Archive for December, 2006
Convert DVDs to fit a single CD ?
It would be cool to shrink a 4.3 GB DVD into a standard CD, isn’t it ? Well, now you know ….The process involves two steps – first you rip the DVD which essentially means that your software reads (or decodes) the VOB data files on the DVD and stores them on your hard disk. [...]
Some Fine CSS Magic.
Below you’ll find a brief overview of css-galleries you can explore inspiration from.
CSS BeautyCSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based [...]
LookingGlass hits 1.0
Just in time for Christmas, the Looking Glass folks have finally released the 1.0 version of their very cool 3D window system. They’ve even packaged it up into some easy-to-install binary builds. If you want to try writing an app that takes advantage of all the 3D facilities (rather than just being an X window [...]
Keep tabs open..ALWAYS !
PermaTabs creates “permanent” tabs that appear every time you start Firefox and stay open indefinitely. To create a PermaTab, just right-click an open tab and select Permanent Tab, which turns the tab yellow (or the color of your choosing) and removes its close button. Right-click again to remove the PermaTab. PermaTabs is free; it [...]
Google Web Toolkit Now 100% Open Source
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities [...]
Smashing Desktop Backgrounds..
Posted by theGeek in wallpapers on December 11th, 2006
Some superb backgrounds…
Art. Lebedev Studio PostersCool arty barcode posters/wallpapers – in sizes up to 1600×1200
Greg MartinGallery of Art – great Wallpapers in sizes up to 2560 x 1024
Greg Martin 2Great Wallpapers by Greg Martin in sizes up to 1600 x 1200
Patrick BennettFree Wallpapers – in sizes up to 1600 × 1050
Blatte’s BackgroundsOriginal, free fractal [...]
Essential 30 Windows Freeware
Financial blog The Simple Dollar has come up with an excellent list of the top 30 free Windows software. We’ve seen a lot of free/OS software blog posts that list like the top whatever of free apps, and out of all of them, I think this one is the best. It’s detailed, and includes [...]