With all the talk of Blue Ray and HD being cracked, people seem to have missed Slysoft EasyDVD which removes the copy protection and FBI warning screens from DVDs in the drive, allowing them to be backupped by their lovely CloneDVD software.
According to a study done by Symantec over the last 6 months of 2006, based on metrics such as amount of vulnerabilities and speed of patches. Red Hat came second, followed by Mac OS X. Then there are HP-UX and Sun Solaris!
Palm has finally got off their lazy asses and programmed push email into VersaMail 3.5. Unfortunately you do have to buy the update, but it’s not too expensive: VersaMail 3.5 ($9.99) ActiveSync Update ($2.99)
Using Goops you can connect a GPS to Google Earth and map your trips, colour coded for speed. You can save and share your tracks with others. This works because Google Earth has a cache allowing you to download the area you’re going to drive in and view the areas offline.
This is a nice overview of the different types of search engines out there, some of which are better than google. From the search homepage, AI’s, clustering engines, reccomendation engines, metasearch engines, and differing levels of interactivity, it’s interesting to have a look at what else is out there besides the mighty Google.
JscreenFix flashes red, green and blue over every pixel at more than 60 times per second, leading to stuck pixels becoming unstuck and dead pixels sometimes being reactivated. It requires java and runs from a browser – allways worth a try before RFMming a monitor!
Following Windows Aero, the Mac manager and the Compiz flying cubes, Sun has put out it’s own 3D Java desktop system for free, which means it’ll run on pretty much anything. Get it here.
Having tried to post a torrent without logging in to a tracker site, I found the Beehive – a site that lists a whole load of trackers with additional information about what kind of files they track.
This software real-time distorts projected images so that they fit seamlessly onto 3D objects, which means that the projection only appears on the object at the right angle.
We can’t all have a fingerworks keyboard as they are out of production, but we can install software that uses the keypad to mouse around quickly and effectively. This link has two programmes that allow this for windows, plus a whole load of different links to shortcuts etc.
These sites have news, information and techniques for doing weird stuff in Flash. Some very cool stuff in there. http://www.levitated.net/ http://www.chewinggumfortheeyes.com/ http://www.nanolabs.net/ http://www.ultrashock.com/ http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
Undelete Plus is a freeware proggie that undeletes from NTFS/NTFS5,FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes. Can be very useful indeed!
This site takes a file up to 100MB and spits it out in any one of quite a number of formats. The privacy statement claims they delete the files but keep the emailadress because they mail you the converted file back instead of offering to download it. They also keep your IP address for logging Read more about Zamzar File Conversion[…]
Planet MySQL is a blog centred on MySQL. Loads of refresher stuff and new stuff comes out on this. MySQL Forge is the site for MySQL addin projects and snippets – if you want to add to MySQL or if you want to see what’s being added to MySQL this is the place to be. Read more about MySQL Community Resources[…]
Google Earth now has some really nice historical maps under the Layers pane, Featured Content > Rumsey Historical Maps. You may have to upgrade your version of the software before it will display though.
For all the haters – Flash is the new internet video medium! Here is a nice guide with information on compressing to FLV and serving it.
VideoLAN VLC media player is a streaming media server and client solution that runs on loads of platforms and goes for free.
This is a nice piece of software that starts up with the insertion of your USB drive giving your home address and a little message.
For some reason Internet Explorer has a problem opening websites containing the Google Maps API with a totally non-saying why error leading to a generic page. The linkielist contained this API, and it has now been removed, so IE users can get back to reading this.
Do something they should have done – and then for a supplier that will win! StyleTap has created a Palm OS emulator for Pocket PCs running windows Mobile. They will be releasing for Symbian soon. The emulator runs everything ever written for any Palm OS, regardless of version or chip architecture (something Palm can’t seem Read more about If your supplier can’t win[…]
If you’ve seen the future of UIs with Vista, Mac and Linux (search this site for ‘cube’) you know that Compiz with the flying cubes wins hands down – looks very very cool. There is, however some confusion as to how to get it to run – it’s not trivial, but not so hard either. Read more about XGL Compiz Window manager for Linux[…]
This guy has made a study of how to decrease web page load time using server settings, caching, code and browser settings.
Sysinternals PageDefrag defragments your registry and pagefiles on windows machines, optimising your performance as other defrag programmes leave these areas of your disk untouched.
This is a huge list of different tools for CSS.
Ever wanted to save that YouTube video? This page lists some good YouTube tools.