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Read more books

If one of your New Years resolutions was to do more reading, Daily Lit might be a site you should visit. They have a bunch of books to choose from and the innovative thing about this is that you get to read them in bitesize sections via emails, scheduled to arrive in your inbox, say, at 9am every weekday if you want. What a great idea!

Tags: books

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PS3 in stock checker

In anticipation of the eventual release of the PlayStation 3 in UK, I've made a PS3 stock checker. Sign up to be notified by email when new stock arrives. There's also a Nintendo Wii stock check page. Amazon.co.uk had it just this morning!

Related: PS3, Wii, stock, inventory

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Where to watch the Northern Lights

YouTube for one!

See also: video, time lapse

Yeah, well...

Tags: Australia

Adsense Notifier

Just found a very useful Firefox add-on, well, useful for webmasters with advertising on their websites. This displays your adsense earning at the bottom of your browser, updating itself periodically.

Related: Adsense, Firefox

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Now a Multilanguage Blog

Since its creation, Nimisis.com has sadly neglected the majority of the world's internet users by being an English-only site. That has now all changed!

New language links are now at the top of each page. Hopefully everyone will feel a bit more included by being able to read the content in their native language. As a mandarin speaking person, I might actually start slowly translating certain pages (more popular ones first, like my project pages) myself. All pages not personally translated are going through Google's online translator. Reviews I've read seem to suggest that they're ahead of the game compared to Babelfish and WorldLingo. Though I realise that none of these are brilliant (just try translating to say Spanish and back again), they can only get better!

See also: multilanguage

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Nimisis toolbar button

For those with a google toolbar integrated into their web browser, it is now possible to add your own custom buttons! It really couldn't be easier (follow the instructions on this page if you're interested.) I've made one for nimisis.com too.

Tags: Google, toolbar

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Goal line technology... coming soon?

Over 80% of football fans are in favour of it and it's going to be trialed at the 2007 FIFA World Club Championship - so will goal line technology be here to stay? I thought I'd do a bit of research on this and share that here.

Naturally, as most games of football only see an average of 2 or 3 goals, one more or one less makes all the difference. There are times when it's too close to call and, whatever the decision, it leaves one team and their fans enraged. On the odd occasion, a clear goal is missed by only one person - the referee. Let's be honest, refs need all the help they can get.
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Related: football, technology, World Cup