Gifmake - Make Animated GIFS

"GIFMAKE composes with (gif,jpeg,png) pictures an animated GIF.Already animated GIF can also be decomposed ;)"



http://gifmake.com/

To Bach v2

"Although the original To Bach utility provides almost everything users wanted, we’ve listened to the feedback we’ve received and our development teams in Bangor and Cardiff have come up with To Bach v2!



Some of the new features include:



- A much smaller install file size, making it easier to email to colleagues and deploy on a network;

- Support for all 56 Welsh characters with diacritic marks;

- Support for additional characters, including a tick;

- Support for the ‘Combining Grapheme Joiner’ (read the Software Standards to find out more);

- An easier-to-edit configuration file for those organisations and users that want to change the key sequences and add new characters. "



http://www.draig.co.uk/products/tobach/default.aspx?lang=en&plain=false

Pocket Wikipedia Does Info on the Go

"Pocket Wikipedia is something of a godsend for folks like us. The mobile app offers offline access to some 5,000 articles with 14 million words and 24,000 images all pulled from the popular online encyclopedia. "



http://www.appscout.com/2008/07/pocket_wikipedia_does_info_on.php

Get a better view of the Windows XP Tree command with Word

"To find out how many folders there are on your Microsoft Windows XP hard disk, you can open a Command Prompt and use the Tree command. You’ll get a very nice looking graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk. The only problem is that the display will scroll by your screen so fast and exceed the buffer size, so you’ll never be able to see it.

Instead, try using the old MS-DOS pipe to funnel the output of the Tree command to a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. You can then import that RTF file into a specially formatted Word document and have the same graphical tree structure, showing all the folders on your hard disk, in an easy to read format. "

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=731&tag=nl.e064

Lose 50 Pounds a Year

"The basic rule of weight loss is that you take in fewer calories than you burn -- and if you want to turn a positive calorie balance into the calorie deficit you need to lose weight, just make some smart choices in what you eat and drink, and how you burn calories.



The second rule of weight loss is that if you take in 3,500 fewer calories than you burn, you'll (generally) lose a pound of fat. So if you can have a calorie deficit of 500 calories a day, you'll burn a pound of fat a week (7 times 500 is 3,500), which is about 50 pounds a year."



http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/08/easy-and-sexy-ways-to-lose-50-pounds.html

The Owner-Free Filesystem (OFF)

"The Owner-Free Filesystem (or OFF) is a distributed filesystem in which everything is stored in reference to randomized data blocks, as opposed to a 1:1 copy of the original data being inserted. The creators of the Owner-Free Filesystem have coined a new term to define the network: A brightnet. Nobody shares any copyrighted files, and therefore nobody needs to hide away. "

http://wiki.offdev.org/Main_Page

Talking about knowledge

"the word Gwybodaeth – or knowing-ness comes in different forms defining different types of knowledge:

1. Cynnull (gwybodaeth) – to gather knowledge (as in acquisition) ‘along life’s way’
2. Cynhaeaf (gwybodaeth) – to harvest (purposefully) knowledge– or set up systems for harnessing knowledge or organise knowledge
3. Cymrodedd (gwybodaeth) - to compromise what you know to accommodate the unknown
4. Cynnau (gwybodaeth) - to light or kindle knowledge (in someone else) – can also be used to ‘share knowledge’ but implicit is that it is an active process not simply an exchange of information, which is an entirely different concept.
5. Cynllunplas (gwybodaeth) - to design (new) knowledge, paradigm shift
6. Cynyddu (gwybodaeth) - to increase or grow (existing) knowledge"

http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/07/talking-about-knowledge/

Lost Beatles interview unearthed

"For 44 years a canister of film had been stored in a damp garage in South London; unopened, unloved and almost thrown away. "



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7477669.stm

Plant Guide

"This is a pretty wonderful object. It was used by the Potawatomie Indian Tribe as a medicinal plant guide with different colors apparently connoting different effects (and perhaps danger)."



http://wrongdistance.com/?p=1933