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Living Room / InteracTrivia - A Multiplayer Online Trivia Game
« on: April 13, 2007, 11:57 AM »
Here's a game to stimulate your thinking (well ok, just your recall of long-term memory) in addition to your motor skills, though you do have to register to play.

InteracTrivia is a multiplayer, interactive, online trivia game  allowing users to go head-to-head against other players around the world in a battle of knowledge - all happening in real time. Players compete against one another in four exciting rounds of fun trivia scoring points by answering questions quickly - and correctly - to fight your way to the top of the leaderboard.
Just like your television, InteracTrivia offers a variety of different game channels for your trivia enjoyment. Channels devoted to specific categories of knowledge, themes or user levels allow you to pick the game that is right for you...


from http://sitereview.org/software/

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Living Room / Free Download A Day
« on: April 13, 2007, 11:48 AM »
Each day, they select a freeware program and give a description of it. I have already downloaded today's program and can't wait to check it out.

Love free stuff? So do we! At FreeDownloadADay.com, we bring you one great program every day — 100% free, no strings attached. We carefully select each free downloadable application, making sure it meets our high standards for usefulness, powerful features, ease of use, and time-tested system stability. At FreeDownloadADay.com, you'll find software for Internet viewing and communication, home and office productivity, business and financial tools, system utilities, fun and games, graphic design, entertainment and more. Here you'll never find buggy, ad-laden junk or spyware — just great software. (We cover Windows, MacOS, and Linux.) And if you don't want what we have today, come back tomorrow! ...


53
Living Room / How to make a multi-monitor compatible wallpaper
« on: April 13, 2007, 10:47 AM »
Here's a rare post from one of my favorite magazine's website that provides a nice wallpaper-making tutorial for multimonitor users.

I run a delightful tri-monitor display at work, and over the years, I've always been pissed that wallpaper just doesn't display right with multiple monitors. Not only can you not display separate backgrounds on different displays, but if your displays are different resolution, one of them is going to look either stretched and fugly, or cropped and weird. So, last week I set out to figure out an easy way to make multimon-friendly wallpaper.


from www.lifehacker.com

54
General Software Discussion / Directory Opus 9
« on: April 11, 2007, 05:57 PM »
Here is some exciting news for DOpus fans, version 9 will be released on April 27th. Upgrade information is listed below and here is a preview of the new version.

GPSoftware is proud to announce the imminent release of a major upgrade to its flagship product, Directory Opus. This week, Version 9 passed through the company's rigorous Beta testing program thanks to the help of a dedicated team of Beta testers and is currently is undergoing final testing and certification.
This new version cements Directory Opus' place as the leading File Manager and Explorer Replacement for Windows. Directory Opus 9 raises the bar even higher for Windows File Managers providing full support for Windows Vista and a host of enhancements and new functionality.
    * Directory Opus 9 will be available for purchase and upgrade on April 27.
    * All registered users will be notified when the product is available for official upgrade. (DO check that your email address you have registered with us is up-to-date. Otherwise you may miss the important notice of your upgrade rights. You may check your registered details from the Licence Manager on the Support page.
    * There will be no increase in price for the new product. Pricing will remain the same at AUS$85.00 for a single Licence. (Around US$60-65 - unless the US dollar drops even further through the floor as it has been doing recently!)
    * All users who purchased after December 1, 2006 will automatically receive a free upgrade.
    * The upgrade pricing for all other users of Opus 8 will be AUS$50.00 for a single Licence with a sliding scale for extra licences.
    * A discounted upgrade will also be available for registered users of Opus 6. Pricing to be announced.
    * Version 9 has a new Licence which allows a registered user to also install the program on one personal laptop.
    * You will be able to run Opus from an external USB flash drive with the new licensing scheme. A USB export Licence will be required for each USB flash drive a cost of AUS$10.00 per Licence per device. These will be able for purchase at the time of order of the new version for new and existing users as required.



