Shorten The Road

Here is another one of my links that I unfortunately don’t get to use too often:

http://bankdeals.blogspot.com/

If you have a little money to tuck away somewhere and you want to make sure you get the best interest rate, this is a great site to start with. The blog is full of information regarding savings/CD/money market rates across the country.

Hope all of you enjoyed your holiday (Labor Day) weekend; we got some nice weather in the tri-state area.

I recently stumbled across this site.

http://www.ipod-video-converter.org/

This software can convert your DVDs into the iPod format with a variety of options. During the conversion process you will be able to choose the video size, video quality and audio quality. Of course, the higher these settings are, the greater the disk space consumption will be. The conversion process can take a long time, so the “shut down computer automatically after conversion” comes in handy.

Time to take a break and play a game. Here is an old link in my favorites. Enjoy!

http://www.widro.com/throwpaper.html

This is a great game for conference calls that you need to pay attention to, but not a primary participant. Although I try to multi-task on conference calls, there are a few calls that need a little more attention which disrupts the multi-tasking, but does not require enough attention to keep me fully engaged. This is a nice lite-weight distraction.

Getting on a plane and you have not caught up on all the Shorten the Road posts? Or by some small chance you have other websites you frequent in which you are not up to date on? HTTrack is a neat little utility which will help you browser websites offline.

http://www.httrack.com/

HTTrack helps you facilitate downloading WWW sites into a local directory on your computer. It even has options to help you streamline your downloads; for example you can choose to exclude or include links based on a variety criterion.

Bubble Game.

I was cleaning up some folders and came across this project. It is a very simple java applet game which the player, utilizing their mouse, ‘pops’ the circles by clicking inside the circumference of the circles.

It can be played at:
http://www.martinbutler.com/Bubble/BubbleGame.html

The code, along with the comments, should be self explanatory, but if you have any questions please let me know.

java files:
http://www.martinbutler.com/Bubble/BubbleGame.java
http://www.martinbutler.com/Bubble/Bubble.java
http://www.martinbutler.com/Bubble/CanvasPanel.java
binary:
http://www.martinbutler.com/Bubble/Bubble.jar