
• Images and animations
• Flash
• Wikipedia articles
• BBC News articles
• Other articles and interviews
• TV and radio shows I like
• Apple news
• Applications for iPhone and iPod touch
• Mac OS X software
• Mac OS X command-line software (no GUIs)
• Web design
• Firefox add-ons
• London travel
• UK weather

On this page, I’m building a collection of links to webpages which I find useful or interesting.

Reference

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary – An online British dictionary
Crossword Dictionary – Quickly find words matching a pattern
LyricWiki – A wiki of over 600,000 song lyrics
Wayback Machine – Retrieve deleted webpages, or see how a website looked years ago

Online tools

DropSend – The most reliable free method of “emailing” large files (up to 1GB)
Free Online Barcode Generator – A powerful free tool for generating your own barcodes
Google AJAX Language API – Language Detection – Type in some text, and Google will identify the language
ImageShack – Quick, easy, anonymous hosting of images for online message board posts
VirusTotal – Upload a file and have it scanned by 37 virus checkers
WhatTheFont – Font recognition system: upload an image containing text, and automatically identify the font
WOT Web of Trust – Check the safety of a website before you visit it

YouTube videos

Videos from TED.com (Ideas Worth Spreading)

Other articles and interviews

7 Deadly Sins - Sloth – The devil makes work for idle hands
God, Science, and Delusion – A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke
HMAS Apocalypse – Deep in the Atlantic, a submarine waits on alert with nuclear missiles that would end the world...
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way – How to ask technical questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer
Is Google Making Us Stupid? – What the Internet is doing to our brains
Steve Jobs speaks out – The keys to the company’s success, the prospect of Apple without Jobs, and more
The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time – Is your password “123456”?
What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies) (archived version, original was here)

TV and radio shows I like

Apple news

Applications for iPhone and iPod touch

App directories:
- AppShopper – A very useful website for browsing the App Store
- Apptism – Find & Track iPhone Apps, Fast
- AppCraver – iPhone App News and Reviews
- TouchArcade – iPod Touch and iPhone Games, Reviews and News
Addictive games:
- Asphalt 4: Elite Racing – Car racing
- Bejeweled 2 – Gem-swapping
- Edge – Cube in a 3D maze
- Fieldrunners – Tower defense
- Galcon – Intense action-strategy
- Sol Free Solitaire – Classic card game
- The Plateau – Untangling puzzle
Tools and utilities:
- Emerald Time – Very useful if you need to know the time very accurately
- iDrum – An awesome drum machine
- MyRail Lite – View live train departure and arrival information for the UK
- TubeStatus – Check the status of the London Underground lines
- Wide Email – Use a landscape keyboard to take notes or compose emails
Web apps
- Apple Serial Number Info – Decode your Mac’s serial number
- Mactracker – Specification database of every Apple Macintosh model

Mac OS X software

Searchable directories of software:
Graphics:
- DarkAdapted – Make your screen very dim (good for working in dark conditions)
- Free Ruler – Measure screen coordinates and dimensions, and copy them to the clipboard
- GraphicConverter – A great image-processing tool
- JView – A neat little image viewer
- XaoS – An excellent fractal renderer, featuring real-time zooming!
Audio:
- Amadeus II – A good sound editor
- EasyWMA – Batch-convert WMA files to MP3 (and other in/out audio formats)
- PodWorks – Copy your music off your iPod
- Sound Studio – An awesome sound editor!
- Strobe Tuner – A super-accurate utility for tuning musical instruments
Video:
- EasyWMV – Batch-convert WMV files to MP4 (and other in/out video formats)
- MPEG Streamclip – A powerful free video converter, player and editor
- SimpleMovieX – A basic (but very useful) video editor
- VLC Media Player – A powerful multimedia player
Web:
- FileZilla – A good free FTP client
- HTTP Scoop – My favourite HTTP sniffer
- HTTP Werkzeug – An extremely useful little HTTP send/receive tool
- Taco HTML Edit – An excellent HTML and PHP editor
- Transmit – My favourite FTP client
Other:
- EasyFind – A useful alternative to Spotlight for file searching
- File Juicer – Extract data embedded in files
- SuperDuper! – An awesome disk backup/cloning utility
- Temperature Monitor – Measure the temperature inside your Mac
- TextWrangler – A powerful text/code editor

Mac OS X command-line software (no GUIs)

Gifsicle – Manipulates GIF images and animations, great for creating small optimised animated GIFs
MPlayer / MEncoder – Extremely powerful movie player and encoder

Web design

W3Schools – My #1 reference site for web design
Character codes
- HTML character codes
- Unicode Character Search
- Zvon Character Search – A Unicode character search engine
Website renderers
- BrowserShots – See how 83 different web browsers render your website
- IE NetRenderer – Very fast rendering of your website in IE5.5, IE6, IE7 and IE8
HTTP tools
- Eric Giguere’s HTTP Header Viewer – Displays the HTTP request headers that your browser sends
- Rex Swain’s HTTP Viewer – Displays the HTTP response headers that a webserver returns
Other
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor – The official PHP site
- Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (also see this BBC News article)

Firefox add-ons

London travel

UK weather

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