Stop sharing spreadsheets

This looks really useful (I know we have a humungous database at our disposal but...)

Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

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Prince

(via Doug of the Server)

Prince

Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.

Might be useful!!

Barcode yourself

Create your own barcode based on personal stats. Mine is worth $4.40 apparently. Ooooo.

Roomy

This looks great; we are about to try it so will report back...

Plan my room

(apparently this is the new project from the guy who started lastminute.com with that frightfully Lane-Fox woman...)

FixMyMovie

Not tried this yet, looks impressive though (and currently free...)

FixMyMovie

"FixMyMovie users MotionDSP’s patent-pending multi-frame enhancement technology which studies your video and finds the unique information present in each frame of video. It scans the neighboring video frames to match the scene (background) and objects (foreground), combining more than 5 frames of information to make a cleaner, higher-resolution video."

Manhattan Sans (ahem)

This would appear to be the perfect Alex and Kat post :)

Woody Allen's Typography

Instapaper

Instapaper

How it works

1. You find something you want to read, but you don't have time now. You click your [Read Later] bookmarklet.

2. When you have time to read, you come here on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read.

Travel Times

Travel Times on a map

Sound familiar?

'When in doubt, make it big. If still in doubt, make it red.'

from "Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design."

I knew I was right about that CRM...

30 Gb Free Storage?

30 Gb Free Storage?

Lots of Blogger formatting tips

Blogger formatting tips

Pen Top Utensils

Pen Top Utensils

Splashup

Another online picture editor, haven't tried it yet, looks smoooove though :)

Splashup

Bug

One device....ok, lots of little devices which snap together to make whatever you want?

Bug Labs

Bonkers. It does have an ARM processor though!

Design Police

Excellent.

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

iGoats

You couldn't make it up (go on, Alex I dare you...)

iPhone + Lotus Notes suit?

A great (short) summary of the current web

A great (short) summary of the current web

Homer takes a photo of himself every day for 39 years

Google Charts API

Ever wanted to dynamically create charts on the fly?

(Um yes, until quite recently when we bought something)

Well don't worry, here's a free version of it from Google

The Page 69 Test

The Page 69 Test

Cool.

Thesixtyone

Boing Boing: Music discovery game connects indies and fans - The SixtyOne

Thesixtyone is a "music discovery game" created by two USC students who quit their jobs to build a site that helps musicians and audiences discover each other. Fans use Digg-style thumbs-up to rate the music that's uploaded, but the game is that each rating costs you points, and you get more points if you rate up a song that lots of other people rate up too.

TheSixtyOne

Mouse Cheese Spam

Mouse innovator building a better trap for spam - International Herald Tribune

MP3 Blogs -v- RIAA

MP3 Blogs Offer File Sharing Even the RIAA Could Love

"Although the term “file sharing” has all sorts of ugly connotations, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. In some cases, it’s even a win-win-win situation for the recording industry, music lovers — and Google."

Rather topical!

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Coo.

This might just make me swap from using Gallery php 2.0 (as hosted by the lovely doug of the server)

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Nourish

"Nourish is a next generation newsletter service which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to."

Nourish – RSS to Email Service – Blog Powered Newsletters

Let's get SPAMMING!

One Web MP3 Server

Er, does this sound,l like, er, useful?

One Web ASP MP3 Server

"One Web MP3 Server is a free ASP application that turns your MP3 collection into a website. It allows you to quickly access your music over a local network or even the Internet. Now you can browse, search, create playlists and listen to your files using one interface, from any remote computer. Use the built in player for ultimate simplicity or stick with your preferred MP3 player, such as Winamp."

exljbris

Free Quality Font Foundry:exljbris:

Mmmmmm.

The Beard Cap - get yours knitted now!

Great for farming in the snow. And keeping your (fake) moustache warm.

From Craft Magazine's blog.

This is not a promise to make one.

Google Share this

Not sure why this hasn't been announced but it looks like a thing that could be a very easy way of doing arblognot

Share This

Juce Analytics

Aparently a good blog about Data Analysis, but now with an added feature - really nice templates for standard charts: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/apps/

The blog is here

Dreams Of Flying

I liked these:

Jan Von Holleben

Solveig thinks his stuff was on at the V&A earlier this year too.

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

Erik Spiekermann appears again!

FE-Mittelschrift (kottke.org)

"The official typeface for our license plates is now called FE-Mittelschrift, with FE meaning it is Fälschungs-Erschwert, i.e. difficult to forge. Apparently car thieves, terrorists and notorious law-breakers had been exploiting DIN's geometric construction principle and turning E into F or 3 into 8 etc by simply using a bit of black tape or white paint."

Maybe we don't need an iPhone

Just one of these

Helvetica. Period.

"The 50s ad has too many exclamation points, lots of wedding-invitation-style script, and it's very cheesy.
Now, look at this, a few years later.
Same product. A big glass of cold, refreshing, crisp Coke. And in Helvetica bold:
'The real thing. Period.
Coke. Period.
Any questions?
Of course not."

