Shin
Jan
19

Le snooze

everyone, including me, seems to busy again. It’s quiet on the forums.
Ah well.

Random bits of news;
Zimbra has been ported to Debian. Hooray, maybe this will finally make me test it.
GPL 3 will kick DRM butt. Amen. I’m still surprised how few non-techies understand the implications of how DRM can fuck up our privacy. Read it.
Web 3.0, interesting read because it not only manages to explain the 2.0 ‘phenomenon’ in plain english but also raises a few points about the whole new bubble I’ve also been getting sick off. It would be so much nicer if everyone could just get back to having fun.

Right… back to being busy.

Jan
06

Yahoo! launches Dashboard service

Check out the pics

Very very nice, Konfabulator put to good use.
Looks like it’s going to be an interesting year for the battle of the web in terms of Yahoo vs. Google with Google starting to feel a bit like Microsoft to some in terms of becoming too powerful and with Yahoo taking an obvious cue from Apple, which shows from their recent purchases and direction.
Meanwhile Google is supposedly going to launch a pack of software aaaaany time now.

Edit: make that now.

Jan
04

How to make your own digital anaglyphs

Ana what? Anaglyphs. Or… how to make old school blurry 3D images you need to watch through those red & blue glasses. Pretty fun to see it’s still around, with some freeware programs listed to get you started.

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Nov
29

Bits ‘n pieces

Firefox 1.5 is trickling down the mirrors, so it should hit the main page at mozilla.org any minute now. I’ve steered clear of all the betas and RCs for once so I’m looking forward to grabbing this one, hoping the bump in numbering is a sign of good things.

I’ve also signed up at Technorati which is sort of the blog grapevine. At first I went meh to see the rank for X111.com was 231236. Only later I read that they track over 22 million blogs, so hey, not bad at all. And I’ve only just begun.

For those commenting here I’ve added another plugin which enables you to receive a mail when an entry where you added a comment gets another reply. Should make it easier to track things and keep a discussion going.

Nov
29

Create native Windows applications using PHP

This looks very interesting. Especially seeing as it’s the language I’m most familiar with, I’d love to be able to fiddle around with PHP to make the odd app now and again.

Nov
07

The new browser for the new web?

There’s a new browser in town, sort of. It’s called Flock, and it’s supposed to be the next great thing.
So is it? Well… yes and no.
Flock

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Nov
03

More Google goodies

Google Desktop 2 got released today.
The new sidebar looks nice, if a bit 90′s compared to the likes of Samurize, but I’m sure plenty of people will find it useful.
I still don’t see the use for it for myself, most of my stuff’s organized and this is way too unstructured but meh, see for yourself.

Nov
02

Developer’s Top 10 replies when code doesn’t work…

So familiar, only missing my standard reply to PEBKAC users:
“It’s because of atmospheric interference”

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Oct
31

AmigaOS4.0

A new website for AmigaOS4.0 has been launched, this time by Hyperion.
I lost track of all the drama in the past year but this is really shaping up like a second Duke Nukem Forever.
E.T.A: no bloody clue.

Such a shame, part of me still wants to believe, even after all these years.

Work in progress... not home!
Trying to get all/most of the new code working before I start on the eyecandy.