L. S. Russell

Lumix FZ5

2005-12-09T18:27:00.000-08:00

Lumix come in a number of models. I use the FZ-5, which is much smaller in size than the latest model, the FZ-30. The smaller FZ-5 does not do RAW files (the FZ-30 does), but I prefer its compact size and don't usually need the massive file sizes of RAW. I can't fit the Lumix into my pants pocket, but it will sit in my jacket pocket or any small bag I carry. The zoom is both macro and telescopic, an old SRL ability I am so happy to have back. Five meg resolution is plenty. It'll take a 1 gig memory card. The camera lights up fast. Navigation of controls is fine. And to top it off, this little wonder is comparatively cheap with a street price below $350 -- a third of what the Rebel would cost.

Link via Cool Tools

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50 Ways to Stop Screwing Off.

2005-12-09T18:24:00.000-08:00

Curt Rosengren at The Occupational Adventure has some great, almost forehead slappingly simple, advice for the achievement challenged writers among us.

If you're going to create a career that makes you feel alive, the responsibility lies with you to make it happen. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And inevitably there will be times along the way when you just don't feel like it and procrastination threatens to get the upper hand.

Pay yourself
Write to music
Unplug the TV
Carry a notepad
Identify your best hours
Light a candle
Binge!

Confused? Worry not, all will be explained after the jump.

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Vote for Reggie

2005-12-08T21:51:00.000-08:00

Vote for my puppy here.

Lifehack the gift of selfesteem

2005-12-07T13:00:00.000-08:00

Ok, it’s Christmas time and coming up on my blog’s one year anniversary so I’d gotten you all video iPods--then I watched The Office and saw what evil can come from ignoring the secret Santa $20 spending limit, so I returned them all. I can’t give you kind readers expensive eletronics but I can give you one kick ass lifehack.

This year I’ve gotten you all an online gift certificate for self-esteem. I am giving you (in no particular order) a list of links that are guarenteed to make you feel superior to everyone around you, albeit at the expense of others.

I Work With Fools
Where disgruntaled workers share their inter-office horror stories. If you don’t feel better after reading the one about the employer who saves money by docking people for being late for meetings, there is no help.

The Eggcorn Database
Nothing makes you feel superior better than pointing out other peoples mistakes, especially when they are in writing. The Eggcorn Database gives you a repository of self-image bolstering snippets. It’s like a Powerbar for the ego-impaired.

Blogslot
The guy who brought you Lapsing into a Comma, and The Elephants of Style, BillWalsh, from time to time, derides writers, and other editors for the tiny errors that slip through the cracks.

Query Letters I Love
Take pleasure in watching as Hollywood insiders (and some wannabe insiders) immolate aspiring screenwriter’s life’s work, and not a few egos in the process.

If you know of any others, leave a comment.

Squidoo moves out of beta

2005-12-07T10:39:00.000-08:00

We have quietly — and completely — moved out of the closed beta test... and into a public beta.

That means that anyone can visit Squidoo, find lenses, claim lenses, and build their own. We're thrilled to open our doors to the public, and to let everyone use the platform that you've been helping us test and improve these last few weeks.

Squidoo.com

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Power to the programmers: powerful Windows text editors

2005-12-07T10:27:00.000-08:00

I have to snigger smugly to myself when I see Mac users giddily pee-peeing themselves over something as ubiquitous as a text editor--albeit a suped-up programmer’s editor--but I do understand why; there just ain’t that much out there for Mac users.

The most recent example of urine drenched Mac-lemming giddiness comes from WebMonkey via LifeHacker. Heidi Pollock (refrain from meathead jokes please) said: “The day I discovered TextWrangler — the heir apparent to everyone's beloved BBEdit Lite — I swear my eyes welled up with tears of joy.” What we’re talking about is a scriptable, configurable, syntaxt high-lighting, source code debugging, text editor. That might be a short list for Mac but for Windows the list is Ensteinian in its proportions.

