Technical Revolution - but here in a cartoon world. About the upheaval of a steam robot world when they discover and use the electron ...
Linkblog - 18.2.2006 - 13.3.2006
Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo - and gets wonderfully roasted. Comment and link collection on the latest "they're just scripting languages" comment by James Gosling.
Apple applies for patents on feed viewer and browser - the next storm in the toilet walls. Winerians will gather and bash Apple. And everyone else will scratch their heads about what all the nonsense with the patents is actually about ...
Cassini Finds Signs of Liquid Water on Saturn's Moon - Enceladus may have liquid water. And so much of it that it can throw it around ...
P.K.K. - Purzel-Kollektiv Kübelreiter - I find purzeln cute.
Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development - the Waterfall development model is back!
Aries - Environmental Products, The Specialists in Biological Pest Control - some information about biological warfare against moths.
MP3 Python Module - simple lib for accessing MP3 information.
OPUS - Zivilrechtliche Ansprüche gegen unerwünschte Mitbenutzer von privaten Funknetzen - even with unprotected networks, there are claims for the operator against unwanted users.
aspectes.tigris.org - Aspect Oriented Programming for JavaScript.
CPU/MEM with swap on/off - the load plugin for the Nokia 770 to display memory and CPU load in a version that can enable/disable swap (provided you have set it up accordingly).
MANaOS 0.1.2 is out - MiniMo for Nokia 770 is slowly coming along. Ok, the installation is still a bit awkward (as root rights are required), but as a preview already quite nice.
Principia Discordia the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion Fnord! - Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
SharedAppVNC - interesting VNC variant that only replicates application windows, not the entire desktop. Also with special OS X support.
UFRaw - a free raw converter based on DCRaw and LittleCMS. Sounds quite interesting.
Blue Ball Machine - giant ball machine on a website. Beware, it has background music.
BranchBasedDevelopment - interesting list of points on how to work with branches in Subversion in a meaningful way.
Divmod - a whole series of very interesting Python projects. Of course, also its own web framework and its own ORM, but also a few smaller, interesting things like, for example, a Bayesian Classifier.
NASA World Wind - Software like Google Earth, but with NASA satellite images. Unfortunately only for Windows.
Disk Inventory X - also provides overviews of where disk space is lost, but with a very clever graphical display.
ID-Design, Inc. | WhatSize - provides a good overview of where disk space is consumed.
Monolingual - removes language versions of OS X that you never use. Brings back a lot of disk space.
Textpander - a very nice tool that automatically converts abbreviations into long texts. It works in all programs via the UI Scripting interface (so activate Assistive Devices in OS X Accessibility Preferences).
Hetima:SafariStand - yet another monster plugin for Safari that includes everything possible, filtering, colored source, thumbnail previews on tabs, page modification ...
Pimp My Safari - Plugins and tools around Safari.
stripsquad.se - very weird, very loud, very mean - I love it.
SurfRabbit - and another Greasemonkey-like tool for Safari (I don't know if the Rabbits are written in JavaScript, but the effects are similar).
Democracy Player - an RSS aggregator that expects BitTorrent files in enclosures and automatically downloads them. Many features, essentially implements TV-on-Demand.
Google Macintosh Dashboard Widgets - what you see is what you get. Google Dashboard Widgets for Google.
Growl! - everyone knows it by now, visually appealing info windows, can also be used from scripts.
Live Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow - interesting article about creating large images directly from thumbnails without changing pages. However, due to the invented attributes, it is not valid HTML4.
The Little Calculist: JavaScript language level - JavaScript as a language directly supported in DrScheme. This gives the brilliant tools of DrScheme for editing JavaScript as well.
Water: the structure and properties of liquid water - everything you want/should/know about water (yes, that H2O stuff).
RubyForge: Ruby Port to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet: Project Info - Ruby is now also available on the Nokia 770. With Python and TCL, that's quite a number of on-board programming languages.
Scsh PhotoBase - is a photo management software like iPhoto, but written in Scheme and for use over the web. So far only an announcement, but the source will definitely be released.
Tomato Torrent - a nice BitTorrent client for OS X.
Wasabi Systems has a quite useful analysis of what the GPL actually means for companies. Furthermore, there is also a chapter that deals with binary kernel modules - and why these represent a GPL violation.
Clim-Desktop project - first approaches for an integrated Common Lisp development environment based on the free CLIM implementation.
The Linux Kernel Driver Interface - why the Linux Kernel has not designed its internal kernel interfaces as a "stable binary interface" (or even as a "stable interface").
#4G European Grounded "Shuko" Adapter. Walkabout Travel Gear (tm) - Adapter for a bunch of plug formats on Schuko. Could be my savior if Expansys does not have the power supply for the i-Tech keyboard available in Schuko version ...
8-p.info - Creammonkey - something similar to Greasemonkey, but for Safari.
Bluetooth Security - Bluetooth Security - what's possible, what's being done, what's behind it.
Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - interesting article that covers a series of pitfalls when switching between IE and Mozilla.
PlayDeluxe Shop - Online-Shop - there's also an English-to-German adapter. Much cheaper. Search for "adapter englisch".
Know Your Enemy: Learning with VMware - how to build a virtual honeynet with VMware and see what and how is being hacked.
Snowball - finds word stems in various languages. Algorithms in a specially developed language. Practical for classic word lists.
Stéphane Ducasse :: Free Online Books - a whole series of free books about Smalltalk. Some are only scanned, some are real text PDFs. A whole series of classics are included.
ZNC - RottenBoy - interesting IRC bouncer (proxy) for multiple users. Significantly more powerful than the Muh I have used so far.
Gauche:ObjectiveCBridge - there is also an Objective-C Bridge for Gauche Scheme. However, with fewer sophisticated examples.