http://www.weeklytechlinks.com Linking you to the technology of today. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en http://www.weeklytechlinks.com/archive/link-dump-46 http://www.weeklytechlinks.com/archive/link-dump-46#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:35 +0000 Lapper http://www.weeklytechlinks.com/archive/link-dump-46

If You Stop Smoking: I really enjoyed the original post of this; it was interesting to know that eventually the effects of smoking do wear off if you take the initiative to quit. This high-resolution poster shows a timeline of what happens to your body if you stop smoking right now.

Graphic Calculator story: Never before has the struggle of a software developer been so great and told so gracefully. I’ll bet dollars to donuts you had no idea that Apple actually canceled the famous Graphic Calculator and that it wasn’t to be shipped with the new Power PC Macs. It took a little luck and a lot of help.

Safari 3.0 beta: Initial reaction for this breakthrough edition is poor, even hostile. But that’s mostly regarding the Windows version, which apparently is very buggy and is unfit to be used. The new webkit that is installed for Macintosh, however, is screwing with Colloquy, which is making me pretty down.

Vector TD: Finally, a Tower Defense worthy of mentioning since Desktop TD. Vector TD is from the creator of Flash Element and Circle TDs and is complete with eleven towers, each capable of being upgraded no less than ten times. Multiple maps, ranging from a novice level to one near impossible are now available for your playing pleasure.

Meteor Busters: This game incites the nostalgia of Game Boy and Game Boy pocket, what with its simple functionality and grayscale graphics. Play as any one of five ships and work your way through heaps of meteors, upgrading yourself along the way. The big downside is that a single hit is a death, and a single death is a downgrade. My favorite by far is the sticky bullet ship.

ZuluPad: Consolidate all your notes into a localhost wiki with this “notepad on crack”. It’s cross-platform, free, and great for both the student and the worker.

Big Ed’s Swan Song: I’m sure one must have noticed by now the Net Neutrality chicklet in my footer; it’s been there for a good eight months now. The issue now is that AT&T is pushing for the abolishment of Net Neutrality more than ever; this video explains it all in a Jib-Jab-esque way.

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Health Bolt: This health blog is different from all the rest. The articles are interesting and don’t preach nutrition or exercise. He’s just telling you facts a la Damn Interesting, if you will.

Colorstrology: This site makes minimal sense. Check your birthday for your “true color” and a horoscope-like description of yourself.

CSS dock menu: This is one of the most clever uses of Javascript and CSS I’ve seen in quite some time. It emulates the Mac OS X dock we all know and love, while holding the functionality of a menu.

TripleJack: Watch out for this site; it’s completely addictive. Choose a cute avatar and get playing in this very fun no-stakes multi-player poker game. Increase your points by winning hands, and increase your cash by banking it instead of flashing it.

Web 2.0 logo: We all know that Web 2.0 is just a big buzzword, overwhemingly defined by visuals. This logo is the essence of that, complete with an optional mirror finish and Beta sticker.

WikiHow: How do I do this? How do I do that? Wikipedia doesn’t always have the answer if you’re looking to do a step-by-step, but WikiHow does.

Beat box: I find it fairly amazing how accurately and precisely this guy can keep a beat going. Can you do that? No, you can’t.

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TalkAboutComics blog: The blog for the acclaimed TalkAboutComics site, most notably the forum. The latest post I thought was interesting; it was regarding BC and Johnny Hart, who died a month ago. Did I hear about that or didn’t I?

Ingredient X: Never before has one man so accurately portrayed the oddities of day-to-day life in such spectacular sketch videos and comic strips. Lev tells tales of strange women, procrastination, Saturdays, and many more things you’ll simply have to see to praise.

Polar Clock update: We can be expecting a second update to the Polar Clock screensaver from PixelBreaker, complete with localization and a universal coloring system. I just wish it wouldn’t make my fan spin up.

Particles: This game involves fully elastic collisions and transfering of energy between the several red balls that float about the screen. Your single blue ball needs to stay out of their paths as long as possible; if you get collided into once, it’s game over. How do people beat 240 seconds, anyway?

Panic ripoff: The Transmit truck icon has been so abundantly stolen that it constitutes about 60% of the design thefts on this hilarious page. Panic isn’t mad, but you have to wonder who these people think they’re fooling when they reverse the image and use it twelve times.

The OLPC Wiki: Ah, the One Laptop Per Child project; bringing Linux to children around the world with $100 hand-crank laptops. This is one of their two wikis, the other one being for software development. I don’t even know where you can buy these things.

