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RSS Reader for Mac - NetNewsWire
Perhaps I'll go back from Google Reader - NetNewsWire is now free.
Tip: Preserve SERVER_NAME and HTTP_HOST
Script which rewrites $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] etc to use the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST handed over by nginx and other proxies. Sorts out various odd issues with wordpress.
Wheaties for Your Wallet » Blog Archive » Wesabe hackers
Hacky wesabe scripts for UK banks.
ericasadun.com » Test Request: iPhone Audio recognition
Download a copy of the Listen beta. It’s still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt to contact the id server. If it succeeds, great, you’ll see the song, artist and
ikea hacker
Ikea furniture hacks. A funked up klippan sofa, an ingenious idea for your pax wardrobe, a creative twist on your kitchen countertop, or even advice on how to finally stop forby stools from wobbling.
Hoosgot — Send your wishes and desires out into the ether.
Hoosgot (pronounced "Who's Got...") is a simple way to ask who's got what you're looking for. Just put "hoosgot" in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it'll show up here in Hoosgot.
Design JS Bookmarklet
Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.
Amazon.co.uk: Pro Django: Web Development Done Right (Pro): Books: a Holovaty,J Moss-Kaplan
The Django Book
Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » FacebookSync: facebook plugin for Address Book
FacebookSync syncs data between your Address Book and facebook account. eg Facebook Image -> Address Book -> iPhone!
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it...
Munin - Trac
Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface.
Official Google Maps API Blog: Pump up your info windows to the max!
the team has added various options, functions, and events to expand GInfoWindow, letting you mimic the behavior of the Google Maps local search result info windows, which expand to include a wealth of information about particular businesses.
Ubuntu/Debian nginx packages
nginx ("engine x") is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Much newer than fiesty versions.
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.
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Ordos: China’s Vacant City
In grand Dubai-esque fashion, Ordos City in Chinese Inner Mongolia rises from the desert to proclaim the glory of mankind’s accomplishments. Its glittering high-rise buildings and grand government projects are skirted on all sides by smooth…
Posted on 7th September 2010
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 me 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