Best Online Thesaurus Ever
Sometimes the web just blows me away, this graphical neural network of words is both beautiful and amazingly useful

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
Try it here at http://www.visuwords.com/

Mobile Internet Use Greatest Growth Area

Mobile internet use is growing while the number of people going online via a PC is slowing, analyst firm Nielsen Online has found.

Some 7.3m people accessed the net via their mobile phones, during the second and third quarters of 2008.

This is an increase of 25% compared to a growth of just 3% for the PC-based net audience - now more than 35m.

It also found that the mobile net audience was younger and searched for different things.

Download "Invisible" .htaccess and .htpasswd dot files from your server

For some reason (security?) some FTP servers don't allow you to see dot files such as .htaccess and .htpasswd , this prevents you downloading them as well. Which is somewhat of a nuisance if you are trying to back them up or debug them.

Here is a zsh script I wrote to get round this, note you still need to enter your ftp login details, so this is not a hack.

#!/bin/zsh
# download "invisible" .htaccess .htpasswd files
autoload -U zfinit
zfinit
zfparams www.website.co.uk userid password # enter your own details here
zfopen
zfls -ad
zfget .htaccess
zfget .htpasswd

Convert Files online to any Format

Converts files up to 100MB.

FAQ : What different file formats do you support ?
We have split our file formats into five distinct categories - Document, Image, Music, Video and Other Formats

www.zamzar.com

Great when your PC is playing up, or you on someone else's PC.

Jerry Yang Pioneer to Stand down as CEO of Yahoo

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, is to stand down as chief executive officer following failed takeover talks of the internet giant which have led to its share price dropping to around $10.

Jerry is one of the founders of the Web so very sad to see him go. Before Yahoo you just had to know a web address there were no search engines.

http://www.tek-tips.com

Tek-tips is a forum for programmers to get help problems there have forii (forums) for a very wide range of languages.

Got a couple of problems solved in www.tek-tips.com some php & Coldfusion problems. What I liked about them was how quick I got knowledgeable replies. They are free and it's easy to register with them.

Hot Water Bottles for Xmas