Computing

last updated: 10:33 09 July 2010

Any of you guys using Apple OS X spare me a couple of minutes so I can update the script files?

Jane's now a NASM qualified Personal Trainer so if you want to get back in shape...

Astronomy

Astronomy Software for PDAs Palm OS MS Pocket PC

Astronomy Software for PCs Stellarium Red Shift

Astronomy How to read Two Line Elements

Aviation

Computing

68 HK's place in the Quality of Living ranking

Broadband - test for speed

Browser - check out how well your browser is working

Browser sniffer experiment

CoolWebSearch - the worst of malware spies

Download the internet

DRM: A pet hate! See below
Various solutions DVD Regional Coding and CSS Safe Disc 4 IsoBuster Easy CD-DA Extractor

Extremetech SystemCheck

File Converter's Paradise

Finessing XP's settings TweakVI for Vista

Free firewalls Jetico Online-Armor ZoneAlarm Advice Testing

Integrated free firewall and Av suite - Comodo

GriSoft AVG for free - I no longer use or recommend this

Hard disk data recovery

Help stop spammers before they even get your address

Inhibit Windows Vista SP1 or XP SP3

Ipswitch WS FTP Pro - used to upload this website

Java

Konvertor - pretty much anything to anything

Malware bytes

Microsoft Genuine Advantage Tool - remove it

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

Microsoft Windows Defender

Norton - remove all their awful software

Odd things going on? Get HiJackThis Analysis it here

Old versions of software - because newer is not always better

Office 2003/XP - remove hidden data

Panda's free Anti Rootkit

Panorama 32 changes the desktop image for you

PC - Check out how well your PC is running

PDF - convert any file on-line

Satellite Imagery Applications: Google Earth NASA WorldWind FlashEarth

Scanner and Camera Wizard

Scot Finnie's PC Blog

Sharing folders/files in Vista - a true nightmare

Shields Up - how safe is your PC

Slow boots and low resources - clean all the junk out

SpyBot 1.4 spyware killer

Spyware - it's telling tales on you

Start-Up items identification: Pacman's Portal AnswersThatWork

Sysinternals

SysInternals Rootkit Revealer

System Info for Windows

The Elder Geek on Windows

Time server addresses

Trend Micro on-line check

USA changes DST start to 11 March

Windows XP A-Z

Windows XP PowerToys TweakVI for Vista

Google Earth

(Almost) all airborne flights

Avian flu? The end of the world is nigh

NASA Blue Marble overlay for Google Earth

NASA environmental overlays for Google Earth

NASA JPL onearth

More wacky stuff for Google Earth than you can imagine

Rome - the ancient version

Traffic into major US airports

v4.2 or higher has a hidden Flight Sim mode: Ctrl+Alt+A to enter Sim mode - HUD - Keyboard controls - Aircraft carrier model off NY

Adds HKG to airport list
In Windows, save this file to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Earth\res\flightsim

World Weather

Other stuff

A lot of strange humour

GCSE - kids doing these exams? Here's a crib of most common formulae

Sheffied Wines

How to solve Rubik's Cube

Moral Sense Test

Find some new music

Petrol expensive? No way

Sudoku too hard today; maybe these techniques can help?

Why DRM is bad for us all Video What's wrong with iTunes