A thread of things you've found online

Things that you think others might like to check out.

Recently for me:

an iPlayer radio programme downloader
http://www.nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/
because I want to listen to the Great Gatsby on the train
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h2kvn

The MetOffice synoptic surface pressure charts
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/

Live air traffic map
http://www.flightradar24.com/

What have you got?

I love the surface pressure charts – it’s the only way I can really see what’s going on with the weather, very disappointing that they rarely show these on telly now.

File converter that seems to convert just about anything, handy if your stuck and need something quickly changed file format, does up to 100mb i think

Zamzar[/url]

Old OS Maps with overlay of Google Maps (with links to other old maps):

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html

Great little Unit Conversion Tool

portlyone you’ve made my day.

bing.com is better for sattelite maps than google as its slanted,

Thats my contribution, I’m leaving the house now,

nice one portlyone, just sent that site to my dad.

Been playing on this trying to find some new choons
http://www.music-map.com/

Where’s the path lets you put old and new OS maps side by side.

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Solves nearly everything math related. Ask it random questions as well.

http://cleverbot.com/

Have a chat with an AI which seems weirdly human.

portlyone – Member
Old OS Maps with overlay of Google Maps (with links to other old maps):

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/osmap.html

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Like the old maps although nothing has changed where I grew up hence we still have that map!

That ponies site is very useful in my line of work i.e. looking at old road layouts before by-passes etc.

Old Maps is great when looking at how cities spread. If you fancy looking how Manchester was laid out in 1772 try: http://manchester.publicprofiler.org/beta/index.php

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner.aspx

A really tidy way to line up international meetings across multiple time zones.

Old Scottish maps…

http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Am I going to get wet?

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Keeping me entertained today:

Photoshop Troll[/url]

The cat scan[/url]

essential resource for those interested in the underside of cats

Keeping me entertained today:

Photoshop Troll

http://www.photoshoptroll.com/grandfather-tricycle/

genius.

portlyone you’ve made my day.

+1zillion! Awesome!

Like the old maps although nothing has changed where I grew up hence we still have that map!

Quite the opposite here, Saltdean on the edge of Brighton where I am doesn’t exist in 1920 except for some coastguard cottages. Sadly Balsdean which does appear on the map and which I regularly ride through disappeared under Canadian shell fire during the war.

dammit – just wasted a bit of a sunny day looking at photoshop troll!

International jet setting business ace Flashheart wins!

Wind map of the USA
wind map[/url]

I love the Live Air Traffic Map, I can see the flights leaving heathrow from my window (4th Floor a couple of miles away) and I can see where they’re going!

Doesn’t show up the Eurofighter which I assume is coming from RAF Northolt doing practises for the ‘lympix.

No one noticed this yet??

Funny website this.. strange folk content

Like the old maps although nothing has changed where I grew up hence we still have that map!

When i was a lad, there was only one germany, there was no soviet union or yogoslavia, instead there was latvia, and lithuania, and estonia, and bosnia-herzegovina, serbia and croatia, kazakhstan, uzbekistan… and then it all changed. Then it all changed back again. This changes cost millions of lives. But they didn’t cost me a penny because I’ve still got my old map.

That ponies site is very useful in my line of work i.e. looking at old road layouts before by-passes etc.

I’ve got a set of plans of glasgow before the M8 was built – large enough scale to show individual house numbers and the names of businesses. Drawn on in coloured pencil in the new motorway, along with all the bits that were planned and never got built. Found them in a skip.

Wozza – Member
Keeping me entertained today:

Photoshop Troll

That is a work of genius – baiting of the highest order. Some of it was up there with the work of this guy: 27bslash6.com/[/url]