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 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 have done.

Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software.

Bulent’s Screen Recorder
Fraps
Zoneminder
AV Webcam morpher – also changes your voice

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 + E – “expo” effect, shows all workspaces (move windows with left mouse button, zoom to a workspace with right mouse button)

Window Management

• Super + W – “scale” effect, shows all windows in current workspace (left click selects window, middle click closes window, right click zooms window)
• Super + A – “scale” effect, shows all windows
• Alt + F10 – toggle maximize current window
• Alt + F9 – minimize current window
• Ctrl + Alt + D – toggle show desktop
• Alt + Middle mouse button – resize window
• Alt + Left mouse button – move window
• Alt + Right mouse button – window menu
• Alt + F7 – move current window (without holding down mouse button)
• Alt + F8 – resize current window (without holding down mouse button)
• Alt + Tab – switch windows on current workspace
• Ctrl + Alt + Tab – switch windows on all workspaces

Accessibility

• Super + Mouse wheel scroll – zoom screen
• Super + Middle mouse button – draw rectangle to zoom to
• Super + N – invert colours of current window
• Super + M – invert colours of screen (Compiz is configured for this shortcut, but the messaging indicator seems to have taken it over so it doesn’t work)

Ubuntu Community Documentation has more on keyboard shortcuts (although some of it is outdated now for Ubuntu 10.04). You can view and change some shortcuts using System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts.

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 — www.volker-lanz.de.

Synergy itself hasn’t been updated in a few years (since 2006, though it still works under windows 7), and since then a fork has come up called Synergy+ which has dived into the bugs and is an active project.

Synergy+

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.

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 software will recognize the friend and offer direct links to his or her profile and pictures.

* Business: At the office, a colleague might request that you remind him or her about a report that is due. A quick scan and the app will identify the individual, allowing you to message him or her without ever looking through your address book.

* Acquaintances: The app has the potential to connect people before they even know each other’s names. If you bump into someone who you met before and he or she looks familiar but you can’t remember why, the app will locate that person’s online profile to put a name to the face.

“Augmented reality was the first step to bridging the gap between on- and off-line worlds; now our technology takes it further,” said Gil Hirsch, CEO, Face.com. “The Comverse app, utilizing Face.com facial recognition technology, closes the loop by merging face-to-face with virtual social communication.”

via The Facial Recognition Augmented Reality App That Could Revolutionize Stalking [Augmented Reality] | TechBlogs Today.

So it’s a little like having a name whisperer on your phone, then?

Google has a setup of 8 LCDs and a commercial space mouse thing which allows you to fly through Google Earth and use Streetview in an immersive environment.

YouTube – Google Liquid Galaxy live demo at TED.

Holodeck

This torrent search engine is different in that it only indexes magnet links, which should be more robust due to the more distributed nature of magnet links.

TorrIndex.

Prism HUD is a resource monitor for windows that pops up information about memory, network, disk or cpu useage once the values exceed a certain threshold. Free download.

Prism HUD – Features.

creating a folder with the following name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

creates a control panel which contains all the other weirdly placed, hard to find control panels.

Understanding Windows 7’s ‘GodMode’ – windows 7 – Gizmodo.

Using Titanium you can develop desktop, android or iphone applications using your favorite web technology, such as PHP, HTML or Javascript.

Developing desktop applications by using web technologies – ThinkPHP /dev/blog.

You can record your screen, do picture in picture, record output from your webcam, save as AVI, convert to SWF, annotate – all for free!

CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software.

This amazing piece of software allows you to rotate an object in front of your webcam and it’ll build a 3D model of it. It has a very good tracking system, so it can follow the model as it’s moved left or right.

Cambridge University Engineering Department – Qi Pan.

It’s easy: you set a start and end point in the DVD and you get a mini VOB file to convert to whatever you like and do with whatever you like before having to rip the entire DVD…

DVD Knife 3.0 – Extract clips from your DVD by DVD Knife.

Web applications have evolved from simple HTML pages into rich, interactive applications that provide a great user experience. Today’s web apps pose a challenge for developers, however: how do you create and maintain efficient JavaScript code that downloads quickly and works across different browsers?

The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient. The Closure tools include:

A JavaScript optimizer

The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, high-performance code. The compiler removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it downloads and runs quickly. It also also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls. These checks and optimizations help you write apps that are less buggy and easier to maintain. You can use the compiler with Closure Inspector, a Firebug extension that makes debugging the obfuscated code almost as easy as debugging the human-readable source.

A comprehensive JavaScript library

The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.

The Closure Library is server-agnostic, and is intended for use with the Closure Compiler.

An easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript

Closure Templates simplify the task of dynamically generating HTML. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you use one big template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface.

Closure Templates are implemented for both JavaScript and Java, so that you can use the same templates on both the server and client side. For the client side, Closure Templates are precompiled into efficient JavaScript.

via Closure Tools – Google Code.

DTN (Delayed-Tolerant Networking) was invented to allow packets with huge lags to be sent and received – this is especially important when sending packets to, say, Mars, but is also very useful in mobile environments (where packet delays when changing base stations sometimes cause a drop from the network). Android incorporates it and satellite based Cisco routers will be testing it for use here on earth.

Buitenaards net-protocol komt naar Aarde | Webwereld.