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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.
WPhone Admin Plugin
WPhone allows you to use a custom admin interface while interacting with your WordPress install via your phone.
favikon
Using your mouse, drag the shaded region over the picture so it covers the part of the image you want to use for your favicon.
macosxhints.com - 10.5: Use extra region capture screenshot options
Begin taking a screenshot by pressing Shift-Command-4, then start dragging. Then press and hold the following keys while still dragging to modify the selection before letting go and taking the shot...
Widescreen Mail Plugin
This is a plugin for Mail.app (for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) which turns the message view from a two-row horizontal view, to a two-column vertical view.
WordPress Super Cache 0.1
"…is an extensive modification of the famous WP-Cache 2 plugin by Ricardo Galli Granada." Doesn't look ready for primetime just yet, but a definite improvement over WP-Cache.
Validator App for Django
Uses a middleware to intercept all outgoing HTML and validate it using an external command line application. Handy for tracking those unclosed divs on POST pages.
Allan Jardine | Reflections
Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork
> forward You have moved. > eat You have eaten another glowing dot! > eat You make a valiant effort to bite in the air, alas there is nothing there.
DejaVu Code Fonts
Coda Sans is a repackaged DejaVu Sans, DejaVu is a font family based on the Vera Fonts release 1.10.
coconut-flavour.com - [coconutWiFi v2.0]
coconutWiFi displays you a small aqua-bubble at the top of your screen which indicates whether you're in range of a wireless network or not.
ReMate
ReMate is a TextMate plugin which can be used to disable the automatic project tree refresh when the application regains focus.
BT FON Community, Wi-Fi everywhere in the U.K.
BT supporting FON could mean millions of extra hotspot around the country. Handy.
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 their 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