How to Build Triple Boot (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) with single Boot Screen wpics

This is a tutorial with lots of screenshots on how to build a triple boot system (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft) with a single boot manager. + wiping HDD, installing, backing up GRUB's MBR, modifying boot.ini and Vista's bcdedit records. I hope you'll like it.

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Google content blocker (humorous)

why see anything but ads?

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iTunes 7 breaks OurTunes and inhibits open sharing

The widely distributed update to Apple's popular music app: iTunes 7, leaves many users in the dark. Users of pre-7.0 versions are no longer able to browse music on the same local network. Also, the popular java-based application OurTunes is rendered useless if your target library uses v7. Lets work together to find a fix.

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Live Documents is Powerful Stuff

A new service called Live Documents allows Windows PC users with Office already installed on their computer to syncronize documents across multiple users over the Internet. The next step for Live Documents should be to look for a partner amongst the online office players to make their service work across applications as well.

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Firefox Pop-up Notepad Bookmarklet

This is a cool little bookmarklet with which you can make a quick text note in a pop-up and save it directly from your browser. Thanks to Baris Unver for the inspirational spark.

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Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

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Simple hack to disable USB drives in XP - Perfect for public machines

A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards.

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New release of My Exposé, an Exposé-like application for Windows Vista

Simon Ferquel has released a new version of My Exposé, the application that provides a similar feature to Mac's Exposé, giving you an overview of all open windows on your screen. Display your windows using the keyboard, the mouse or even your voice! This is still a pre-release (he calls it CTP) version, but it's pretty stable and bug-free.

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Zestr: A Free AJAX Based Book, Movie, Music and Game Organiser

With Zestr you can organise all your books, movies, music and games online. You can even import your collections from Delicious Library to save you having to enter them all again! RSS feeds let you access your collections externally (such as from your blog).In a beta stage at the moment so why not grab an account (free!) and help shape it.

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Google's Silent Monopoly Redux (Google Responds - Issues Public Statement)

Based on the thoroughness of the statement and the use of the word "precedent" in the second sentence, it appears that the Google PR team huddled with the legal team and issued a statement.....

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Drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons!

Free program that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to re-order them! No extra hotkey or lame extra steps, just drag 'n drop... sooo useful.

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111 free Photoshop plugins

The Plugin Site (aptly named) has 111 free Photoshop-compatible plugins available for download. Take your pick from categories such as Image Effects, Patterns/Textures, Photo Enhancement, and many more. Each plugin is rated according to a three-star usefulness scale; plus, you can easily see if the plugin is Mac or Windows compatible...

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rbtestdox - TestDox for Ruby

Ruby port to TestDox.

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Dabble Commons - Free version of their online database package

Dabble, a paid web based database just released a free version. Functionally, it’s the same as the paid service except that data you keep in a free application is publicly accessible. Their paying customers pay for private databases. So if you have some public information you want in a database this is good news!

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XBList

Check out your XBox Live Friends list on your desktop in buddy-list form, complete with your friends' Halo 2 Emblems and quick links to their Halo 2 stats.

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Gallery 2.1.2 Security Fix Release

This release adds no new features. It fixes a minor information leakage in Gallery 2.1 and 2.1.1a and a major session ID disclosure in all versions prior to Gallery 2.1. Note that these flaws only affect installations where Gallery's storage folder is accessible directly from the web, which we strongly discourage during the installation process.

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Digg All bookmarklet: Lets you digg all stories submitted by your friends

My friend and bookmarklet meister Jesse came up with this cool bookmarklet that lets you automatically digg all the stories that your friends have submitted.

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New math-library: Eigen 0.9.1 released

Eigen is a lightweight C++ template library for linear algebra: vectors, matrices, solving systems of equations... It's very complete apidocumentation shows its mature state already: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~jacob/eigen/dox/

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Opera Mini 3.0 out now

The beta period is over, Opera Mini 3.0 is now available for download, almost as an early birthday present for me. If you have a Java MIDP-capable mobile phone, this is the application you should have installed. Opera Mini gives you access to the full web on almost all mobile phones, at least the ones with Java and data support, and not just a smal

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Great anti-piracy message (picture)

A funny anti-piracy message I recently came across from the makers of USB overdrive.

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HOWTO Drupal with LDAP authentication

Drupal has a fantastic feature, the hook_auth to allow any third party to interact in the authentication process. This is used to authenticate against other Drupal sites over XMLRPC, it is used in the experimental openID integration, to allow authentication against any database, and so on. And off course to authenticate against an LDAP directory, u

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DocMAN Files

This tutorial will show you how to add a file in DocMAN

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Top ten tips for a successful Intranet

So you're thinking of building an Intranet? The question is, how can you make something that everybody uses and that actually achieves your goals? What? You're not sure what your goals are yet? Well that's probably the biggest mistake of all failed Intranet projects.

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Fun with ASCII image conversion

I was pretty bored at work, so I made this image to ASCII conversion site.Check it out and give me some suggestions!

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Firefox or Internet Explorer? Rocketboom Interviews New Yorkers

Which do you use... Firefox or Internet Explorer? Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom interviews New Yorkers. You might find their answers interesting.

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SmartSetr, A Better Way to Build Sets on Flickr, Seriously Rocks!

Eric Appel has developed one of the best Flickr apps I've seen yet. It's called SmartSetr and it allows you to use Smart Sets to organize your sets on Flickr. Smart Sets are a far more efficient way to build sets and allows you to build sets based on tags rather than having to go through Flickr's organizer and add each manually going forward.

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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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