h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

zap'd showed me the site getmiro.com which is both very usefull and a nice new toy

so i thought i'd open a thread for sharing other goodies from the net

as a side effect i learned how to install mozilla's browser firefox correctly on my mac, so that was also great

i can recommend firefox by the way. i suggested it to a friend, who said that not only is it very user friendly - it also w*rks faster than bill gates internet explorer

i tried opera years ago and might give it another shot if someone could throw me a link

malabarista uses opera

Just www.opera.com.

They've just released 9.60, which is pretty fast. And it also has good widgets.

I still use Moxilla at home. Gawd knows what system the work IT police inflict on us, anything so it moniters our activities apparantly

I do recommend Grisofts AVG as a free virus checker and HitmanPro2 as a monthly screen for any spyware, trojans, and other malicious nasties from the Chaos Club

CCleaner is also very useful. Especially if, like me, you have a relatively old computer, but switch between different RAM-eating programs frequently. It's almost like rebooting! It'll remove all the temporary files that aren't being used, including (if you tell it to) the temporary internet files.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Another one I use fairly often is this, for converting audio/video files into different formats:

http://vixy.net/

Or this:

http://media-convert.com/

This is good for surfing without a trace:

http://www.browzar.com/

Do I get a prize for this A USB Flash drive the size of a pen but holding 8 GB of data, can be useful backup and costing very little, but a USB external hard drive costing less than 100 iceland bucks even better.

For dvd try Cyberlink dvd suite pro 6, costing very little .

Safari is the best browser, but firefox the best for web development when combined with opera, hell why not get all of them.

Notepad++ the best web design editor, and Paint.NET the best arty program developed for students of Washington uni, however these only work in windows I think.

Linux is the best op system, but requires a little knowledge to set up, Apache the best server best obtained in XAMPP.

Ccleaner is a good cleaner, and even does the reg, but not for Linux or Mac

A pen or biro was a good invention, but not much good without paper unless you are a white van driver, term used in Britain for small commercial vehicle driver, not the private ones.

Bricks were a good idea, because what would we use all that cement for.

That's it for now

I came across a useful little gadget yesterday that allows normal sighted people see what colour-blind people (like me) see:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200510/colour_blindness_simulator_for_mac_os_x/

I dunno if it runs on PC - presumably.

I got one of those, a black and white tv

Oh, that's what has happened to me My Mum always ssaid I'd go blind

hm, i can still distinguish a blonde from a redhead, brunette or black

but then i never practized that much origami

You origami too?

Well, I was going to advocate my G*rmin sat-nav but it doesn't recognise my house.
According to it there's no road here let alone a house.
It's making me doubt my existence.

don't worry. i see you right here

Don't let a little thing like existence get in your way, Mistadrong. Here in the U.S., we have some government officials whose existence I consider so improbable that I have chosen to consider their existence null until proven otherwise.

you may see me here, if i am at home when you fly by:

54 degrees 46'04.04" N

11 degrees 52'29.35" E

re posting 5:

you are right, salami brat, opera is fast

well, at least on mac. haven't tried it on pc yet

took me a little while to figure out how it w*rks but it seems worth it

will try the other stuff on pc one of these days

re posting 4:

free AVG seems to be the best one around, nortirascal. i got it a few eeks ago and it hasn't let me down yet

re posting 7:

yes please

i get the best of both worlds, since i am so privileged that i have both pc and mac - and both were more or less given to me for free (thank bob!, i could never afford to buy them )

so far i have explorer and firefox on pc, but mac has both firefox, safari and now also opera

i refuse to do any w*rk at home. i only use my hardware for surfing the net (well, mostly just hootoo) and playing music (i put all my cd's and quite a few of my vinyls on my harddrive, hooked my computers up with stereo equiment and use windows media player and itunes for listening)

it w*rks and why change a winning team?

so why should i bother about linux?