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Need website hosting?

If you're thinking about creating a website, or are unhappy with your current hosts, I'd recommend Siteground.com. I've just changed from my hosts and they've come up trumps. The monthly rate is cheap and it comes with a free domain name too (if you commit to 1 or 2 years' hosting).

Tags: web hosting, Siteground

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Make videos with a webcam

The search logs for nimisis are showing quite a few people looking for video capture with a webcam of the "bog standard" variety, rather than time lapse or long exposure capture. So, here's a link to what you would need - AmCap

Related: webcam, video, capture

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Nintendo, Wii have a problem

The Wii comes out tomorrow and unless you're willing to queue out in the rain overnight, or have a pre-order for tomorrow, getting one will have to wait. Luckily, there is an excellent site that will track inventories across the UK (and US) for new stock and alert you if you so wish - Nowinstock.net.

See also: Nintendo, Wii, inventory, stock

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Picasa

Recently tried out Google's photo organisation app, Picasa and I've got to say that I'm impressed. Some old school photos in the depths of my hard drive were found which I'm sure I would've lost otherwise. If this grabs you, take the tour via the banner below.

Tags: Picasa, Google, photo, software

Monitoring my sleep

I got a SleepTracker watch recently. It's a gadget that detects "almost awake" moments during the night, so then when it approaches a time window I've set for wanting to get up, the watch will work out the best moment to wake me. The potential elimination of morning grogginess was too appealing!

Fortunately there's a 30 day moneyback guarantee. It's still got a few problems, for example, I was already awake when the alarm went off this morning. There's a more comprehensive review here. Shame really. It has given me a good idea for a future project though.

Related: SleepTracker, sleep, gadget

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NASA to build moon base

It's about time! More details here.

See also: NASA, moon

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Trident (not the chewing gum)

Tony Blair, supported by David Cameron, announced a UK order for Trident worth 25 billion today. That's roughly £400 for each member of the population. Is it really worth it?

Dubya loves it, BAE loves it, but 59% of the UK doesn't.
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Tags: Trident, Tony Blair, David Cameron

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Ripper v1.0 out now!

Ripper is an application that periodically grabs online images to create timelapse movies. Pictures are ripped off a specified website every few seconds, minutes or hours (whatever the user decides), then they are merged together as frames in a time-lapse video. Some cool effects can be achieved this way.

For more details see this page.

Related: Ripper, software, time lapse, project

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