April 28, 2004
Hotmail Popper
Hotmail Popper lets you get at your hotmail account as if it were a POP mail account.
April 22, 2004
Infocom Games
Infocom games for download I remember playing “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and being so frustrated trying to get the babel fish in my character’s ear…
[Listening to ‘2/1’ - Brian Eno - Ambient 1 Music for Airports ]
March 25, 2004
FLAC and ripping your entire collection..
HydrogenAudio;
Exact Audio Copy
The Godfather windows mp3 tagger
Flac Decoders A set of DirectShow filters to encode and decode in the FLAC (http://flac.sf.net) lossless compression format
[Listening to ‘Stop Whispering’ - Radiohead - Pablo Honey ]
March 17, 2004
Scrub that harddrive!
Think twice before you dispose of that harddrive. What files are still sitting on it, either deleted or not? Enter the hard-drive scrubber! There are applications which will clean your harddrive, including deleted files, to prevent your info from getting around.
I’ve used SDelete to scrub the small tower of Iomega Jaz discs leaning against the wall in my office. Now to find someone who only needs to store data in 1 Gb chunks…
Autoclave link via BrainLog
March 15, 2004
ArtRage
ArtRage is extremely cool. It’s UI takes over the screen and feels very natural, for drawing on a computer. It’s UI is simple, I think that I could teach my (computer savy) toddler to muck about with it, but it’s also very rich, offer up 5 different tools ( pencil, marker, palette knife).
Very fun, and free! Supports Tablet PC and PC with a tablet, though it works with a mouse. Though it’s been said, using a mouse to draw is like drawing with a bar of soap… :)
February 26, 2004
Recording radio show
Replay Radio is a windows app which lets you record radio shows from the internet. My favorite stations kexp is on the list of supported stations so I'll be checking this out.
February 10, 2004
Collection software : books, mp3s, music, games
Have lots of collections? Collectorz probably has a solution...
February 08, 2004
More PVR
Successful PVR built with MythTV.
Sam Ruby is also "Stalking the wild PVR"
Steve Hatch has a PVR entry as well.
January 29, 2004
Geek Jacket
Crazy jacket with 14 hidden pockets, and routes for running cables...
January 26, 2004
Tivo in Canada? Not without some work....
Can you use Tivo in Canada? Short answer "no". Long answer? How comfortable are you with a screwdriver and bash? See here...
December 01, 2003
September 02, 2003
PDF printer
CutePDF is a PDF printer driver for windows, free, no nags.
August 28, 2003
New Plextor multi-format DVD writer
Plextor has announced a new DVD writer, capable of writing in most important formats. It’s called the
PX-708UF
I have a scsi plexwritor CD burner, and I’ve had no problems with it, so I think this is the right upgrade path.
August 26, 2003
Gettng away from outlook express
DbxConv
Here's a converter to export email from outlook express .dbx files to .mbox files, which are used by many other mailers.
Source is included, GPL.
August 25, 2003
Firewire to IDE
WiebeTech Micro Storage Solutions makes small adapters so that you can plug an IDE drive into a firewire port.
August 20, 2003
external firewire devices...
They offer the sony multi-format DVD burner in one of their external cases.
August 10, 2003
Renderman 3ds max plugin
My friend Henning has just launched a website, Archonus, for his Renderman 3ds max plugins, which will let you export the scenes to any Renderman type renderer.
August 01, 2003
Download details: Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
July 28, 2003
time shifting FM Radio
Gary Burd: Time shifting FM radio
July 25, 2003
Windows mp3 Shell Extension
MP3ext: MP3-Info extension This windows explorer shell extension adds a page to the property dialog of mp3 files. You can edit the tags, and it will display icons indicating the bit-rate of the file in the windows explorer.
July 24, 2003
windows iso image creator
Windows Compact Disk Management Script manages to burn iso cd images of windows installs composed with all of the hot fixes and service packs
[ stolen from IUnknown.com]
July 22, 2003
FireWire cases
Granite Digital makes various storage devices and cases. Most interesting to me is their FireWire cases for IDE drives.
