Linkblog - 7.2.2006 - 25.2.2006

Hetima:SafariStand - yet another monster plugin for Safari that includes everything possible, filtering, colored source, thumbnail previews on tabs, page modification ...

Pimp My Safari - Plugins and tools around Safari.

stripsquad.se - very weird, very loud, very mean - I love it.

SurfRabbit - and another Greasemonkey-like tool for Safari (I don't know if the Rabbits are written in JavaScript, but the effects are similar).

Democracy Player - an RSS aggregator that expects BitTorrent files in enclosures and automatically downloads them. Many features, essentially implements TV-on-Demand.

Google Macintosh Dashboard Widgets - what you see is what you get. Google Dashboard Widgets for Google.

Growl! - everyone knows it by now, visually appealing info windows, can also be used from scripts.

Live Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow - interesting article about creating large images directly from thumbnails without changing pages. However, due to the invented attributes, it is not valid HTML4.

The Little Calculist: JavaScript language level - JavaScript as a language directly supported in DrScheme. This gives the brilliant tools of DrScheme for editing JavaScript as well.

Water: the structure and properties of liquid water - everything you want/should/know about water (yes, that H2O stuff).

RubyForge: Ruby Port to Nokia 770 Internet Tablet: Project Info - Ruby is now also available on the Nokia 770. With Python and TCL, that's quite a number of on-board programming languages.

Scsh PhotoBase - is a photo management software like iPhoto, but written in Scheme and for use over the web. So far only an announcement, but the source will definitely be released.

Tomato Torrent - a nice BitTorrent client for OS X.

Wasabi Systems has a quite useful analysis of what the GPL actually means for companies. Furthermore, there is also a chapter that deals with binary kernel modules - and why these represent a GPL violation.

Clim-Desktop project - first approaches for an integrated Common Lisp development environment based on the free CLIM implementation.

The Linux Kernel Driver Interface - why the Linux Kernel has not designed its internal kernel interfaces as a "stable binary interface" (or even as a "stable interface").

#4G European Grounded "Shuko" Adapter. Walkabout Travel Gear (tm) - Adapter for a bunch of plug formats on Schuko. Could be my savior if Expansys does not have the power supply for the i-Tech keyboard available in Schuko version ...

8-p.info - Creammonkey - something similar to Greasemonkey, but for Safari.

Bluetooth Security - Bluetooth Security - what's possible, what's being done, what's behind it.

Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla - interesting article that covers a series of pitfalls when switching between IE and Mozilla.

PlayDeluxe Shop - Online-Shop - there's also an English-to-German adapter. Much cheaper. Search for "adapter englisch".

Know Your Enemy: Learning with VMware - how to build a virtual honeynet with VMware and see what and how is being hacked.

Snowball - finds word stems in various languages. Algorithms in a specially developed language. Practical for classic word lists.

Stéphane Ducasse :: Free Online Books - a whole series of free books about Smalltalk. Some are only scanned, some are real text PDFs. A whole series of classics are included.

ZNC - RottenBoy - interesting IRC bouncer (proxy) for multiple users. Significantly more powerful than the Muh I have used so far.

Gauche:ObjectiveCBridge - there is also an Objective-C Bridge for Gauche Scheme. However, with fewer sophisticated examples.

HOC: A Haskell to Objective-C Binding - even for Haskell there is an Objective-C Bridge that I didn't know about.

Nokia 770 and Virtual Bluetooth Keyboard - how to connect the Laser Keyboard with the 770.

OpenVPN on Maemo - Porting OpenVPN to the Nokia Pad. Could be quite interesting, as you are now a bit too visible to others over free WLAN hotspots.

Google Maps Plugin for Address Book - Brian Toth - a plugin for the Apple Address Book that allows you to jump directly to Google Maps from an address.

MUlliNER.ORG : Nokia770 - a whole range of tools for the Nokia pad, such as the Wireless Tools or dsniff. Interesting for analysis in case of WLAN problems

SlimserverAndNokia770 - how to use the Nokia Pad with the SlimServer as a music player.

I actually enjoy the job... - "Fiction" of a monitor and his comment on data retention.

pyOpenSSL - Python interface to the OpenSSL library - quite complete bindings. Looks much better than the previous libs I have looked at.

Sabrina and Twister - interesting "fictions" that unfortunately are not quite as fictional as one would like. Well-written stories about data protection, privacy, surveillance, etc.

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library - A collection of standard patterns in web GUI applications and how to solve them with the Yahoo JS library. Very interesting as a cookbook.

Yahoo! UI Library - the JS/Ajax lib used by Yahoo for its own applications. BSD license!

screen4DSLR : Changing Focusing screen for Canon DSLR - another provider for replacement focusing screens for digital SLRs (not just Canon!). This one has lower prices (probably because it uses standard focusing screens and just cuts them to size).

Powerful Remote X Displays with FreeNX - interesting for remote servers, as it has significantly better responses and lower bandwidth requirements than X or VNC.

RENAISSANCE Le site officiel du film de Christian Volckman - en salles en mars 2006. - looks interesting. Ok, I don't understand a word, but the pictures ...

.eu Domain Debacle - about the dirty tricks used to infiltrate the Sunrise Period.

HolisTech Limited Free Software, pwsafe - Password-Safe for the Nokia Tablet.

Password Safe - by Bruce Schneier. The Java version 0.5 is compatible with the Maemo version.

pwsafe password database - Command line tool for Password Safe databases.

Benford's Law - why so many numbers in statistical series start with 1.

Hedgehog - Never underestimate the power of a small tactical Lisp interpreter.

LEGO Technic Difference Engine - Babbage would be jealous

Scientists find new species in 'Garden of Eden' - hopefully it will remain a Garden of Eden. Areas like this should be immediately placed under nature protection, otherwise it will be exploited by "exotic enthusiasts" sooner or later.

CSS Fisheye - CSS magnifying glass effect in a text block.

GREYCSTORATION - denoising algorithm as an open source CLI tool.