“It’s a sad state of affairs when you buy a new computer these days and it comes pre-loaded with a ton of garbage software that brings your new machine to a crawl. If anyone’s bought a Dell PC in the last few years, you probably know what I’m talking about. Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took a significant amount of time) it booted much faster and performed like it should. I kept thinking it would be nice to have an automated way to remove all this stuff. Thus was born the Dell De-Crapifier script.”
http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38
Steve Jobs is a genius with a vision.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A
Learning to program computer should be fun, for adults and children alike. RUR-PLE is an environment designed to help you learn computer programming using the language Python.
http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing, tweaks many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay, blocks popups initiated by Flash plug-ins.
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org
NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us. NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv
Google Maps is but one implementation of how AJAX promises to make the web more fluid in the near future. Backbase provides a few more…
http://www.backbase.com/index.php#2
When you need to make an MD5 encryption.
In cryptography, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely-used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. As an Internet standard (RFC 1321), MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check the integrity of files. More info here.
http://bfl.rctek.com/tools/?tool=hasher
Wired Magazine article explaining public key cryptography.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto.html
Never throw away an old computer/hard drive with sensitive information still in it. Engadget shows us that with a little patience, you can securely and easily erase your old hard disks.
http://engadget.com/entry/1234000473036054
Wasted on you lot, though someone might be in the need for content with which to spam?
http://browsehappy.com
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
N.B.: NOT FREE. 9 bucks but I think a lot of people would think it’s worth it.
http://www.fontifier.com
While waiting for the one at Tenprod, here is a very nice and easy, yet powerful and secure, password generator. 4 - 64 chars, up to 50 passwords generated. All in https.
http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php
“Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems.”
Ever wondered what the “guy that invented the internet”’s face looked like ?
http://www.wbglinks.net/pages/watchmen
