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Page Revision: 2010-01-19 12:16

A cheap imitation of a blog, trying to keep track of things that I find interesting on any given day.

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...
    

2009-12-29

• MandelBulb (thanks Patrick!)
  • 3D fractal rendering programs
  • zoomable rendered Mandelbulb image
• Microsoft SeaDragon smooth zoomable very-large-image viewer
• Microsoft Pivot entity collection analyser
• Tamás Nepusz's Last.fm artist similarity rendering
  • The idea of a 3D explorable version of this visualization (and others)
    

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

• RESX Synchronizer, for .Net projects with language-specific RESX files.
  

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.