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Entries for Wednesday, December 7, 2005

December 7, 2005

fish: a user friendly command line shell

An interesting new Unix shell. Look at the screenshots for examples of it’s cool tab-completion fu.

MAKE: Laser etching Powerbooks

Wow. For Christmas, I want a powerbook and a big fuck-off laser!

ratDVD - the DVD movie download format

Compression/packaging format to rip *everything* from a DVD — Menus, special features, commentaries, etc. Also allows you to unpack and burn back to a DVD! Windows-only at the moment, sadly.

Deflexion

Real-world bounce-the-laser-off-mirrors boardgame. Looks like a lot of fun — I think I’ll head to the “World Championships” at MIT this weekend.

mozdev.org - nextplease

Ooh. This is just supersmart! A Firefox plugin which works out when you’re on a site with multiple pages to a story (or search results), and lets you flip through them with keyboard shortcuts. This makes TWoP much easier to read. Hurrah!

web.py: makes web apps

New minimalistic Python web framework from Aaron Swartz.

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