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In the Beginning, Finally
Washington Post - 1 hour ago Screenshots from Will Wright's highly anticipated new computer game, show what its game publisher Electronic Arts is touting as "a universe in a box. Sims creator hopes to soar with Spore San Francisco Chronicle Computer game 'Spore' plays with evolution The Patriot-News - PennLive.com InformationWeek - Macworld - CRN - Los Angeles Times all 219 news articles |
rm writes “Internet search and mail provider Yandex, which many view to be the Google’s main competitor in Russia, recently has added an instant messaging capability to its mail notifier application Ya.Online. As it turns out, the IM service is based on the open XMPP protocol, with connectivity to all other public Jabber servers available from day one. MacOS X and GNU/Linux versions of the app were also released (complete with sources under the GPL) and are determined to be based on the Psi IM client. Yandex looks to be a firm believer in open-source, also running a mirror site for FOSS and actively promoting its branded version of Firefox. Here’s hoping that its affair with XMPP will help eliminate ICQ’s enormous foothold in Russia.”
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In NFL deal, an extra point for Adobe's Flash
CNET News - 3 hours ago Adobe Systems' Flash technology may not have qualified for the Olympics, but it is in tip-top shape for the National Football League season just getting under way. NBC Drops Silverlight, Runs Back to Adobe for Flash ReadWriteWeb Silverlight Battling Flash AND JavaScript For Long-Term Legitimacy Mashable San Antonio Business Journal - Dslreports - EETimes.com - CNET News all 9 news articles |
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Arctic Ice Hints at Warming, Specialists Say
New York Times - 3 hours ago By ANDREW C. REVKIN Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean. Most Popular International Zimbabwe Independent Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage DailyTech Seattle Times - Reuters UK - NewsHour - Insurance Journal all 40 news articles |
Grant Henninger writes “Rejoice! The next time you have an extra $20 million and decide to visit the International Space Station you won’t need to leave the window to tell all your friends how cool it is. The ISS now has a new Wi-Fi network, so all you’ll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends.”
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LoL is a Firefox extension that aims to make Web surfing with a keyboard as usable as possible. LoL is a fork of HaH.
Ambient Music Player is a light version of Amarok
for handheld computers based on the Google Android
environment.
GNU ccScript offers a class extensible threaded embedded scripting engine for use with the Common C++ GNU package. This engine is also used in Bayonne (the GNU telephony server), and in TOSI (FreeBSD and GNU/Linux PBX integration servers). This engine differs from traditional scripting systems in that it is used to script near real-time state-event systems through deterministic callback step execution rather than the linear and non-deterministic fashion of embedded script libraries such as tcl, and libguile.
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Gates outacts Seinfeld in Back To The Future
CNET News - 4 hours ago Which is why Crispin Porter Bogusky, the agency responsible for the otherworldly new Microsoft TV spot featuring the clowning Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, is already happy. Microsoft's Renewed Vista Strategy PC World Journals week in review: news from One Microsoft Way Ars Technica InformationWeek - New York Times - CRN - Macworld all 519 news articles |
xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows
are arranged automatically to tile the screen
without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use.
Window manager features are accessible from the
keyboard; a mouse is optional. xmonad is
extensible in Haskell, allowing for powerful
customisation. Custom layout algorithms, key
bindings, and other extensions may be written by
the user in config files. Layouts are applied
dynamically, and different layouts may be used on
each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported,
allowing windows to be tiled on several physical
screens.
Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL
Select statements and generates a diagram. In
addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of the
underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For
example x=30, GROUP BY (year), SUM(profit), HAVING
MIN(age) > 18.
Anonymous Coward writes “Ever wondered how much bandwidth you will get at a hacker con? This web page tells you how much. It shows the total bandwidth and bandwidth for each visitor for all the recent hacker cons.” It looks like Defcon attendees get the short end of the stick, while those at metarheinmain chaosdays are practically swimming in bandwidth. There are a lot of other cons (a few examples listed here) which I’d like to see added to this list.
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cfunge is a fast interpreter for the Befunge98
esoteric language. It is standard conforming.
fastcgi++ is a C++ library for developing Web
applications in C++ with the FastCGI protocol.
This library does not support the old CGI
protocol. It effectively manages simultaneous
requests without the need for multiple threads.
