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.

This is a huge and useful list:

The full list of keyboard shortcuts includes:

• Win+Home: Clear all but the active window.
• Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop.
• Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window.
• Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically.
• Win+Down arrow: Minimize the window/Restore the window if it’s maximized.
• Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the window to each side of the monitor.
• Shift+Win+Left/Right arrows: Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.

You can also interact with windows by dragging them with the mouse:

• Drag window to the top: Maximize
• Drag window left/right: Dock the window to fill half of the screen.
• Shake window back/forth: Minimize everything but the current window.
• Double-Click Top Window Border (edge): Maximize window vertically.

Taskbar Shortcuts

In Windows 7, using the Windows key along with the numbers 1-9 will let you interact with the applications pinned to the taskbar in those positions – for example, the Windows key + 4 combination would launch Outlook in this example, or Win+Alt+4 can be used to get quick access to the Outlook Jump List from the keyboard.

You can use any of these shortcut combinations to launch the applications in their respective position on the taskbar, or more:

• Win+number (1-9): Starts the application pinned to the taskbar in that position, or switches to that program.
• Shift+Win+number (1-9): Starts a new instance of the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
• Ctrl+Win+number (1-9): Cycles through open windows for the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
• Alt+Win+number (1-9): Opens the Jump List for the application pinned to the taskbar.
• Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.
• Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons

In addition, you can interact with the taskbar using your mouse and a modifier key:

• Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.
• Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.
• Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).
• Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.
• Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.

More Useful Hotkeys You Should Know

The new hotkey goodness didn’t stop with the taskbar and moving windows around—one of the best new hotkeys in Windows 7 is the fact that you can create a new folder with a hotkey. Just open up any Windows Explorer window, hit the Ctrl+Shift+N shortcut key sequence, and you’ll be rewarded with a shiny “New Folder” ready for you to rename.

Here’s a few more interesting hotkeys for you:

• Ctrl+Shift+N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer.
• Alt+Up: Goes up a folder level in Windows Explorer.
• Alt+P: Toggles the preview pane in Windows Explorer.
• Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds Copy as Path, which copies the path of a file to the clipboard.
• Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds extra hidden items to the Send To menu.
• Shift+Right-Click on a folder: Adds Command Prompt Here, which lets you easily open a command prompt in that folder.
• Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display.
• Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out.
• Win+G: Cycle between the Windows Gadgets on your screen.

The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts – Windows – Lifehacker.

Ninite looks great: you select the apps you want from a whole great list of them, it then gives you a custom installer to save and that then goes and downloads and installs all the applications you selected.

Ninite Easy PC Setup and Multiple App Installer – Great For Win7 Upgrades.

Titanium allows you to develop apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OS and Linux using Javascript, CSS, HTML, Python, Ruby and now PHP.

Download Titanium | Appcelerator.

Oh the idiocy of it all!
In the Apple iPhone 3.0.1, you can set the default contact country by going to settings -> general -> International and then changing the region format. This means that even if you won’t see the country name in the contact, when you look it up in Google Maps for the location, it’ll add that country name to the address bar. (NB Not fixed in 3.1)

Outlook 2007 suffers from the same lunacy – In Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Formats Tab – this is where outlook gets the country from when adding new contacts. No, it doesn’t use the country in the you would have thought this is obvious ‘Location’ tab.

Not a big deal? So what if you’re an expat? Say you’re an Englishman living in Malaysia or Belgium or Holland. Yup, all the addresses you add will be in those countries, but you’ll manually have to set the country every time.

Memoriser is a utility to help you remember phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, birthdays and anything that is important for you to remember but you haven’t actually taken the time or effort to do so.

Define a question with an answer and let Memoriser quiz you until you remember this question’s answer without even thinking but just knowing the answer! Memoriser uses a scoring system to make sure that you focus more on questions answered incorrectly. Answering a question correctly increments the score. Correct answers will be asked less frequently than wrong answers.

via Skynergy Memoriser.

Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured MySQL management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server.

Usefull if you don’t want to upload all of phpMyAdmin

via Adminer.

The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing.

Haiku is a continuation of BeOS in open source form. Should be good!

via Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 | Haiku Project.

Using ctrl, win and / or alt you can move and shift your windows around. The utility is small and doesn’t require installation.

WinLayout Moves and Sizes Windows with Your Numpad – window manager – Lifehacker.

Stellarium is a hugely featured program to look at the night sky with. It’s written for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Stellarium.

Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you.

SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.

Of course it wouldn’t take long before a program was developed to rip music from spotify. Easy instructions in the link.

Ripping music from Spotify using Spotify Ripper | Spotifyripping.com.

Mp3Extractor is a tool for copying several portions from an MP3 audio file into new (numbered and tagged) MP3 files easily.

Mp3Extractor: the show cutter.

Heatmapper allows you to upload a map to it, and then walk around with your laptop with wifi on. When you get to a place, you click on it on the map and the signal strength of wifi is measured, creating a heat map.

Ekahau HeatMapper – The Free Wi-Fi Coverage Mapping Site Survey Tool.

Layar is a cellphone (Android only at the moment and limited to NL) augmented reality viewer. You point your phone at an object, it’ll show it through the camera and then it will show any notes or information about the object. Currently it has layers with Funda (which shows houses for sale) and a few other content providers. It’ll be quite some time before they allow you to add your own layers.

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook allows you to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 effectively with Google Apps. You get the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees can use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar.

via Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.

CSS 3 implements a system that allows you to assign shortcut keys (with alt or shift-alt modifiers) to links, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. This allows disabled people and people who don’t particularly like using the mouse to navigate the web much faster..