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I often wonder what makes my harddrive churn and gurgle randomly, so I ran this proccess checker to see what. I was suprised to see that the biggest users when I was doing nothing were my USB card reader and my modem program. This was suprising seeing as my Anti-virus spent less time running! Though I still wonder why it takes so long to detect a CF card being inserted.
It’s meant to be like Google Maps, but made by Bill. It does do maps quite well, although I can say I like the drag scrolling, which feels like trying to drag the earth around with a pin. It also has satellite pictures called birdseye, which are taken from a different angle from Google’s on top view, although they only seem to have pictures for New York. So, it’s not as bad as it might be, but still not great…
I like the idea of free OS’s, but they are a bit pointless (if you already have an OS), and a bit of an unknown quantity. This site happily makes them much more accesible, by using virtual machines, so maybe I can have a crack at SuSe after all.
I often store lots of useful stuff as Firefox bookmarks, essential sites, cool tutorials, programs I will download… one day. But, I keep thinking what if I lose all my data, I can re download the programs, but I will never remember all the bookmarks. So I found this tutorial, that has lots of faff, but basically tells you that you can back up bookmarks, by going to Bookmarks-> Manage Bookmarks-> File -> Export and there you are, all your net life saved, now I need to remember all my passwords.
I like cats more than dogs, that’s why I got Firecat!!!!! Very sweet!!!
It’s here, more or less a year after 1.0. Wow… All that seems to have changed is the website, the number in the about screen. Oh yeah and there’s a new marketing campaign. Firefox 1.5, I haven’t noticed any difference from 1.5RC3, or RC2, or 1. Oh well, enjoy the hype whilst it lasts.
Nuke Anything Enhanced, is a tiny little extension for everybodys favourite browser, that allows you to block anything and bring it back, with just a click on the right-click menu. Although this is fairly useless, it can be quite fun for bored people like me, and at least unlike adblock or all the rest, you can bring it back.
Once upon a time, it was possible to pay £60 for Microsoft Flight Sim ‘04, now you can get an open source flight sim for free! Flight Gear, is an open source multi platform flight simulator, or so it says. Anyway, it is hardly stingily provided for, there are hundreds of planes to download, scenery for most of the world, and it all looks pretty good. I think that anything open source has got to be good news (Blender, sadly stops me from just saying good), and this one looks particulary so.
Update: Just forget it, any initial expectation vanish, when you soon realise that the controls are impossible.
Look at this video, all the stuff in it is CGI, if only the XBOX360 and PS3 could do this!
I’m glad to see that the master of satelites, NASA, has got in on the “earth” scene, by producing an open source product to rival Google Earth. It’s called World Wind and can do more than just satelite images, it can also do weather data and more. It’s open source, so it would be an interesting program to use the source to create a strategy game with the real world.
iTunes decided last night that 16 hours of music on my Shuffle amounted to 0kb. If only.
Ok, it might not be quite that drastic, but explorer destroyer is a whole new way of getting people to convert to Firefox. It is a bunch of scripts that can do anything from: giving people, on entering your page, a splash screen all about getting Firefox on entering your to not letting them view the page unless they have Firefox. You can also use them to make money. I doubt if that will make it more popular though.
Check this one out as well. It’s funnier.
I’m not kidding when I say this, it really is true. Smash The Tones is a free service, that allows you to upload MP3’s, MIDI’s and GIFs, to make tones and graphics. How do they do it? They don’t send confirmation texts and they have an express service, that doesn’t have the wait you get normally. To get your tones, just enter the address given into your WAP browser. The only cost is the usual download cost. The service is wonderful, and I now have The First Drink of The Day as my ringtone.
This website, contains some useful free tweaking and utility programs. Fresh download, is a download accelerator without adds eating up your bandwidth (with some enormous downloads, you never know if you might need one). Fresh UI, is like Tweak UI, only it isn’t in beta and Fresh Diagnose will find ways in which your computer is underperforming (won’t be to hard to do that).
Damn Small Linux, (DSL) is brilliant. Until today, I was a Linux n00b, but not any longer. Basically, it is a 50mb operating system, that can be used from a bootable CD, or can be installed on your hardrive (although I would recommend the former). It has a few programs in it, like Firefox, Dillo (linux webrowser), Beaver (text editor), some random spreadsheet program, image viewers, Xpaint and many more.
It is also very easy to get, merely download the iso and burn it to a disk (selecting “burn image”). Once burned, boot your computer, enter the BIOS, and enable booting from CD. Reeboot your PC with the disk in the drive, and your ready to go. The entire process took me only about 5minutes (not including downloading it) and I was astounded at how functional and neat it was for a 50mb free OS. Although I would never use it as a proper OS, it could be useful for losing yours, and your friends linux phobia, before you download a proper linux build.
