Google has open sourced its internal replacement for XML: protocolbuffers. They claim XML is inefficient, large and expensive and that protocolbuffers are 10x smaller and 100x faster. That’s quite a claim!

The guys from the Pirate Bay have an ambitious plan to encrypt everything stored on your computer and everything transmitted to and from your PC using IPETEE or Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets With Europe implementing a 3 strikes – out and turning into the same spying-on-your-citizens-in-the-name-of-freedom/security/whatever type of place as the commie US [...]

Pictomio is a lovely 3d accellerated picture viewer. Free and for windows.

It’s called Lively and it’s a cross between the Sims, Barbie and Roger Rabbit as far as I can see. No quests, just chatting, setting up your own space and you can implement views into your space through a browser. It’s much more based on social networking than gaming.

Well, it took a little while to find, but Barnabu has a live cloud layer, offered as a KML, which they then half the resolution from, and put into a time lapse system which shows the last 10 days, which you can then play through. Very nice implementation of something I’ve so far only managed [...]

As a result of yesterdays revelation that AVG is flooding the internet with fake traffic, I had a look around to see what’s the best free antivirus solution out there. I turns out that AV-test.org tests these scanners on a regular basis and has whole loads of white papers out. Anyway, Security.nl has a synopsis [...]

A nice little guide on how to rip any dvd using VLC media player, use it as a streaming media server and how to play ripped dvd’s

XBRL is fast becoming the standard for transmitting business and financial data over internet.

FINALLY! Wine is not an emulator will run windows programs, and has finally made it to v1.0: stable! Congratulations, I’m very curious how well this is going to work!

quikmaps.com allows you to draw easily on google maps and then share that on your site, via KML to Google Earth or GPX to your GPS.

Trayconizer Makes Any Program a Permanent System Tray App by changing the startup shortcut to first refer to trayiconizer and then the program as a switch / option.

Synchronica is the one solution I’ve found for synching the iphone. Winfonie Mobile 2 has been tested and known to work allowing you to synchronise your iphone with lotus organizer 6.1. There are two versions: one for your contacts and one for your calendar. No to do list or notes as the iphone doesn’t support [...]

With the prices of external HDs nowadays there is no excuse for not having a backup! Here are some (free) Windows tools Syncback Karen’s Replicator Cobian backup

A nice overview of webcam tools: Webbased video chat motion sensing security login with your face creating time lapse videos turning your pc into a photo booth chronicle your face document the weather make a birdfeeder webcam make your phone a webcam

Powerset is another semantic web search engine – ie. it searches by meaning instead of by words and phrases. It’s a total new way to look at information retrieval and is useful in that it can (should be able to) answer questions and make relevant conclusions. This becomes more and more important as the size [...]

Oh dear – after being the most insecure computer OS of the lot and being hacked a full day faster than even Vista, now it turns out that it’s also slow at browsing the web. About 50% slower than XP. Oh well. They’re still cool. If you’re still wearing black turtleneck sweaters.

Ultimate Defrag allows you to choose where on the platter to put files or directories – stuff you use a lot or want to run faster should be near the centre. It has an auto mode so that it puts the files in the right place automatically as it monitors file useage. It’s tiny (1.7 [...]

This basically takes a picture, cuts it up and then resizes it over as many pieces of paper as you like, so you can just stick them together and make a poster.

Some PDF – Free PDF to Word, PDF to Html, PDF to TXT, Text to PDF, PDF Image Extract convert tools

Have you ever wanted to own a Palm unit – or all of them? To develop on, maybe to just play with? Device Anywhere has a lab where you can play with them virtually – software emulations of the devices so that you can try out whatever you want on all the Palm devices without [...]

Unbound is supposed to be lighter, faster, better and supports DNSSEC

And then puts them into an ordered text file for import

Today @ PC World Adobe Flash 10 Adds 3D Support: Public Beta Available for Download

This will send provider information by email to you periodically. Nice to have if your laptop gets stolen…

This does what it should do: Yawcam features: .: Video streaming .: Image snapshots .: Built-in webserver .: Motion detection .: Ftp-upload .: Text and image overlays .: Password protection .: Online announcements for communities .: Scheduler for online time .: Multi languages