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Yummy FTP for Mac OS X: still good, still ignored
Yummy FTP is a great Mac FTP program with side-by-side browsing, sychronization, remote editing, etc. I’m not a huge fan of the icon but other than that it’s great.
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Atheists most discriminated against group in the USA
Hard to believe… But so says wikipedia. I wonder why this doesn’t come up more often. Would being “outed” as an atheist be as bad as being “outed” as gay or muslim or . . . whatever?
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Facebook are idiots
In my email:
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Mesh networking 5 years later
The last time I blogged about mesh networks was 5 years ago (almost exactly!). I was pretty pumped about the possibilities in those days – like the idea of creating a 2nd internet using mesh protocols, routing from house to house using WiFi, circumventing ISPs…. hey, it’s still a cool idea, and maybe even possible still, especially with the excess capacity that we have with e.g. 802.11n. Latency would probably be pretty high..
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Getting a "Secure Rip" (a perfect/high-quality mp3 rip of a CD) on a Mac
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a perfect CD rip on my mac. The problem in a nutshell is that ripping CDs is “unreliable”, in other words, it is impossible to be sure when you rip a CD that you have the correct digital data. How good a copy you get depends on your drive and the software you use.
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BarCampWaterloo (November 2008 Edition) roundup
Yet another BarCamp in Waterloo came and went. Phun. Saturday we talked about Windows 7, what’s the best platform for mobile development, and a wide ranging debate on programming languages. Learned more about Haskell. A little bit. Was possibly only person to have heard of Scala or Groovy. Wild. Also there were other discussions too, including a nice chat I had with Ali A. (missed a presentation for that one).
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BlackBerry storm clicks, I like it.
One of my biggest dislikes with touch-screen devices is the total lack of tactile feedback. There are other things I don’t like about them, but that’s a biggy. So when I played around with the BB Storm’s clickable screen. I liked it. I only played with the browser, which was competent, actually quite good, and very close to as good as the iPhone. So I can’t provide an overall review of the Storm. But the clicking, that’s good.
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Thank god
That’s all I have to say.
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Vuze (Azureus) search template for The Pirate Bay (TPB)
Vuze provides a built-in search function to make it easier to find bittorrent files that you want to download. And, it’s extensible, so you can add new search “templates” for torrent sites beyond the ones that they support by default.
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Good advice from Futurama
Futurama, possibly one of the best TV shows ever made, say some people. And full of good advice for every day situations too.
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