The new bi-lingual website which has been produced  for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law went live today. The website utilizes the bespoke content management system built by myself and makes use of Wufoo for online form submission.

The website can be viewed at:

http://www.esil.law.cam.ac.uk

This is a really cool article! Brings back memories.

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/popular-search-engines-in-the-90s-then-and-now/

Ever need to get hold of an older version of Firefox? Look no futher than here:

http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php

I have just launched the new Squire Law Library website the new website makes use of the existing Cambridge University look and feel but incorporates features from the newly launched Faculty of Law website.

www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk

Well, installing the BeBox last night was simple.  The main problem was that my home network was hard-coded to 192.168.0.x IPs, and the Be modem defaults to 192.168.1.x.  Once that was all fixed, the Be instructions were fine (although they could have described the internal menus of the Speedtouch a little better).  The line was already activated, and I immediately synced at around 18/1.5.

I couldn’t wait to get onto Speedtest, and the outcome was:

Not too shabby!  Nowhere near the theoretical 24mb maximum, but still three times the average I used to get.

I then swapped back in my Linksys WAG54GX2 as I suggested in my earlier post.  This didn’t actually make any changes to the speeds at all, but at least it meant I didn’t have to set everything up again.

The real effect came when I decided to hit a couple of big torrents this morning, to see how the extra bandwidth would affect day-to-day use:

Wowsers.  I just showed those to a colleague who’s on 2mb cable, and his response was unprintable!

Dan

I am a heavy Firefox user and my experience is made much more pleasurable by using foxmarks its actually in the process of changing its name to Xmarks. I presume they are doing this because they are no going to be supporting Internet Explorer and Safari aswell as Firefox. This is a good call in my opinion because if you work across multiple operating systems and are forced into using multiple browser types having this is just awesome. I have noticed some oddities in some of my bookmarks / favourites in Internet Explorer with some entries that look like this… “—“ etc I presume these are dividers which have been pulled over from Firefox.

However what I am going to do is have a massive cull of bookmarks and see if I can keep my bookmarks in order across a multitude of computers browsers and operating systems.

One issue that’s bugging me though is that I will have to install clients for each browser on each machine. I already use Live MESH to sync Internet Explorer favourites but mesh doesn’t extend to Linux (unless you use some cunning virtualization).

Is the best solution here to start a clean slate delete all your default bookmarks / favourites? Then get syncing!

Official Old Site: http://www.foxmarks.com/

Official New Site: http://www.xmarks.com/

This cake was actually made to mark the end of term of one of our Academic Secretaries however it also coincided with the launch of Faculty of Law’s University of Cambridge 2nd website. The website boasted many features before its time and has now been replaced with more modern and more feature packed site.

For the next few days I am giving an interesting service / application a go, its called Spotify. My friend Stephen recommended it to me. It streams music over the web directly to your computer it could be just the thing out there for all those netbook and SSD users!

Check back soon for a review!

In mean time get streaming:

http://www.spotify.com/en/

Switch off the Menu Bar in Firefox similar to Internet Explorer 7 / 8.

Download: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3895

I build and maintain quite a few web apps at work, one thing they dont have is a standard set of icons. This free set that is available from www.webappers.com is a much appreciated addition to the wonderful world of web 2.o.