More Open Source. Here’s a rough prototype of a list of open-source software for Mac OS X. Nothing earth-shattering, but it contains a few items that I didn’t know about, so it has already been useful to me. Note: it’s about “open source” software, not just “free as in free beer” software. Also note that the site [...]
Archive for the ‘Linkrot!’ Category
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-09-05
Posted in Linkrot!, Patents, IP, Privacy and More, Software, Wiki on 05/09/2005 |
Simply Whatever. Close, and yet far apart: Simply Hired and Simply Fired. The latter site is organizing a competition to find “the funniest, saddest, most outrageous story about how you were fired or laid off” – well, aren’t you going to write your story? (First published at http://nukleos.editthispage.com/2005/08/04…)
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-07-31
Posted in Internet, Linkrot!, Photography on 31/07/2005 |
Hints And Tips for digital photography can be found at all major camera builders’ web sites: Nikon has the Digitutor, Pentax has just launched its digiichi, Canon has a somewhat simpler site called Enjoy! Digital SLR camera. Many of the tips are also valid for owners of simpler, non-SLR digital camera’s – so if you have a bit of [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-07-25
Posted in Linkrot!, Web Development on 25/07/2005 |
Supercalifragilistic. It’s official as of now: Yahoo! has acquired Konfabulator, the cross-platform widget platform for Mac OS X and Windows: “So really, depending on how you look at it, we’re taking over Yahoo! We’re going to make it so the best way to access their data is via slick little Widgets“. Even when planning the acquisition [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-07-08
Posted in Design and Art, Linkrot!, Web Development on 08/07/2005 |
Holidays Coming Up? If you’re in for a few weeks of holidays, you may not really want to hear this, but remember: you may as well use your time of to find the time to study CSS. Here’s an excellent tutorial to get you up to speed: Making the Jump to tableless design - nice work, Andy Budd. [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-07-01
Posted in Apple & Macintosh, Linkrot!, Mobile Computing on 01/07/2005 |
Sort Of Loch iNess? Is This The New ITunes Phone? And is it coming from Apple, or from Motorola? (First published at http://nukleos.editthispage.com/2005/07/01…)
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-05-31
Posted in Linkrot!, Photography on 31/05/2005 |
Remarkable Pictures coming from a mobile phone can be seen on the Image America site, where photographer Robert Clark shows what a professional can do with a non-professional camera. OK, so the show is sponsored by Sony-Ericsson, but it’s Robert taking the pictures – and they are good indeed!
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-05-02
Posted in Linkrot! on 02/05/2005 |
I’ll Have Tea…, and my collegues will have their coffee: TeaBuddy! On the other hand, some might see this as a perfect example of how to go beyond the reasonable aplication of automation… ;-)
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-04-24
Posted in Linkrot!, Photography, Software Development on 24/04/2005 |
Sweet Dreams… are made of this: the new Nikon D50 digital SLR. More On RoR. I’m a bit late in picking this up, but that does not make it less interesting: Some Numbers at Last in the Java-versus-Ruby on Rails debate – see 2005/03/22 also (thanks, Greg, for pointing me to those numbers). As far as I am concerned, [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-04-14
Posted in Linkrot!, Patents, IP, Privacy and More on 14/04/2005 |
Food For Thought: The term “intellectual property” is misleading, writes Karsten Gerloff, a fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe. “We should be talking about monopoly privileges, not IP rights, because that’s what they are, as Peter Drahos said in his book ‘A philosophy of Intellectual Property’“…
At Last. At last I have migrated my contacts information from my Palm PDA to my iBook. Simple, you say? Well it is if you can connect both machines, but since the PDA is owned and configured by the company I work fro, things are not that simple… But, going over Outlook and using Steve [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-02-16
Posted in Linkrot!, PDA, Personal, Technology on 16/02/2005 |
Welcome, Little White Box. I have (at last, some may think) bought me an iPod – an iPod photo to be exact. Unpacking and trying out the machine was a pleasant experience – I must admit, that after all the tinkering I do with computers, old or new, it was nice to have a toy that [...]
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-02-13
Posted in Apple & Macintosh, Internet, Linkrot!, Society on 13/02/2005 |
Something To Think About: “Many of our assumptions about popular taste are actually artifacts of poor supply-and-demand matching – a market response to inefficient distribution” (The Long Tail – Wired). How will that change our society in twenty or fifty years? Where Did The Blog Go? I posted a small entry about Pong in Forth for [...]
Sounds About Right: (Edited on 2011-03-22: the original image is no longer available, so you’ll have to do with what was written on it: “I am nerdier than 77% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!“… )
NUKLEOS WEBLOG 2005-02-05
Posted in Linkrot!, Software Development on 05/02/2005 |
Bill Writes: “The Internet is perhaps the most obvious example of this kind of interoperability, where any piece of software can connect and exchange data as long as it adheres to the key protocols” (read more in Bill Gates on Interoperability). Now let’s just dream: a standards-compliant, perfectly interoperable version of MS Internet Explorer on the [...]
