A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• Periodic table of the (HTML) elements – HTML5 elements represented as a periodic table (via Michael Gilletl)
• Should I work for free? – Decision process for use when asked to work for free (clean version)
• Expand URL – Useful URL Expander (API and web interface) – tested with t.co, bit.ly (and mwil.it)
• Akamai real-time web monitor – Visualisation of real-time web stats from Akamai (via Tim Biller)
• Floating Sheep – Some great visualisations – mapping trend data to geography
• Kindlegraph – Autographed eBooks!

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• Power conversion calculator – Converting units of power (HP, PS, W, etc.).
• Microsoft’s social media guidelines – Good baseline for Tweeting, blogging etc.
• Coreinfo – Sysinternals utility to see what features are available in your processor.
• Compfight – A Flickr search tool – allows searching on Creative Commons or commercial licenses (via Eileen Brown).
• Twitter URL expander – Expand t.co links (via Meg Pickard).

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• CloudShark – Analyse network captures online
• OS Route Mapper – Use Ordnance Survey Maps (instead of Google Maps) with Runkeeper
• WANEM (Wide Area Network Emulator) – Open source WAN emulator
• (United States) NIST definition of Cloud Computing – A vendor-agnostic cloud computing definition, via Dr Tom Shinder
• Lion DiskMaker – A GUI to create media for OS X 10.7 “Lion”

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• Topsy – Claims to offer real-time search for the social web – certainly seems good for historical Twitter searches (via Jack Schofield)
• Future Perfect – Grammar tips to improve written communications

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• Amazon price tracker – Track prices over time and buy at a target price (via Garry Martin)
• Facebook guide for parents
• Column Five Media Infographics – Lots of nice infographics here…
• World IPv6 day connectivity chart – Test access to “dual-stack” (IPv4 and IPv6) servers
• Test your IPv6 connectivity – Test access to IPv6 servers
• PowerPoint Tweet (and Tweet to PowerPoint!) – Integrating Twitter with PowerPoint (tweeting notes, and pasting tweets on slides)
• Keynote Tweet – Tweet from your presentations in Apple Keynote (via Michael Gartenberg)

A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:

• The Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk style guide – Great style guide to use as a reference when blogging (via Emma Howcutt)
• Jump Start: Office 365 for IT Professionals – Materials from Microsoft’s Office 365 for IT Professionals online classes (via Tony Sutcliffe)
• 30 days to a better blog – A series of posts aimed at improving the quality of a blog
• Interactive YouTube API Demo – Generate API calls (e.g. RSS feeds) for YouTube content
• dotPeek – Free Microsoft .NET decompiler
• Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer – Exchange ActiveSync, Web Services, Outlook and SMTP diagnostic tests (via Simon Bisson)
• SLR Camera Simulator – Simulates a digital SLR camera to show the effect of aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity (via Adam Bell)
• CompareDownload – Compare Music Download Prices (via Thom McKiernan)
• Wix# – Managed interface for WiX (via Phil Winstanley)
• Delprof2 (User Profile Deletion Tool) – User profile deletion tool that works on Windows 7 (by Helge Klein, via Aaron Parker)
• Mapping MAC addresses – Enter a MAC address and see where Google thinks it is (via Joe Baguley)
• Map of a tweet – Map of a twitter status object (by Raffi Krikorian)