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Entries for week beginning July 24, 2005

July 28, 2005

I ? Unicode

Hee. If they weren’t shitty Cafepress shirts, I might buy one.

Browsershots

Open and distributed version of BrowserCam. Submit your website and get screenshots of it in various browsers across various platforms. Still quite early in development, but it could grow into something fantastic.

July 27, 2005

The Nameless Novel

Viral site for the next Lemony Snicket book.

Plaxo’s Personal Card: Thunderbird has landed

Sync your Outlook address book with Thunderbird on any platform. This is quality stuff — Reminds me off the olde days of FusionOne.

July 26, 2005

Apple - iBook G4

The new $1k iBook is damned sweet. Half a gig of RAM, built-in 802.11g and Bluetooth, and that funky accelerometer hard-drive-saver. Want!

Joel on Software - Hitting the High Notes

Another great Joel Spolsky article. “Five Jim Davis’s could spend the rest of their lives writing comedy and never, ever produce the Soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld.”

‘I will create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK’

BritGeeks with a little pocketchange — Pledge a monthly pittance to bootstrap someone fighting for your digital rights.

EFF: Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers

The EFF investigate the “fingerprinting” of every page of output from colour laser printers. Includes PDFs to abuse your employer’s toner with, which you can submit to help their data gathering.

July 25, 2005

Konfabulator

Now owned by Yahoo and free as in beer. Pretty little cross-platform desktop widgets.

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