Link Blog

24th August 2007

WorldwideLexicon.Marx

Wordpress plugin allows your readers and the lexicon community to translate your posts.

Tags: plugin, translation, wordpress

23rd August 2007

DoubleCommand

I've been meaning to sort out my other option key (aka enter) for ages

Tags: osx

22nd August 2007

Content Aware Image Resizing

Very cool. And narrated by Kermit the Frog for bonus points.

Tags: graphics, video

14th August 2007

Navigating WordPress source code « WordPress Bits

Handy links to various Wordpress source browsers

Tags: wordpress

14th August 2007

Threat Level - Wired Blogs

Shameless edits on Wikipedia articles by big companies

Tags: wikipedia

10th August 2007

RegexPal: JavaScript Regular Expression Tester

Nice little syntax highlighted tool for creating your regexp

Tags: javascript, regex

8th August 2007

Widsense - Adsense Widget for Apple Dashboard

Display adsense stats in dashboard.

Tags: adsense, dashboard

7th August 2007

Floorplanner.com

The easiest way to create and share an interactive floor plan of your room, house or office (they need to drop that last e and be "proper" web2.0)

Tags: design, floorplan, home

7th August 2007

Cacheability Engine

To help you understand how Web Caches will treat a Web page, the Cacheability Engine will look at a URL (and optionally any images or objects associated with it), giving both specific cache-related data about it, and a general commentary on how cacheable

Tags: cache, http

6th August 2007

Visor Terminal

systemwide Terminal from the Quicksilver folks

Tags: osx, terminal

3rd August 2007

Noodlesoft: Hazel

Software for automatic cleanup

Tags: osx

30th July 2007

Building a Django Middleware for Google Analytics

Good description of building Django middleware

Tags: analytics, django

James Turnbull is a web developer from Edinburgh and living in Oxford. This website is a link-dump of things he found online.

James is developer and co-author of the popular Google Earth "things-to-see" website, Google Sightseeing and the spin-off book Not in the Guide Book. He also sometimes posts blogs to Rotacoo.

Posts from Google Sightseeing

Ordos: China’s Vacant City

In grand Dubai-esque fashion, Ordos City in Chinese Inner Mongolia rises from the desert to proclaim the glory of mankind’s accomplishments. Its glittering high-rise buildings and grand government projects are skirted on all sides by smooth…
Posted on 7th September 2010

Distilleries of Islay

Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that’s the signature flavour of…
Posted on 2nd September 2010

HubPages Marks the Spot

Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and me to join their expert panel and judge entries to their latest…
Posted on 31st August 2010

The Russian Woodpecker

Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we’re exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian…
Posted on 30th August 2010

Airport Emergency Training Locations

As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred…
Posted on 27th August 2010