iPhoneModem

Unbelievable but true: Apple doesn’t offer any way for you to use your iphone as a modem for your computer. Fortunately, if you have a jailbroken iphone, this app alows you to tether your PC to your iphone and internet off a BIG screen!

Ubiquity for Firefox

Ubiquity adds a whole load of command line functionality to Mozilla Firefox – email content on the pages, look it up in wikipedia, loads and loads of commands, and you can teach it your own commands too. There are as many user programmed commands out there now as there are extensions!

Subtitles

This page links to a program that allows you to create subtitles for movies, but also to subloaddownloader, which finds them for you. Sublight also downloads and manages your subtitles

Cloud computing – the best definition I’ve heard yet

This phrase I’ve been seeing EVERYWHERE the past couple of months. No-one can really define what it is though. So here is the best explanation of it yet: It’s been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, Read more about Cloud computing – the best definition I’ve heard yet[…]

TinEye – Image search engine

TinEye searches the web based on pictures you upload or link to. It will find the same picture elsewhere and tell you where that is, even if the other picture has been edited. So you can find where else the picture is used and see variations of it all over the web.

Switzerland

Switzerland is a tool for testing networks, ISPs and firewalls developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packets. SourceForge.net: Files

Cuil

Cuil (supposedly pronounced ‘cool’) is another new search engine, built by some ex-Google employees. Supposedly it’s so far indexing 3 times as many sites as Google. I’m very charmed with its way of presenting found information in a magazine format and the simple layout that greets you when you find your way onto the site.

Encrypt all your traffic!

The guys from the Pirate Bay have an ambitious plan to encrypt everything stored on your computer and everything transmitted to and from your PC using IPETEE or Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets With Europe implementing a 3 strikes – out and turning into the same spying-on-your-citizens-in-the-name-of-freedom/security/whatever type of place as the commie US Read more about Encrypt all your traffic![…]

Google’s MMO

It’s called Lively and it’s a cross between the Sims, Barbie and Roger Rabbit as far as I can see. No quests, just chatting, setting up your own space and you can implement views into your space through a browser. It’s much more based on social networking than gaming.