July 21, 2003
Car computeres with mini-itx
VIA Technologies has a web page which is showing off 'mobile computing' using their mini-itx motherboards.
mini cases for mini computers
many types and size of small cases for building small computers systems. Barebones machines available.
June 27, 2003
Universal Remote
Harmony Remote is built by Intrigue Technologies, in Mississauga, Ontario. It's programmable from your computer.
June 13, 2003
May 24, 2003
Finally...
This entry looks this way courtest of
MTMacros
MTTextile
MTCodeBeautifier
and inspiration from Dave Seidal
May 15, 2003
May 13, 2003
Panaorama examples and tutorials
Virtual scenes - Peter Murphy has several panorama examples and a tutorial on stitching pictures to panoramas.
VRaarhus is another site with some great panaromas ( need Quicktime installed to display these )
PTGui is a gui tool for creating panoramas from digital images by driving Panorama Tools, written by Helmut Dersch.
May 12, 2003
web gallery generator
curator is a python script for generating static web image galleries. It uses ImageMagick and extracts EXIF info, and generates static web pages.
May 02, 2003
Test using SharpMT
Found this new client for posting to MT blogs. See SharpMTApril 20, 2003
ISO Recorder
ISO Recorder Power Toyis a UI component that allows to use CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record ISO images and copy CD to CD - a piece of functionality missing in Windows XP
April 16, 2003
Yet another way to justify having a mac
Mactopia: Remote Desktop Connection lets you connect to your MS Windows machine from your mac. The Windows desktop runs in a window on the client. Windows XP Pro will let you roam the console session, win2k server, and Windows 2003 server will support multiple user sessions with "Terminal Services" enabled.
April 15, 2003
Media computer on the cheap
Build-It: Save Money with a Linux Media Jukebox Recomended hardware and software to build a tivo-like & mp3 media jukebox.
[ From Slashdot ]
March 25, 2003
font designer software
Fontlab home of professional typography - font editor, convertor, and utilities for design and creation of fonts
March 10, 2003
More Stats than you can shake a stick at
Electronic Statistics Textbook from StatSoft explains the basics of statistics and several types of statistical analysis.
March 06, 2003
rebinding keys in Word
VBacs by Christopher Rath VBA macros to create Emacs short-cut keys in MS Word.
March 04, 2003
NDoc for .Net
NDOC (formerly DOC.NET)"merges the assemblies and XML documentation files produced by csc.exe and creates a compiled HTML Help file"
February 28, 2003
Using CVS reference
Several chapters of The CVS Book have been released under the Gnu General Public License.
Using CVS on sourceforge
SourceForge.net: CVS client installation: WinCvs with PuTTY on 32-bit Microsoft Windows platform.
February 19, 2003
Ergo keyboards
Maltron Keyboards makes a contour keyboard similiar to Kinesis.
February 16, 2003
SQL intro, including Access flavours
A Gentle Introduction to SQL for various flavours, including msft Access.
February 12, 2003
personal weather balloon
This guy built a personal weather Balloon v1.0. [ from Schism Matrix]
February 11, 2003
January 25, 2003
Canadian computer price search engine
Find the best buy at Computers - Canada .com. Search Canadian computer parts stores for prices.
January 16, 2003
old Palm sitting around?
Turn it into a remote control with
ProntoLite
December 14, 2002
small parts
Small Parts Inc is "The hardware store for Researchers and Developers". Lots of neat little bits and pieces that you're unlikely to easily find anywhere else.
December 10, 2002
December 05, 2002
intro to WxWindows
developerWorks: Linux : Looking through wxWindows
December 03, 2002
PC too loud?
Find out how to fix it at SilentPCReview.com
December 02, 2002
small motherboards
mini-itx.com Home of projects and info about mini-itx, Via's small footprint mainboard.
Online computer bits in Canada
Computer Boulevard Inc. sells Shuttle mainboards and packages as well as the Via micro-itx motherboards.
November 21, 2002
November 15, 2002
Seattle City Neighbourhoods
Now I know that used to live on the edge of Windermere, not in SandPoint as I had thought. Thanks to this handy Atlas of Seattle neighbourhoods.