Metal storm: The machine gun fires one million shots per minute. The handgun fires three times before it recoils. The bullets have no shells and are fired by electronic charge. Metal Storm is the most revolutionary gun to date; check it out.

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Polar Clock Screensaver: You can now view the date and time in classy circular-style with this polar clock screensaver. The seconds tick by at sixty degrees a piece, then retracting as the minute circle inches forward. The aesthetic properties of this flash are just brilliant.

Yahoo! Answers forum: Suggestions, ratings, questions… and here I thought Yahoo! Answers was already a forum. A forum on drugs. So here’s the forum for the forum, if you will.

ToasterClone: At first I thought this was my beloved underwater screensaver for Mac OS 6. But no, this is a recompilation of flying toasters, which apparently used to be a common theme across Macintosh in the nineties.

Test Twist: This game is crazy. Find as many words as you possibly can out of a six letters, but you only need a six-letter word to go on to the next round; you control how many points you get beyond that.

ThinkGeek: These guys have got the greatest tech gear on the planet. Everything from high-power laser pointers to binary pillows to quick-heating soddering guns is sold at ridiculously resonable prices. Their descriptions make you want to buy everything there.

Wiki revolution: Mac|Life posted a full explanation of how to install MediaWiki in this issue. Honestly, I think they’ve been overstepping their bounds a bit lately; showing things you thought fewer people knew how to do.

Mac Beautiful: HappySlip, one of the more down-to-earth vloggers of YouTube, composed and sings a parody of James Blunt’s falsetto-laced You’re Beauitful to honor her Macintosh, her favorite hardware and operating system ever. Cough cough.

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Life Imitates xkcd: A fan of xkcd apparently bought Richard Stallman a katana in homage to one of the strips, where he defends himself against “Microsoft Lackeys”. Did they send Linus Torvalds nunchucks?

SlaveHack Forum: This is the simple forum accompanying SlaveHack, the hacking simulator. The noob-to-human ratio is astoundingly high, so be wary. You can get all kinds of help here, however, from riddles to trade-offs to giveaways.

iStat Pro 4: iStat Pro got a complete makeover for version 4, now with rearrangable slides and a nice blue frame. I simply enjoy this widget in general, for all its diagnostic functions. Not to mention… new color themes.

Bubble Tanks: Join the small world of bubble weaponry. This game has one of the steepest learning curves possible. But if you stick to it, you can finally get to the… end. Or however you want to call wandering around forever.

Peekaboom: In a style similar to The ESP Game, Peekaboom is an image-guessing game with points based almost entirely on cooperation with your anonymous partner. It gets pretty frustrating when they give up without guessing, though.

Redwall wiki: I used to really enjoy this series back in the day. The wiki apprently gets little representation on Wikipedia, but it’s a abbey of information.

FunTwo: This savant teenage guitarist hit viral status in early 2006 with this astounding rendition of Pachabel’s Canon. Also viewable are both Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

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Etch-A-Sketchist: This guy’s an Etch-A-Sketch maniac. He draws various pop culture icons and logos with two knobs and magnetic fibers nearly every day.

Last Place Comics forum: The comic’s hilarious, and the forum’s a breeding ground for humorous nerds and the like. Definitely a great hangout place.

MediaFork: Legally, if it’s your DVD, you can make an archive of it. But what if you want that archive on your iPod? Hand Brake/MediaFork allows you to resize and style nearly any DVD to optimize viewing right on that small screen.

Slave Hack: Helping break the temptation around the world, Slave Hack is a very eleborate hacking simulation where you compete against hundreds of other hackers to obtain the best programs and earn the most money possible.

The ESP Game: Another fine webapp by Carnegie-Mellon University, The ESP Game pairs you with another player as you both race to find a term you can both agree on to label the image in front of you. The more images you solve and the faster you solve them both contribute to your point level, which accumulates over time.

House Wiki: House, currently in the middle of its third season, is most likely one of the most spunky medical dramas on television. The disagreeable Hugh Laurie is always good for a laugh, too. Now, there’s a way to show your fandom like never before.

Derrick Comedy: If you are not on the floor laughing after you watch these sketches, you can sue me for everything I have. Derrick Comedy is a team of post-graduate actors with the sense of humor you wish was on SNL. Watch and be amazed.

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Wordpress 2.0.7: Okay, seriously you guys, this is the last one. 2.0.7 is a minor update fixing a newly-found security vulnerability and would probably be better suited as "2.0.6.1".