You may join me in my derisive laughter. No? Well let me give you a short list of reasons to laugh right along with me.

NoteTab:
NoteTab (one upon a time known as Super NoteTab) is a tabbed text editor with a built-in scripting language that allows users to control the interface.

Another handy gadget included with NoteTab is the clipbook editor. With clipbooks you can store huge swaths of text embedded with replaceable parameters that either prompt for input or wrap around selected text. With the clipbook repository, users can download tools to help develop in languages from AutoLisp to VRML.

Save text directly to your handheld device, convert CSV files to HTML tables, search the web, create a rolodex, email your text, all from within the application.

ConTEXT:
ConTEXT is the TARDIS of text editors--it is bigger on the inside than it look on the outside.

With unlimited file size, an unlimited number of tabs, an unlimited number of syntax highlighters (download them as plugins, or create your own custom highlighters), multiple human language support, code templates, file explorer, file compare, support for multiple file formats (DOS, Unix, and Mac), and more. You can see why I call it the TARDIS of text editors.

A couple really standout items are the macro recorder, and the command line handler. You could almost replace the standard Windows shell with ConTEXT…I might just give that a try.

Chrimson Editor:
It’s so small it fits on a floppy, which means that I keep a copy of it on my portable USB device. It has a macro recorder, spell checker, multi-level undo, support for a multitude of syntax highlighters (in addition to the ability to create your own), built-in FTP client, file browser, find and replace across multiple documents, and much more.

And that’s not all folks, those are just the text editors I use or have used. You can Google for any combination of features and turn up a number of text editors. For instance I searched for free scriptable programmer editor and turned up the following links: Windows-only editors, SciTE ports, Free Windows editors. But don’t pee your pants when you find the perfect editor for you.

Freeware Utilities Written in AutoHotkey

2005-12-06T08:08:00.000-08:00

These freeware utilities are written in the AutoHotkey scripting language. Downloads are available both as pre-compiled .exe files or as .ahk scripts you can customize for your own use.

If you find them useful, please consider making a donation by clicking on the PayPal Button on your left.

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Convert Protected Audio Into a Plain MP3

2005-12-06T07:38:00.000-08:00

If you've ever bought music on iTunes, walmart.com, or another legal music-downloading system, it'll be protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM). Protected from you, the consumer. For example, you can probably only play your songs in the program you used to buy them. What if you want to transfer it to an unsupported MP3 player or transfer it to another of your computers? These are legal activities (provided you do not distribute the results to others, which is a violation of copyright), but the music companies want you to listen to music on their terms. Here's how to break the locks off your tunes.

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Exhaustive List of Windows Freeware

2005-12-06T06:43:00.000-08:00

For updates head to NeoWin.net.

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.html

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar
RunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htm
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/
Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Wyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.html
Zonealarm Basic firewall -

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/
WYSIWYG Web Builder -

http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
qip - http://www.qip.ru/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/
AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html
hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

Video codecs:
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AdShield - http://www.lossepladsen.dk/all4you/TheLostWorld/AdShield.php
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/
Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/
Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html
Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/
Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp
Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html
Peerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/
Process Explorer (aka ProcessXP) -

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain
WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/
XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/
YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm

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2005-07-29T14:33:00.000-07:00

Practicing Unsafe Web

Then I loaded the copy of AVG that I had ready for the occasion. One scan and there were 38 trojans in the bag, 34 of which the program "healed" and four of which I had to dig out manually. Another scan with AVG gave me several more. The total after three scans was 57 - all contracted during the two minutes I was online with Microsoft's firewall up and running, and that's not counting what the Microsoft anti-malware scanner caught at the door.

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2005-07-29T14:06:00.000-07:00

Yikes! Could it be any easier?

Holy crap! I go and invest a butt load of time beta testing Sauce Reader, then switch to BlogNavigator, then give up on both and switch back to the built in editor. Then one day, because I am a huge sucker for Google Ads, I click on a link to Qumana.

