Rod McFarland has put together some really cool AJAX-based CLI themes for WordPress. With his CLI 2.0 theme, you can browse blog entries by “cd”-ing through categories, typing “ls” to list article titles and “cat [articlenum]” to read a post. AJAX is used to make the whole experience seem like you are typing at a […]
Zfone is a VoIP encryption package developed by Phil Zimmermann, the author of PGP. There’s a software utility for Linux, Mac and Windows that automatically detects VoIP calls, negotiates a secure connection, and then filters all call traffic. So now you can have a secure iChat A/V call and protect against packet snoopers and man-in-the-middle […]
Michael K. wrote in, asking for a hack to “enable someone to play a game on a computer with an incompatible graphics card.” Normally, I would have thought such a thing impossible, but I’ve been itching to try out Neverwinter Nights 2, and I don’t have a graphics card that supports it. I recently learned […]
In a MySQL Conference presentation with the subheading “How to store a hundred billion BLOBs without buying a single disk,” Mark Atwood described a new open source storage engine that he built which allows you to store data in Amazons S3 service using MySQL. It doesn’t (yet) allow you to create any generic table schema […]
The Unofficial Google Translate API is a combination javascript library and php service that allows you to do AJAX-style language translation. The PHP script serves as proxy to Google’s Translate utility, passing data to and from Google on behalf of the javascript code. Unofficial Google Translate API –Link. Inspired by Philipp Lenssen’s Google Translate API […]
With a little Photoshop, the Icon Composer from the OS X install disk, and a program called Icns2Rsrc, it’s pretty easy to make custom icons for OS X. There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this (custom app icon, etc.), but for me it seems really useful for easily distinguising […]
Jon Udell mentions a great add-on for Internet Explorer, Reify Software’s Turnabout, which gives you the ability to run some Greasemonkey scripts in Internet Explorer: …it comes in two versions: basic and advanced. If you download the basic version it only runs a small set of scripts that the Reify folks have blessed. You have […]
