Web Design Mistakes
Jakob Nielsen's alertbox is a renowned usability site which has information on how to design a site so it is easy to use. The Top Ten is a must read for any web site designer. Not all of them are absolutely necessary to consider, there are other schools of thought out there but it is very useful information.
Top Ten Mistakes
Konfabulator
A cool bit of software that allows you to run 'widgets' on your desktop. Reminds me of a program from long ago in the early 90's called DashBoard, but it is so much more. Get your local weather, see your system resources and do a whole heap of other useful or useless stuff.
http://www.konfabulator.com/
WebProNews
Stay in touch with the latest happenings technically on the web, and in particular, search engine technology.
http://www.webpronews.com/
Australian Fuel Prices
Sick of paying full price for pump fuel? Locate the cheapest price in your area...
http://motormouth.com.au/pricesearch.aspx
Miscellaneous Lists
Ever wondered what was David Lettermans Top 10 from June, 1987, or want to find 258 things to do when your are bored?
http://www.barminio.com/textfiles/lists/
DJ Sets
One of the biggest DJ mix download sites on the web.
http://dnb-sets.de/
Longest URL in the World!
Pi to one MILLION decimal places
http://3.141592653589793 23846264338327950288419716939937 5105820974944592.com/
Skype rocks!
What skype have is a simple bit of software they want to give you. It’ll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And they don’t want any money for it. It’s free. You could think of skpye as the big, free Internet telephony company.
http://www.skype.com
Top 500 SuperComputers
The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released. The best performance on the Linpack benchmark is used as performance measure for ranking the computer systems. The list contains a variety of information including the system specifications and its major application areas.
http://www.top500.org/
Astronomy picture of the day
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive, with a picture posted every day since June 16 1995!
Astronomy Pic of the day
ThinkGeek
We accept any gifts from this online shop, especially the t-shirts.
www.thinkgeek.com
Google Earth
If you haven't seen this yet one might wonder what planet your email is coming from. Google Earth is something that can waste hours, as it's predecessor NASA Worldwind did to us. Check it out if you want a birds eye view of the earth. We even found our own place with the Keyhole trial which was the company Google bought to launch it's Earth software.
World smallest Web Server
Get a full featured, portable, and ultra-secure Web HTTP, FTP, and email server embedded in a USB plug!
You can be up and running with a Web Server on your Laptop or PC in UNDER TWO MINUTES! Its that easy! Plug and play operation, instant on, no major experience needed. It serves web pages IMMEDIATELY from within its flash memory storage.
http://www.webservusb.com/features.htm
Simpsons Trivia
Want to brush up on your simpsons trivia? The answers are available as a simple list. It is recommended that you print this page off, answer the questions as best you can, and then print off the answers to compare. Selecting the answers will load all the answers as one list.
http://www.snpp.com/guides/quizq.html
