Archive for February, 2010

Connectivity Check

A very nice connectivity checker (global) to check your internet connection quality & performance.

http://www.speed.io/index_en.html

Work – Woking, UK – 10MB 1:1 Uncontended Leased Line – BT;
Speed Test  Work

Home – Leatherhead, UK – 16MB 20:1 Contended ADSL – Nildram / Tiscali;

Other similar tools;

http://www.loadingtest.com

http://www.myspeedtestonline.com

Ok, finally something that makes sense without affecting competition / markets in particular countries adversely / dissproportionately.

Check out the summary and sign the petition on the below;

http://www.avaaz.org/en/robin_hood/?cl=482453616&v=5428

Video Conversion

Great tool that’s really outperformed the other options I could find as concerns converting digital video files from one format to another. Been using their free version. Bit slower than some but the resulting video it creates is far more portable in that it is encoded in a fully standards compliant manner. A lot of other converters I’ve been using create converted video quickly but require very specific codecs to play back.

Prism Video Converter

PDF Annotation

An excellent (free) PDF annotation application!

http://www.docu-track.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer/download

Handy projector throw ratio calculator!

http://www.tigerav.com/Calc/ratio.html

WP SlimStat