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General Software Discussion / SelfImage: The open-source hard disk imaging utility
« on: April 11, 2007, 04:39 PM »
Here is a nice, freeware program for creating backups of your operating system and software. If you don't already have a backup program of this type, you would be doing yourself an enormous favor by downloading and trying this program. To give you some perspective, it would take someone between 80-100 hours for me to rebuild my system from scratch. With my backup program though (analogous to this freeware program), I can restore it from my 8GB image in about 30 minutes.

SelfImage is the little hard drive utility with big aspirations.
SelfImage is capable of making an image file of a hard disk or hard disk partition, and can restore an image back to any drive or partition that doesn't have open files.  Useful for making backups.  Unlike dd for Windows (or cygwin), SelfImage is capable of creating an image of a partition that is currently in use.
Additionally, when run on Windows 2000 or XP, SelfImage can create images of partitions that Windows doesn't even recognize or have mounted on a drive letter.  Perfect for the dual-boot system, you can create an image backup of a Linux partition directly from Windows.
Features include:
    * Create 1:1 image files of any mounted (or unmounted on Windows 2000/XP) hard disk partition
    * Can create an image of an entire hard disk, including the master boot record, partition table, and all partitions (Windows 2000/XP)...


from http://shellcity.net/

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General Software Discussion / ImageTasks.com - Free image, batch-processing software
« on: April 11, 2007, 04:27 PM »
Here is a nice looking freeware program that allows you to automate some image processing tasks. Will also generate albums of these images.

ImageTasks is a powerful tool for editing, adjusting, converting images. It also includes Batch Edit for processing large sets of images, HTML Album for generating albums ready to be published on the web and Desktop Extensions for customizing look and feel of your desktop.
Image Adjusting features include hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, color balance settings, resize, cut, rotate, flip and watermark tools and 12 graphic filters (blur, sharpen, place in frame e t.s.). Batch Edit makes it easy to apply all this settings and filters to a large sets of images.
ImageTasks supports 15+ graphics formats and can save your images as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP. Also provides a full-featured HTML Album generation tool and templates.


from http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld

57
Developer's Corner / Working for the Man: Essay on Lessons for Young Software Developers
« on: April 11, 2007, 04:11 PM »
...
After I'd finished checking for obvious facial wrinkles in the bathroom I decided to go on a quest to find other engineers in the building who were at least as old as I was, and felt much better when I found some. But it set me thinking about what kind of advice I would give if I could meet myself at his age, in order to guide the young Allison into a promising engineering career. So in the best spirit of "The Screwtape Letters", here is some of what I've learned so far about making yourself a career in writing software.
...
If it's not what you love, don't do it
I've worked with many programmers during my career. Without a doubt, the only ones who are any good at it are those who see writing code as art, a creative process.
...


from www.slashdot.org

58
Living Room / Medieval Tech Support
« on: April 11, 2007, 03:56 PM »
This is for all the people out there who have ever helped someone "resolve a technical problem". I hope you appreciate it as much as I did. KR

Help Desk and Tech Support in the old days. Introduction to the new system:"The Book"
(from a Norwegian TV show).


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Living Room / JellyJumper: Flash Game of the Day
« on: April 11, 2007, 03:44 PM »
Here's another fun game to spend some time on. There is little learning curve and you learn how to maneuver JJ quickly.


from www.digg.com

60
Living Room / Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk a Failure?
« on: April 10, 2007, 10:37 AM »
This post draws attention to the ambiguous scoring and large amount of work for a small payoff, among other things.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a machine that harnesses the work of hidden humans. It's a service that attempts to match people to small, bite-size units of work that are unsuitable for machines.
As of this writing, there are 128 Human Intelligence Tasks available via the Mechanical Turk task page. The reward for these tasks ranges from $1.00 to $0.10, skewing heavily toward the bottom of that range. Almost 100 of the 128 tasks are $0.10 each. Here's a quick sampling of the available tasks:
    * Transcribe a 9 minute, 2 second podcast ($2.31 w/bonus)
    * Write a review of a blog ($1.00)
    * Make ten 2-3 sentence posts in a fansite forum ($0.50)
    * Write a 2-3 paragraph blog entry ($0.50)
    * Provide 3-D and 4-D ultrasound pictures of your baby ($0.40)
    * Send unsolicited junk faxes from California companies ($0.25)
    * Say 6 phrases in Turkish ($0.10)
    * Write a short plot description of the movie "Black Snake Moan" ($0.10)...


