Intaglio — Macintosh Drawing & Illustration - looks good, I should check it out. Specifically, the ability to use texts as paths could be interesting for me
Archive 15.12.2008 - 6.2.2009
VectorDesigner - and another graphics software that I should take a look at. Vector graphics would also solve some of the text problems (for SL I sometimes need text on paths and text as paths, which is rather cumbersome to do with Acorn).
Moving Forth: Part 1 - makes one nostalgic when reading the descriptions of old CPUs and still knowing the registers by name.
Wolfram Mathematica Home Edition - woooohooooo!! Wolfram finally sees the light! Ok, after clicking on the store, not available for your region. WTF?
NodeBox 2 - mean. Pictures and movies, but no test download! They can't do that to me, something like that!
US-Hacker copies RFID badges unnoticed - but our prolethicians, and above all the federal interior minister, claimed that such things would only be science fiction nonsense. And anyone who is against the RFID chips in the badges is simply a paranoid person. Why doesn't the bunch in Berlin even bother anymore when they try to screw us around?
Nokia pushes through surveillance rights for emails - we buy ourselves a government. The model will certainly soon be adopted in Germany by various large employers (Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Telekom anyone?).
Filter Forge - wow, they have a Mac beta! And it works in Photoshop Elements (though only on Windows - on OS X apparently only the big packages. Damn). Hmm, I think that would be something to test - because seamless textures is the only reason why I still need Windows, even if it's only in an emulation.
Imagelys Picture Styles - yet another generator for tileable textures. This one is free, so I should at least take a look. Unfortunately, it's only for Windows again. Somehow, there's nothing decent for Mac in this area.
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine - in Lua. And it's available for Mac as a Universal Binary. Screenshots look quite nice.
Online Backup: Multi-Platform, Multi-Computer | SpiderOak, Inc. - sounds like DropBox. Funny enough, also in Python (though only the server, with DropBox it's also the client). Also interesting: they publish a number of OpenSource components that they have written. Particularly the transaction-secured file system based on SQLite looks interesting.
Patterns in Python - and why many patterns are trivial with Python.
Darwin/x86 Boot Loader - interesting details on how PS2 devices are (no longer) supported under OSX. Could this serve as a starting point for elantech drivers for the Eee-PC? Somehow I want and need to get rid of the stupid touch-click.
How To Migrate from Parallels to VirtualBox - might be a good idea, as VirtualBox is free - and should also run on my Asus. And yes, it's completely crazy to have virtualization running on a netbook. But OS X also runs on mine.
New in JavaScript 1.7 - because one often forgets that JavaScript can be a quite nice language. Especially the newer versions have learned interesting features.
Data Mining with R: learning by case studies - I should check this out, I have a few data sources that could use more intensive mining.
Op-Ed Contributor - The One-State Solution - by Qaddafi. Yep, that Qaddafi. And yes, it actually makes sense.
XBinary: Extended Binary Format Support for Mac OS X - looks quite interesting.
TimeMachine fails backup - InsanelyMac Forum - there are tips on how to get Time Machine to fly. At least it works with an eee-PC that has an Airport card (the Ralink drivers are said to conflict with the patch).
Weekend Grid Outages - SL now uses Django internally (last paragraph)! Not the only interesting point, a few nice insider information regarding the service design. As with all such projects, apparently a grown chaos of poorly scalable approaches.
how to find mac os x application specifier for preferences - since I only have 600 pixels in height on my EeePC, but some dialogs are larger (and you need to get to the things at the bottom): there is help. Mac OS X is already a fine system.
Kim Keever - very interesting photographic technique based on dioramas. Beautiful images.
The Impossible Project - hmm. New Polaroid - this could be fun. Unfortunately only integral film, not pack film, which I would be much more interested in (since I have a pretty awesome pack film camera with my 660SE).
Bubble, bubble toil and trouble: Juice Analytics - Bubble Charts with Nodebox (which means Python). Very nice - and I am an absolute Nodebox fan. For me a very nice prototyping environment. With very useful libraries.
