The main goal of this plugin is to make it harder for an attacker to figure out your downloading habits in BitTorrent. One of the reasons BitTorrent works so well is that it lets you download from large numbers of connections — but these same connections offer multiple of opportunities for eavesdropping. Our recent study [...]

Bumptop changes your desktop into a physical type of room, with 3 walls and a desk. You can push things around the desk and create stacks of things very easily. Larger objects have more weight. It’s a neat concept, allthough I’m not sure how practical it is.

It automates Handbrake. For more DVD Ripping software (such as the DVD encryption breaking) also follow this link.

Windows only: Radical Image Optimization Tool makes it easy to see how compression affects the image quality of the pictures you’re optimizing with a handy side-by-side interface. Lifehacker – Radical Image Optimization Tool Provides Side by Side Image Comparison – Image Editing

This works with a whole range of ebooks. It has a webserver so you can access it from outside, and converts formats as well as RSS feeds into books. It also works with Kindle and Stanza (for ipod)

It creates an Iso which you can burn to cd or thumbdrive. Boot off that and you’re playing your video!

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Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are limited by a lack of user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor8 user behavior. As a result, P2P networks can only be safely used by those comfortable with wholly public [...]

Here’s hoping that Haiku can keep it up where BeOS didn’t make it. That was an awesome OS.

This makes little transparent windows on your desktop to organise your icons in.

Three seperate tests which look at whether your ISP is fucking with you in their bandwidth allocation.

Winamps’ atrocious lack of keyboard support has had me up in arms. Unfortunately the other media players suffer from the same malady. This little proggie adds that much needed support for you to most popular media players.

This is some amazing software that will make your psp (custom firmware) run as an extra windows monitor / display. Apparently it’s also possible to tether the playstation to your PC with wifi instead of USB…

Photography: TiltShiftMaker Turns Your Photos Into Miniature Sets Upload a photo and it’ll alter the picture so that it looks like the front lens is at an angle instead of parallel to the rear lens in the casing.

If you’re struggling with decreased performance on a Windows based machine, it’s a simple fix to check to make sure your IDE drives aren’t operating in a slower, ineffective transfer mode. When fresh from the box—or your workbench— your computer should have had all it’s IDE drives set in Direct Memory Access mode. This is [...]

This Firefox extension adds numbers to every link on a site. Pressing ctrl + the number opens that link.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics [...] R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides [...]

Featured Windows Download: Install-It Creates Auto-Starting Installer CDs for Any Applications. Very simple to use and set up.

This program takes around 4MB space but saves it later. Whenever a program wants to add itself as a startup program, this gives you the option of allowing or disallowing it. This means no more unwanted adobe crap starting up with your PC.

These guys are making a shot of creating a app store like Android or Apple have for Windows Mobile programs.

Augmented Reality is where you take a camera and overlay digital images on the picture. These pictures are then anchored to certain items, so when you’re looking at an object, you can see the digital addition, but if you move the camera, the digital addition stays with the object. ARToolKit is a system to build [...]

Uses Wireless triangulation to pinpoint where your device is and show it on a map. Never lose it again!

gMote is a windows freeware that allows you to easily define mouse gestures to launch programs or open folders.

ALP 3.0 is out. This is the successor the Palm OS / Garnet and would have been really really really exciting. If it had happened around 3 years ago. Very curious if Palm is going to license this for their new phones and get rid of Windows Mobile (which is total crap). Somehow I don’t [...]

If you have a crappy old router there are open source ways to upgrade them using alternative firmwares: There’s Tomato for Linksys’ WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS [...]