Geek to Live: Visualize your hard drive usage

"..Free tools for Windows, Mac and Linux map your hard drive usage so you can get a birds-eye view of what's taking up most of your coveted hard drive space.."

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Jinzora 2.5 Released

Jinzora is a complete web-based multimedia portal for your home music/video collection. It can be used to stream your content to another computer or to control a local hardware or software jukebox device, as well as retrieve metadata about your collection. This release is significantly more stable than previous builds.

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Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth (Awesome!)

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web.

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What Comes After AJAX?

Most people who've done significant AJAX development will admit that the development story is a mess. I personally don't mind the the Javascript language but I'm appalled that the most state of the art development process I've found is to use Emacs to edit my code, Firebug to debug in Firefox and attaching Visual Studio to the Internet Explorer.

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How to add Rmail as a choice in Firefox 2.0

How to add Rmail or an other web aggregator subscription button to your Firefox 2.0.

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Google Calendar Review on Vitamin

Google Calendar is the latest app to emerge from the Google factory, but is it just another calendar app or does it bring something new to the table? We took it for a test-drive.

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OpenOffice Ad Project Fundraising Almost Complete

A small group of OpenOffice.org volunteers, inspired by Spread Firefox's project of 2004, secured Monday, July 31 as the date for their own ad to run in NYC's Metro newspaper. With ten fundraising days to go, and at about 75% of the goal, the final push to raise money to place this ad in front of 450,000 people is happening now.

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First Impressions: WSUS 3.0 Beta 2

Excellent summary and writeup of the expected improvements for Microsoft WSUS 3.0 slated for release next year.

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InstaCalc Online Calculator | Fast, Shareable, Linkable

InstaCalc fits the gap between Windows Calc and Excel: Clean, fast, powerful and easily shareable. You can even embed any calculation into a webpage. There are advanced features like converting numbers to binary or if-then statements. Check it out!

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Microsoft Expression Web Designer review

Rachel Andrews, Web Standards Project member, reviews Microsoft's new web authoring tool for Vitamin

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Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader

Today, I'm going to show you the ins and outs of Google's powerful newsreader, with an emphasis on Reader's powerful and time-saving keyboard shortcuts. To round things off, I'll finish up with some of my favorite Google Reader-related tweaks and downloads to get you up to speed with the best newsreader on the planet.

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KlipFolio 4 Beta Released!

After several months of teasing from the folks at Serence, the newest version of KlipFolio (a desktop dashboard and RSS reader) is ready for beta testing. What's new? For starters, a super-sexy mini-sidebar...

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Have People Rate your Web Hosting Speed & See them on a Map

A cool little widget that you copy-paste onto your site. Your visitors rate your site, and you can see their location and rating on top of a map. Check out the demo.

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Tracking the Web with Single Page Aggregators

A comprehensive round up of services that aggregate popular social services and websites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Flickr, and more, or that let you build your own aggregations.

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XP's Little-Known 'Rebuild' Command

Have you ever run into a "Missing HAL.DLL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," or "Windows could not start..." message?That was when I learned about XP's built-in "Rebuild" command. It often can easily fix "missing HAL," "Invalid Boot.Ini," "Windows could not start..." and similar problems in just a minute or two.

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Apple's Multi-touch - was it their idea?

This is an off topic post considering the focus of this site but something that I will make an exception for. You may have seen the recent image on Engadget showing the striking similarities between Apple's iPhone and the LG KE850. Well here's another one...

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Sun Microsystems is now offering premium support for OpenOffice.org

This is great news for fans of open source. Now you can tell your friends who are suits in big business that a major company like Sun is supporting OpenOffice.org (OOo). There are also other commercial support vendors listed on the OOO site, but this is a big move by Sun, because they also offer a proprietary package, called "Star Office."

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SlimTimer - Keeps Track of Time on Tasks

Easy way to time tasks. Keep track of all time worked in any combination of contexts you choose. You create the tasks. You organize the tasks. You share the tasks. You decide who can report on the tasks.

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Data Recovery First Aid: 3 tips to increase your chances of success

I always thought of myself as a reliable guy with reliable data. I never deleted my files accidentally, I made regular backups and had a power supply for my computer to protect me against surges and outages. However last year I experienced two cases of data loss where I needed to use recovery software.

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Internet Explorer 7 Available Now

The long awaited IE7 has been officially released. Get it now from the Microsoft website.

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Why I left Microsoft

Former IE program manager Scott Berkun muses about leaving Microsoft in this short essay.

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Top 20 Reasons why Web Apps are Superior to Desktop Apps

Great article by Vinny Lingham on the emerging Web App industry and what makes web apps the future of software.