This is the very ad

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Publish to multiple blogs. Qumana publishes to all major—and many minor—blog platforms.

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Doctor Who mistreated AIDS patients? You can never trust a timetraveling alien.

2005-07-21T05:59:00.000-07:00

via[Drudge Report]
Link

Massive Shark Caught Off Vineyard

2005-07-20T13:27:00.000-07:00

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. -- It wasn't too little, but it was too late.

Fishermen who hauled in a massive 1,100 pound tiger shark off Massachusetts this past weekend failed to capture first place in the monster shark derby on Martha's Vineyard.

The reason: The boat was six minutes too late in returning to Oak Bluffs harbor with its catch.

The toothy tiger shark may not have won the competition, but it did win the admiration of other fishermen. Steven James of the Boston Big Game Fishing Club said this truly was a monster shark, and one that "could eat you."
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4746503/detail.html
Jaws (Widescreen 30th Anniversary Edition)

Disgusting Not Disgusting

2005-07-20T13:08:00.000-07:00

Disgusting

Heavy lifting : Keisho Shimoda(L) of Japan and William Pirimi Perenara of New Zealand fight during the men's Sumo wrestling heavyweight event of the 2005 World Games in Duisburg. (AFP/DDP/Patrick Stollarz)

Sumo Wrestling

Not disgusting

Larissa Franka (R) of Brazil calls the play to team mate Juliana Felisberta Silva (not pictured) while compatriot Renata Ribeiro (L) stands in attention during women's beach volleyball final match at the FIVB World Tour 2005 in St.Petersburg, July 9, 2005. Silva and team mate Franka gained a 2-0 victory over compatriots Ribeiro and Rocha. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

Volleyball

Beam him up.

2005-07-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

LOS ANGELES -- James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671520563/zoundry0b-20?dev-t=D2RN4N8K1SOI7A%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2

Testing a new blog client.

2005-07-20T10:49:00.000-07:00

Just testing the Zoundry blog client. Seems ok so far, though the Zoundry ID thing sounds a little weird, and the WYSIWYG is nice an smooth. So far, just for posting mind you, Zoundry has both Sauce Reader and Blog Navigator beat.

Seems Zoundry offers two versions: the pro version contains a product placement engine and works with the Zoundry ID to help pay for your blog, the lite version has no product placement engine, but limits you to one blog.

Well Scotty what are you waiting for; beam me up damnit!

2005-07-10T06:41:00.000-07:00

Scientists are constantly borrowing from Sci-fi, but here is one I never seriously thought they would try.

For the most part, it's an exotic amalgam of things like quantum this and quantum that, wave function, qubits and polarization, as well as uncertainty principle, excited states and entanglement.

Link [via Yahoo!]

2005-06-17T20:29:00.001-07:00

Tinkering with the inviso-screen on my phone.

2005-06-17T20:29:00.000-07:00

Just playing.

2005-06-17T20:27:00.000-07:00

From a video of Reggie eating squirty cheese.

2005-06-17T20:21:00.000-07:00

You've got to get a spot and hang on.

2005-06-17T20:20:00.000-07:00

Lunch is very loud and hectic.

2005-06-17T20:17:00.000-07:00

X-Rey is sooooo cute. I just love him.

