Links

On this page I collect some links where I think its worth visiting them sometimes. While most people only do that, I also put some links here, for sites that I think you should avoid.

Favorites

The order doesn't show any preference, it only shows how confused I am in remembering things.

• http://www.projectiwear.org
  This is the site of our project.
• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
  Have you ever asked your self if working with bits in C/C++ can be made faster and more low-level? Then this site is what you want.
• http://thedailywtf.com
  You saw some code and thought "WTF?"? Things can get worse here...
• http://www.univie.ac.at/Vergl-Physiologie/colortest/
  Are you colorblind? Test it with this applet (German only)
• http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/instant_photoshop.shtml
  Some tips and tricks to enhance your digital images with a few steps and photoshop. Has also some links to other great sites.
• http://css.maxdesign.com/selectutorial/index.htm
  Quite OK reference for CSS selectors and other CSS elements. In case you are not so sure about to what your CSS block applies, look it up here.
• http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trademarks/en-us.mspx
  Ever wondered what strange stuff M$ registered as trademarks?
• http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
  Do you have a graphics with some font you just cant identify? Give this site a try!
• http://www.lokalteil.com
  A nice pub just around the corner.
• http://learningforlife.fsu.edu/webmaster/references/xhtml/tags/index.cfm
  Unfortunately selfhtml isn't really clear about what is XHTML 1.1 and what not. This reference should clear things up, and help you to make your site valid XHTML 1.1.
• http://www.erik-krause.de/index.htm
  A few alternative ways to enhance your photos. Has also some nice hints for fixing chromatic aberration.
• http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/
  Although not 100% up to date, this is a great resource for beginners to the gcc compiler.
• http://quan.sourceforge.net/
  Did you ever had a bug in your software because of a wrongly applied physical formula, the lead to something with a different unit? Or did you just forgot to convert feet to meters? Or confused nautic miles by miles in the calculation? This library will help you preventing that. It can check your calculations on runtime, and error out if the outcome has another unit than what you assign to. And it will do automatic conversion of related units in calculations.
• http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm
  This is my favorite tool for creating panorama images, stitched together of multiple images. Depending of what version of the Panorama Tools is currently shipped with this program, you might want to get a newer version too. For sub-perfect (and most of them are) panorama images, you want to use enblend and/or smartblend too, they both can do a great job.

Avoid

• http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
  While at a first look, this site promises to give you lots of good information, it doesn't. Almost every benchmark is poorly written. Either it doesn't really benchmark what it promises, or its written so poorly that it can't do its job properly. An example is that all C programs are compiled for Pentium4 CPUs, while all C++ programs are compiled for a generic target.
  If you need a real comparison you want to base your decisions on, write your own benchmarks that reflect what you need and test them on your system with your implementation.
• http://www.vistaprint.de/
  (or any other of the vistaprint pages). Avoid them if you want quality better than last centuries printers. The printouts have totally different color than on my (calibrated!) monitor, and are so much darker than on my monitor or on my printouts, that they are totally unusable. And their "satisfaction guarantee" is just a bad joke. You should get the money back if you are not satisfied. But you just cannot tell them. Entering something into their contact forms either vanishes in /dev/null or you eventually get back an email, explaining that you should write an email to another address, which also gets never ever answered.
  You wan't quality printouts? Go elsewhere. Nothing to see here.

Contact

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