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I recently came across a decent little freeware proxy called Privoxy. This wonderful little piece of Open Source Software even comes in an OS X distribution. Install […]
The basis for this post is a bit older, but nonetheless, it was interesting enough to warrant adding the REALbasic category (REALbasic being REAL Software’s version of an object-oriented BASIC programming language which compiles for Mac, Windows, and Linux)
I stumbled across this whitepaper, written by Angelo Laub, which discusses some of the insidious things that can be done to unwitting users of Mac OS X. Laub speaks of possibilities of nefarious uses of Single-User Mode and FireWire when booting an OS X machine, disguised executables, and more. Any time you can […]
Back from the software graveyard, at least so it seems, Netscape 8 is currently being distributed in a public beta. Ummm, is anyone else wondering WHAT ON EARTH THEY ARE THINKING?
The engineering idea seems smart enough, let the user choose between rendering the page with the IE engine or with the FireFox engine, all […]
Care of a Slashdot article, echoing a CNet News article, it seems Intel is hellbent on copying a predominant majority of ideas that Apple is producing. Their own version of a Mini PC is linked below:
I can’t tell what that thing is on the front and center, but it looks like one of those […]
There are seldom times that a photographer’s work hooks me, I’m a photo-fascist and I often think, for example, “this picture would be better if x was there and y wasn’t” or “this would be better if the camera was positioned here instead of there” but the work of Gregory Colbert, in Ashes And Snow, […]
Not counting the thousand and one delays, interuptions, and brain farts it took to generate the new version of the Secret Weapon Labs site, it was pretty easy to do!! It’d be nice to know if anyone finds any broken links, annoyances, etc.
Click here to visit the new SecretWeaponLabs.com homepage
For those still in the hunt for Gmail, I have plenty of Gmail invitations left and if you are interested in an account, leave a comment here using the email address you would like it sent to.
I’ve been using Gmail for the past couple of months and despite the initially seemingly awkward interface (it’s […]
Every once in a while, through the sea of posers, comes a really original and provocative idea. This one is simple, and while not entirely graphically perfect despite the addition of Michael Heileman’s design kung-fu, the technique is still really friggin cool. See below:
www.newsinchinese.com
Always the model of ideas to stir oneself out of boredom, Cameron Moll is having another Screen Grab Confab, which is basically a post where all the blog readers take a 320 x 320 screenshot of whatever they happen to be working on at that particular moment. Below is the pending redesign of SWL.com, […]
