Adam, Ruth, Ethan and Ori’s Wiki

This was a page I kept to add links to regularly.
I now use pinboard and my blog instead.

• Cohen Rose Networking Problem
• iMacNotes
• Wiki Improvements
• Films to See
• Software for Ethan
• Video on Macs
• Eagle Comics for Sale
• Comparing Phone and Broadband Offers?
• Ideas for Synced Stickies
• Making iChat Work
• http://uncyclopedia.org/
• RSS feeds via AvantGo — http://newsmob.com (though Avant Go? does their own now…)
• Google RSS reader — http://www.google.com/reader/lens/
• Useful tools for Firefox: http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/markhelp/firefox/ff_html_css_ref.html
• News presentation: http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
• Leffe Blond beer goes very well with Elderberry or Ginger & Lemongrass sorbet
• Useful intro to bash scripting: http://linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.php
• Wired News article on bus transport information: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69991-0.html?tw=rss.technology
• MIDP2 for OS X: http://mpowerplayer.com/products-sdk.php
• http://tinyurl.com/c86po for TfL Midlet
• High res locations in Google Earth
• Group sizes and satisfaction
• http://www.synchroedit.com/
• How-To: Image Windows XP
• Free up HD space on Mac OS X
• Tweaks for .htaccess
• Quick help for screen:
  • screen to start up new
  • screen -x to connect to existing
  • Ctrl-A C to create new shell
  • Ctrl-A N/P next/previous
  • Ctrl-A D detach from screen
• Install Front Row on any Mac: http://www.andrewescobar.com/archive/2006/01/10/front-row/
• J Science?: http://jscience.org/ (units, quantities, coordinates, maths structures, monetary model)
• Track package delivery using Google Maps: http://isnoop.net/tracking/
• Unix backup using rsync: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
• Google map showing where your email came from: http://www.butterfat.net/emailroutemap/
• Div X? player for Mac OS X: http://labs.divx.com/LatestMacPlayer
  • allows playback from within Front Row
• Translate Apple Serials
• http://www.throwingbeans.org (Tom Dyson’s blog) includes mtraffic.org and the Charlie and Lola theme tune
• BBC Electronic Catalogue: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax
• Dashboard widgets on your screensaver:
  • http://mesadynamics.com/amnesty.htm
  • http://highearthorbit.com/software/dashsaver
• Donald Norman supports agile methods: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/why_doing_user_obser.html
• XP & Interaction Design: http://www.fawcette.com/interviews/beck_cooper/
• Useful useability blog: http://webword.com/
• Solve the rubik’s cube… http://internet.oit.edu/~cardwelc/rubiks/rubiks.htm
• Trackpad scrolling on older Apple laptops: http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/iscroll2/
• Mac OS X Aquarium: http://oriol.mine.nu/software/Fish/
• Media Central — an alternative to Front Row: http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/index.html
• Mac Ring Tones: http://www.macostones.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/macostones.woa
• Index of Jazz festivals around the world: http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/link/Festivals.htm
• Smackbook — switch desktop by tapping the side of the screen: http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html
• Magic wand for Mac — gesture-based computing using Gyration mouse & QuickSilver
• Mac backup suggestion: http://www.sitening.com/blog/2006/05/23/how-to-backup-your-mac-intelligently/
• Possibly interesting seminars: http://www.cybersalon.org/ & http://carsonworkshops.com/index.html
• Really useful mac utils: http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities.html
• state of mac backups: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/
• Nokia S60 Apache Webserver: http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/mobile-web-server/index.html
  • Provides standard HTTP access to the phone via a gateway
  • Open-sourced, so gateway can be customised too…