2005-06-12T18:40:00.001-07:00

Roxanne 8

2005-06-12T18:40:00.000-07:00

Roxanne 7

2005-06-12T18:39:00.001-07:00

Roxanne 6

2005-06-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

Roxanne 5

2005-06-12T18:38:00.001-07:00

Roxanne 4

2005-06-12T18:38:00.000-07:00

Roxanne 3

2005-06-12T18:37:00.001-07:00

Roxanne 2

2005-06-12T18:37:00.000-07:00

Roxanne 1

2005-06-12T18:36:00.002-07:00

X-Rey 4

2005-06-12T18:36:00.001-07:00

X-Rey 2

2005-06-12T18:36:00.000-07:00

Xavier "X-Rey" Reymundo 1

2005-06-12T18:35:00.000-07:00

Lulu Violet 3

2005-06-12T18:34:00.001-07:00

Lulu Violet 2

2005-06-12T18:34:00.000-07:00

Lulu Violet 1

2005-06-12T18:33:00.000-07:00

Henrietta 3

2005-06-12T18:32:00.000-07:00

Henrietta 2

2005-06-12T18:31:00.001-07:00

Henriette 1

2005-06-12T18:31:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina 6

2005-06-12T18:30:00.001-07:00

Thumbelina 5

2005-06-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina 4

2005-06-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina 3

2005-06-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina 2

2005-06-12T17:59:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina 1

2005-06-11T15:57:00.000-07:00

Or in a row.

2005-06-11T15:56:00.001-07:00

Or in pairs.

2005-06-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

All clumped together.

2005-06-11T15:55:00.000-07:00

This is how they like to sleep.

2005-06-11T15:54:00.000-07:00

Henrietta, and Roxanne.

2005-06-11T15:52:00.000-07:00

My little Thumbelina.

2005-06-11T15:44:00.000-07:00

Thumbelina. She's got such a cute face.

2005-06-11T14:57:00.000-07:00

Henrietta loves her sisters.

2005-06-11T14:39:00.000-07:00

Henrietta, Roxanne, and X-Rey taking a nap.

2005-06-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

Lulu Violet, Thumbelina, Henrietta, Xavier "X-Rey" Reymundo, and, way in the back, Roxanne. Lupe's latest litter of puppies.

Sauce Reader v 2.0 gets booted.

2005-06-06T19:20:00.000-07:00

I wanted to like Sauce Reader v 2.0. No, I wanted to marry Sauce Reader v 2.0. Especially after suffering through v 1 of the app kept blowing chunks all over my desktop. Sauce Reader v 2.0 burst onto the scene and soared to my rescue. I had fun browsing and posting to blogs all from the same application. I was so freakin happy that I was willing to overlook the flaws. Until the flaws got the better of me.

Sauce Reader generates ugly assed code. That ugly with a capital <P>, and that rhymes with T, and that stands for ticked-off, which is what I was after Sauce Reader began slowing down on me. It got so bad that my machine finally locked up and I had to uninstall it.

Life hack from hell: Breathe under water like a fish!

2005-06-06T08:55:00.000-07:00

The system developed by Bodner uses a well known physical law called the "Henry Law" which describes gas absorption in liquids. This law states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid body is proportional to the pressure on the liquid body. The law works in both directions – lowering the pressure will release more gas out of the liquid. This is done by a centrifuge which rotates rapidly thus creating under pressure inside a small sealed chamber containing sea water. The system will be powered by rechargeable batteries. Calculations showed that a one kilo Lithium battery can provide a diver with about one hour of diving time.

REVOLUTIONARY UNDERWATER BREATHING SYSTEM

How to get up early

2005-06-03T11:23:00.000-07:00

If you sleep based on what your body tells you, you’ll probably be sleeping more than you need — in many cases a lot more, like 10-15 hours more per week (the equivalent of a full waking day). A lot of people who sleep this way get 8+ hours of sleep per night, which is usually too much. Also, your mornings may be less predictable if you’re getting up at different times. And because our natural rhythms are sometimes out of tune with the 24-hour clock, you may find that your sleep times begin to drift.

Sexy retro wallpaper for your desktop

2005-06-03T09:02:00.000-07:00

Hubba hubba! Nothing, except Racheal Ray covered in whipped cream, is better than pin-up girls. But pin-up girls on your desktop? Now that is the reason Bill Gates invented to computer, or whatever. Who really cares, these wallpapers will set your spats to flapping.

