Search.io - Tabbed Search

http://search.io/

5 Gimp tricks everyone should know

"Having used both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop I must say I personally believe GIMP is much better for common folks like you and me who need a relatively simpler set of tools to make quick edits to our Vacation pictures. Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP. Recently GIMP 2.6 was released, so I decided to make this tutorial for those who still haven't discovered the magic of GIMP and don't know how to use GIMP productively."

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/10/5-gimp-tricks-everyone-should-know.html

HTML Tidy Online

"HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more."

http://infohound.net/tidy/

Screen Toaster - Online Screen Recorder

"* Record your screen activity.
* Publish the video on the Internet!
* Stream the recorded video in Flash."

http://www.screentoaster.com/

PageTiki - Monitor your favorite web pages for updates

"Use PageTiki to monitor web pages for changes. Receive updates by e-mail or via RSS feed. "

http://www.pagetiki.com/

Finding Paths through the World's Photos

"When a scene is photographed many times by different people, the viewpoints often cluster along certain paths. These paths are largely specific to the scene being photographed, and traverse interesting regions and viewpoints. We seek to discover a range of such paths and turn them into controls for image-based rendering. Our approach takes as input a large set of community or personal photos, reconstructs camera viewpoints, and automatically computes orbits, panoramas, canonical views, and optimal paths between views. The scene can then be interactively browsed in 3D using these controls or with five degree-of-freedom free-viewpoint control. As the user browses the scene, nearby views are continuously selected and transformed, using control-adaptive reprojection techniques. "

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/findingpaths/

21 Online Free Web Based Applications

"Today, we are listing 21 free and online web based applications which are very helpful for you to process your daily work. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we make sure to add something interesting for everyone"

http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/07/11/21-online-free-web-based-applications-that-you-probably-would-love-to-use-every-day.html

Happy Birthday to GNU

"Twenty five years ago this month, a man called Richard Stallman announced to the world his intention to create a complete operating system from the ground up. He called it, GNU, which stands for GNU’s Not Unix.

To help celebrate this occasion, I’ve made a video to tell you about GNU, and free software."

http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/?p=52


http://www.gnu.org/fry/

FotoFlexer

"The world's most advanced online image editor"

http://fotoflexer.com/

Animasher

"This is a place where you make animations"


http://www.animasher.com/

Addictionary Lists Words Not in the Dictionary, but Should Be

"Everyone has words in their vocabulary that aren't really words--language that everyone around you probably understands but that throws off your spell-check every time. Maybe it comes from popular culture, or maybe you make it up yourself. Either way, you should submit your weird words to Addictionary, a Web service that keeps track of language that we use every day but that isn't in any other dictionary and likely will never be."

http://www.appscout.com/2008/10/addictionary_lists_words_not_i_1.php

12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert

"The following Google search tips are based on my own experience and things that I actually find useful. The list is by no means comprehensive. But, I assure you that by learning and using the 12 tips below, you’ll rank up there with the best of the Google experts out there. I’ve kept the descriptions of the search tips intentionally terse as you’re likely to grasp most of these simply by looking at the example from Google anyways."


http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1264/12-Quick-Tips-To-Search-Google-Like-An-Expert.aspx

Command-line animations using ImageMagick

"There are three basic steps to making an animation. First you need an idea. Next, you need a set of images to run through in individual frames. You can get the images from your digital camera or your scanner or draw them using ImageMagick or the GIMP. Once you have these ready, all you need to do is to put them together into an animation."

http://www.linux.com/articles/46124

CleVR - Panorama photo stitching

"CleVR is a seriously easy way of creating and sharing panoramic photos for free. "

http://www.clevr.com/

Automatically process new files with fsniper

"fsniper lets you monitor specified directories and execute scripts on any new files that are created in them. Because fsniper uses inotify to monitor its directories, the actions you define are executed as soon as filesystem changes happen. This makes fsniper both more immediate than an hourly cron job and more efficient."

http://www.linux.com/feature/150200

Ten essential Linux office apps

"Productivity requires the right tools and, contrary to what some people think, Linux has everything you need to get you through the day without a hitch. There are applications that will satisfy everyone in the organisation, from HR to marketing to the front office."


http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39517306,00.htm

Michael Palin for President

http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com/

Sumo Paint

"Sumopaint offers professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser "

http://www.sumopaint.com/

Never Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death

"Consider the rather startling fact that you will never know you have died. You may feel yourself slipping away, but it isn’t as though there will be a “you” around who is capable of ascertaining that, once all is said and done, it has actually happened. Just to remind you, you need a working cerebral cortex to harbor propositional knowledge of any sort, including the fact that you’ve died—and once you’ve died your brain is about as phenomenally generative as a head of lettuce. In a 2007 article published in the journal Synthese, University of Arizona philosopher Shaun Nichols puts it this way: “When I try to imagine my own non-existence I have to imagine that I perceive or know about my non-existence. No wonder there’s an obstacle!”"


http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=never-say-die&ec=su_neversaydie

Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications

"Many of us prefer using online note taking applications for research, bookmarking sites, or quickly jotting down ideas. While there are many online note taking applications, we searched around the Web and compiled a list of those we felt were richer in features and usability. Here are the top ten, in no particular order"

http://mashable.com/2008/08/19/online-note-taking-applications/

GIMP User Filter allows use of Photoshop filters

"One brake on the GIMP's popularity is that, while it boasts dozens of filters, a rival like Photoshop boasts thousands. You may only occasionally need a special effect that imitates a pencil sketch or a famous style of painting such as Impressionism or Cubism, but, when you do, having a filter to create the effect instantly saves serious amount of time. To help bridge this divide, the GIMP is reviving the User Filter from its 1.x releases. This filter is a kind of meta-plugin that allows users to import and manage Photoship filters or, if they have the knowledge, to write their own."

http://www.linux.com/feature/147173

Cligs: Short URLs with analytics

"Cligs shortens your URLs and tracks the clicks they get."


http://cli.gs/



Example:  http://cli.gs/gVAAZ5

Welsh Language Wikibook

"This wikibook has been written as an aid to learning Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg, pronounced [kəmˈrɑːɨɡ], [ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]). It is a Celtic language spoken natively in Wales (Cymru), in England by some along the Welsh border, and in the Welsh settlement in the Chubut Valley of Patagonia, Argentina. There are also speakers of Welsh throughout the world, most notably in the rest of Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia."

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Welsh_Language

Duplicate Cleaner Keeps Your Hard Drive Clean

"Unlike a number of apps that promise to help you clean duplicate files from your system, Duplicate Cleaner can scan files for content, not just by filename. You can customize a wide range of filters when performing a duplicate search, and choose to limit your search only to images and pictures, music, movies, text or Office documents, or just scan entire drives.

Additionally, you can tell Duplicate Cleaner to scan for content, or restrict its search to filename, file size, or creation date. You can even specify a range of file sizes to filter search results on, so if two files have the same name but are vastly different in size, Duplicate Cleaner will ignore them."

http://www.appscout.com/2008/09/duplicate_checker_keeps_your_h.php