This is a nifty tool that lets you search across YouTube to give you a visual map of videos over time, for those keywords. I did search for our family’s first computer, the beloved TRS-80..

Some useful links I’ve found in the past few weeks:

Zamzar is a free online file conversion tool, no need to download or install software, and it converts a huge range of image, video, document file formats.

If you ever lamented the number of cars on the road with one person in them, then you’ll like TripShare. It’s an Aussie service to get more people sharing their car travel and sharing the costs.

Work on your photos online using Picnik, another service where you don’t need to buy or download any software.

With the crazy amount of content up on the net at the moment, Popurls  is a great way to quickly find the most popular Urls at the moment

MailFreezr is a service that lets you create an email to someone, and then store it for as many years as you want, when it is then sent to the person. You’d want to make sure the recipient’s email address stays the same over the next 10 years..

We need this service in Australia - BookSwim is a netflix style service but for books..pay a monthly fee, get the books posted to you, and then post them back when you’re finished.

Zazz sells on thing, one day at a time, at a discount price.

This is awesome - a way to convert your own document into a magazine

I seem to be having an extraodinary amount of hardware problems this last year.

Another hard drive starting displaying bad sector errors, and yesterday stopped working. The upside is I’ve found an excellent free tool that restores partitions, recovers files and works on many different platforms: TestDisk

Found today a handy little program for testing websites in multiple versions of IE

I use a module called IMCE to upload images via Drupal. It is a neat plugin that works with TinyMCE.

When installing IMCE with Drupal 5, remember to copy to this directory: drupal/sites/all/modules/ rather than the main modules directory under drupal/modules. This path has changed since Drupal 4.x

Nifty Corners is a solution to getting those rounded corners you see on web pages without the images. The library consists of a javascript and css file. The results are fantastic, you can round buttons, divs, columns…go crazy!

I had some problems installing the TinyMCE editor tool with Drupal 5. Anyway, it seems the theme I was using for the website was causing the problem. You can read more in this Drupal forum discussion.

I love this idea!! The name grabs me as well
Crazy Egg provides visual tools to let you see where your visitors and going and clicking on the site. You can see the popularity of each different element..it even offers a heatmap overlay to see the hottest spots on each page!!

If you ever become frustrated writing and debugging javascript, then you’ll appreciate this neat open source toolset called ZK. This framework lets you create a rich user interface with no javascript and little programming.

Am looking for a project, any project!, to try this out on.

Packet Garden stores all of the information about how you use the internet, what servers you visit, their locations etc and builds a private world for you to explore.

The concept is an artwork commissioned by Arnolfini and is open source.