Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Skynergy Memoriser

Memoriser is a utility to help you remember phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, birthdays and anything that is important for you to remember but you haven’t actually taken the time or effort to do so. Define a question with an answer and let Memoriser quiz you until you remember this question’s answer without even thinking [...]

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Adminer

Adminer (formerly phpMinAdmin) is a full-featured MySQL management tool written in PHP. Conversely to phpMyAdmin, it consist of a single file ready to deploy to the target server. Usefull if you don’t want to upload all of phpMyAdmin via Adminer.

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NES emulator in your browser

Someone with way too much time on their hands ported a NES emulator to JavaScript. Feel like playing Super Mario Bros or Zelda at work? Grab a fast browser like Google Chrome and head on over here, http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/

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Haiku R1/Alpha 1 announced

The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Haiku is a continuation of BeOS in open source form. Should be good! via Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 | Haiku Project.

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TechPosters

All those crib sheets with quick command references for shell programming, using Linux or vim, etc. have been collected here for your printing pleasure! TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys.

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WinLayout Moves and Sizes Windows with Your Numpad – window manager – Lifehacker

Using ctrl, win and / or alt you can move and shift your windows around. The utility is small and doesn’t require installation. WinLayout Moves and Sizes Windows with Your Numpad – window manager – Lifehacker.

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Stellarium

Stellarium is a hugely featured program to look at the night sky with. It’s written for Mac, Windows and Linux. Stellarium.

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SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts

Basically zoom in to pictures and it will correct the pixellation for you. SmillaEnlarger Enlarges Your Images without Artifacts – Image Editing – Lifehacker.

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Ripping music from Spotify

Of course it wouldn’t take long before a program was developed to rip music from spotify. Easy instructions in the link. Ripping music from Spotify using Spotify Ripper | Spotifyripping.com.

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Mp3Extractor: the show cutter

Mp3Extractor is a tool for copying several portions from an MP3 audio file into new (numbered and tagged) MP3 files easily. Mp3Extractor: the show cutter.

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HeatMapper

Heatmapper allows you to upload a map to it, and then walk around with your laptop with wifi on. When you get to a place, you click on it on the map and the signal strength of wifi is measured, creating a heat map.

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Layar

Layar is a cellphone (Android only at the moment and limited to NL) augmented reality viewer. You point your phone at an object, it’ll show it through the camera and then it will show any notes or information about the object. Currently it has layers with Funda (which shows houses for sale) and a few [...]

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Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook allows you to use Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 effectively with Google Apps. You get the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees can use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar. via Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.

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‘Access Keys’ for Accessible UI

CSS 3 implements a system that allows you to assign shortcut keys (with alt or shift-alt modifiers) to links, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. This allows disabled people and people who don’t particularly like using the mouse to navigate the web much faster..

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How to convert from Serendipity (s9y) 1.3.1 to WordPress

Unfortunately it proves to be quite a bit of hassle to do yourself. For some reason WordPress itself doesn’t have a Serendipity conversion filter in the import tools and Google has quite a bit of trouble finding the right one. So here’s the proper way to get your old blog’s content (including the second bit [...]

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MouseZoom

It’s a colour picker with a zoom function

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Sony MotionPortrait animates 2D pics to 3D CGI

The example is a bit freaky, but it looks like promising technology.

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Google Web Elements

Google wants you to put their tools into your website. So they’ve made it easy. Using elements, such as you probably have seen from Youtube embedded objects, they’ve gone and put maps, calendar, search, spreadsheets and a whole load more into this. Googlify your site!

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All-Glass Firefox v2

All-Glass Firefox is a stylesheet for firefox that allows it to use the Windows Aero Glass effects, basically making your entire firefox transparent in Vista. For full useage they reccomend using the latest Firefox beta, but it works fine if you’re running stable as well.

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Android apps on Ubuntu

This is very useful – running an Android app natively in its own window under Ubuntu. Why hasn’t Palm or Apple done this?

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Lifehacker – Hive Five Winner for Best MP3 Tagging Tool

This was voted the best tool to keep the tags of your mp3 collection in order.

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Google adds More Search Options

wants to add more search options: allowing the user to filter through the results themselves more effectively Especially they want webmasters to add stuctured data: by adopting microformats or RDFa standards to mark up their HTML and bring this structured data to the surface. This will help people better understand the information you have on [...]

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Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained

How to find out what’s really wrong with your PC when it blinks blue.

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Multilingual lip reading computers

Now the guys at the superbowl will have another problem when hiding their mouths: even if they change the language they’re speaking in, the computer will be able to tell you which language it is!

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Beatscanner

Point this free app at your music library, tell it how many bpm you want it to look for and it will come up with a list of music. If you set the bpm between 120 – 140 you should get the perfect workout music playlist.

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