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10 great uses for Google Desktop. The only one I didn’t know about before was the “Control Panel replacement”. You can use Google Desktop to launch control panel items.

Digital photography how-to. Comments Dhar 8 Sep 2006 6:09 am: In addition to the link you have given, do check out Photonhead for tips, tricks and tutorials on Digital Photography. Incidentally, I have recently started shooting again and a few of the shots I have taken are available here.

A gentle introduction to NURBS. That’s Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines, or, “how to draw a curve on a computer”. Comments Dana Qi 1 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Clear and brief for non-mathmatics student. Excellent job.

Great essays by Dan Norman on design Paul Graham on life and programming Edward Tufte on visualisation

A recorded message for telemarketers. Whenever one of them calls, this guy transfers them to an extension with a recorded voice that’s “very interested in your offer”.

Ev of Blogger argues that pageviews are obsolete. Number of unique visitors and time spent on a site are better measures.

Code search within O’Reilly books.

Jeff proposes a Programmer’s Bill of Rights. Every programmer shall have two monitors Every programmer shall have a fast PC Every programmer shall have their choice of mouse and keyboard Every programmer shall have a comfortable chair Every programmer shall have a fast internet connection Every programmer shall have quiet working conditions

Google Talk, Not Just An Instant Messenger. It’s used in Gmail, Google Desktop and Google Spreadsheets already. Google plans to use it in more of its services.

Seth Godin’s Web 2.0 traffic watch list.

Facts in Software Engineering People The most important factor in software work is the quality of the programmers. The best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers. Adding people to a late project makes it later. The working environment has a profound impact on productivity and quality. Tools and Techniques Hype (about tools and techniques) is the plague on the house of software. New tools/techniques cause an initial loss of productivity/quality. Software developers talk a lot about tools, but seldom use them. Estimation ...

Google’s master plan.

Top 10 cameras on Flickr. Topping the list is Nikon (D50 and D70), followed by Canon.

We feel fine analyses blog posts, and determines the current mood by gender, age and location. So you can see check if the mood of teenagers in London has improved this week. Amazing visualisations.

How iPods work: how the wheel and the software inside Apple’s iPod work.

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4 by Donald Knuth. Pre-fascicles are available for download.

Prove that you are human by picking 3 hot people. Interestingly, while I was able to pick women with 100% accuracy, I just couldn’t pick out hot men. I wonder if the women really can…

All teachers of programming find that their results display a ‘double hump’. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve.

The man who robbed a robber.

The 7 habits of highly effective designers. Number one being: Work quickly, produce a lot