In this entry, I record down some good WordPress plugins that I am very interested in giving them a try.

FlickrRSS Plugin (from eightface): Allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your WordPress site.

Transpose Email: Keeps your email safe from spammers when you want to use mailto: links.

Customizable Post Listing: Displays recent posts, recently commented posts, recently modified posts, random posts, and other post listings in an easily customizable manner.

WP-CC Plugin: Facilitates the usage of Creative Commons licenses on your WordPress site.

Kimili Flash Embed Plugin for WordPress: Allows you to embed Flash formatted object into your WordPress posts.

Update: I have already installed them (and are happy with them all)!

Flash Earth by Neave Lab

What a wonderful Flash application! It is super easy to navigate the Earth. I only use a few minutes to locate clearly my apartment in Hong Kong. I will play it with my children and tell them something about our Earth.

By following on who create this program, I find Neave Lab. It is about interactive experimentation in Flash and ActionScript. I am not quite sure whether it is a personal website or a company lab. Anyway, shall keep looking at it. Its Flash products are very interesting.

Via Download.com, I get this great image viewing and editing tool by FastStone Soft. This company has some other software tools that are also offered as freeware. They include Image Viewer, Screen Capture, Photo Resizer, Web Browser, Media Player, and Game (Pacman).

FastStone Soft specializes in Media Processing Research. We are developing free programs to share our ideas with people and hoping that these programs can be useful for people worldwide.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet should be available for sale in Hong Kong around the end of this year. I hope it will not be priced too high (below HK$3000) in Hong Kong so that I can convince myself to buy one. Main features according to Nokia:

• Easy, broadband access over Wi-Fi.
• A truly portable, elegantly-sized tablet designed for effortless surfing.
• Impressive hi-resolution widescreen display and intuitive interface are optimized for online browsing.

The following lists a number of good product reviews:

1. jkOnTheRun (June 27, 2005)
2. Internet Tablet Talk
3. Nokia 770 Blog

Comprehensive lists of free Java books collected and recommended by www.KickJava.com and TechBooksForFree.com.

• Free Java books
• Free books on Java

Our universe as a computing machine. Yes, I started to think about this when I was in secondary school. The picture comes closer and clearer to me year by year. Read the following article and I hope you can share what I think from time to time.

We Are the Web (By Kevin Kelly)

The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people.

There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born.

You and I are alive at this moment.

Our Machine is born. It’s on.