Links to services, software, forums and other resources that I’ve found useful. If you find a broken link, or have an offering you think should be included - please get in touch.
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Services - meetings and scheduling
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Calendar scheduling tool for creating meetings
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What time is it around the world - and when should we meet?
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Multi-time zone meeting planner
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Services - file sync, transfer and backup
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Send up to 20 files or 2GB in one shot - held for 2 weeks...
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Awesome file sync service with desktop, Android and iPhone clients
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Gives you an online 5GB of space shareable to up to 9 people + unlimited PC to PC syncing
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Super simple file sharing application - up to 2GB
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Direct peer to peer transfers, up to 1G online, or more with download of app
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Another pipe-style file transfer application for big files
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Online backup
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Online backup
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Screen or call recording
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Online screencast capture tool
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Free screen recording for up to 10 minute clips
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Open source screen recorder
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Free call recorder for Skype
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Free tool for converting video files (can convert to flv)
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Browser based screencast recorder
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Screen and webcam recorder with export to YouTube and other formats
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Online screencast capture and hosting
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Media
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Powerful yet not too complex s/w for converting between video formats
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Great no-fuss DLNA server for streaming to your DNLA optimized TV
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Open source audio editor
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My go to CD ripping tool
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Multimedia codec analyser
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Free tool to convert from Media Center videos into something more portable (and auto-strip adverts)
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Simple but comprehensive tool to clean up TS video content from DVB signals and allow simple editing to remove adverts and trim recordings
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Media Player
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Photo album software
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Simply provides your photos as a screensaver - part of Google Pack
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Services
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UK TV listings service with PC and iPhone apps, plus weekly what to watch guide
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A great webmail service, although these days I've migrated to gmail
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Open source mapping
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Simple way to grab the fav-icon of your favourite site
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The best way to use Google Reader to scan the news-feeds
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Create fantastic word-cloud images
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Similar to wordle, but with custom shapes
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Uses google translate services to translate documents
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Tests your redirects to see if they're 301's and search engine friendly
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Check the details of your server responses
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Awesome way to scan the most important content from Google Reader
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Checks a file or URL for virus activity
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Simple site for creating QR codes
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Online file format conversion
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Avoids having to remember the ALT or HTML codes for special characters
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Super quick, easy tool for converting images to icon ico files
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Instant web hosting via zip file upload - no flash yet though
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Winner of LifeHacker best job-search engine
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Team task tracking & organization web-app
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Shopping & Shipping Services
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British food delivered anywhere globally via DHL
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British food delivered WW, with personal shopping service
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Want to buy me something?
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French post office service for printing shipping notices online
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Buy your Indian spices directly from India! Free shipping anywhere!
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Android
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Replacement for the stock launcher application
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Great syncing notebook
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Allows you to move apps to the SD card, to free internal memory
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Great multi-platform password application
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Travel Details app
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Excellent flight search & pricing tool with lots of control options
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Most excellent replacement keyboard
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Speed Trap detector
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Offline for the moment - but should be good when it returns
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Visualize utilization of internal or SD
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Simply the best RSS reader, syncs with desktop feedly and Google reader
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Download files from your online dropbox (doesn't sync)
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Podcast player
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Capable file manager
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Audio book service
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Addictive game
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Flight tracker
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eReader application supporting ePub and PDF files
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Check prices & buy from Amazon while you're in the store
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Audio book service that works with your own mp3 based eBooks
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Lets you click on a meeting access code, insert the local number, and dial
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Speed camera database
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Record video and broadcast, or upload later
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Track your frequent flyer miles
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Checks that your clock is in-sync vs the atomic clock NTP servers on the net
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The official geocaching app (although I've not found it to be very stable when out geocaching).
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Drop a web page from desktop to mobile to continue reading
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Find out what to do when travelling to a new city
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Outdoor mapping application with support for several open street map services
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Outdoor mapping application with support for French, Swiss, UK official raster maps
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Find out where the sun and moon will be at a certain time in the future, and visualize it on a map
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Task list app with promise. Currently syncs to google tasks but promises more.
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GPS and Maps
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Possibly the best photography geotagging tool I've discovered so far
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Geocaching Swiss Army Knife
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GPS file format conversion tool
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GPS file format conversion
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Straightforward app for managing tracks, waypoints on GPS (also does photo geotagging)
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For editing OpenStreetMap
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Utilities
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Package builder for quick multi-software installation
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Lifehacker's selection of the best software utilities
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Encrypted password archive - works well when combined with dropbox. Also available as a portable app.
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Simple but reliable CD and DVD burning software
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Great desktop based software for tracking GPS exercise logs
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Simple yet powerful freeware photo editor
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Powerful and robust backup software
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Free disk image backup software
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Disk defrag and other tools. I bought this, then returned it at the time as it didn't work on Win7.
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Clears out temporary files
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Excellently simple battery monitor
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Reliable, open source, free ftp client
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Open source file compression
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Free disk defrag software
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Cleans the **** from your system
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File undelete - should you ever need it
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Graphical viz of the files on your HD
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Alternative to Disk Space Fan for looking at HD utilization
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Copy utility that allows you to main timestamps on files and directories
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Firefox plugin to grab all files on or linked from a webpage
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Allows you to record and edit Skype video calls
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Comprehensive tool for analyzing and removing windows startup crap
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Fast free duplicate file finder - for when you're running short of disk space
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Find out which process is driving which window
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Easily save your wifi network credentials when re-installing windows
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Simple CPU monitoring app
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Applications
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Download the best web browser...
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Mind you - these days I've migrated most of my web browsing over to Chrome
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Excellent open source mind-map software - which I'm in love with as just about as much as you can be for an application!
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Mind-mapping: Successor to Freemind, created by some of the original development team
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The only text editor for windows you'll ever need
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Free, fast PDF reader, with ribbon interface, and ability to markup and create PDF files
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Fantastically fast replacement for Adobe Acrobat
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Freeform tablet whiteboard and note taker
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Open graph visualization tool (for org charts)
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Open source vector graphics editor
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Fast & powerful scientific calculator
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Hardware
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Discussion forums for Drobo
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Social Media
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Windows software to save and analyse tweets
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Online version of the same tool
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Create an online archive of tweets
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Integrates twitter into your talk / public speaking
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Satellite TV, Home Cinema
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Discussion on freesat PVRs
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Firefox Extensions
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Easy way to grab multiple files from a web page
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Chrome Extensions
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Blocks Ads!
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Allows you to open new links or links to specific sites in IE within a tab within Chrome
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Allows you to send web-pages from Chrome to your Android phone
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Replacement for the built-in SMS tool
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Grab current page URL in a format suitable for pasting into forums, html etc
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Squarespace
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The official Squarespace site.
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A blog straight from the mouths -- err, keyboards -- of Squarespacers.
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Squarespace release and service announcements.
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