Month: March 2006

SlashLinks is a tool for automatically mirroring links from the popular social-bookmarking service del.icio.us to your personal or institutional website. Posting, tagging, and management still occur within the del.icio.us interface, but design and layout

Design Eye for the _______ Guy is an experiment in bringing a fresh vision to cluttered, clumsy and downright boring design. They call themselves the Design Fab Five. All five use their collective talent and expertise, the Design Fab Five tackle each new

From Battlestar Wiki, the free, open content Battlestar Galactica encyclopedia and episode guide

From Battlestar Wiki, the free, open content Battlestar Galactica encyclopedia and episode guide

Democracy Player is a new kind of browser for watching videos– grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch them full screen, one after the other. It’s free and open source.

ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases). ActiveRDF in RoR allows you to create semantic web applicatio

Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a “blog <-> comment” system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.

Democracy Player is a new kind of browser for watching videos– grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch them full screen, one after the other. It’s free and open source.

ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases). ActiveRDF in RoR allows you to create semantic web applicatio

Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a “blog <-> comment” system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.

The Ultra-Mobile PC is portable, lightweight, and configured to connect on the go. It’s the device that you’ll always want with you.

Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help. Own a UMPC? Tell us what you like and dislike about it. Don’t own a UMPC, but have ideas about

The Ultra-Mobile PC is portable, lightweight, and configured to connect on the go. It’s the device that you’ll always want with you.

Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help. Own a UMPC? Tell us what you like and dislike about it. Don’t own a UMPC, but have ideas about

The parser that we are using for aggregation reevoogregation of hReviews is now open for public use. It started off as an hReview 0.2 parser, but the dependence of hReview on some other microformats led it to grow several more features. hReview 0.3 added

Japanese maples are ideal deciduous trees for creating beautiful bonsai. Using a method called air layering, it is very easy to make a branch sprout roots that will support it after separation from the tree. By selecting a nicely shaped branch, you can st

Gullery is a simple photo gallery built with Ruby on Rails. It works well for a personal portfolio or small photo gallery.

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desk

I wanted the ability to be able to add tags to content without needing to define the tags in advance – kind of like Flickr where you just type your tags in. This turned out to be pretty easy using Rails’ “Has and Belongs To Many” (HaBTM) relationships, bu

Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen.

Mollio is a simple set of html/css templates. The aim was to create a set of page templates that use css for layout aswell as some sample basic content which has also had some css applied.