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September 25, 2012

National Railway Museum | The East Coast Timeline

As someone who’s taken the Waverley–Kings Cross train many, many times in my life, this app just fills me with nostalgia.

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June 20, 2012

Satellite Eyes

Fab tiny OS X app which sets your desktop wallpaper to a satellite view of your current location. Added bonus: You can switch to use the gorgeous “Watercolour” themed maps by Stamen.

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June 7, 2012

Houdini

New favourite Mac utility. Automatically hides app windows after a couple of minutes in the background so you can focus on what you’re working on.

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March 21, 2012

Fish: a tap essay

Fab thoughtful piece by Robin Sloan, delivered in an innovative form.

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March 9, 2012

Biologic: A Playful Social Network Browser for iPad

Cellular loveliness from Bloom. Makes for a delightful second-screen.

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October 13, 2011

Private Eye | Free Network Monitor for Mac

Dead handy. Lightweight tool to track which apps are accessing the internet, and which hosts they’re hitting.

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May 17, 2011

screenstagram

OS X screensaver that shows your friends’ Instagram shots. Lovely!

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November 15, 2010

GIRL TALK - ALL DAY

New Girl Talk album, free to download. Similar to his previous work, which is both a good thing, and mildly disappointing.

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September 25, 2010

Glympse - Share Your Where

My new favourite iPhone app — When you’re running late, send an updating map of your whereabouts by text message so friends have some idea of when you’ll arrive! People should expect to receive these from me a lot!

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July 21, 2010

Flipboard for iPad

Beautiful social news gathering tool for iPad. Feeds are “curated” using Twitter lists, giving buttloads of flexibility. (Sadly the social part is buggered at the moment, as they didn’t account for all the iPad users out there)

Unrelated: New goal in life: Create a product that is cool, then get Adam Lisagor to make the promo video.

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May 12, 2010

Portal is FREE!

The free game is not a lie! To encourage download of Steam, Valve is giving Portal away for free for the next two weeks. If you haven’t already played it, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO.

December 31, 2009

Best of Bootie 2009

This year’s mash-up-mega-mix. Amazing as ever!

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December 20, 2009

Annabel Scheme

Robin’s novella is now available as a CC-licensed PDF file. I’m about halfway through reading my copy, and proud to have been part of the Kickstarter project that funded it.

Perfect for copying onto your Kindle before you board a flight this festive season!

December 7, 2009

MagicPrefs

I love my new Magic Mouse, but was missing my middle click. This app adds it back. Hooray!

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November 30, 2009

Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch

This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!

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November 29, 2009

Waze

Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.

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November 25, 2009

Ommwriter

Oh my, this is rather lovely. A distraction-removing full-screen text editor (similar to WriteRoom), with a lovely background and jangly music!

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October 6, 2009

Glims for Safari

Safari “plug-in” which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world!

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September 29, 2009

Dropbox iPhone app

Dropbox release a (free!) iPhone app the lets you access all your saved files. I almost feel guilty that I’m still on their free plan — They rock my world massively.

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September 27, 2009

Plants vs Zombies

Plants vs Zombies is now playable online for free. If you haven’t already had a shot, you’re a fool.

August 2, 2009

Tig: text-mode interface for git

Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable.

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July 28, 2009

BootXChanger

Replace the Apple graphic on OS X boot. Being a traditionalist, I’ve got with an old school Happy Mac.

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July 23, 2009

ClickToFlash

OS X Safari users: Install this! Blocks Flash until you click on the object in Safari (and other WebKit-based applications). A way to mitigate the risk of the Flash exploit without completely nuking Flash Player from your machine.

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July 20, 2009

Weezer - The 8-bit Album

Compilation of chiptunes covers of Weezer. Ace!

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May 2, 2009

Dinosaur Comic message style for Adium

/me steps on log cabin

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February 20, 2009

Flux

“F.lux makes your computer’s lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.”

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Supervisor

Handy lightweight process-launcher-and-watcher. Features like “restart this process if it swallows too much resident memory” are going to be handy.

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January 14, 2009

Slacker Personal Radio - Slacker Radio on iPhone and iPod Touch

I prefer Slacker’s personalized radio stations to Pandora, and their new iPhone app is top-notch.