Kiki the Nanobot: This game is a huge brain-buster. Control your nanobot around several 3D stragety-infused levels where up/down orientation is out the window. Various forums around the internet procure novelties such as python loopholes and and new levels.

iStat Pro: This little widget can do everything from monitoring your disk space to your RAM usage. And now in the newly-released version 3.3, iStat can monitor your Intel-based Mac’s internal temperature and fan speed. Not to mention how classy it looks.

rRootage: rRootage is quite easily the best, not to mention most addicting, bullet hell shooter out there. Not to mention that yes, it’s both cross-platform and free. rRootage sports four game modes with forty levels a piece, each mode modeled after a different video game like Ikaruga or Giga Wing.

#southpark-epsiodes: The distribution network irc.TVEps.net makes a point of delivering you all your favorite shows, including 24, Scrubs, American Dad, Futurama, Heroes, and obviously, South Park. Sure, it can be confusing, but that’s why you can join #operhelp.

List of paradoxes: Wikipedia presents a near-complete list of logical paradoxes that simply boggle the mind. Remember to stay alive when thinking about them, though.

Wookiepedia: One of the most popular wikis on Wikia, this Star Wars knowledge base has extensive information on their favorite science fiction series. The lengthy articles in great numbers rival those of the early Wikipedia.

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Ideas and Kvetch: New features at wordpress.org include a whole form specifically for complaining. Get your words across with Ideas and Kvetch.

Penny Arcade: A hilarious webcomic that’s been standing since 1998, with cracks at gaming, technology, and everyday abnormalities ever since.

Boot Camp: The quick and free way to partition and install a full-speed and feature Windows XP. After trying it myself, my only complaint is that your Mac partition’s firewall doesn’t extend to the Windows partition. You can take care of that with HouseCall, though.

Hyper Frame: A challenging roundabout game of strategy, where you connect the streams of color through the three faces of the cube. The catch is… you must connect every stream, and none of them can overlap. Wait until you hit five-by-five mode for some real fun.

Skypecasts: Skypecasts are medium to large-scale conferences on just about anything that you can create, and everyone can join. Hosts give and revoke speaking privileges to keep a fun and interactive environment.

TrendMicro HouseCall: If you have no cash or time to spend on a virus-scan program for your Windows PC (or partition), this runs a quick web-based scan and then deletes everything that’s not supposed to be there.

BMEZine Wiki: A very informative wiki regarding piercing and body modification, but I’ve got to say, it’s not for the squeamish. The wiki contains both graphic images and graphic imagery.

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Screwed By PayPal: Who said PayPal had support? When this guy ended up with over $1200 of fraudulent charges, he decided to fight the system; he sued PayPal.

Zoomify: This could easily revolutionize maps as we know them. Try zooming in all the way; just try it. You can see each pebble, and each blade of grass. Think about all the photos that takes to make.

FireStats: A fair stats plugin for Wordpress. A live demo can be viewed here for an example, but countless errors specking the coding diminish its performance.

MacFun: Believe me when I say this site is a baby; its ads have just started appearing in Mac magazines, online gameplay is “coming soon”, and the games it offers are overused at best. However, this site has potential—it just has to get out of the stroller.

#firestats: The official information and support channel for the above mentioned FireStats Wordpress plugin. Perhaps I’ll drop by later to find out why FireStats is acting so buggy for me.

30-Second Bunny Theatre: Who has time to watch a two hour movie anymore? That’s right, absolutely no one. Which is exactly why the solution to all your problems lies in a cast of animated bunnies who re-enact all the classics… in just 30 seconds.

Mac Guides: An extensive wiki out of MacRumors dedicated to the information and troubleshooting of Macintosh products. I was there myself the day they set it up; they had it filled to bursting within a week.

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CSS Zen Garden: Professional and ameture web designers from all over make vastly different style sheets to fit the same page of HTML code. Tons of ideas for blog design.

Apple Support Forums: A flood of Mac addicts’ discussions if ever there was one. Flip through here before taking it to the Genius Bar.

Softpedia: A gigantic dump of freeware and shareware programs for all operating systems. Updated one minute ago.

iSketch: A shockwave-based game of online drawing-and-guessing, with a chat room to boot. So popular, it’s the first hit for “pictionary” on Google.

#wiki: Rarely active, but a portal to many other wiki-related channels throughout Freenode. C’mon; all the cool guys are in it.

Dontclick.It: Can you navigate this informative flash website without clicking once? If you fail, a static screen awaits you. If you can’t follow their directions, just get that spikey mouse they’re displaying on there.

Couch Slave Wiki: Formally the Bonus Stage wiki, now expanded to a Couch Slave knowledge base due to the original webtoon being cancelled after episode 87. Matt Wilson’s work is hilarious.

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