Helvetica rocks. And Michael Beirut works for Pentagram (career profile here). He contributes to Design Observer.

Also, the film is out on DVD on 26 November. Yay :)

Songza!

OK this is rather cool. Search for artists/tracks and it 'just finds them'. I think it may pull in audio from YouTube videos but I'm not sure yet. Lovely interface though:

Songza

As they rather pithily put it:

"Songza - The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now."

Visual Complexity

A site with complex visual charts.

It has a genealogy of pop music.

Tate in aqua, olive, mustard and black

Tate's branding, including their 18 shade corporate colour scheme

Test the colour of your cooking

This company is about to buy Pantone apparently. They make colour guides for various food products, including the Frozen French Fry standard and the Frozen Cherry Colour standard.

I wonder what Pantone colour a semi-cooked chip is? I'm thinking 601C.

Android - It rocks

This is me writing

Meat Earings

I don't know why:

Buy this NOW!!!!!!

Officially the coolest thing I've seen for a while.

An SD card for you camera which not only holds 2 gigs of data but also provides you with wifi access to said data.

You can set your computer to wirelessly download the pictures whenever the camera gets into range, and you can even set it to automagically upload them to flickr when it does...

EYE-FI

Pickleodeon

Pickleodeon

Because when you think of going to the cinema, you think of pickled onions.

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

Yes it's what we've all been waiting for:

Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century - The Blog

MOO Holiday Cards

Go on, Kat, you must have some to enter?

Holiday Photo Card Competition!

Buy Your Cards Here!

Indexed

A collection of diagrams on index cards




http://indexed.blogspot.com/

And many more...

Gmail IMAP

Now that is going to be most useful, no?

Gmail gets IMAP from Download Squad

4Food

Another sauce* of culinary inspiration?

4Food | Channel4.com

* sorry

AutoRuns

Mark Russinovich's AutoRuns...
AutoRuns

via Xav...

Mentat

Not the best name, IMHO. But a simple interface for a task and project management tool - sound like something we may have been discussing?

Mentat

Disclaimer: haven't tried it, just looked at the screenshots!

xobni: it's inbox backwards

A inbox organising system. It automatically works out connections between your contacts, people you're ignoring, and most importantly it lets you see a list of attachments from all e-mails sent.

Watch the demo

So it looks like Yahoo! should buy Isotoma!

Or at least Sleevenotez:

Check out this post from the head of Yahoo! Music!:

Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends

bits that should make you want to read are:

in a manner of speaking iTunes is a spreadsheet that plays music. It’s context-free. You just paid $10 for that album — who plays drums? I dunno, WHY DON’T YOU GO TO THE WEB TO FIND OUT, BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE CONTEXT IS.

...

But the content experience on the Web is crap. Go to Aquarium Drunkard, click an MP3. If you don’t get a 404, you’ll get a Save As… dialog or the SAME GOD DAMN QUICKTIME BAR FROM 1995. OMFG. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS ALL WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED IN 15 YEARS ON THE WEB? It makes me insane.

...

FIX IT. Your fans are pouring their music-loving hearts into blogs, Wikipedia, etc and what tools have you given them to work with? Not much, unfortunately.

This is what I’m vowing to devote my energy, and Yahoo!’s energy to

Go tell him to buy Sleevenotez. It's the product he wants and it already exists...

WebRunner

Turn websites into applications, sort of, with WebRunner

It allows you to "can" a web application, eg. Google Reader, so that it has its own icon etc, and that all of the cookies are independent. This means two different users could use google reader on the same pc.

You Want Wi-Fries With That?

Cool.

McDonald's to offer free Wi-Fi in restaurants

Pity their coffee is so terrible :(

Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt | Uncrate

(Nick) Hell yeah!

Wi-Fi T-shirtUncrate

8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

Succinctly put:

Apple Matters | 8 Reasons Windows Users Don’t Switch

I am still drooling over those new MacBooks though. Shinyyyy.

When Tim Curry went to the mall

I found this through a non-link on Stephen Fry's blog (somebody said "google this").

It's a sweet story of a girl working in a store, who suddenly discovers that Tim Curry has walked in. Priceless

SketchCast

Draw and record your voice, creating an embeddable video

Vicipaedia

Vicipaedia - the Latin Wiki

Given the proliferation of the 'dead language' at AS Towers this week, seemed somewhat appropriate...

SKYplay

I thought these were rather good:

SKYplay - a photoset on Flickr

Daisy's Dollop

Yes, a cow pat made out of Toffee. What everyone's always needed:

Buy online

Fight For Kisses

This is one of the more bizare things I've ever seen on the internet:

Fight For Kisses

userstyles

Have we had this already? Or did I miss the memo?

userstyles.org

"userstyles.org is a collection of styles that puts you in control of the appearance of websites and of Mozilla applications. These styles can remove annoying parts of websites, change the colour scheme, streamline your browser, and much more."