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January 4, 2009

Sen:te - GPGMail

The plugin for OS X’s Mail app which makes cryptography easily manageable.

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December 28, 2008

Lazarus: Restore lost forms with a single click

Firefox extension to help avoid “crashed browser/lost textarea” syndrome.

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December 20, 2008

SmartSleep

Hurrah! Sleep your MacBook instead of hibernating it when you have sufficient battery life left. It was very annoying that I had to wait for OS X to persist 3GB to disk before I could pick up my laptop.

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December 10, 2008

ack -- better than grep

Why am I only finding this now? A smart replacement for the “find . | xargs grep” recipe I use on a daily basis.

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November 30, 2008

App Shopper: TapDefense

Fantastic, highly-addictive and free tower-defense game for iPhone. After three (almost half-hour each) games, having trouble beating Level 30 on Easy.

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November 24, 2008

AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book

Update your OS X Address Book with photos and birthdays from your friends’ Facebook pages (sadly, Facebook bars it from doing anything useful, like updating email addresses and phone numbers)

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October 24, 2008

TinEye Mobile - Idée Inc.

Take a photo of a CD sleeve, and it’ll attempt to ID it for you. Like Shazam, but for product photos. Since I use my iPhone as a way of remembering books I’ve seen in Borders to buy off of Amazon, that’d be a handy app.

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October 8, 2008

macvim

Newer, more Mac-like version of vim than the olde Carbon port on vim.org.

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September 23, 2008

Boxer: Mac-Friendly DOS Emulation

Nice wrapper for DOSBox, which allows you to bundle up DOS games on OS X. I look forward to a little light “Jones in the Fast Lane” this evening.

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July 15, 2008

Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops

Open-source app which logs your laptop’s network location (and optionally a snapshot from the webcam) to a DHT distributed database at irregular intervals.

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June 23, 2008

firefox-mac-pdf

In ye olde days, displaying PDF documents in the browser drove me nuts. You’d unwittingly click on a link, and your entire web browser would freeze up for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader started. But since PDF is baked so closely into the OS X system, this Firefox plugin is wicked fast, and thoroughly helpful.

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June 9, 2008

PhoneFinger

Testing tool for iPhone development — Replace your mouse cursor with a lifesize finger. Needs a dirty-fingernail easter egg, if you ask me.

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May 21, 2008

Clutch

Web remote-control plugin for the Transmission bittorrent client. Very handy.

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May 17, 2008

I Love Stars

Lightweight menu-bar app for OSX which displays, and lets you edit, the star rating for the current track in iTunes.

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May 14, 2008

XBMC on OS X

Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

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May 12, 2008

tms - Command line client for Time Machine backups

Command line tool for interrogating and diffing Time Machine backups.

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May 5, 2008

nine inch nails: the slip

Another NIN album released for free download under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. It should be noted that Ghosts I-IV was the first NIN album I’ve ever bought, after enjoying its free release earlier this year.

February 6, 2008

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software

The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.

February 5, 2008

Iconfactory : Arcade Daze System

Gorgeously-retro 8-bit-esque system icons for OS X.

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January 25, 2008

Mondrianum

OS X system-wide plugin that adds color palletes from Adobe’s kuler community to the ColorPicker widget.

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January 14, 2008

Shelf - jerakeen.org

Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)

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December 12, 2007

CDBurnerXP: Introduction and News

Freeware CD burner app for Windows. If this means I can nuke bloody Nero off my work PC, I’ll be a happy, happy man.

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IronPython Studio

Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.

December 9, 2007

Begley's Blog: Time Machine Menu Bar Add-On

Handy “Time Machine” menu bar icon which Apple removed from the released version of Leopard. (Make sure and read the installation instructions in the comments)

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November 30, 2007

PuTTY Tray

Improved version of the essential ssh client for Windows

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November 22, 2007

ies4osx

Automatically downloads, installs and runs the Windows versions of IE natively on OS X using Darwine.

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November 6, 2007

Synthesia, Piano for Everyone

The project formerly known as “Piano Hero”.

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August 22, 2007

DeskLickr - Flickrize your Mac desktop!

