Miscellany
I've had a bunch of interesting things I stumbled on filed away in my 'to blog' folder for ages and haven't gotten around to writing about them, so here's a quick list:
- From https://www.technologyreview.com: "Visit Amazon Light at www.kokogiak.com/amazon4, and you’ll see a plain search box that allows you to locate any product in Amazon.com’s database."
- If you ever have a problem with google's auto-sense and it sends you to the wrong language page (last week there was a period of a few hours where it insisted on sending me to www.google.se), you can use https://google.com/ncr to avoid that.
- Roy's got an Outlook addin that helps fight comment spam.
- A fun tablet app, forget where I saw this, probably via scoble.
- A list of links to articles that describe how microsoft builds software.
- "Did you know that you can go to https://www.passport.com and add your mobile number with a PIN as a mechanism to sign into passport from your Mobile phone?"
- You can track UPS packages via email.
- You can upload images to snapfish via email.
- Crabby Office Lady is out of the bag!
- Reduce the size of your powerpoint presentations.
- An oldie but goodie, if you're still using win2k: enabling tab completion in cmd.exe
- If you want to programatically manipulate graphics, check out this library to get the EXIF data from JPGs, or this component from Microsoft.
- Play Oregon Trail online!