Finnish Google translation weirdness (”Haista kuule vittu” - “Hear the shark fucking”)
Worked for me (23:30 EET 2008-11-30)
[via:Viralliset linkit]
30 November 2008
23 November 2008
Handbrake 0.9.3 released: Linux GUI available (Ubuntu 8.10 .deb packages included)
“HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.”
This is a must have tool for anyone who needs to convert video for playback on specific devices, for online publishing or backup purposes. Thanks to its multi-threaded nature, it works efficiently with modern multi-core CPUs. The new release is notable for Linux users, as earlier versions lacked a graphical user interface for this platform.
10 November 2008
Japanese embedded Lineo Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
“Warp 2 comprises a bootloader, Linux kernel, and a “hibernation driver” [...] The driver takes a snapshot of RAM when hibernation is launched, saving the contents into flash memory, optionally compressing the data. On start-up, the contents are quickly returned to RAM, so that the system resumes its previous running state.”
[via:IDG.se]
28 October 2008
Vaasa Central Hospital’s new website includes speech synthesis (In Swedish)
The announcement can be heard in Swedish and Finnish.
The tools used to run the service are created by Phoneticom.
[via:MediUutiset (fi)]
26 October 2008
Poladroid - Polaroid camera emulation software for OS X
Shitty Polaroid snapshots, now in ten glorious megapixels. I’m definitely against change for the better.
The Windows version will be available in November.
[via:Veronica Belmont]
23 October 2008
Kauppalehti listaa yritysten verkkotunnukset
“Kauppalehden uudesta yritystietopalvelusta löytyy myös yritysten rekisteröimät suomalaiset verkkotunnukset. Toiminnon avulla yritys voi katsoa mitä verkkotunnuksia kilpailija on rekisteröinyt ja onko yritykseltä tulossa uusia tuotelanseerauksia.”
22 October 2008
Jungledisk acquired by Rackspace, a major managed hosting provider
Jungledisk is a magnificent proprietary multi-platform Amazon S3 based backup solution that almost everyone should be using.
13 October 2008
Fonera 2.0 features usb port, print/file server, plugin API
Details on a beta version of an updated Fonera Wi-Fi sharing router were recently posted on the FON company blog. New features include a usb port, file/printer/scanner/webcam sharing, and a plugin API. Bittorrent support, backup tools and AirTunes-like functionality through plugins seem to be in planning. The unit is already available for purchase in some countries.
The new Fonera’s coolness is superseded only by the Freebox.
9 October 2008
Portal: Prelude, a free, unofficial Portal mod with prequel storyline
“At this time, test subjects were monitored by real Aperture Science employees whose work was tedious, lengthy and repetitive. This is why they decided to build a great artificial intelligence that could both replace them in these difficult tasks [...] and compete with Black Mesa’s superiority. All employees of the Aperture Science complex are now eagerly awaiting GlaDOS. Maybe even a little too eagerly, as the upcoming events will tell…”
[via:Waxy]
13 September 2008
ScribeFire, a Firefox extension based blog editor
I’m currently trying out ScribeFire. I’ve tried blogging clients such as MS’ surprisingly good Windows Live Writer before. So far I’ve kept myself to Wordpress’ built in editor, which works increasingly well thanks to auto-saving and revision control, but having a text editor supporting drag and drop etc. as a browser extension seems worth trying out as a way to make publishing easier and faster.
Although all the major bits and pieces are in place, I miss a few things. So far mainly that Wordpress’ own preview system isn’t employed, and that the editor doesn’t fetch Wordpress’ different sized copies of images; these could be missing features in the current version, or impossible to impelement using Wordpress current APIs, I don’t know. I won’t use ScribeFire (or Windows Live Writer) for posting, but these tools are probably worth a try (and they both support a whole bunch of blogging services).
[via:Ihnatko]
8 September 2008
Nmap 4.75 includes visual network topology mapper
This is something I’ve wanted for a long time: the world’s most famous networking/security software utility can now draw pretty pictures.
2 September 2008
Google Chrome, new crazy fast multi-process based WebKit browser
The advantages of the engineering choices made by the developers are discussed in Google’s blog entry and in this comic.
In related news, IE8 beta 2 is really bloated.
27 August 2008
15 August 2008
Microsoft dev blog: Engineering Windows 7
This may, at some point in the future, provide interesting stuff on the development of Windows 7. The first posts are meta-BS, but I added the blog to my feed reader.
Those interested in operating systems or other software products should take a look at Microsoft’s collection of blogs (there are quite a few). It isn’t only traditional PR nonsense, they have quite a few interesting regular writers.