Automatically swap your desktop background for snaps from Flickr. I’ve had some gorgeous stuff come up in the couple of hours I’ve been running it.

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July 27, 2007

iFuntastic 2.0 released with added features | iPhone Alley

OS X GUI which makes it a piece of piss to add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Those wily hackers!

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July 5, 2007

telekinesis - Google Code

Remote control for your Mac, designed to be accessed by Safari on an iPhone.

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June 24, 2007

Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver

OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.

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June 14, 2007

AppFresh - All Software Updates for your Mac in One Place

Free alternative to the VersionTrackerPro Mac software updater, using iusethis.com’s database for version information

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May 22, 2007

Medallia Blog: jQuery Reference Widget

Dashboard widget for the JQuery docs.

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May 18, 2007

Moody - Mac OS X app to mood tag your music in iTunes

Tag your tunes by mood, then shuffle away for the right mix. Would be interesting to see if there’s a consistent way to share moods across users…

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May 17, 2007

ThisIsNotALabel.com - My Wiimote Drum Kit

Virtual drumming with a wiimote. The video gives a good idea how it works.

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May 16, 2007

nocturne

Simple OS X app which does smart screen-inverting to make late-night computing more bearable.

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May 15, 2007

Pathway

Browser which makes it easier to retrace your steps as you delve through Wikipedia.

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May 6, 2007

MailActOn

Plugin for Apple Mail which allows you to quickly tag/file/act-on your emails with a couple of keystrokes. I’d been looking for something like this for a while.

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May 1, 2007

Frets On Fire

Open source Guitar Hero-a-like.

April 26, 2007

MIKE PIONTEK // software / mac os x / delivery status 3.2.3

Beautiful OS X Dashboard widget to track package delivery.

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Hackety Hack: the Coder's Starter Kit

Simple easy-to-get-started programming tutorial, based upon Ruby and Mozilla. Written by “Why the Lucky Stiff”. The “Hackety Manifesto” is worth reading.

April 17, 2007

Port 25 : Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download

From the “about bloody time” file, a plugin from Microsoft for Firefox which allows WMV files to stream in your browser. This has been broken (and required lots of DLL copying) for years.

April 4, 2007

filehippo.com Update Client - filehippo.com

Know when Windows programs you have installed need updateing — Like VersionTracker or AppFresh, but for Windows.

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April 1, 2007

Slife Labs

App which tracks what you’re browsing/reading/writing/working-on over time. Kind of cool to build up a picture of your day.

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March 16, 2007

DockArt

Replace the iTunes icon in the dock with the coverart of the currently playing track. Nice.

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March 12, 2007

Package Tracker - Monkey Business Labs

Package tracking widget for OS X’s Dashboard. Saves you wearing out the F5 key when you’re waiting for something shiny.

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January 4, 2007

Wormux

Open source Worms-a-like. Far too many of my student hours were taken up playing “Worms 2” against my flatmates. Admittedly, most of that time was taken up by giggling as we named our worms things like “Sean Is A Virgin” and “Jim’s Cock”, but I think the game was fun too.

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January 2, 2007

Vienna

Open-source newsreader for OS X. Looks to be worthy competition for NetNewsWire.

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December 15, 2006

FLV Online Converter - vixy.net

Very handy — Paste in a YouTube URL and download the video clip as an avi, mov or mp4 file.

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December 2, 2006

home of the nerd cave | taskbar shuffle

Drag’n’drop the buttons in your Windows taskbar, in case you, like me, are the obsessive type who gets quite out-of-whack when your mail client isn’t the left-most button.

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November 28, 2006

The Power of Together

Sit through three “webcasts” on “exciting” “new” Microsoft “technology”, and get a free legitimate license for Windows Vista and/or Office 2007.

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November 2, 2006

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)

Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)

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October 28, 2006

Frozen Bubble - the official home

Truly excellent open-source Bust-a-Move clone hits 2.0. Features, oh yes, internet multiplayer mode. My productivity hits new lows. (No Windows or OSX port yet, but hopefully only a matter of time)

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October 26, 2006

Adobe Labs - Adobe Soundbooth

Beta of a new audio-editing app from Adobe.

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Windows Defender home

MS’s anti-spyware app is out of beta. Go install it on your relatives’ PCs post-haste.

