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Those clever VisiBone people; the ones that create the lovely web colour charts etc. have come out with a beautiful map of the world that includes two letter internet country codes along with lots of other interesting details. The larger of the maps available is 122 x 61 cm (48 x 24 inch). So if you have ever wanted to know where .no is or wanted to register under .as, vie for a .vi address or join the crowed with a .me or .to, or get yourself on .tv now you can see where you have to go to get the right address. Note to .us, yes there is a whole world out there beyond .com so Fareoe Islands to you my friends.

Adobe have released their latest incarnation of Dreamwever as a public beta. I’m looking forward to playing with the CS4 incarnation of the web’s premier WYSIWYG development tool.

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Google Maps is great and for a long time now I have wanted to be able to leverage the  Google map technology for my own evil porpoises (Phocoena scelus). Well now I can and so can anybody thanks to the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. They have produced a nice program called the Google Map Image Cutter which can be used to slice and dice any large image into Google map segments and will also produce a web page with a Google map viewer embedded in it. Whilst the program is very simple I recommend looking over the readme file before you start playing. The program is written in Java and I can report from experience that it runs fine on XP and OS 10.4.

Photosynth is apparently a hot topic for the attendees at O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit (see Robert Scoble’s post on Pod Tech Network). I don’t normally put “Mind Blowing” and Microsoft in the same context but in this case having played with the tech demo I feel I must. The software takes a large collection of images of a building or place, analyses the similarities  between them and then builds a  navigable 3D space that represents the building and shows the relationship between each image. I have to say I have seen all sorts of ways of visualising image collections over the years but this takes the cake.

It has apparently been possible to run IE7 in stand alone mode since the earliest betas, but it has usually required a lot of hacking of your system. These guys (tredosoft.com) however have made it real easy, with a simple installer for IE 7 beta 3 (in stand alone mode). So if your like me and need to run IE6 and 7 simultaneously for web development, then head on over and yourself a copy.