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TV episode information - Star Trek: The Next Generation       Star Trek TNG
TV episode information - The Trap Door       The Trap Door
TV episode information - Willo the Wisp       Willo the Wisp
Mac OS X Terminal commands guide   OS X Terminal
Useful AppleScripts   AppleScripts
Foxy :-)   Foxy :-)
How to memorise Pi to 100 places   Pi to 100
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   Page under construction since 12th August 2008...  

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


Reference 

Online tools 

YouTube videos 

Vimeo videos 

Videos from TED.com (Ideas Worth Spreading) 

Other videos 

Blogs 

Charities I support 
  • Compassion in World Farming  –  Campaigning peacefully to end all cruel factory farming practices
  • Wildlife Aid  –  One of the UK’s largest wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and release centres

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 
  • 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:
  • Other:

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 

Firefox add-ons 
  • DownThemAll!  –  A download manager/accelerator
  • Firebug  –  Edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML and JavaScript live in any web page
  • HttpFox  –  Monitors and analyzes all incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic
  • Live HTTP Headers  –  View HTTP headers of a page
  • Web Developer  –  Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools

London travel 

UK weather 

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