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Crash this server to help my team get 1000 points in a scavenger hunt.

The faceless invasion is a scavenger hunt throughout Montreal. One of the tasks is to crash their server, and I thought, what better way than to digg it? Please help us and make this site feel the digg effect.

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In a perfect world…

An idealistic approach to software development.

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Why I'll Never Make Digg Popular

Rebecca Kelley lists 10 reasons she'll never make digg popular (funny but true)

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musikCube 1.0 Final Released!

Good news everyone! The final version of musikCube 1.0 is out at last. Huzzah!MusikCube is a light, feature-rich, highly extensible Open Source Media Player for Windows. Great interface, extremely fast database management, and superb playlist support make this the best music player you'll ever use. Download it now- you'll never look back.

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Free math book published because they think textbook prices are too high...

"With the current price of a new algebra textbook approaching $110 and publishers bringing out a new edition every three to four years just to prevent students from selling their used books, we have decided to create a site where the textbooks are free."They only have one up right now but plan to add more, along with video and audio lectures.

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Hidden Program In Windows XP

Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor - allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.

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New Release of Mephisto Publishing Tool

Here it is, the release that we've been working hard to get pushed. Immortus is a huge improvement over the 0.5 release. We've finally got a really solid system with some of the most intuitive features you'll ever use in a publishing system. The big addition for Mephisto 0.6 is the slick Asset Management feature.

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Firefox loses market share

Firefox lost 0.65% market share while IE gained about 0.35% in July. Indication of things to come or just an aberration?

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Ajax draggable dashboard interface (like MacOSX)

Moo.fx team just released this amazing interface that works like google home but much slicker. So long pageflakes and netvibes. (real browsers only)

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Firefox 2 Officially Released

The Mozilla.com website has been updated with download links, press release, and a post from Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker about the official release of Firefox 2. Well done everyone.

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Acrobat plans to walk the chat line

Adobe will sell six versions of Acrobat 8, including the Acrobat Connect and Acrobat Connect Professional services, which enable small companies to set up online conferences.Via http://devalert.blogspot.com

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Best Bluetooth software for Vista -Bluesoleil 3.0-download it from here

Download Bluesoleil 3.0 for Windows VISTA

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Why can't free software do portable right?

U3 and USB Smart Drives are making it easier and easier to take not only your data, but your entire workspace with you wherever you go.But alas, there is trouble in paradise, read this article about how free/open source software is lagging behind that pack and what can be done about the problem, in rant style.

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Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software and hires Mark Russinovich

Microsoft seems to be on a spree lately with the SoftGrid aquisition and now Winternals as well. Mark Russinovich has been a great contributor of quality kernel-level software for Windows for a long time, bridging the gap where Microsoft perhaps should have. Now they can.

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Macromedia.com updated!

Now it is: Adobe - formerly macromedia, and ugly as hell!! What a shame!

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Could the New WordPress.com Kill Off Blogger?

WordPress.com is a hosted, free blogging solution just like Blogger. While WordPress.com is in a very early Alpha stage, it is drawing the attention of bloggers around the world with its inclusion of AJAX scripts and other new features such as a rich WYSIWYG that allows you to drag and drop photos or images into your posts, etc.

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Photoshop CS3 beta contains Internet speed reducing spyware!!

The Windows version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, downloaded legally from Adobe labs, secretly installs the bonjour service: mDNSResponder. This service sets up a P2P connection without your permission. You can remove it following the steps in the article without harming Photoshop.

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RLA ("Remote LanD Attack")

This is a copy of the release of an exploit I found. Most Network Perimeter Devices are susceptible to the attack. This exploit has made it to many security news related sites, including a top story on SANS. The exploit was posted to BugTraq, FD, and others.

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NMAP 4.0 Released

Nmap has undergone many substantial changes since the last major release (3.50 in February 2004) and they recommend that all current users upgrade.

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Police raid Justin.tv, live on webcam

Wed, 1:40 AM someone spoofed the caller id of the Justin.tv official cell phone number (listed on the website), called the San Francisco police department and reported a stabbing in the North Beach apartment. Police arrived, guns drawn, and entered only to find a bunch of (surprised and nervous) geeks with laptops and webcams. All broadcast live.

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Top Ten Stupidest Joomla! Administrator Tricks Edit this entry.

I recently can across the following post on the forum. Many of them are sad, but true.10. Go with the cheapest hosting provider you can find, preferably a shared server that hosts hundreds of other sites, some of which are high-traffic porn sites.

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Insecure.org Top 100 Network Security Tools 2006 List Released!

It has been three years, but Fyodor has asked those of the nmap-hackers mailing list what are the top security tools of 2006, and 3,243 users have voted and the results are in.

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