This means it can’t be installed on your new PC, when you replace your old one. It’s unknown what will happen when you upgrade components in your PC.
Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?.
Hola unblocker is a Firefox / Chrome extension that unblocks access to sites, such as BBC iplayer. What’s special about it, is it doesn’t work like a VPN solution and it doesn’t slow down the browsing experience.
There are loads of alternatives out there, this page gives you a good list per product.
Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software.
Today, when you enter a search term into Google, the company kicks off two separate but parallel searches. One runs against the traditional keyword-based Web index, bringing back matches that are ranked by statistical relevance—the familiar “ten blue links.” The other search runs against a much newer database of named entities and relationships.
This second brain is called the Knowledge Graph.
It’s based on Freebase. It’s a collaborative database—technically, a semantic graph—that grows through the contributions of volunteers, who carefully specify the properties of each new entity and how it fits into existing knowledge categories. (For example, Freebase knows that Jupiter is an entity of type Planet, that it has properties such as a mean radius of 69,911 km, and that it is the fictional setting of two Arthur C. Clarke novels.) While Freebase now hosted by Google, it’s still open to submissions from anyone, and the information in it can be freely reused under a Creative Commons license.
Metaweb had to break away from the classic relational-database model, in which data is stored in orderly tables of rows and columns, and build its own proprietary graph database. In a semantic graph, there are no rows and columns, only “nodes” and “edges,” that is, entities and relationships between them. Because it’s impossible to specify in advance what set of properties and relationships you might want to assign to a real-world entity (what’s known in database lingo as the “schema”), graph databases are far better than relational databases for representing practical knowledge.
Fascinating stuff on the future of Google Search.
Google Gets A Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search | Xconomy.
One of the problems DTN fixes is queueing transmissions, as transmitting to mars at the speed of light incurs an 8 second delay.
NASA fires-up experimental space Internet for robot control.
This allows you to share (a part of) your computer screen easily and without an account or installing any software.
Free Screen Sharing and Online Meeting Software | Screenleap.
safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source – like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, …, where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O errors.
via safecopy.
It turns out that basically copying succesful apps is the best way to actually make money on the app store.
The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed.
So they’re withdrawing Flash from Mobile and now from Linux as well. Are they committing sepukku? Air isn’t going to solve all their problems…
Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux « Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team Blog.
Driver Identifier scans your PC’s drivers and checks if there are newer versions. It then links you through to the new versions allowing you to keep your PC up to date easily.
Driver Identifier – Free Drivers Download – New Version 3.9.
Driver Sweeper is a fast tool to remove driver leftovers from your system. It’s very important to remove your drivers on a proper way, because driver leftovers can cause problems like stability and startup problems. You can use it if you want to update/remove drivers from your system.
Adobe Flash Player 11 brings Flash content to a whole new level. The new Stage3D APIs finally allow Flash developers to leverage the power of modern GPUs, allowing complex 3D games to run directly within the browser.
But what about your existing 2D content? Per default, your 2D applications and games won’t benefit from this new technology — the acceleration comes only through the use of the new APIs. But this is where Starling enters the stage.
via Starling Framework – The GPU powered 2D Flash API.
Enyo is an open source object-oriented JavaScript framework emphasizing encapsulation and modularity. Enyo contains everything you need to create a fast, scalable mobile or web application:
– Enyo powers webOS, and was designed from the beginning to be fast and work great on mobile devices
– Enyo 2.0 now runs across mobile environments and desktop browsers including Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer
– Enyo core can be expanded with modules, UI widgets, and more
– Enyo 2.0 core is about 13KB gzipped, and built for fast application rendering and performance
– Build increasingly complex functionality starting with simple, reusable components
– Enyo was created on the principles needed to build vast, complex mobile and web applications
– Enyo is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Enyo JavaScript Application Framework.
An excellent plan to make the future generations more than just users of software, but makers of software is being launched in the UK, where schoolkids will make 2D animations, program smartphone apps, etc. Sounds like they’ll have a lot more fun than they do now as well as learning something very very useful.
Kids should be making software, not just using it – Gove • The Register.
Chrome and Firefox do it, and it’s about time Microsoft did it! Well done on killing that old shit. It’ll be updated seamlessley for everyone with automatic updates on.
Microsoft to force IE auto updates – ZDNet Asia News.
OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more…
Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files.
via OpenedFilesView – View opened/locked files in your system (sharing violation issues).
Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools
via Page Speed Home.
Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art web application accelerator. You install it on your web server and it makes your website fly.
via Varnish Community | Varnish makes websites fly!.
Fresh WebSuction is designed for downloading Web pages or web contents (reference material, software files, online books, e-zines, news articles) for viewing offline
via Free offline browser | Fresh Websuction.
mycheckpoint is an open source monitoring utility for MySQL, with strong emphasis on user accessibility to monitored data.
It is SQL oriented: charts, reports and advances metrics are generated on the fly with views.
mycheckpoint highlights:
mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server.
vReveal 3 for Windows is the best solution to manage and fix the videos from your cell phone, HD camcorder, digital camera, or any other video device. It sharpens, it brightens, it twists and twirls and tweaks and steadies your video to crystalline perfection.
Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads).
Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation as a SWF 5 file might give better results.
via Google Swiffy.