More and more of what we do these days is via the web,from Google Mail to Salesforce there are apps for pretty much any task. Living in the browser is fine but I tend to have a lot of tabs open and sometimes it is nice to just launch an app for a specific [...]
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Gapminder World is a fantastic resource. In a nutshell it is a huge repository of world trend data covering a massive range of subjects. To cite some of the examples from the home page; Wealth &Health of Nations CO2 emissions since 1820 Who has most internet users? Is child mortality falling? Where is HIV [...] To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble telescope Google has put together a file with a short 5 minute Google Earth tour of some of the iconic images gathered over the years. It relies on a version of Google Earth with the Sky mode but any recent version should have that. The tour has [...] OK so not even I’ve seen all of these shows but this is a great piece of work. The Boston Globe has a piece on the restart of the Large Hadron Collider that has some fantastic photos including some of the damage done at the original startup. The scale of this thing never ceases to amaze. The article and the rest of the photos can be [...] For the non-arty one of the hardest things to do when putting together websites is to get just the right colours. For the criminally untalented,like me,there are loads of free css templates but when using these there is always the desire to choose different colours that make the site stand out. Even if [...] I like me some wildlife shows and one of the joys of HD TV has been the gradual move to shooting wildlife documentaries in a format that truly does the subject justice. Now there is a great free source of videos (and podcasts) that cover a huge variety of subjects. Earth-Touch.com releases videos daily and [...] | |||||
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