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 A collection of sites with useful things.
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1   Link   Warning Label Generator
Advising people to the dangers of the situation has never been so easy. Simply pick a label style, a warning icon, and enter your desired text into a simple web form and voila, you’ve got a standup warning label. 		87
2   Link   Warning Sign Generator
A Vertical Style companion site to the warning label generator site. Advising people to the dangers of the situation has never been so easy. Simply pick a label style, a warning icon, and enter your desired text into a simple web form and voila, you’ve got a standup warning sign. 		103
3   Link   Tuxpi
The Tuxpi site offers a bunch of easy, one-click web-based tools for adding borders, captions, reflections, and other types of effects to your digital photos. You can turn any image into a postage stamp, wanted poster, pop art collage, and more. 		84
4   Link   Down For Everyone (or Just Me)
The 11th most popular tool on the web.

Down for Everyone or Just Me is a very simple service that indicates whether a site is down for everyone or if it's only down for you. Useful for testing sites that you suspect may not be working and identifying if it's just your connection or everyone.. 		116
5   Link   New Brighton Pier WebCam A
This web camera is collecting hourly images of the wave state for correlation with data from a City Council wave recorder 500m off shore and the Environment Canterbury wave recorder in deep water 12 km off Le Bons Bay.

This information will be used to refine the wave propagation computer model for Pegasus Bay from which the viability of an artificial surfing reef will be assessed.

Environment Canterbury covers a land area of 4,222,000 hectares from Kekerengu in the north to the Waitaki River in the south. The Main Divide forms the western boundary and the region extends 12 nautical miles into the Pacific Ocean.
Environment Canterbury has positioned its Cam-Era station overlooking Christchurch's New Brighton Beach – a sandy beach typical of those found along southern Pegasus Bay.
New Brighton Beach is a flat, medium to high energy beach that is composed of fine sands which, in the past, have been derived from the continental shelf but now have the Waimakariri River, 12 km to the north, as their predominant source.

Results from Environment Canterbury surveys conducted during the past 10 years have shown that Christchurch beaches, including New Brighton, have grown on average about 0.5 metres per year. The beaches however, have a history, which shows that periods of growth (such as that experienced over the last 10 years) are interrupted by periods of erosion that can result in shoreline fluctuations of many metres.

Prior to European settlement, the Christchurch sand dunes were dominated by native plants and, in particular the native sand-binder Pingao. The Pingao population was significantly diminished due to grazing and burning and today the introduced Marram grass is the main sand-binding plant found on the dunes.
Without proper management, sand dunes are highly susceptible to erosion by wind and from unmanaged public access. The Christchurch City Council's Coast Care unit undertakes management of the Christchurch beaches. Coast Care carries out a programme of dune stabilisation by managing public access, enhancing dune vegetation (including the re-establishment of native species), repairing eroded dunes and by constructing and maintaining sand fences. 		293
6   Link   New Brighton Pier WebCam B
Computer controlled video monitoring of the New Brighton Beach gives viewers a running display of coastal conditions along the Christchurch shoreline.
Environment Canterbury uses the information to help communities make better decisions about the long-term management of the region's sandy coasts.
Environment Canterbury is responsible for preserving the natural values of the region's coastal environment.
Environment Canterbury covers a land area of 4,222,000 hectares from Kekerengu in the north to the Waitaki River in the south. The Main Divide forms the western boundary and the region extends 12 nautical miles into the Pacific Ocean.
Environment Canterbury has positioned its Cam-Era station overlooking Christchurch's New Brighton Beach – a sandy beach typical of those found along southern Pegasus Bay.
New Brighton Beach is a flat, medium to high energy beach that is composed of fine sands which, in the past, have been derived from the continental shelf but now have the Waimakariri River, 12 km to the north, as their predominant source.
Results from Environment Canterbury surveys conducted during the past 10 years have shown that Christchurch beaches, including New Brighton, have grown on average about 0.5 metres per year. The beaches however, have a history, which shows that periods of growth (such as that experienced over the last 10 years) are interrupted by periods of erosion that can result in shoreline fluctuations of many metres.
Prior to European settlement, the Christchurch sand dunes were dominated by native plants and, in particular the native sand-binder Pingao. The Pingao population was significantly diminished due to grazing and burning and today the introduced Marram grass is the main sand-binding plant found on the dunes.
Without proper management, sand dunes are highly susceptible to erosion by wind and from unmanaged public access. The Christchurch City Council's Coast Care unit undertakes management of the Christchurch beaches. Coast Care carries out a programme of dune stabilisation by managing public access, enhancing dune vegetation (including the re-establishment of native species), repairing eroded dunes and by constructing and maintaining sand fences. 		301
7   Link   Tide Tables For New Zealand - NIWA
This utility can forecast high and low tides anywhere in open coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand for up to 28 days.
It also predicts historical tides back to 1830. This current version does not cover tides inside harbours and estuaries
Select where and when the tide forecast is required then press the "Calculate" button.
If you try specifying a harbour location that is not part of the model domain the nearest valid open-coast location will be used. Locations that are on dry land will also produce a result for the nearest coastal position, so care is needed when entering the latitude and longitude or clicking on the New Zealand map.
The Tide Forecaster uses a computer tide model developed by NIWA undervarious contracts from the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science & Technology and with assistance from LINZ.For most coastal locations the forecasts of high and low tides will be accurate within 0.1 m in height and 5-10 minutes in time. 		140
8   Link   The Rasterbator
The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture.

Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size. 		86
 

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