61
Living Room / Microsoft is Dead
« on: April 10, 2007, 10:24 AM »
While I can't be certain, I fear this will cause universal mourning. Better start distributing the SSRIs. :)

A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face and realized he didn't understand...


62
Living Room / Universcale: Graphic representation of very large sizes and numbers
« on: April 10, 2007, 10:04 AM »
Here is a very nice graphical representation of sizes and numbers that are difficult to conceptualize readily, if at all.

We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.
Today, using the electron microscope and astronomical telescope, we can see the objects which we have not been aware of its existence before. Are you able to fathom, or even roughly grasp, these sizes?
See our Universcale and experience the sizes of various objects.


from http://crave.cnet.com/

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Living Room / BegForPost: Humorous site about advertising
« on: April 10, 2007, 09:55 AM »
To go out to dinner or a show with someone, I used to use BegForDate variation of this principle.

...ADVERTISERS
BegForPost is an automated system that takes the burden out of having to directly contact bloggers to have your product, service, or company promoted.
BLOGGERS
Find interesting topics and companies without having to sift through thousands of emails from Web 2.0 founders begging to have their lame-site plugged.
PUBLISHERS
Sorry, you're the "middle-man" and you have been eliminated. We have no API and prefer to work with bloggers directly....


from http://baron.vc/

64
Living Room / Boomshine: Flash Game of the Day
« on: April 10, 2007, 09:40 AM »
Wow. Go to this website. You can either play the game or just listen to the music!!!

Boomshine is an addictive Flash casual game. Click the screen to start a chain reaction and try to explode as many dots as needed to pass a level. The game contains 12 levels ranging from the easy to the hard (only 3.97% of games pass level 12). Over 3 million games have been played by over 100,000 different players.


from http://www.goodexperience.com

65
General Software Discussion / Link Commander: Good program, Bad support
« on: April 08, 2007, 01:52 AM »
I have posted previously that I thought Link Commander was a good program. After working with it for a while I thought it would be helpful for me and went to the Resort Labs site to purchase it. While there, I noticed they were offering free registration for Link Commander if you sent them a URL collection. I did some work on a group of URLs so the links would meet Resort Lab's criteria, sent them off, and waited eagerly for their response. That was last Sunday morning. After hearing nothing by Monday night, I sent them an email asking when I might expect a response to my submission.

At the writing of this post, I have received nothing from them: no license, no response to my URL submission, and no response to my request for for information. Yesterday, my readiness to be rid of the annoying startup nag screen exceeded my willingness to wait for them any longer. So after waiting a week for them to respond, I ended up just buying the software, making the time and effort I put into the URL submission a complete waste of time.

In my experience, nearly all support technicians respond within a day, while Resort Labs still hasn't after a week - and may never. That makes me concerned about what will happen when something goes wrong with the program that I can't resolve on my own. So, buy from it at your own risk and GOOD LUCK to you if you decide to take a chance with them too.

Ken

66
Living Room / Help Vampires: A spotter's guide
« on: April 02, 2007, 02:15 PM »
An interesting and humorous article about the "draining effect" of people who always need help.

...Help Vampires are found in every public online community, from those nearest to our hearts to those furthest from our principles.
Instead of consuming of ill-gotten hemoglobin, these vampires suck the very life and energy out of people. By nature they feed on generous individuals who tend towards helping others, and leave their victims exhausted, bitter and dispirited...


