If you have a crappy old router there are open source ways to upgrade them using alternative firmwares: There’s Tomato for Linksys’ WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS Read more about router firmwares[…]
MouseJail is a tiny freeware that keeps your mouse on the monitor you want it to stay. Very handy with games, where sometimes the mouse wanders out into the desktop next to the gaming area.
Minitube integrates with Winamp, Itunes or KMPlayer and hunts down the music video to the song you’re playing on youtube.
If you don’t want to run an MS Exchange server, but you do want to have the groupware functions such as sharing calendars, emails, notes, contacts, etc. there are a few semi open alternatives you can try which also support phone synchronisation. Most support webbased functionality and allow you to attach any client to it, Read more about MS Exchange Alternatives[…]
Yup, yet another feature Apple forgot, can now be downloaded into your jailbroken iphone. SwirlyMMs adds just what you’d expect it to 🙂
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!
Awesome kmz file!
Well there’s 2 out there that let you do this: the simple and small and also in 64bit versionTaskix or the slightly more complex (but only 32 bit) Taskbar Shuffle
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!
This is a comprehensive howto outlining how to use the Wii stuff to control your PC using windows, Linux or Mac.
Turns out that solving the deconfliction problem in the air is quite simple, considering everything is armed with GPS nowadays. However, in order to pinpoint position you need 5 satellite signals. And what happens if the US uses their ‘off’ switch?
Windows only: Free application Startup Delayer staggers the applications that launch when you log in to Windows by user-defined increments. The reason: To mitigate the common startup bottleneck caused by all of your startup applications fighting to run at the same time. Featured Windows Download: Startup Delayer Staggers Your Startup Apps for Smoother Loading
Most aggregators basically provide a shell for you to search individual sites on, but this one searches all the sites, filters out doubles and allows you to work with operators such as ‘-‘
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
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[…]
This uses the built in accellerometer to record your cars performance. Apparently it works as well as more expensive dedicated hardware.
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.
little gif animated favicons (the icons that live next to the URL) work in Firefox!
Left-click anywhere on the desktop, hold the ‘Control’ key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse – the desktop icons will grow smaller or larger depending upon the direction of your scroll.
8 people bought this app at the maximum price the apple app store allowed, $999,- before it was pulled. And now, here we can find it documented on youtube and a cracked version of it.
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 (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.
Google has open sourced its internal replacement for XML: protocolbuffers. They claim XML is inefficient, large and expensive and that protocolbuffers are 10x smaller and 100x faster. That’s quite a claim!
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![…]
Pictomio is a lovely 3d accellerated picture viewer. Free and for windows.