Archive for October, 2006

links for 2006-10-15

Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline – Lifehacker A nice idea by LifeHacker: Log/display activities in a timeline (tags: Productivity Tips) Lifehacker.com’s Quick and Dirty Simile Timeline Event-XML-O-Matic XML generator for event in order to use with SIMILE (tags: Productivity tips) Marc and Angel » Blog Archive » Turn Google into Napster 2000 (tags: [...]

Element14 blog published some settings that should reduce memory usage in Firefox. I’m currently testing those settings, So I don’t know yet if they work or not. I like Firefox as it’s a very stable application. But it’s frustating sometimes, when you look at process memory usage: sometimes Firefox end using about 200 MB. This [...]

links for 2006-10-14

BitTorrent: an excellent medium for indie labels at Torrentfreak (tags: Bittorrent Music P2P) PayScale – Salary Survey, Salaries, Wages, Compensation Information and Analysis (tags: Work Money) 10 Windows Explorer alternatives compared and reviewed – Simplehelp (tags: Freeware Software Windows) CSS Design Templates – Free Website Templates & WordPress Themes (tags: CSS Blog WordPress Theme) \\\\\ [...]

links for 2006-10-13

BBF 2006-04 | A propos A propos Réflexion Etudes French definition of folksonomy (tags: Web Tag) Home Page | Coghead A platform to create application without coding (tags: Web_service) SEOmoz Blog | A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available (tags: SEO Web) 12 ways to create a better PowerPoint presentation – Lifehacker (tags: Powerpoint [...]

SVCHOST.EXE Demystified

On windows XP, the process SVCHOST.EXE is a mystery for most people. If you check your task manager, you may have several instances of this process running. On my XP home edition I have actually 7 of this processes. Microsoft describes SVCHOST.EXE on this document by the following sentences: “At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of [...]

links for 2006-10-12

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Writely -> Doc, and spreadsheet (tags: Google Web_Services) PluginDoc: Firefox Memory Usage FQA (tags: Firefox Browser) Telegraph | Entertainment | Film noir is coming out of the shadows (tags: Movies) A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Pro (tags: Windows) Qloud (tags: Music Tag) How-to Guides to Running Your Small Business [...]

links for 2006-10-11

BBC Learning English | Home page (tags: English Learning) A List Apart: Articles: The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners Very nice list of Web Design tutorials (tags: Web_Design Magazine) immense world: Best company in the world (tags: Google Office) 33′ Rockers | 13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals (tags: Firefox)

links for 2006-10-10

SEO logs – Search Engine Optimization SEO Tools and Articles (tags: SEO Tools) Microsoft Excel 2007 (nee Excel 12) : Some other numbers … Excel limitation removed or extended in version 2007 (tags: Excel) Mind map – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: Productivity)

links for 2006-10-09

Langa Blog: Unlocking the Mysteries of ‘Svchost.exe’ (tags: windows service blog) glumbert.com – the most amazing videos on the whole wide internets (tags: Video Fun) Home of the Groove (tags: Music Blog) Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan Google book search increases book sales. (tags: News Book Google) 10 Adsense Tips For [...]

Mindtools has a summary of the book written by Steven Covey in 1990:  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.  First they recall the 3 distinct stages of personal growth: Dependence: This is where we start, dependent on other people. And without personal development, we would stay stuck at this stage. People who are dependent are [...]