October 12, 2006

AndreaMosaic Home Page

Really frickin’ good Photomosaic-making software. I’ve been having lots of fun with this, using around 15,000 album covers as the “tiles”, and it does an bang-up job, without “cheating” by tinting or repeating images (like some other software does).

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October 3, 2006

Listening Post: Winamp Adds Remote Access, Dashboard Widgets

New version of WinAmp (Remember them? It’s like an iPod, except you can’t carry it around with you. Ask your parents) includes “remote listening” — Stream music from your home PC to wherevers. Since Apple kept disabling hacks that did this with iTunes, I’m curious how AOL think they’re going to be able to keep this “legit”

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September 25, 2006

FREE BEER

“Free as in free speech” — Beer whose recipe is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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September 13, 2006

Foxit Software: Foxit Reader 2.0

Foxit Reader, the PDF viewer for Windows that doesn’t slow down your PC startup, kill your web browser, or take 45 seconds to load, has reached version 2.0. Recommended.

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August 2, 2006

WinTabber - Tab your terminal, shell, browser or favorite application

Can be used with PuTTY to create a tabbed interface. Since I usually have four or five ssh shells open at a time, this’ll help me keep track of things.

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July 31, 2006

The Broadband - God Save the Internet

” Writing songs about corporate malfeasance so you don’t have to!”. Free net-neutrality MP3 from Jill Sobule, Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis.

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July 19, 2006

Adobe Labs - Project: Lightroom

Adobe’s Lightroom photo-processing beta is now available for Windows in addition to OSX.

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July 3, 2006

nLite - Deployment Tool for Unattended Windows

nLite’s hit 1.0. If you reinstall Windows with any frequency, it’s a lifesaver, allowing you to slipstream an install containing all Windows Updates, plus your favourite settings, tweaks, and apps.

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June 30, 2006

Privatephone - Free Private Phone Number and Online Voicemail by NetZero

Free disposable voicemail that you can get forwarded to you automatically via email. Feel free to spam me with WAV files at (617) 440-3295.

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June 16, 2006

visor

Cunning OSX hack to enable an instantly-accessible Quake-style terminal window.

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June 15, 2006

ClamWin Free Antiviru

Free and Free antivirus for WIndows, based on ClamAV. Imagine Norton Antivirus, but without all the masses of shite that slows down your PC. Doesn’t include “on-access” file scanning, but I’m happy with that.

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June 13, 2006

GParted -- LiveCD

Manoman is this handy. Boot up off the live CD and repartition your hard drive on the fly without losing data. It’s like PartitionMagic, but free, free and it doesn’t corrupt your data!

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June 8, 2006

Google Browser Sync

Interesting offering from the Googleplex — Sync your bookmarks, saved passwords and cookeis across your Firefox installations, via Google’s big-ass database in the sky. If there were a way to do this using my own server, I’d be all over it.

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June 4, 2006

BixData | Cluster and Systems Management

Free but not-free tool for system monitoring. Looks like a usable alternative to Nagios.

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June 3, 2006

Omniscient Debugging

Very cool Java debugging tool, which records your application’s entire state over runtime, and allows you to replay and debug it at a later date.

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May 22, 2006

SourceForge.net: UltraStar

Open-source version of the SingStar karaoke game.

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May 20, 2006

MacSaber: Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon

Hah! Using the motion-sensor built-in to recent Mac laptops to synthesize lightsaber noises. Genius!

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May 18, 2006

JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™

Cross-platform mountable network file-system storing your precious data with Amazon’s S3 service.

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May 7, 2006

Server Monitoring With munin And monit

Cool. I’d been looking for a simple Linux monitoring tool like this a few weeks ago — Something simple that can plot load over time.

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May 6, 2006

Moose

Win32 remote controller for Slimserver. I now have toast popping up on track changes, which makes me happy.

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April 30, 2006

Napster's Free Service FAQ

Napster (remember them?) launch free streaming of most tracks in their catalogue. Unlike Rhapsody’s service, it requires registration first, and forces you to sit through advertising every few tracks.

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April 29, 2006

blakeseely.com » Mugshot

Excellent wee Flickr organizr for OSX. Easily sift through your photos, sets, contacts and groups. The author is now working on Aperture for Apple.