Tack-O-Rama

Safe browsing

2005-06-03T07:54:00.000-07:00

I got a call from my little brother, an Internet neophyte, asking if I knew of anything he could use to keep viruses from infecting his new PC, block popups, and protect his children from adult material.

“Sure I do!” I said. But there was a huge problem, he knows nothing about computers—he just started using one about a month ago. So any software I recomend has to be easy to install, and easy to configure—and still do a great job.

Anti-virus

Recommending anti-virus software was super easy. There is just no better tool for your online safety kit than the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition. With features like:

Automatic update functionality
The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
Great customer satisfaction!

Plus, since the only thing better than getting free software is seeing Rachel Ray covered in whipped cream, you just can’t go wrong.

Popup blockers

There isn’t a better tool than Firefox, there just ain’t, and if you don’t use it as part of your safe browsing routine then shame one you. But! What if you don’t want to install another browser? Or, if you are straining your computer knowledge just checking your e-mail, you might want something a little less complicated than switching browsers.

That is where Stopzilla fits in. Not free, but damned powerful, and it has been a Jeopardy question. What is not to love?

Protect the kids

I’ve got a kid, and I’ll bet you’ve got kids. The Internet is a great tool to help kids with homework and entertainment. But you don’t want your kids getting their grubby little hands on any porn. What you need is WeBlocker. It is as simple to install and configure as possible for a tool this powerful to be.

These applications are the bare minimum that anyone should have for safe browsing.

John August Opens a Can of Worms!

2005-05-12T08:08:00.000-07:00

In an email a few weeks ago, my former assistant (and alarmingly successful writer/director) Rawson Thurber apologized for ending a sentence with a preposition. I insisted that he was well within his rights to dangle a preposition, split an infinitive, or break pretty much any rule he’d been taught about English – especially the seemingly-arbitrary ones.
via [JohnAugust.com]

Google Maps UK and Doctor Who Locations

2005-04-19T14:49:00.000-07:00

If you're not a fan of the BBC's Doctor Who, or an anglophile, then you can ignore this post. But those of you who, like me, feel left out because the Sci-fi network was too busy with reruns of the Incredible Hulk to remember to get in on the new series are gonna have a blast matching up screen caps and on set shots from around Cardiff to Google.

Queens Arcade

Now you try it. See if you can match any recognizable locations with their Google Map counterpart.

Image via [Doctor Who Cuttings Archive]

Testing Sauce Reader

2005-04-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

I have tinkered with every blog posting tool you can think of; from w.bloggar to ecto and not a single one of them has held my attention for any great length of time.

Until I met Sauce Reader. Sauce Reader, by Synop, is a bloggers best friend. It met all of my requirements.

Free or low cost. (Sauce Reader is free for personal use, and at $24.95 even the pros might cast an eye toward Sauce Reader.

WYSIWYG. This is one place where I just would not budge. Being an HTML guru is cool and all but I'd much rather spend time shoving my ill-concieved notions down your gullet than fibberting with HTML.

Spell checker. What the hell is fibberting anyway? You don't know; neither did Sauce Reader's spell check function. This little do-dad has a spell checker that would make Tom Wolfe take the straight-and-narrow.

Support for multiple blog APIs. Who knows when Google will piss off their users again by suffering a week long outage? I need to know that I can post to any of the blogs I frequent.

Freewrite: Maxwell Gets His Due

2005-03-23T10:11:00.000-08:00

Maxwell Sandwich pushed a lock of blood-matted hair up away from the thin blond girl’s forehead; it made a sick ripping noise, like when you peel masking tape away from a freshly painted wall, and the girl squeezed her eyes tight–bit her lip–to fight off the pain and surprise.

"Maybe I shouldn’a said nothin’."

Max dug in his breast pocket for a handkerchief, dabbed it on his tongue, and swabbed the gash above her ocean colored eyes. "Maybe."