December 2004 Archives

The consumer electronics industry has done a remarkable job spreading confusion about video in general, and HDTV in particular. Time was when you could go to the store and just buy a TV with confidence. You could choose a big one or a little one depending

Common Aspect Ratios for Digital Images, Photography, Cinema, and Television

Enter a url to retrieve information about people who delicious'ed it.

This article explores the power and simplicity of sqlite3, starting with common commands and triggers. It then covers the attach statement with the union operation, introduced in a way that allows multiple tables, in separate databases, to be combined as

What's wrong with SUV culture

Jetbox CMS is seriously tested on usability & has a professional intuitive interface. The system is role based, with workflow and module orientated. All content is fully separated form layout. It uses php & mysql.

Writing your own CMS can lead to a solution that is better suited to your requirements, better addresses the needs of your users, and is better understood by your development team. If you have the time and expertise to write your own in-house system, it m

Planet Parrot is a aggregator of select Parro related blogs. The list o contributors change periodically.

This document describes how to manually uninstall the Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.5 and 7.6 for Windows NT/2000/XP client.

You are uninstalling or reinstalling Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition (NAVCE) 7.5, which uses the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI). When you click the button to proceed, the Windows Installer screen flashes quickly, and then displays one of the followi

A CD based on Cygwin for X Windows forwarding via ssh

FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive.

An attempt to write the world's smallest non-trivial file-sharing application in Perl. (15 December 2004)

The World's Smallest P2P Application

FlickIt is a utility that makes posting photos to your Web site effortless. FlickIt works in conjunction with Flickr (www.flickr.com), although a Flickr membership is not required to use Flick

a frontend for DivX/XviD encoding

Gaming maps from Wizards.

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking fo

This site is about how to program CGI applications.

Slogger creates a complete backup and log of your browsing history in a highly customizable way.

Corporate greed, the ruination of traditional ways of life, share-price bubbles, western imperialism: all these modern complaints were made against the British East India Company in the 18th century. Nick Robins draws the lessons

The following was sent to me as a forwarded e-mail. Davidson Loehr, the author, is apparently a senior minister at the First UU Church of Austin, where his political sermons have garnered him a reputation as being somewhat controversial. Given the natur

Margret was kind enough to answer ten questions about how TiVo's UI was originally developed, how new features are added, and how the sound UI came to be, among others. I'm grateful for TiVo and Margret taking the time to do this, so without further adieu

FeedSpeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files.

This is a QuickTime component which allows the playback of XVID encoded movies within QuickTime based applications. The component delegates the decoding to the DivX component.

The writers of the Online Film Critics Society recalls the half- and completely-forgotten treasures of the past decade cinematic canon with its list of the Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s. Join us for a trip back into the not-so-distant past and see

Nina Berman's book, Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq has a strength, a force that delivers a punch to your emotional solar plexus when you read it.

Portable NVU is a fully functional package of NVU optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers... well, once NVU has some extensions, that is. It is ju

Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow mo

WordPress Theme

freeware & shareware RPGs

phpAutoGallery is a auto indexing picture gallery written in php and with the help of mod_rewrite.

If you follow web services, then you may have heard of REST. REST is an architectural style that can be used to guide the construction of web services. Recently, there have been attempts to create such services that have met with mixed success. This artic

"Caution - There is not enough disk space to complete that operation"

What are definition lists? When are they appropriate? And how to style them to look like tables, image galleries, calendar of events and more.

Media Portal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi MediaCenter / HTPC.

This article is the first in a series aimed at building a full 3D engine. It could be the underlying technology for a video game, the visualization system for a scientific application, the walkthrough program for an architectural design suite, or whatever

A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company.

TaskSwitchXP provides the same functionality as the existing application switching mechanism in Windows XP/2003 today. When the hotkey combination Alt + Tab (or Alt + Shift + Tab) is pressed, TaskSwitchXP generates the list of open windows in which the en

This page, and the pages linked to by it, contains the work-in-progress of Practical Common Lisp which will be published by Apress some time in late 2004 or early 2005. I'm putting this on the web in order to allow folks to give me feedback while there's

BitTorrent Directory

A Simple JS/CSS/DHTML based image gallery.