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For one reason or another I’m always measuring images and other screen real estate in web pages or elsewhere. This recently got a lot easier when I discovered the MeasureIt add-on for Firefox. (Which fits snugly next to ColorZilla, the equally useful in-browser color picker.)

The “elsewhere” part has remained difficult until recently when I stumbled across the Wonderweb Screen Ruler. I find that I will leave it open and on top of the screen for easier use when working with graphics in web apps.

Truly a ruler of rulers.

This was surprisingly hard to find, but exactly what I was looking for. The Filter is a music recommendation engine that generates playlists from a Bayesian network of one’s listening habits. Select a song, hit “create playlist”, and it assembles some damn good, personalized playlists. For example, selected Chibo Matto’s Lint of Love churns out songs from:

Freaking sweet.

Someone has finally produced a decent front end to 7-Zip ! jZip is 7-Zip, but not irritating to use. Like 7-Zip, it should support all major (and many, many minor) archiving formats.