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I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of copyright is drawing to a close. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s inevitabl
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The MapServer Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation's goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. This website serves as a portal for
November 2005 Archives
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PictureSync is a convenient utility that simplifies batch uploading your photographs and video clips to online services, - directly from your image-management application or files, whilst preserving your own valuable annotations and metadata.
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Isolate objects. Extract objects. Cut out an image. Remove a background. Call it what you will, each of these phrases describes the same objective: take a photo and isolate an object in it from the rest of the image, without the background.
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PHP Users is a project that enables developers to quickly deploy a fully-functional, user registration and user account management system to their web site in a few easy steps.
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Access to MySQL is a small program that will convert Microsoft Access Databases to MySQL.
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Safari Guide is a free application for Mac OS X Tiger that allows developers to evaluate arbitrary XPath, XQuery, and JavaScript expressions against the current frontmost Safari webpage.
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digg / slashdot / del.icio.us popular
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There are many elements that show up throughout the fantasy genre in different guises. Worldbuilding in particular has many common conventions, as do, to a lesser extent, plot and characterization.
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This list has been constructed over time based on a list and categories originally constructed by the late Professor Ted Michelfeld and owing debts to a number of other sources including The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. It is still under construction
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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.
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In this article Martin explains how to create a secure PHP login script that will allow safe authentication. Features remember-me function using cookies, validates logins on each request to prevent session stealing.
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Remember when Wired News redesigned in 2002, to an all CSS+XHTML design? I do. Here’s the original WiredNews.com design documents from 2002.
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OpenSSH for Windows is a free package that installs a minimal OpenSSH server and client utilities in the Cygwin package without needing the full Cygwin installation. This is similar to the package formerly available from NetworkSimplicity.
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Uses MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org) to fix your mp3 and aac tags in iTunes after they've been ripped using acoustic matchings.
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Vine Type is quite simply the easiest-to-install, easiest-to-manage, most-user-friendly, most-customizable, most-secure web-standards-compliant Microsoft web server content management system on the planet.
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With mooflex you can build a variety of websites, from simple blogs to more complicated, multi-author portals.
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A simple list of free, and open-source software for the Mac OS X.
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ere are a few maps of classic video games. The pixel art in 2D video games can be very beautiful, and it brings back a lot of memories for those of us who grew up on Nintendo and SNES.
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Centralized authentication greatly simplifies network administration. This post teaches how to log in to a Mac or Linux computer using centrally managed user accounts from a Windows Active Directory domain controller. With this configuration, the same Win
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Microformats are about using the standards we all know and love to convey as much semantic meaning as possible. Think of them as semantic best practices. They use current XHTML tags such as address, cite, and blockquote and attributes such as rel, rev, an
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Ruby and the Rails framework is the newest “hot thing” to hit the net. In order to help you learn, I have scoured the net for the best resources. This is what I came up with :) Enjoy.
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In 1978, Michael H. Hart published a book called The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. His book was a ranking of the 100 people who he felt had had the most impact on human history. His book was hotly debated and his book concept
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Begun independently in 1997, these works use the mean and median average from sets of photographs (also music & video) sharing common characteristics.
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Ruay and Rails Email lists to via web forum
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ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application for reading and writing meta information in image files. It recognizes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB and ID3 meta information as well as the maker notes
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Editing an image is like editing text. When you edit text, you take an existing piece of text and fix what is wrong with it. The same is true for editing an image. But first you must learn to speak the language of the image. This series of steps will help
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freeware HTML editor, PHP editor, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C , HEX editor
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Auth_generator is an authentification generator for rails (0.13 and 0.14). It includes specific features like being able to display user information on static pages through a javascript trick or an Ajax call, an admin interface, or an easy way to handle u
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Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
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Scott Adams, Dilbert man, on the Creationism Intelligent Design vs. Evolution debate
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The Radiant Vista is a creative community of inspiration, passion, and grace.
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A global TV guide, Torrent tracking, your favourites and recommendations plus an innovative social layer to hang it off. You want it, we want it, let's build it.
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Do you wish you were a better photographer? All it takes is a little know-how and experience. Keep reading for some important picture-taking tips. Then grab your camera and start shooting your way to great pictures.
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A single-page solution for exploring and editing databases from a browser. Edit data just like you would in a desktop application, without submit buttons or page refreshes. Built using cutting-edge TurboWidgets and the Dojo Toolkit.
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The SilkRoad on-line, which the European western fantasy, the Chinese eastern fantasy and the new Islam fantasy based upon the abundant cultures and legends of China, Islam and Europe.
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Live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously
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Below you'll find a series of my latest retouching projects. This portfolio includes some high-end fashion, editorial, advertising and high-profile celebrity work. I even included some archival restorations of my extended family and whatever else I had ly
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Festoon adds video and sharing to Skype and Google Talk.
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Belt buckle made from a Hard Drive disk.
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This plugin was inspired by Stop Design's Photo Gallery Templates. Creating by a leading design firm, these templates produce the most professional photo albums and galleries in the Internet. And they are available only for Movable Type.
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open-source PHP5 web framework
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DevBoi is sidebar extension for Mozilla and Firefox browsers. (see screenshots) Sidebar offers easy access to web-development documentations and reference manuals on the Internet – everything just one double-click away. If you have used DevEdge sidebar,
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I have loved mechanical things since I was a kid. Engines in particular have always intrigued me. All my life I've pored over books, studying cutaway diagrams, hungry to understand how things worked. These pages are an attempt to share that magic.
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The old version of Alien Arena was previously mentioned on GamersDaily Episode 36, but thanks to the open-source release of the Quake 3 engine, the new version is finally here and it's AMAZING!
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Pure CSS-based layouts have come a long way but they still have shortcomings [2] that fail to address certain design goals without compromising the true separation of content and presentation.
Probably my favorite American painting. Might be the reason I have a fasination with dinner/lunch counter/greasy spoons.
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The Poor Man's Steadicam
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Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete
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Wabi and sabi are two of the key Japanese aesthetic concepts. Their definitions are not exact, but one can get a sense of them from a short discussion of them. Over time, the two have been combined to form a new word, wabi-sabi, meaning an aesthetic sensi
