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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

The super flat iMac G5


The new Apple iMac G5 has put the entire G5 computer into a sleak, stylish monitor that's clutter free, sexy, and damn usable thanks to Apple's UI team.

NeroSoft TimeTrax 1.9

NeroSoft TimeTrax 1.9 allows you to record XM radio to your PC.

Multivalent Documents

Multivalent documents straight from the original author!

Monday, August 30, 2004

And who said the space program was useless?

The Virtual AGC (Apollo Guidance Clock) allows you to emulate Apollo mission time on your computer. The catch? This lovely open sourcing of software from the 1960s only goes as high as 24 hours.

Oh, Inverted World



Oh, Inverted World by The Shins is my new favorite CD.

Sunday, August 29, 2004

GMail Tools

DbxConv can convert Outlook Express DBX files into MBOX format. Then, GML can forward MBOX-formatted e-mails to your GMail account.

Thursday, August 26, 2004

Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts

Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts!!! (PDF)

Monday, August 23, 2004

Eclipse Spell Checker Plug-in

Eclipse Spell Checker Plug-in... 'nuf said.

Friday, August 20, 2004

CMSC433 Lectures

CMSC 433 was one of the most professionally helpful classes I took at UMD and the lecture notes are a superb reference. Of particular interest are the threading and RMI notes.

Friday, August 13, 2004

funny quote

from my cousin's AIM profile:

"I invented alcohol so the Irish wouldn't take over the world." -- God

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Cracking WEP

WEPCrack - An 802.11 key breaker combined with Ethereal yeilds the ability to crack WEP encryption.

no reason why i might be interested in this... hey look over there! ::zoink::

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

presidential supply and demand

IEM 2004 US Presidential Election Winner Takes All Market Price Graph shows the market value of the democratic and republican presidental canidates on the IEM. As my econ professors noted, these markets are often much more accurate than polls are at predicting who will win.

Monday, August 09, 2004

File Chopper

File Chopper is an open source file managment tool written in .NET which allows you to split large files into smaller pieces. Very helpful for managing those large multimedia files.

Thursday, August 05, 2004

frog design, inc.

frog design, inc. is a design firm that made a new computer for disney. slashdot comments noted that they are an interesting design firm (they did the original Macintosh SE). Perhaps similiar to IDEO as far as interesting-design-companies-to-work-for.

Sunday, August 01, 2004

Gyration Media Center Remote

The Gyration Media Center Remote and Keyboard looks interesting.