Miscellaneous links
Below are Miscellaneous links to a few sites that I have found interesting / informative or that just fall under the (rather specialised) catergory of 'other'. If you can think of a link which falls under this catergory, just mail me and I'll put it up.
This list of links will grow as I find more 'other' things.
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Eye Dropper :: Just can't find that perfect colour in hex? ... Use this funky little program to get the hex code for any colour on your screen.
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Favicon :: Use this site to create your own favicon. E-mail it to yourself download, and save as 'favicon.ico' onto your root directory. Then put the following code into your
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:: Ever wanted to see what your design looks like using words but without being too distracted by them? This Greeking Machine allows you to generate random paragraphs in many languages such as 'Hillbilly', Metropoliton', 'Clasical Latin', 'Techno babble' and 'psuedo german'.
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Colour Blender :: By Eric Meyer, a very usefull tool for webdesign: "Input two hexadecimal color values and the number of midpoints you'd like to see. Entering "1" will give you the color halfway between the two you enter. The number of midpoints must be from 1 to 10."
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Blank page project :: This website features a Blank Page according to the recommendations of the TPILB-Project.
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Nemesis :: Bath University's very own alternative music society. The Nemesis site features nemesis news, syndicated music news, reviews and lots more.
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Presentation skills :: Doc Searls has writen a really good guide to Presentation Skills, a must for anyone who is nervous of these things.
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Firebox.com :: Problems buying gifts for blokes?, looking for that ultimate present? all guys like gadgets; I've been using this site for a while now ... it always turns up trumps.
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:: An index of all the personal websites in the computer science department, including those of the staff. To see a table of undergraduate web-sites (of those in my year) ordered by hits per month, take a look at .
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Mozilla :: Fed up with IE? want to switch to keep up with the times? ... Try Mozilla, In their own words "Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability." I'm a big mozilla fan and I've been using it for over a year now.
And now, a quote: To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. [Farmers' Almanac]