November 12, 2002
November 07, 2002
portable STL implementation
STLport: Product A free, portable implementation of STL with extra debugging features.
October 31, 2002
Python User Input
Saving Users From Themselves -or- Dealing with User Input in Python LG
Scanner software
Hamrick Software maker of VueScan software. This will drive many types of scanners directly, so you don't need the manufacturers software.
October 30, 2002
CS made easy(easier)
"How to think like a Computer Scientist" available from Green Tea press
October 29, 2002
Linux Cookbook
Linux Cookbook informs how to perform various tasks in a Linux environment
October 21, 2002
October 10, 2002
Open Source software for Window CD effort
This article describes the effort of a LinuxUserGroup to show the value of OpenSource software to Windows users. They've compiled a list of good & useful open source software for Windows, and will be making a cd image. Cool looking stuff including the previously mentioned jazz++ and QCad.
OpenSource Midi tool for windows
Jazzware is a midi sequencer for Linux and Windows.
October 09, 2002
Super automatic Pool Cleaners
I'm disappointed with the creepy crawly type pool vacuum we have now, but not enough to pay $1250 USD for a Robotic Pool cleaner.
October 08, 2002
cure for ls on windows
Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities
October 01, 2002
mp3 your car
MP3Car.com is a site dedicated to getting mp3 players into your car.
My current "Ideal" solution to 'mobile mp3' is a Head Unit which has an auxilary input ( Kenwood offers this), and an iPod from Apple. Now I just need to save up some $$$.
September 26, 2002
Fonts, pressing records, guitar picks
do it yourself @ misterridiculous.com
September 24, 2002
September 23, 2002
Dreamcast Tools and Bits
Lik-Sang makes stuff for game machines.
September 18, 2002
September 10, 2002
Actual Printing Press!
Briar Press info about letter presses.
Hack a Mac
Duo Digital FrameBuild your own Digital Picture Frame.
August 26, 2002
August 19, 2002
August 12, 2002
Emacs mode creation tutorial
An Emacs language mode creation tutorial
August 07, 2002
backing up outlook email
Backup Outlook mail as XML Top XML : User Contributions
August 04, 2002
Free Software for windows..
Pricelessware: the best in Windows © Freeware
July 26, 2002
Project management tool for PalmOS
Progect Manager Palm Project Manager with associated Desktop app.
Powers of Ten
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial
July 24, 2002
Tech Interview Riddles
Riddles from interviews. (via Slashdot and Joshua! )
July 19, 2002
How to use Coolpix 950 and others
C-K's DigiCam Page Nikon Coolpix 950 User Guide
July 18, 2002
Documentation generator
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL
Boost for C++. Now with more flavour
Boost C Libraries Polished C++ libraries pretty much everything.
July 16, 2002
ANTLR parsing
Practical Computer Language Recognition and Translation [DRAFT] at the site for ANTLR
Cool Design Portfolio
Gibson Product Design located in the Byward Market, Ottawa
Tigris.org
Tigris.org: Open source software engineering for collaborative software development. Source Control, Issue tracking, mailing list support software. Lots of stuff to support distributed software development.
July 15, 2002
July 12, 2002
UW Career Services
Career Services University of Waterloo
July 09, 2002
Words words New Words!
The Word Spy The Top 50 "new Words"
July 03, 2002
Parser Stuff
The treecc program is designed to assist in the development of compilers and other language-based tools. It manages the generation of code to handle abstract syntax trees and operations upon the trees.
June 28, 2002
MP3 solution
SliMP3 Ethernet MP3 Player No CPU, No Local HardDrive...
June 27, 2002
June 24, 2002
Palm Resource Editor
yay! I've been wanting a tool like this: Falch.net: PilRC designer for PalmOS. Form Designer
June 21, 2002
Installer tool
NSIS Nullsoft (SuperPiMP|Scriptable) Install System
June 15, 2002
June 12, 2002
Palm
Happy Days for Palm for keeping track of birthdays and other events.
June 11, 2002
June 06, 2002
Magnetic Fun
A Gauss Rifle? That's cool! ( via Boing!Boing!)