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April 13, 2006

Mr. Beast by Mogwai on Rhapsody

Example Rhapsody album link. Follow this, and you can hear one of my favourite albums of the year so far.

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O'Reilly Radar > Rhapsody Distributes Their Music

Rhapsody try to keep themselves relevant — You can now listen to 25 full tracks without even signing up. So I could link to an album, and you could legally listen to the whole thing in your browser for free. Will this lead to thousands of folk linking to Rhapsody?

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April 5, 2006

DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS

Tool for running olde DOS games (Soundblaster emulation and all) in Windows/Linux/OSX. I’ll have to try getting “Jones In The Fast Lane” up and running with it.

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March 29, 2006

XScreenSaver

jwz’s awesome screensaver collection is now available for OSX. Windows users are still SOL. “There is no Windows version of xscreensaver, and there never will be. Please stop asking. Microsoft killed my company, and I hold a personal grudge.”

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March 28, 2006

Safely install software in a virtual layer - Lifehacker

This looks handy. Install Windows applications into isolated silos so you can try them and uninstall them without leaving debris all over your hard drive and registry.

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March 27, 2006

Videora TiVo Converter

Free one-click conversion of video files to the specific MPEG format required to copy video onto your TiVo. No messing around with demuxers or codecs required. They also have one that converts to iPod Video format.

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March 19, 2006

Allmydata.com

Distributed P2Pish secure backups. You give up 10Gb of your hard drive, for the rights to distribute 1Gb of your files across hundreds of peers. Sadly Windows-only, and there’s no way to tweak how much *bandwidth* you’re willing to give up, but could come in handy.

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Darik's Boot and Nuke

Bootdisk that fits on a 1.44Mb floppy which securely nukes every scrap of data off of hard drives. Handy to have if you’re about to sell an old computer.

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March 17, 2006

Tribler

Interesting attempt to add more social context (eg. trust, recommendations) to BitTorrent donwnloads.

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February 8, 2006

VMWare Server

Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I’m almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work — Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machine. Also gets around the “You can’t create an image” limitation of the free VMWare Player app.

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January 8, 2006

Gregarius » A Free, Web-based Feed Aggregator

Really awesome looking self-hosted feed reader. I’ve been using Feed on Feeds for the last month or so, but this looks light-years ahead of it.

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December 29, 2005

Free Music

Kristin Hersh has released a new EP as free creativecommons-licensed FLAC files.

December 28, 2005

Tunatic: free music identification software

Shazam-a-like “hold a microphone up to a speaker and identify the tune” service that runs on your PC. Neither codebase or database is open, sadly.

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TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP/2000 and Linux

Open-source whole-disk encryption package for Windows. Perfect for keeping your USB keychain drive safe from prying eyes.

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December 7, 2005

mozdev.org - nextplease

Ooh. This is just supersmart! A Firefox plugin which works out when you’re on a site with multiple pages to a story (or search results), and lets you flip through them with keyboard shortcuts. This makes TWoP much easier to read. Hurrah!

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December 6, 2005

Colorize black and white photos - DevLobby.com

Cool little app to re-color black and white photos. Lots of fun!

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November 27, 2005

Paint.NET

New version of the excellent free^2 Windows image editing software.

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November 23, 2005

Indieish: Remixing Pop Culture - CC:365

Podcast promising a new CC-licensed indie MP3 tune every day of 2006. I’m really looking forward to this.

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November 14, 2005

Google Analytics

Google continues their quest to consume every nibble of data on the internet — This time, site access logs.

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November 11, 2005

Celestia

Wow. An amazing free space “simulator” for Windows, OSX or Linux. Tip: Select “Demo” from the Help menu to get an idea of what it covers.

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November 7, 2005

Visual Studio Express

Microsoft have release the various versions of Visual Studio Express for free. Very smart move on their part — It reduces the cost of Windows programming to essentially zero for those who aren’t willing to pay, and MS can make up the money with their “professional” Team solutions and MSDN subscriptions.

November 2, 2005

Producing Open Source Software

Free ebook on the hows and wherefores of running an open source project, from someone who’s been round the block a couple of times.


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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

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