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A cheap imitation of a blog, trying to keep track of things that I find interesting on any given day.
2010-01-21
- LadyAda's Projects Page - exceedingly cool electronics projects page, largely focusing on Arduino projects.
- OAUTH WRAP, a new take on "on behalf of"-style API authentication which looks simpler to implement than the original OAUTH 1.00.
- (and the rant accompanying it... interesting read)
2010-01-19
- Google Visualisation API, free web graphing
- Motion Chart in particular, a flash-based bubble-chart animation component that was originally developed by the creators of the awesome Gapminder.org
- Dokan, a framework for developing user-mode filesystems in windows (similar concept to FUSE, except WinFUSE appears defunct and all the other alternatives I can find are commercial)
- Dokan.NET - the .Net bindings (apparently quite buggy at the moment, beware!), making it truly trivial to implement a filesystem... the registry filesystem example is just brilliant in its simplicity...
- (the idea of making a simple encrypted drive system, exempt from the 2-GB Fat32 file size limit by actually using separate files on the filesystem...?)
- CSV Reader class for .Net - the built-in "Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser may be a better option in some or all cases, I'm not sure, but this at least looks pretty neat.
2009-12-29
2009-12-28
- GovTrack.org, a site that tracks the law-making process for the US; what government should really be like...
- Copyright-Watch, tracking changes in that ailing law worldwide.
- EFF "Take-down Hall of Shame", highlighting some pretty amusing copyright infringement claims.
- Photoshop Disasters - probably more fun when it was first created, it's still quite entertaining (and a really good place to go before you start thinking of retouching photos for public consumption).
2009-12-27
- TrueCrypt, software-based disk encryption that can be used on several operating systems and, to a certain extent, on removable media in "portable mode" (requiring admin rights on a windows machine, limited to 2GB volumes on Windows Fat32 drives) or
- FreeOTFE, software-based disk encryption for Windows, also limited by Fat32 and admin rights but with "Explorer" program available for non-Administrator use.
- Hardware-encrypted USB drives in general
2009-12-26
2009-12-21
- Windows AIK, enabling you to create USB boot disks really really painlessly (assuming you have a Vista machine handy for the partitioning).
2009-12-18
- Tableau, a visualization-oriented BI tool attempting to combine the ease of Excel with the graphical power and interactivity of something like GapMinder.org
2009-11-25
- WakeMate, a little gadget that would track your movements at night and help you understand sleep patterns... maybe?
2009-11-18
- Ambient Music Player, the only (surviving?) open-source media player for Android as far as I can tell.