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-34 http://www.weeklytechlinks.com/archive/link-dump-34#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:00:54 +0000 Lapper http://www.weeklytechlinks.com/archive/link-dump-34

Google Summer of Code: Wordpress is now an official GSoC open-source project, so any university student can apply to make over $4,000 tinkering with it for the summer. Sounds simply grand.

European Gold Finch: After seeing the large yellow banner displayed across the top of Michael Scofield’s PDA, I’m sure at least some people went to check this place out. After a few minutes of scanning it becomes clear that it’s a very elaborate, but fake, forum. Reading anything but the bottom-most post will surely result in excruciating boredom.

Monolingual: Although your iTunes music collection most likely breaks the tens of gigabytes, you can still save a nice pinch of hard drive space by removing all but your native tounge from the localization files embedded in every application. I personally saved a cool 2.2GB.

Dwarf Complete: Everyone’s been waiting for a while for the next Eyezmaze game, and it turns out On’s been working on a project for a different company. Don’t worry about compromised quality, however, as this cartoony labyrinth game will leave you scratching your head for 4+ hours the first time through.

#summer-discuss: I’m not entirely sure where the GSoC channel was located last time; it might have been on Freenode. In anycase, your Q&A can get done here.

Plugin directory: One word: finally. Wordpress.org has finally created a repository for plugins that can actually be indexed and linked-to. I mean, sure, wp-plugins.net was there, but it was pretty bad.

RandomJunk: This is from a guy over at #freenode-social. Apparently it caters to various philosophies, but you’ll just have to read into it.

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Dead Trees & G-Strings: You’ll have to pardon the title; this post is actually about an upcoming Damn Interesting book, filled with the brightest and best of all the articles on the blog. A 35 USD donation to the site ensures that you get one shipped to you as soon as the day it’s published.

Club Penguin: The ever-growing Club Penguin is a humorous scene for kids and teens alike to release their inner… penguin. Play games, buy pets, and just hang out.

CrossLoop: Let’s face it. Troubleshooting with your computer-savvy relative is worthless unless they can see what you’re doing. CrossLoop offers free screensharing and remote control, simply by typing in an access code. That’s a problem solved.

Lugaru: One wouldn’t normally think of murderous ninja rabbits as a topic for a video game, but that’s exactly what Lugaru is. Control the gray hare Turner as he avenges the deaths of his family and friends while unravelling a wolf conspiracy. Tracheotomy!

#adium-devl: The new channel for discussing Adium development. As you may know, version 1.0 came out not a month ago and everyone’s rushing to fix new tickets.

All About SP: By far the most heavily maintained and complete South Park episodes site out there. You’ll find 95% of all the episodes plus the South Park movie: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.

Lugaru wiki: An uncannily helpful strategy guide to the curious game of Lugaru, this wiki comes complete with pictures of every attack, reverse, and stealth in existence.

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Wordpress 2.1: In just 60 minutes, there have been over 1,200 downloads. What is it? It’s finally here everyone, WP 2.1 "Ella" has been released and it’s absolutely loaded with new features. Autosave, tab editing, sub-blogrolls, live spell checking and much more. As a side note, look for version 2.2 coming this April.

Homestar Runner Network: After 10 months in production, HR.net is out of beta and running the slick Drupal 5.0. It will eventually be a database for various HR fansites, but we’re currently still discussing the basics of its future.

DarwiinRemote: Utilizing the Bluetooth connection of a Macintosh, DarwiinRemote lets you use your Wii Remote and Nunchuck attachment to control your computer from the palm of your hand.

South Park Create-A-Character: You probably aren’t suprised that South Park characters would be pretty easy to generate and randomize. With this Create-A-Character, you can design your own member of the sickly, morally-twisted crew. "Damn you, Kyle!"

#sonicfolle: Stop by if you happen to enjoy Sonic; we’re always looking for more people to participate in mature discussions… Okay, not really; we all have fun.

Trust Rank: Instantly check any site’s reputation by means of search engine backlinks, page rank, and “trust rank”, to keep away from spam. You may have to wait a while for screenshots, though.

Super Mario Wiki: A fair-sized wiki dedicated to Mario, Luigi, Peach, DK, Yoshi, Bowser… oh, you get the idea. There’s over 4000 pages on all the Nintendo gang, complete with a… newspaper?

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Wordpress 2.0.6: Presumably the final 2.0.x update before 2.1, this latest version sports a most enticing feature; quicktag comptatibility in Safari.

Snap Preview Anywhere: A tool that jumps out at me, literally. Bloggers and webmasters can install this tool to show viewers a peek at any scrolled-over link. In fact, I just might start using it here.

