July 21, 2008
Ophcrack
Windows password cracker. Has an interesting open-source business model: The cracker is GPL, and there are free (but limited) Rainbow tables. To get the full tables, you need to pay $99.
June 25, 2008
March 26, 2008
Crossover Games
Wine for OS X and Linux especially designed to play graphically-intensive Windows games. The Orange Box and its contents are supported, and Audio-Surf ran OK for me, with some minor resolution-based oddness. Not sure it’s worth $40, though, when I can just reboot to Boot Camp.
February 26, 2008
Winclone
I bought a new laptop drive for my MacBookPro last week, and with SuperDuper, was able to copy my OS X partition and boot off it within hours. The Boot Camp Windows partition, however, stumped me. No amount of disk copying or dd’ing worked.
This tool did. It does all the magick required to successfully copy a Windows partition and tweak the partition table to make Windows boot again. Hurrah!
February 17, 2008
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!
Posted mostly because it’s clever, but also because I miss hacking on MOD files.
February 16, 2008
Audiosurf: Ride Your Music
An outstandingly fun Windows game: Drive a car over coloured blocks on a track generated by an MP3 of your choosing. Pick something mellow, and you get a relaxing low-scoring game. But if you want a challenge, throw some pumping techno its way. Works very well with Chemical Brothers and Pixies, I find. Best use of Digital Signal Processing ever!
February 6, 2008
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software
The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.
December 17, 2007
Review: Windows XP - Coding Sanity
“I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP”
December 12, 2007
CDBurnerXP: Introduction and News
Freeware CD burner app for Windows. If this means I can nuke bloody Nero off my work PC, I’ll be a happy, happy man.
December 4, 2007
BBC NEWS | ‘Kill switch’ dropped from Vista
“Microsoft says its efforts have seen a drop in piracy of its software.” Alternatively, the fact that no-one *wants* Vista could be a factor.
November 30, 2007
November 6, 2007
October 23, 2007
Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities - Yahoo! News
“Vista has an aroma like [Windows] ME, and I am not interested in getting sick again.” Ooh, I hadn’t thought of it that way, but it’s pretty true. Vista and ME are not dissimilar in their not-worth-the-hassle-of-upgrading-ness.
September 21, 2007
Shell Blog : The UI design minefield - er… flower field??
The problems with cultural-sensitivity when you’re shipping something worldwide.
September 4, 2007
Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
Cool looking little screencast app from TechSmith — An easy way to grab images or video from your desktop, and share them quickly. Works in OS X and Windows.
August 27, 2007
Lenovo Support & downloads - Downgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP
Lenovo offering disks to let you “downgrade” your newly-purchased Vista-running laptop to XP. Prediction: These will be very popular.
August 20, 2007
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software
As someone who installed Vista on a PC in January, and regretted it for months, I echo Joel Spolsky’s summation: “I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.”
July 27, 2007
Very slow internet browsing - Vista x64 Forums
“netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled” — The magic incantation that stops network performance SUCKING BALLS (at least on the RhymesWithNose network) in Vista.
May 17, 2007
ThisIsNotALabel.com - My Wiimote Drum Kit
Virtual drumming with a wiimote. The video gives a good idea how it works.
May 2, 2007
Wakoopa - Software gone social
Social site tracking what applications you use and how long you use them for. Kind of a Last.FM meets IUseThis.