OS X on the EeePC - works. The linked snap shows my EeeBook with NetNewswire in the foreground, notes and a shell (where software is currently being installed with MacPorts) in the background. EeePC: 350 Euro. RunCore 64 GB SSD (fast!!): 199 US$. 2GB memory upgrade: 25 US$ (and I'll also replace the WiFi card so I can use the native drivers, so another 30 Euro). Finally Windows-free: priceless.
Dark Roasted Blend: Weird "Walking" Frogfish - evolution had clearly had one too many.
eee Mac journey: EEE Boot: Installing OSX on an EEE PC 901 or 1000 with an original Apple Install Disk v1.09 - ok, I think I'll buy a USB DVD drive today or tomorrow. OS X on the little fat one? I have to see this!
English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses - nuclear. lighthouse. ouch.
RunCore 256GB Pro III Hyper Speed 2.5" SATA Solid State Drive - sorry, I'm drooling on my keyboard while reading the specs. Does anyone have a cloth? This could be the dream for my MBP. An entire edge larger than the built-in drive, and definitely faster. And quieter. And with less power consumption.
The Secret of the Missing Books - and another DRM debacle, this time eBooks.
iUI Introduction Wiki Page. - great if you want to quickly visualize simple data so that it is practically accessible on the iPhone. The overhead for simple pages is very low and due to the strong JavaScript orientation, the data volumes are also very compact - which gives very good response times on the iPhone.
PyCha - no idea if I already had this, but used it for the first time today, a small and fine Python library that builds on Cairo and generates simple charts. Many annoying standard items are handled very nicely automatically and the results also look good!
Jörg Schieb - iTunes verzichtet auf Kopierschutz - and hopefully buries the DRM nonsense in the industry. With two major portals - iTunes and Amazon - without DRM, the topic should hopefully be settled. But that Apple, as usual, immediately torches the iTunes servers and cuts off the purchase option, suddenly no longer offered, is quite ridiculous. Don't they expect their users to actually want to use these update offers?
Monsters - isometric monster tilesets! Yay! (found on the shockwave)
pure-lang - not that we need more programming languages, but this one builds on LLVM as a backend, which opens up very interesting possibilities (especially in terms of performance).
The RLTiles - and even more isometric tilesets for monsters etc. (also found on the Shockwave)
Vx32: Lightweight, User-level Sandboxing on the x86 - interesting concept based on processor virtualization.
Cython: C-Extensions for Python - successor to PyRex, a Python-like language for creating native code extensions for Python.
Mobile Django Admin Patches - Shifting Bits by Patrick Altman - use Django Admin via iPhone. Nice feature.
DigitalSpace Traveler : Traveler - early virtual world with voice integration.
Improve Your Photo Booth With 90 Free Effects - pointless, but funny. The video effects also work with iChat video chats.
Raw Photo Processor (RPP) - sounds very interesting, I should check it out. Normally I am satisfied with Lightroom - and thus Adobe Camera Raw - but for some images one could invest a bit more energy and time and then this could be quite interesting.
uninformation.org: Arbeitswelt 2.0, or: The Dot-Com Death is Back! - just read it, just follow the links, just think about whether you shouldn't pay more attention to more solidity as an employee in the world of work.
ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling package - this one is for Blender. Looks very nice, but will I be able to get it to fly?
Tree making - with ngplant. Looks very interesting.
Yorik's blender greenhouse - lots of Blender models of plants. Also a good starting point if you need 2D alpha textures (like I do for SL).
Arbaro - tree generation for povray - can also generate .obj files. Could be quite useful for me, because I always need my own plant textures from time to time (and I can have them rendered by povray)
AUST TOMTREE - PovRay Macro Package for Trees (required by Pov-Tree)
MacMegaPov Index - good mac version of PovRay with small GUI for the parameters.
POV-Ray: Documentation - together with Arbaro, this gives me really nice trees and bushes!