TinkerTool: Your Mac has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not have known about. TinkerTool allows you to access such functions as the “dock on top” and system-wide chmod.

GLtron: A high-quality version of the classic Tron available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. GLtron sports multiple skins and has great gameplay, but the music selection is “limited” at best.

ICQ Chat: Quite a few chat rooms, each with a very specific, moderately vague subject. Don’t be surprised if you step into one and everyone’s speaking German, though; most rooms are international.

Old Computers: All the information you need on computers pre-dating the 1990s, all the way back to the 1971 Kenbak-1. It’s like a museum in there.

SnickWiki: An incomplete, strange, and crudely-run wiki that’s purpose is as enigmatic—a word which here means “mysterious”—as the book series itself.

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Blogger Beta: Blogger, the pickup blogging service powered by Google, is moving to a 2.0 of sorts. Some advancements include templates, Google account sign-in, and instant publishing.

IMDb Boards: A huge discussion board for an even larger database. There’s probably a forum thread for every movie ever made. You have to register to even look at it, though.

Lunar Magic: Anyone who’s played Super Mario World can appreciate the work that was put into this one-of-a-kind level editor for the game. Note the ROM requirements on the downloads page.

Yes : I’m Working: You want to be gaming, but you don’t want to be distracted. Office Max brings a charmingly simple breakout game disguised as a Microsoft Office spreadsheet.

IRC At Work: For when your PJIRC java socket gets blocked, IRC At Work is there for you. The interface takes a few minutes to sort out; mostly because the control buttons are ghosted but turn out to function anyway.

Subversive Cross Stitch: The cross stichings on your grandmother’s wall bearing some warm-hearted message have crashed and burned. These blunt, insulting messages sell en massé, causing massive hilarity.

Inheritance Trilogy Wikia: This wiki’s been getting a lot of buzz as of late, what with the Eragon movie being released. It’s an ideal place for the dragon fan.

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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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The Cabal: A secret blog set up for the secret ##cabal @ Freenode organization secret… secret. Believe it, it’s totally secret.

QDB: Short for Quote DataBase, QDB lets you submit some of your most hilarious, awkward, or just plain stupid moments on IRC, AIM, MSN, etc. Then you can browse through others’ for a good laugh.

Stattoo: Now this app is just handy. It runs like Tiger’s dashboard, but faster, cleaner, and with more minimalistic class. Press a hotkey and you’ve got instant weather, battery life, RSS feeds, and more. It’s not exactly free, but with no restrictions on time or features, this shareware’s a freeware in my book.

Javascript Dice-Roller: Quite handy for all those times when you need to, you know, roll a 100-sided die without actually owning a 100-sided die. I mean, who has time to keep track of those things?

#systemrpg: Quite an interesting setup; a few friends and I went and created a solid human-run RPG for IRC. It’s more humorous than serious, since humans tend to make more mistakes than bots do, but it passes the time.

DisclosurePolicy: A disclosure policy generator? I guess it has practical use, but what’s next? An automatic sueing machine?

Value Wiki: An interesting wiki that follows the stock market for investments… this one might just be a keeper. Is Value Wiki a publicly traded company, broker?

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Profusehost: This host’s got it all; MySQL, PHP, server access, and it’s all free. You even get your own subdomain. Why not check it out?

StepMania Message Boards: The official help, support, and discussion boards for StepMania, the DDR replica for your computer.

:cool::smile:The Icon Factory: This site has been around for years, supplying free icon sets to anyone who needs them. I like the G5 set, personally.

Glider Pro: Remember the 16-gray Glider Pro for Mac OS 7? Glider’s back for OSX in full color, with the gigantic Slumberland house. Don’t get lost in the adventure.

:wink::smile:#colloquy: The official support channel for the best Mac OS X IRC client, Colloquy. They’re pretty nice guys in there.

:lol::smile:The Travisty: The Travisty has hundreds of great clips from your favorite TV shows, including MAD T.V., Family Guy, and some hilarious spoofs of G.I. Joe. and others.

Memory Alpha: The biggest, baddest Star Trek wiki you’ll ever see. Memory Alpha is definitely the source for all your trekky needs.

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PayPerPost: You may not believe it, but word-of-mouth is the most effective form of advertising today. PayPerPost uses that idea to get advertisers to pay bloggers to write about their products. It’s quite an interesting system.

Campfire: Created by 37signals and spoken highly of by Feedburner, Tech Crunch, and many more, Campfire is a smooth-running chat engine for your company’s project. And, best of all, it can be completely free.

GimmieSomeTune: We all love iTunes, but it’s just too bulky to keep visible all the time. GimmieSomeTune gives you a Dashboard-style floating window with song information, album artwork, etc. Definitely worth a “try”.

