Link Blog

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Tipp-Ex on YouTube

Great viral (comments have lots of suggestions) - but who uses Tipp-Ex anymore?

Tags: for:@twitter

31st August 2010

Lanyrd

A "social conference directory" of upcoming tech conferences etc

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27th August 2010

720tube

Uploads HD videos to YouTube from iPhone 4 (normal video uploads are scaled down).

Tags: iphone, youtube

25th August 2010

iPhone Homescreen Wallpapers

Nice collection of subtle iPhone background images

Tags: for:@twitter, iphone

19th August 2010

German Plans to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View

A German plans to subvert those who pre-remove their houses from Street View by taking perfectly-legal photographs from the street.

Tags: streetview

19th August 2010

passwd.me

Neat little password generator

Tags: password

13th August 2010

64Bit iTerm

Maintained fork of the abandoned alternative Terminal for OS X

Tags: terminal

8th August 2010

Pencil Tip Micro Sculptures

Teeny-tiny sculptures carved into pencil lead

Tags: art

7th August 2010

Wikipedia's "Lamest edit wars"

British "are" vs. American "is" for band name results in "ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side." etc

Tags: for:@twitter, wikipedia

4th August 2010

Contrast Podcast

A podcast of themed playlists

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4th August 2010

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

"You are now a mouse cursor inside a graphics program which the client can control by speaking, emailing and IM"

Tags: comic, for:@twitter

29th July 2010

Microsoft Street Slide

Microsoft's prototype extension of Street View to give a full-street overview is exactly what's needed

Tags: for:@twitter, streetview

28th July 2010

Wikipedia: List of auto-antonyms in English

Awful used to mean "full of awe, even better than awesome."

Tags: for:@twitter, wikipedia

28th July 2010

Pay as you go sim with data Wiki

List of data sim providers by country

Tags: iphone

James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.

James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.

Posts from Google Sightseeing

Distilleries of Islay

Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010

HubPages Marks the Spot

Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and I to join thier expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010

The Russian Woodpecker

Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010

Airport Emergency Training Locations

As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010

“The Buzzer” speaks! (Voice transmission confirmed at UVB-76)

Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years…
Posted on 25th August 2010