Always on the look out of stupidly simple, nice to use web apps. Heres one that lets you create (and edit) an avatar for yourself. Not only can you choose from a large range of features to create your avatar, but they make it a piece of piss to use the avatars on third party sites such as this one.
Get your avatar here: www.doppelme.com
Heres mine: 
With the new release of JQuery come a lot of new features and goodies. Hers a great run down of whats new: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/jquery-1-4-released-the-15-new-features-you-must-know/
1) Connect a cable
2) Applications -> Settings -> Wireless controls -> Mobile network sharing
3) ifconfig -a and you will see the phone appear as a network connection with
4) sudo ifcofng usb0 up
5) sudo dhclient usb0
6) Surf away!
Ive seen idiots faffing around with openVPN rooting their phones and arsing about with the android sdk to do something that works out of the box. -.-’
It’ll work on most distros it depends only on the rndis_host and the rndis_wlan modules.
And yes this post was made through my eeepc tethered to my mobile.
Enjoy!
thumbnails with imagemagick
So you want little square thumbnails like Flickr. Here is a bash script that uses imagemagick to generate square thumbnails.
makethumb:
#!/bin/bash
#
# makethumb
#
# A bash script to generate square thumbnails using imagemagick.
#
# Feel free to use and abuse, its just a script. Requires imagemagick!
# See www.websurfshack.net for more stuff like this
#
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
echo "Usage: makethumb source_file [size] [output file]"
echo ""
echo "e.g."
echo " makethumb large.jpg"
echo " makethumb large.jpg 65"
echo " makethumb large.jpg 45 thumb.jpg"
echo " makethumb large.jpg 25 thumb.gif"
echo ""
echo "Note: You may specify an output file of a different type to the source. The image will be converted automatically to that type."
echo ""
exit
fi
if [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
echo "Input file "$1" not found. Please specify a valid input file!"
exit
fi
ORIG_FILE="$1"
if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
SIZE="45"
else
SIZE="$2"
fi
if [ "$3" = "" ]; then
THUMB_FILE="THUMB_${ORIG_FILE}"
else
THUMB_FILE="$3"
fi
echo "Creating ${SIZE}x${SIZE} thumbnail '${THUMB_FILE}' from source image '${ORIG_FILE}'"
#Grab the image dimensions
WIDTH=`identify -format '%w' ${ORIG_FILE}`
HEIGHT=`identify -format '%h' ${ORIG_FILE}`
echo "Source image is ${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT}"
if [ $WIDTH = $HEIGHT ]; then
echo "Image is already square so just resizing..."
`convert ${ORIG_FILE} -thumbnail "${SIZE}x${SIZE}" -strip ${THUMB_FILE}`
else
if [ $WIDTH -gt $HEIGHT ]; then
echo "Image is landscape"
`convert ${ORIG_FILE} -resize "x${SIZE}" -gravity NorthWest -crop ${SIZE}x${SIZE}+0+0 +repage -strip ${THUMB_FILE}`
fi
if [ $WIDTH -lt $HEIGHT ]; then
echo "Image is portrait"
`convert ${ORIG_FILE} -resize "${SIZE}" -gravity NorthWest -crop ${SIZE}x${SIZE}+0+0 +repage -strip ${THUMB_FILE}`
fi
fi
NEWFILEDATA=`identify ${THUMB_FILE}`
echo "Output file: ${NEWFILEDATA}"
echo "Done!"