When we're working on our websites we'll often want to horizontally center a DIV containing some text/images, or both.

As most people know, MSN Messenger is a popular IM client. But it's also very buggy and it's common to get problems and errors which crash MSN, or fail to connect.

aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, which actually works really well. It's customizable, by default looking very similar to the new MSN client. It has smileys, supports webcam video chat, and virtually all of the useful and popular features of MSN Messenger. It's also quick to download, very easy to install, and intuitive to start using.

http://www.amsn-project.net/

We all know that every time we encode (or re-encode) an MP3 file, we lose some quality, as it is a lossy format.

But sometimes we'd like to be able to trim or crop an MP3 file, to get a segment of a speech or song for example, without losing further quality in the audio file.

This is a great little Firefox addon, which lets you quickly and easily grab either a specific portion of a webpage, or an entire webpage, and turn it into an image.

FLV, or Flash video files, are everywhere these days. Sometimes people will download an FLV file and want to extract the audio from it, as an MP3 or WAV file for instance. All you need to do this is a brilliant tiny little free piece of software.

Most people usually only need an image editor to do simple tasks, such as resizing an image, cropping images, adding text to their image and so on. You don't actually need any software installed to do this - you can just use a free online image editor website!

The Internation Space Station (ISS) can be tracked real-time on google maps!

Codecs can get in the way quite often when we're working with various formats of video files, but here is a method which can be used to open mp4 files using Virtualdub.

This is something I've been meaning to do for a while, and it turns out its pretty simple to use CSS to style your search box to look however you'd like.

Here's how to do it.