This runs as a java applet on your side and also analyses traffic on the university of Berkely servers, giving you a good view of connection problems from both inside and outside of your network. It takes a few minutes to run though. ICSI Netalyzr.
About a year ago, when Facebook set out to build its email-meets-chat-meets-everything-else messaging system, the company knew its infrastructure couldn’t run the thing. “[The Facebook infrastructure] wasn’t really ready to handle a bunch of different forms of messaging and have it happen in real time,” says Joel Seligstein, a Facebook engineer who worked on the Read more about Facebook: Why our ‘next-gen’ comms ditched MySQL[…]
Tribler is a social community that facilitates filesharing through a peer-to-peer (p2p) network. A p2p network is different from a centralised service, where every user downloads his files from one central server. With p2p, the user/downloader is also an uploader to another user. This way, there is no central computer required that provides every file Read more about Tribler – p2p searching[…]
With Sentenza you can compile what we call “webapp”, or “web applications”, for your jailbroken devices. These applications use the content as HTML/CSS/JavaScript. via Sentenza for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad) Jailbroken & Non-Jailbroken Devices.
Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste text to any Read more about PureText[…]
This is a really risky move, as they risk alienating their Gnome supporters as well as all the buggyness that a shift from X (a stable platform) implies. However, they want more scaleability to the portable and phone markets and they can’t do it without building a new interface from the ground up like IOS Read more about Ubuntu Unity moving from X.org to Wayland[…]
Or, if you sync with multiple computers, this should work easily and for free. Works with Mac and PC. MediaRover: Bring Your Family’s iTunes Libraries Together.
Paste your data into it and choose a way to visualise – there are loads of different options. You can also explore the visualisations that have allready been made, also many available. Many Eyes.
Prying OpenOffice development from Oracle’s hands is the Document Foundation, who have rebranded the OpenOffice and are continuing in the way that they think it should go. Welcome to The Document Foundation! – The Document Foundation.
Scrapetorrent is a torrent aggregator, which currently searches 14 sites and removes duplicates as well as checks for verified torrents. Version 3 – ScrapeTorrent.com.
This is a bittorrent site with a penchant for movies and a very nice indexing system
This works on laptops and is very customisable. MouseFIGHTER – mouse free PC !.
Basically it’s a web based virtualbox interface that allows you start or stop virtual machines as well as change their settings. phpvirtualbox – Project Hosting on Google Code.
This list includes distros for specific tasks: Damn Vulnerable Linux Tinfoil Hat Linux CAINE (digital forensics) CAELinux (engineering) a gaming linux Parated Magic (for manipulating your hard disk) Musix GNU + Linux (for making music) ZeroShell (for embedded systems) Mythbuntu and some very very small distro’s. 12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux Read more about 12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros – operating systems, open source, Linux – Good Gear Guide[…]
This package gets into your Windows boot and measures how long everything takes to start up, then reccomends which software to remove from the boot process, or put on a delay so that it starts up later. It gives details of the processes as well as showing you what other users with the same program Read more about Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software[…]
Bulent’s Screen Recorder Fraps Zoneminder AV Webcam morpher – also changes your voice
The Apple / Adobe Flash spat has reached a new level, with Adobe having a good laugh: The best selling iPad App, Wired’s June Edition, it turns out, was built using Adobe’s new Adobe Digital Publishing Technologies. “Bwahaha!” says Adobe. “We Were Behind Wired’s iPad Magazine All Along!”. The Digital Publishing Platform being developed by Read more about Adobe behind best selling iPad app[…]
Google has opened up VP8 for anyone to use and encode in, as well as giving out the SDK – so now you have a free and open option over H.264 for web video. The WebM Project : tools : VP8 SDK.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off. Workspaces Ctrl + Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down arrow – move to the workspace in the given direction Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Left/Right arrow – move the current window to the workspace in the given direction Super Read more about Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04 | Tombuntu[…]
Shows bluetooth devices on a radar type display. Because it can. In windows. Bluetooth Radar.
Synergy is a system that allows you to control multiple computers (with multiple screens) with a single mouse and keyboard. It also supports clipboard sharing. To install it, though, for Linux or Mac, all you had was command line. QSynergy gives you a GUI to set it up on Linux, Mac and Windows. QSynergy — Read more about Synergy updates[…]
Launch regedit.exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer AdvancedGo to Edit->New->DWORD 32-bit ValueName the value LastActiveClick Hit enter to assign the value and change it to 1Restart Explorer and you're good to go. via Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack – Windows Tip – Lifehacker.
3RVX shows you the PC volume level on your screen in a skinnable format. matt.malensek.
CWE – 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.
Barcelona, Spain (February 15, 2010) – Face.com has powered the first-ever “Social Augmented Reality” app, developed by Comverse, Harnessing Face.com’s superior facial recognition algorithms and its enormous database of faces, the “Social Augmented Reality” app functions in multiple capacities: * Friends: When two friends are together and one wants to see the other’s photos, the Read more about Facial Recognition Augmented Reality App[…]