http://watson.me.uk An adventure in blandness Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:51:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've got Google Earth it's worth having a look at the moon landing recreation that's been added for the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing. The Apollo 11 mission fly-through is a real highlight. http://earth.google.com/moon. In other space related news, after the recent cheese in space failure, El Reg ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=222 For personal reference. A list of useful Firefox Add-ons. Xmarks (previously Foxmarks). Bookmarks synchronisation. http://download.xmarks.com/download OpenDownload. Mimics IE's "run from current location". https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/207 Default Full Zoom Level. Allows a full zoom (ie. not text only) level to be set which will be used when visiting new websites for the first time. Useful when ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=221 A couple of useful applications out there on the internets. UltraMon is for multi-monitor setups. Gives you a quick way of moving windows between desktops, even when they are full screen Creates a composite wallpaper image for use accross whole desktop (different wallpaper on each monitor) And the best feature is: a seperate ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=220 The other day, while admiring Google's LHC logo, Stephen Hawking's (who is neither dead, kicked by a horse, or played Superman) appearance on Star Trek TNG came up. Yes Nick, he really was in it, and this clip I found on Youtube is what started the episode that was on ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=219 ...sweeeeeeeet. http://watson.me.uk/?p=217 Either this is extremely clever video editing software that is way over my head (right up prof pigeon's alley), or a complete lie. And I don't know which. http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/16/video-tech-uses-photos-to-enhance-alter-shots-its-the-photosh/ http://watson.me.uk/?p=216 ...at the Olympic games. What can't be improved by adding a monkey? That age old question was obviously playing on the minds of the people at BBC Sport. Their answer: Certainly not the Olympics. And so we are to led through the Beijing games this summer by an animated (slightly scaring ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=214 There's an article on mozillaZine introducing some of the new features we'll soon be able to use in Firefox 3. http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=23728 http://watson.me.uk/?p=213 If, like me, you're job is maintaining a large Visual Basic 6 application you'll know the pain of creating context menus. You'd like them on the form you're working with, but if its an MDI child form you're forced to place them on a different form if you want to ... http://watson.me.uk/?p=210 Let Jackie Chan help you search the web on iGoogle. http://watson.me.uk/?p=209