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Page Revision: 2010-01-21 09:44


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.

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