Session data is organized into meaningful data
types as opposed to a series of text strings.
Internationalization and Unicode support is
another priority.
Pyjamas-Desktop is a cross-platform framework and
application widget set, based on WebKit. It is
similar to Python-Qt4 and Python-Gtk2, except it
is much easier to use and is more powerful.
Pyjamas-Desktop allows you to not only create your
application with a simple widget set but also to
mix in CSS stylesheets, full HTML, load and run
Web pages, load plugins that conform to the NSAPI
such as Adobe Flash, and execute JavaScript. It is
a port of Pyjamas to the desktop, so applications
written for Pyjamas can also be run unmodified
under Pyjamas-Desktop.
Sockso is a personal music server for everyone.
It’s designed to be as simple as possible so that
anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get their
friends listening to their music across the
Internet in minutes.
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms. It includes a wide selection of cryptographic algorithms (including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA, and DSA, among many others). It also support X.509 certificates and several common certificate-related formats and protocols. It has a high level interface, is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial and API reference.
Sound-Rec-Ed provides simple GUIs to record and
edit sound files, similar to operating a
tape-deck. Buttons start and stop recording or
break incoming audio into separate files. It can
cut sections from audio files or join files. It
saves files in WAV, OGG, or MP3 format.
Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after
Emacs. It can accommodate any number of sounds,
each with any number of channels. It can be
customized and extended using Guile, Ruby, or
Forth.
Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans systems to detect software and security issues. Beside security related information, it will also scan for general system information, installed packages, and possible configuration mistakes. The software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, and vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems.
Gnac is an easy-to-use audio conversion program
for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be
powerful but simple. It provides easy audio file
conversion between all GStreamer supported audio
formats.
Contiki is an open source, highly portable, networked, multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained embedded systems. It includes a multitasking kernel, a TCP/IP stack and a set of application programs, and a low-power radio communication stack. It is written in C and designed to be very small: it runs comfortably in a few kilobytes of RAM.
The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for
users to install software easily and without the
need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a
program’s interface description and chooses
suitable versions of the program and all of its
dependencies (also identified by URLs) according
to the user’s policy settings (eg. “stable”,
“testing”, “minimal network use”, etc). The chosen
versions are downloaded and cached and the program
is run, using environment variables to let it find
the components.
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and
organizer, with some ripping and encoding tools
included. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC,
and MP4.
Locked Area is a highly sophisticated password protection and membership management system. It has been designed to be as secure as possible while it still runs hands-free with no input from the Webmaster needed. Locked Area uses Apache’s .htaccess and .htpasswd along with DES randomized salt or MD5 encryption of passwords for increased security. It also includes a member database that lets the administrator maintain a mailing list along with the member’s area.
OpenCrypt is a fully automated and self-managing membership and user management system for use on Internet Web sites. It offers support for unlimited membership subscription groups, linked to unlimited secure content areas, and integration with all major e-commerce payment processors. An affiliate system, integrated help-desk, digital file delivery, content management, newsletter and community tools, and in-built shopping cart systems make it an incredible marketing and Web site management tool too. A database integration facility allows you to link registration with any text database or MySQL-based software such as your forum or helpdesk.
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Google Chrome Reflects A Desktop In Decline
InformationWeek - 1 hour ago After 10 years as a company, Google is making the Chrome browser key to the coming of age of cloud computing, or software as a service. Mozilla updates Firefox 3.1 with Alpha 2 build Computerworld Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight CNET News Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - guardian.co.uk - Hartford Courant - PC World all 230 news articles |
Sunscape is a screen saver and locker for PocketPC
mobile devices. It is similar to the iPhone slide
to unlock feature, but targets the Windows Mobile
system. It provides an interface that displays
configurable information about the handheld
device. The graphics used are completely
replaceable, allowing users to build their
preferred custom interface. The main goals are to
keep Sunscape completely configurable to the user
as well as maintaining a very low memory
footprint.
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4.0 earthquake centered near Alamo
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago By Roman Gokhman ALAMO - A magnitude 4.0 earthquake that shook the East Bay on Friday evening jangled a few nerves but caused little damage. Earthquake rattles San Francisco Bay area San Diego Union Tribune Small quake rattles Calif.'s East Bay United Press International USA Today - San Francisco Chronicle - Newsweek - eFluxMedia all 329 news articles |