You just install the Stylish add-on for Firefox/Flock/Thunderbird, then away you go.
I am currently, at home, looking at my regular Google Reader as if it were Mac OSX!

Macs Really Do Run Windows Better

I now have one eye on that shinyyyyyyyy MacBook:

stevenf.com: Macs Really Do Run Windows Better

Stephen Fry is a geek

Stephen Fry is a geek

Want to resize a photo?

Wow! Just wow!

Hand Puppet Master

That's a handy skill:

EXTERMIKNIT!

Yes!

EXTERMIKNIT! Dalek knitting pattern

MOO + Facebook

Is this the same mini-sticker people that we had before? Now with added linky linky to (ahem) Facebok:

MOO | Make stickers, MiniCards and NoteCards using your Facebook photos

Incredible Flying Car Blog

An interesting blog called: Incredible Flying Car, has stuff like this:



And body popping stick men.

DIFRWEAR

RFID blocking wallets and passport holders: DIFRWEAR

Closed? No go.
Open? Read at will.

Although I imagine when I come to renew mine in 9 years time, the whole system will have gone 'pop' anyway.

Blogger Play

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. Warning: Safe Search is on, but some things that are Safe are NSFW.

Google Library

Google Library

You can use google book search to find books and then say, "I own that". A free library catalogue service for your stuff.

Deezer

MP3's on tap, French-stylee.

Deezer

fork handles: Deezer Geezer

Convert between any (almost) file formats - zamzar

ZamZar

You can either point it at a url or upload the file, choose the file format you want and it will convert it and e-mail it to you. It even works out that if you point it at the page of a movie on youtube you want the movie converted not the page.

Online Mind Mapping (or Org Charting) - bubbl.us

I really like the tab / enter option when you're typing - give it a go and you'll see what I mean...

bubbl.us

Joshua Davis++

Coo: Apple - Pro - Profiles - Joshua Davis

Da Font

A searchable list of fonts with example text...

Da Font

Do my stuff

Need to get something done? Get somebody else to do it:

Do my stuff

If only to prove my geek credentials

like google maps for space - wikisky.org

The Nerd Test 2.0

No, no, you first...

The Nerd Test, Version 2.0

Tauba Auerbach

The thoughtful typographical art of Tauba Auerbach

(via kottke)

Compost This

A really nice site with all the dos and don'ts. Includes things not on the sheet like ash and toilet roll tubes which are good. Check out the entry on peeing on the compost heap (note the related item).

Compost This

Calsberg don't do litter...

Calsberg don't do litter...

Reader++

Google Reader Just Got Better

"We found it!"

Radio 2.0 - prototype - live version out in 9 months

Take the social media aspects of the web, but don't make people go on the web!?!?! These people are crazy!

You are listening to your DAB radio in the kitchen, and you can a list of your friends and what they are listening to and you can switch to what they are listening to automatically. Because this DAB radio has a mommy frickin wifi connection in it!

Olinda - Social radio hardware

Jasonnnnnn might be interested.

Scribd

Scribd is a really easy way to share documents. You can literally, without logging in or setting up an account, point it at a folder and it will suck up all of your documents and turn them into web readable format so that everyone can read all of your private stuff.

I'm sure it's useful for something... (maybe a prank!)

Weekly World News

The latest headlines, from the world of the weird: Weekly World News

Global Cooling is an Ecological Disaster —ON PLUTO!

DIETING WOMEN SHOULD AVOID SWEET DREAMS

HONEYMOON COUPLE ATTACKED BY GOLDFISH!

Statue Falls from Space —MILO DE VENUS

Every home should have one

What's that? A ceramic representation of roadrunner's death... Plenty to choose from, this one is called: "Death Scene: While Enjoying a Cliff-top View, the Roadrunner's Throat is Chewed Through". Click on the picture for the full gallery

Jame's Food pr0n

A video collecting together all of the saucy bits from Jamie's new series and making them sound downright naughty!

Food pr0n

Stop Frame Animation

Possibly the greatest thing on YouTube.

Rockabye Renditions

Rockabye Renditions is a series of albums of the various artists performed in the style of lullabys: Lullaby Metallica anyone?

The best introduction to a site...

Why not have the "Click here to enter site" link move so it's even harder to click on? No really

Rack 'em hippy...

What kind of book are you?

What kind of book are you?

Perl in a Nutshell - the song

fork handles: Footing The Bill

Here's that thing, just in case!

Walk Score

Jeff Bridges Blog

It's pretty trippy man: Jeff Bridges Blog

John Mayer's Blog

It was this post that I liked:Happy Birthday Chad

but his whole blog looks good.

Ctl-Alt-Whatnow?

A brief bit from David Bradley who was the inventor of Ctl-Alt-Delete, he's on this panel here with Bill Gates and he accidentally slams Bill Gates - okay maybe not that accidentally.

This looks like a really interesting show, I wonder if there's a full version anywhere. The guy to the left of David Bradley, with the beard, is Dan Bricklin who invented the spreadsheet. So a very interesting group.