United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations maintains a huge list of city names for every country in the world with lots of other meta data like geographic coordinates, names without diacritics, subdivision (province, state, etc). You can simply view the data using their search options, or even better download the data in CSV or MS Access format! Â It’s not like you’ll need information like this every single day but potentially at some point in the future you’ll create an e-commerce site or just need to populate a database with more cities and information related to them than you’d ever be able to construct otherwise.
Keeping Track of Tasks
Tasktoy is a new web application that might get you on track to becoming more organized. It’s kind of a personalized homepage that contains your tasks and a Google Search box and customizable links. The theory being that in order for online task lists to work, you need to look at them often – so why not build them into a customized homepage? The execution here is quite nice and the application seems very functional, it will be interesting to see if this concept really takes off.
We have seen other examples of in-browser apps that are handy–often relating to web design or search engine optimization–and there is a lot to be said for having tools directly within a browser, as either an icon or a separate window.