baroquedub

http://ecodazoo.com/

(click and drag - especially once you get to the pop-up books!)

One of those great ironies of the banning of tobacco in the Netherlands - inspectors will have to check your joints for evidence of tobacco whereas anywhere else in the world they’d have to check your cigarettes for evidence of cannabis…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/01/eu.smoking

Nice audio snippet from Radio4’s Today programme of the first computer-generated music circa 1951:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7460000/7460902.stm

A quick follow up to a post about Pedagogical agents on my work blog:

Yale University has a nice mini-site dedicated to the subject of ‘talking heads’, from the early history of talking machines to modern day avatars. http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/heads/contents.html

Sizer

Allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. Extremely useful when designing web pages or preparing for screen captures.
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html

Hot Key Plus

In addition to my post on Windows keyboard shortcuts this great little utility allows you to define the launch of other applications using the ‘Windows’ key.

http://www.brianapps.net/hotkeyplus/

page-break-before and page-break-after

values: always or auto

examples

<style type="text/css">
h1{
page-break-before: always;
}
</style>

Or inline:

<div style="page-break-after:always">Your content</div>

from:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/pagebreak.shtml

includes excellent Javascript equivalents too so make sure you check out the original web-page.

from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q126449

but in true Microsoft style you can’t seem to print the above page in Firefox… so here’s a converted, properly semanatic XHTML version:

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu (from the MDI child window’s System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

What better way to make my first YouTube post here on this blog than with mwesh’s excellent video on Web2.0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

more:

http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/
http://www.netvibes.com/
http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography
And for anyone wanting to grab this for posterity don’t forget to install Adobe Air and head down to Lee Brimlow’s excellent AIRTube Video Downloader Application

from: http://erictremblay.blogspot.com/2007/03/find-files-instantly-with-google.html

“To find unprotected directories on the Internet that house SWF files use this syntax in Google:

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” swf

Are you looking for some MP3 files? And not just any MP3 files but MP3 files of your favorite band? To find unprotected directories on the Internet that house MP3s of ‘The Tragically Hip’ as an example, simply modify the Google syntax as such:

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “the tragically hip”

Been collecting various Adam Curtis documentaries for my brother’s birthday present… why is it so many otherwise well read, intelligent people haven’t come across his extraordinary documentaries?

So for anyone else out there who’s missed out on “the sense of someone drawing together a set of threads that you could instinctively feel but not place together in a pattern, and that really is Curtis’s genius.”, read on:

Interview at the time of The Trap:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/adam_curtis_interview/print.html

Audio of recordings:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/beeb_week_adam_curtis_2/

Interview at the time of Power of Nightmares:
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0516,curtis,63147,20.html

and of course, the documentaries themselves:

Mayfair Set
http://www.archive.org/details/The_Mayfair_Set_Part_1
http://www.archive.org/details/TheMayfairSetPart2
http://www.archive.org/details/The_Mayfair_Set_Part_3
http://www.archive.org/details/Mayfair_Set_4

Pandora’s Box (DVD) format
http://www.archive.org/details/Pandoras_Box_DVD_1_of_3
http://www.archive.org/details/Pandoras_Box_DVD_2_of_3
http://www.archive.org/details/Pandoras_Box_DVD_3_of_3

Century of the Self
http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart2of4
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart3of4
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart4of4_0

Power of Nightmares (MPEG2)
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

Power of Nightmares DVD format
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmaresDVD

The Trap
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisTheTrap

This was never a problem before but suddenly started happening, for no apparent reason… Took ages to find the solution but here it is courtesy of http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=591447

“Select the Tools menu in Firefox, then click on Options… in the next window that appears, click on Content. Make sure that “Enable JavaScript” has a tick in the box, and then click on “Advanced” alongside to the right of “Enable JavaScript.” Make sure at least the following box is ticked in order to solve this problem: “Hide the status bar”.

If “hide the status bar” is not ticked, then those pop-open windows with hidden status bar (the grey line normally under windows), will show the wrong size due to this Mozilla Firefox bug.”

Supposedly the most read news site on the internet…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

probably one to watch during the US elections.

Nice and easy solution to connecting two personal computers over the Internet without getting embroiled with Microsoft’s Remote Assistance or other techie solutions:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6165645.html

Huge collection of free vectors conveniently packaged in 10 easy to download sets:
http://www.free-vectors.com/

Ugly site but large collection of graphics orientated tutorials:

http://www.tutorial-index.com/index.php