geek imparts experiences

Cloud by stan on flickr.com

The first link is about a presentation hold a few weeks ago at the University of Manchester about which part cloud computing could play in future development of the web and managment of data.

The next link you could call, google street view advanced. It is an website which enables you to do go on a sight seeing trip, just at your own PC. At this moment it provides data for a some major cities in Germany which are Bonn, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Köln and München. The website shows in which direction the development is going and how rich the potential of such applications can be.

For me a world without wikis like mediawiki or moinmoin is hardly imaginable. The Blikis combine now the world of blogs with the world of wikis and time will show us if people are going to like it or not

GoogieSpell is an nice implementation of a spell checker which you can use in your own web-application. It should be worth to have a look on it, if you like to add a spell-checker to your web-application without going through big trouble, especially if you just have restricted access to your web server and you are not able to install any software.

Last but not least is a link to a post

I found looking for a nice software with graphical interface to merge PDF files with Linux. It makes your life much more easier if you want to merge various files and you do not know in which order you want them to merge.