Site of the Fortnight
Myfolia
Myfolia is a social networking site for gardeners with tools for organising
gardens and planting. The tracking tool keeps a record of planting dates and
choices, which can be useful for learning from past mistakes, or you can keep an
ordinary journal with photos. Registration is free and there are widgets you can
add to your website. Different groups cover all aspects of gardening - from
kitchen gardens to composting and organic gardening.
www.ie-vista.com
Written by a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), this site has lots of
advice for Internet Explorer 7 users.
www.zoopla.co.uk
If you are planning on buying or selling a house, or curious as to prices across
the UK, Zoopla has plenty of information.
www.taggalaxy.de
Tag Galaxy is an attractive way to browse photos on Flickr.com by their tags.
Type in a tag and it will appear as a sun with orbiting related tags. Click on a
tag to view the photos.
www.euro2008.com
It's not too late to catch up with the action in Euro 2008. The official site
has all the information you could possibly want on the tournament, and there's a
version for mobile phones.
Video roundup
Medieval
Helpdesk
If you've found the move to Windows Vista difficult, spare a thought for those
poor medieval scribes who had to change from their familiar scrolls to the new
fangled book. This funny video speculates on a conversation between a scribe
looking for aid and his helpdesk contact.
Where
the wild things are
This video is a superb animation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book
Where the Wild Things Are. The video is beautifully animated and it is set to
some fascinating music, and its excellent narration is sure to draw in viewers
both young and old.
Mini
notebooks tested
We take a look at two of the latest small format notebook computers, the Asus
Eee PC 900 and HP Mininote, to find out which one comes on top. Both represent
the state of the art in notebook design, squeezing maximum power into minimum
space, but keeping things cheap as well.
Illuminate
your keyboard
It might be more fun to play games in the dark, but it is obviously quite
difficult to see what keys to press. There are illuminated keyboards available,
but this DIY project is much cheaper and more fun. It replaces the light for the
Scroll lock indicator with two new lights pointing at the keyboard.
