Windoze XP info and links

An interesting page with a lot of news n linx.

Keznews

Lossless same-drive Mac HD Repartition

A nice set of instructions for modifying partition size on your Mac
Latenitesoft

The Spirit of the Times

A movie perhaps worth seeing if you'd like some clarity on the origin of religions and the sales talk of governments:
Zeitgeist the Movie

Displaying Hiragana & Furigana (Japanese)

I recommend using Firefox to view webpages, especially those containing Japanese.
Other than loving this browser, my current fave, it also has an extension called Ruby, that allows my XHTML markup text to display furigana. That's small subscript hiragana over/or under Kanji so that you know how they are said.

Without that extension the Japanese text below should show the hiragana in brackets after the said Kanji.

The extension can be found with Google
and I last found it here
nb. It's unsupported but I haven't had any issues with Firefox (1.5 and up) since I installed it.

Let's hope Ruby markup becomes a norm online for helping us all come to grips with Japanese/Chinese characters.

I also use this site to both provide furigana for Kanji and it can also create the ruby text for you if you are making web pages with Jp content. Nb. I seem to need to edit the spaces out of the resulting text, please double check your html after doing the translation and inserting into your page.

Autostarting Mac app's with iCal

using iCal events and Apple scripts to autostart your Mac app's. watch my video here

WebPage capture - Mac Software

paparazzi!
This software will capture a URL (webpage) to an image file, regardless the length of the page.

MMM - Music n Multi Media

Some fave tracks of mine, viewable at Stage 6 DivX

Hope you like dance n trance .. and opera.

BT - This Binary Universe

BT - Emotional Technology - Somnambulist

DJ Tiesto - Adagio for strings

SARAH BRIGHTMAN - Time To Say Goodbye

Should you use Google Apps

I'm a lover of all things Google, and I do use many online resources which I miss when I am without net connectivity or even rarer - when Google is offline. But here's a good summary of the situation:

Google Apps

My most precious sites

Google

GMail - Google's webmail!
Google Reader - RSS feed aggregator, easy way to keep up with people's blogs in such.
eg. Some of my RSS feeds I've shared here
Google Calendar
Picasa Web Albums [Google] - put your photos online
Picasa yet another Google app', the easy way to put your photos on PicasaWeb


Firefox a Mozilla product
Firefox Web Browser

Extensions for Firefox
TabMix Plus
improves the behaviour of the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox.
Adblock Plus for blocking ads.
NoScript
for blocking scripts on webpages. You decide what happens and what doesn't.
Foxmarks
a free add-on for your Firefox browser that syncs your bookmarks across multiple computers and more.
Down Them All
as it says =) for downloading all items on a webpage.
Unipage
save a webpage to a single file rather than html + image folder
Freecorder Toolbar
a Free Sound Recorder supporting Windows Vista and XP.

Misc:
Remember the Milk - To Do List
you can have scheduled alerts mailed to. I get my mailed to my mobile phone.
Micro Torrent For peer to peer Bit Torrent downloading.
Mininova the place I search for Bit Torrents.
DVD Shrink for backing up DVDs

Backing up DVD movies

Want to backup that DVD?

Try this software DVDshrink

Use that software to make an ISO image of your movie then use some like Nero or PowerISO to burn that image to DVD.