Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Simple, secure group websites

Google Sites
Simple, secure group websites
Sign in to Google Sites with your Google Account

Share information with a few people, a whole organization, or the entire world.

Friday, May 23, 2008

vbs file to sent text to phone

Lifehacker Code: Clipboard2Phone (Windows)
Windows only: Zap that phone number, grocery list or set of driving directions directly from your PC desktop to your cell phone with Clipboard2Phone.

Clipboard2Phone is a simple script that emails the contents of your clipboard to your cell phone with a key combination you define.

Google Send to Phone

Google Send to Phone for Firefox
Google Send to Phone for Firefox is an extension that enables you to send short text messages of web page content to your mobile phone.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

OP-Out of Charter Communications third-party ad network

Ultimate Boot CD

Ultimate Boot CD - Overview
Bunch of Linux based utilities for rescuing your Windows or Linux PC.

For Windows based disk
UBCD for Windows

another Linux based one
Trinity Rescue Kit | CPR for your computer

Easily Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB flash drive | USB Pen Drive Linux
"In this simplified USB Ultimate Boot CD walkthrough tutorial, we will demonstrate How To create a USB bootable Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) using a Windows host PC to create the USB UBCD."

Portable Apps for Mac and Windows


100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (both for Mac and Win) | MakeUseOf.com
This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Add GPS to EXIF using Google Earth

Panorado Flyer
Panorado Flyer is a small, yet very useful tool for linking JPEG image files to the location where the picture was taken, using geographical coordinates.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Network and Systems Monitoring


Overview - Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems Monitoring - Zenoss
Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed in monitoring your IT infrastructure. Our software provides a single, integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure - network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle - inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Pre-Production of Film, TV, Theatre, and New Media

celtx - It's The Story That Counts.
Celtx is the world's first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned 'paper, pen & binder' media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.
  • Screenplays
  • AV scripts, including Documentaries, Advertisements and Music Videos
  • Audio Plays, including Radio Plays and Podcasts
  • Theatre Plays (International and US standard)
  • Plain Text

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

GPS Photo logger adds GPS to EXIF without a PC

ATP Photo Finder
The ATP Photo Finder calculates and records GPS position data and allows you to precisely track the exact location and time of where your pictures were taken. Activate the Photo Finder while you’re taking pictures with your digital camera.

After you finish taking pictures, simply insert your SD, Memory Stick or MMC memory card into the Photo Finder's built-in card slot and the GPS data will be synchronized and added to all pictures on the card.
Designed for use with Google Earth & Google Maps.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Points of Interest files

How to make your own vehicles for a Garmin Nüvi

It also has some vehicles available for downloading to a nuvi.

http://glad-you-asked.blogspot.com/2008/01/chicks-dig-car.html

Need to find GPS coordinates

GPS Coordinate finder - GPS Data Team

Download formats:
Garmin POI - CSV
TomTom POI - OV2
Navman POI - CSV
Navigon POI - CSV
CoPilot POI - XLS
MioMap POI - CSV
Destinator POI - CSV
GPX Exchange format - XML
Nokia Landmarks format - LMX [?]
Google Earth format - KML
Garmin upload (direct) [?]

POI database for Garmin & TomTom GPS


PhantomAlert.com: No More Speeding Tickets - Download The M.A.D. Database
"The database contains 3399+ speed traps, photo radar, red light and speed camera locations across the USA and Canada. With our data in your GPS device, you will get an audio alert when you are approaching speed traps or red light cameras."