August 27, 2004

Cowabunga dudes! Check out my wicked ebay auctions for some amazing moneysaving bargains!!!

Just finished listing a whole load of crazy bargains in my EBay store. At present I am selling O2 Sim Cards, CD,DVD and Video Game Vouchers, PC Games, DVDs, Posters and much much more. Dont delay, check it out today! :D

DVDs for sale at present: Fever Pitch, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Shin Chan,
Games for sale at present: RS3 Racing Simulation Three, Rayman 2, Will Rock, Duke Nukem

Visit my Ebay Auctions, and you could end up saving a ton of money! :)

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August 26, 2004

Finally got myself a GMail account, Ok so im a bit late, sue me :P

I finally got myself a GMail account thanks to a mate who sent me an invitation. And I've also got a load of GMail invites to give out myself, contact me if you want one, and I will see what I can do :D

My first impressions of GMail are its pretty damned cool! I really like the snazzy javascript based interface. Great work google!!

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August 19, 2004

Free London Travel News alerts via SMS and Email

Transport for London have a free to use service which makes it easy for you to get real time travel news wherever you are.

  • Monitor your favourite routes on the Tube and DLR (for example your route to work and back) and receive details of delays before you reach the station.
  • Receive free text messages on your mobile phone containing real time travel news for your route when you need the information most!
  • Receive an email with the latest real time travel news for Tube & DLR as well the latest local news headlines from BBC London.

http://alerts.tfl.gov.uk

August 12, 2004

PDF to HTML conversion Bookmarklet

I just wrote a bookmarklet for converting PDF documents to HTML. The conversion tool I am using in the bookmarklet is the one at the Adobe website.

Here is my PDF to HTML converter bookmarklet:

PDF to HTML Bookmarklet

Either drag this link to your browser's toolbar or right click it and add it to your bookmarks/favourites. Then when you want to convert a PDF document to HTML simply click the link in your toolbar or click the bookmark/favourite.

When you activate the bookmarklet it asks you if you want to convert the current browser document, if the current document in your browser is a PDF file and is the one you want to convert then click the "OK" button, if the PDF document you want to convert is not currently loaded in your browser, but you have the link for it, click cancel, then you will be presented with a dialog box that asks you to type/paste in the URL of the PDF document you want to convert to HTML.

The conversion is pretty basic, it basically seems to just strip out any textual content from the PDF and create an HTML document with that.

UPDATE 15/01/2005 This bookmarklet no longer works, please see my new updated bookmarklet

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August 10, 2004

Free 128 meg SD card (for canon digital camera owners only)

If you bought a canon compact digital camera recently and still have the receipt you can claim a free 128 Meg SD card.

Just go here and print out the form. Fill it in and send it off along with a copy of the receipt. And you will get a free 128 Meg SD memory Card.

Offer expires 31st December 2004

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5 free 60 minute blank DV tapes for canon camcorder owners

If you've bought a canon digital camcorder and still have the receipt, go here print out the form, fill it in and send it off along with a copy of your receipt for the camcorder and Canon will send you 5 free 60 minute DV tapes :)

Offer expires 31st December 2004

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19 free cycle maps of London (great for cyclists!)

Get your free Maps of London. Transport for London are offering 19 free maps covering the whole of London. you can order all 19 if you like. They are intended to be used as cycling maps, but are useful even if you arent a cyclist :)

If you are a cyclist they do contain lots of useful info about cycling in London, such as available cycle routes and locations of Bicycle Shops.

My mate has ordered all 19 and stuck them all on the wall of his bedroom to form 1 single massive map of the whole of London, it looks quite cool :)

You can order the free maps here

Enjoy! :)

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August 06, 2004

How to setup WebDAV and FTP on your Spymac account.

OK so you may or may not know this but Spymac were the first company to freely offer an email account with 1 Gigabyte of storage. Well actually thats old news, but the other great thing about them is they also offer webspace (lots of it). Your website is basically your Spymac Username followed by spymac.net so if my SpyMac username was johnsmith my webspace would be at http://johnsmith.spymac.net and my ftp server would be at ftp://johnsmith.spymac.net and my WebDAV folder would be at http://johnsmith.spymac.net:81

I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to connect to Spymac using WebDAV and FTP today, as I wanted to upload a file. The Spymac site itself, though it offers these cool features, doesnt have a very easy to find Help system or a list of FAQs for people who want to actually use their services. Maybe thats the point, if everyone used all their webspace, im sure it would soon bring their whole system to its knees.

Anyway WebDav is easy to use on Windows 2000 and WinXP you can just goto your Network Neighbourhood, then "Add a network place" then just type in your WEBDav folder url, in this case it would be http://johnsmith.spymac.net:81

this will add the folder as a computer/folder in your "Network Neighbourhood", when you click to open the folder, a dialog box will pop up asking you for your username and password, these are the same as for your email account and also for your FTP account.

Im quite new to WebDAV, i havent quite figured out what the advantages of it over FTP are, but it integrates quite well into Windows Explorer anyway. It lets you just drag and drop files to and from it, treating it like just another drive on your network :)

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