Program Geeks Arcade: More than 350 classic flash games from Microlife to Raiden X. You can spent hours sifting through the games you haven’t played for years.

Five Levels of Competence: The five… or six… different mindsets that people eventually end up in when they’re around IRC long enough. Ah, nirvana.

Dihydrogen Monoxide: The horror! How can this substance still be legal? We can guarentee that everything on the site is true; the forumula spelled out is H₂O.

ELWiki: An interesting system; you start off with a subdomain wiki, but once you hit ten pages of content, they give you a top level domain name free of charge. Now that’s an offer I can’t refuse.

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Clever Hack: They’ve got tech news, RSS Thursdays, and even fantasy football stats. No matter how far back you go, this blog is full to bursting of great info.

Myg0t: The original clan of cake-baking, flash-making, Counter Strike-playing fiends with a private community. And definitely watch the flash – can you say “0mg 1337 h4x”?

AA-project: A plugin that allows you to run some programs entirely in ASCII; graphics and all. Strange but awesome.

H*R Games: The classic collection of Homestar Runner games. Cherry get! If you haven’t heard of these, you’re probably dead… or in jail.

#motas: An assistance channel for the infamous Mystery Of Time And Space game. No, it’s not bad to get help; we all get stuck.

Yugop: Bunches of miniature flash activities. If you run out, just look in the archives. So minimalist, but so awesome.

Uncyclopedia: The absolute parody in all of us, on one wiki. Anything you can praise, Uncyclopedia can make fun of with a completely random spin. It’s entirely inaccurate and completely hilarious.

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Nobody Here - Just Me: A surreal and slightly depressing collection of a man’s thoughts and solitary life. Some in diary form, some in a sort of game.

AIM Fight: Forgotton by most, this AIM buddy-list charter relies on a set of branchs to see who has the most friends. The more friends you have online within three generations gives you a higher score.

Audacity: A quite handy beta sound recording program for all operating systems. It has good control over the feed, can have multiple running tracks per file, and even does .ogg.

Dyson Telescope: In a strange form of advertising, Dyson vaccum-cleaners has prepared a nifty logic game. Can you get the ball into the hole within the par?

##overflow: Ever been sent here before? Many channels choose, when set to +f or +J, send extra users to this overflow-directed channel. Sometimes you may even witness a small IRC war. This is a ## channel; an unofficial channel. Fix the field in PJIRC.

IE Capture: Need to see your site in Internet Explorer 7 but work on a Mac? IE Capture takes a screenshot for you from a remote computer and gives it to you. Also available: iCapture for Windows developers who need to see their site in Safari.

WikiFur: A major furry encyclopedia directed at all those interested in Furry Fandom.

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Bloggage and Dunnage: The personal blog of Rob Levin, founder of Freenode. Everything from road trips to pharmaceutical debates.

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?: A humorous article about a father who had a hacker son. Ten reasons how even the slightest request, such as more RAM, could warrant you a hacker.

Skype: A very potent VoIP program for all operating systems. Host your next conference call for free, turn your computer into a phone with SkypeIn, and phone a friend anywhere in the world with SkypeOut.

Submachine 2: The Lighthouse: A sequel to Submachine, this logic game bears a likeness to the work of Fasco-CS.

#wikia: The official support channel for the popular wiki hosting service Wikia, complete with stats compiled by GreenReaper.

Fat-Pie: A twisted collection of violently deep cartoons by David Firth.

Meatball Wiki: The icon of wikis everywhere, Meatball Wiki is a community about communities, explaining everything from the work required in setting up a wiki to a user’s right to leave.

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If WWII was an MMORPG: In this post… a simply hilarious reenactment of World War II, gamer-style. Stallin wants some “nuculer secrets”.

Yahoo! Answers: A large, forum-style Q&A community where a point system ties together a loose hiearchy. Accuracy of answers not guaranteed.

The Pirate Bay: Not one, but thousands of full-version programs availble via this filesharing wonderland. A client such as BitTorrent is needed to expand the downloads.

StepMania: Ever played Dance Dance Revolution? If you don’t have the funds to buy the game, StepMania is DDR for your fingers. StepMania is also compatible with most USB pads.

#macosx: This unofficial support channel for Mac OS X is the savior for anyone who’s ever waited two hours on hold for tech-support. Chat live with people who will solve any problem you have.

Emoticon Man: Dan Wade makes funny faces to imitate several emoticons.

Elections for the Board of Trustees: The WikiMedia Foundation is now taking candidate nominations to become members of the Board of Trustees. If you have more than 400 edits before 8.1.06 on any given project, you can proceed to write a statement of candidacy.

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