67
General Software Discussion / J. River Media Center: Awesome for music, great for video, and good for pics
« on: April 02, 2007, 02:07 PM »
J. River Media Center is the best media player I have ever found. It has more features and customizations than any other program I've seen. It lets you rip, burn, and transfer audio and video to your portable player. It has a script language for customizing and you can create smart and regular play lists. You can listen to internet radio while you use it to view your pictures. All this and I have only scratched the surface. Download a copy and see what you think. If you know something better, let us know.

Organize and experience all your media
Music, photos and video YOUR way -- all from a single software program! Connect your PC to your home entertainment hardware and control it all with a remote! Load your music on your iPod while you watch TV! All with one easy-to-use program -- MEDIA CENTER!
Make your media part of your digital lifestyle
Copy music from MEDIA CENTER to a portable digital audio player or move digital camera photos into MC's powerful image library. Make a CD of music for your car. Record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV. More than one soundcard? Play different music simultaneously in different rooms. MC's Media Server can even stream your music to your PC at work!...


68
Living Room / Student Park: Flash Game of the Day
« on: April 02, 2007, 01:50 PM »
Here's a fun game similar to Lemmings for you to try to help lift you out of the Monday doldrums.

69
Developer's Corner / Hacknot on dynamic languages
« on: March 29, 2007, 02:14 PM »
Here's a lengthy, thought-provoking article questioning the hype around dynamic languages like ruby.

Such were my thoughts upon reading a piece in the February 2007 edition of IEEE Computer entitled "Programmers Shift to Dynamic Languages"1 by one Linda Dailey Paulson. The article's basic premise is that dynamic languages (DLs) are experiencing something of a renaissance at the moment. Even though DLs such as Perl and PHP have been around for many years, with the recent advent of Ruby, DLs have become the hot new thing.


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Developer's Corner / The Hacknot Book (big free pdf ebook) - Essays on software development
« on: March 29, 2007, 02:08 PM »
Here is a cool, free pdf ebook of software development essays from Hacknot

The Hacknot Book
"Hacknot: Essays on Software Development" contains 46 essays, each of which was originally published on this site between July 2003 and October 2006. Soft copies of the book may be downloaded for free.
The book is available in two formats - Novel and A4. If you are printing the PDF yourself...


71
Living Room / Bloons: Flash Game of the Day #2
« on: March 29, 2007, 02:02 PM »
This is the first fun, kid friendly flash game we've posted for quite a while. Don't worry though, it has nothing to do with fishing! :)


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Living Room / Sift Heads 2 Sniper Game: Flash Game of the Day
« on: March 29, 2007, 06:03 AM »
Here's a fun action game with a very different look to get you ready for the weekend. Have fun! kr


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Developer's Corner / Service to Help you Incorporate Your Company Legally and Cheaply
« on: March 29, 2007, 05:50 AM »
Here's an online service for filing legal papers to make your own company

Step 1: Learn About Incorporating
» Which entity: Corp, S-Corp or LLC?
» 10 Reasons Why We're Better
» Which State to choose?
» What's included with our service?
» Compare us to the competition
» Frequently Asked Questions
» Learn more about incorporating
Step 2: Instant Quote and Order Online!...


from http://www.workhappy.net via lifehacker.com

74
Living Room / ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator
« on: March 28, 2007, 03:19 PM »
Here's a fun and easy way to create comics for your posts and pages.

ToonDoo is a wacky way to get creative with comics. You can now create your own comic strips, share them or insert them in your blogs with just a few clicks and drag-n-drops!
So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started!...


from http://www.techcrunch.com

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Living Room / Review of DVR set tops: TiVo vs MythTV (homebrew alternative)
« on: March 28, 2007, 03:11 PM »
Can anyone imagine why the following brought a boxing match to mind: "...Battle of Open Source and Proprietary DVRs..."

...MythTV is an open source homebrew DVR software solution that works on a computer running Mac OS X or Linux. MythTV provides the usual functionality of a DVR including time-shifting and trick functionality while watching TV. In addition to storing TV shows on the computer’s hard drive, MythTV’s suite of applications allow you to build a “mythical home media convergence box”...


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