Any Video Converter is a program that will take a large number of video formats and convert them to MPEG-4 for playing on portable devices such a Video iPod or PSP.
Month: January 2007
A Timeline of Timelines
A timeline is just a chronological map, and what could possibly be cooler than A Timeline of Timelines. The timeline was created to accompany Daniel Rosenberg’s interesting article on the history of the timeline.
Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson
The full text of Henry Hazlitt’s excellent book, Economics in One Lesson is available here.
Five Simple Rules for Keeping an Empty Inbox
Okay, I’m not even sure I want a completely empty inbox, but Download Squad has some useful suggestions for downsizing your inbox,
- If you don’t need to read it now, it shouldn’t be in your inbox.
- If you’ve already responded to it, it shouldn’t be in your inbox.
- If it comes from a known source (some person, retailer or mailing list that sends you mail more often than once every few months) it should be labeled automatically.
- No one needs to look at their own inbox more than once an hour (and for many, once every 2-3 hours).
- To borrow from the cult of GTD, re-factor constantly and mercilessly
The article expands on how to actually do each of the above. For my part, I receive so much e-mail that I’m happy if I can keep my inbox under 100 e-mails.
Troyis
Okay, it does get boring after awhile, but Troyis is a fascinating little web-based game that involves moving a chess knight around a board to land on certain spaces within the allotted time.
Superhero/Supervillain Name Generator
What the world has definitely been missing is a Superhero/Supervillain Name Generator.