Ars has an article discussing the Dock alternatives for everyone who is not happy with the default OS X dock. Even if you are comfortable with the dock you should go checkout the article just to see if there might be something better out there.

There’s a camp of Mac users out there (and I’m not [...]

Koders is a new search engine that enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open source repositories.
The Koders search engine has options for searching source code in the following languages: ASP, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, Tcl, VB [...]

A hilarious list of Firefox extensions that’ll never see the light of day (as if extensions to web browsers could see the light of day anyway).
My favorite:
10. Tab-A-Licious 0.3 - Move tabs anywhere. You heard me. Anywhere.

In his article, Efficient Editing with vim, Jonathan McPherson covers the basics of efficient vim editing. The article assumes at least novice-level experience with vi.

Among the helpful nuggets of info:

Stay out of insert mode
Use h, j, k, and l instead of the arrow keys to move through a file
Enter insert mode intelligently (e.g. use [...]

We’re all scared of something, right? I came across a list so fearfully exhaustive that there has to be something for everyone on it.

According to the list, I have achluophobia, arachibutyrophobia, snakephobia, suriphobia, and, like most people, autodysomophobia.

I love looking at case mods. Don’t really get into doing my own because in the end I never even look at my computer, just the monitors. In any case my friend Eris pointed me to this mod which has to be the oddest one I have seen yet and I have seen a lot. [...]

So many things to say about this great invention, but in this case the image has a 1,000 words and speaks for itself.

via The Geekly Standard

The day has finally come, and Half-Life 2 is available for download on Steam, and should be in most stores. Even if you buy the boxed version, you have to activate it on Steam, so make sure you have an internet connection on the computer you plan to play on.
This is the only day in [...]

I hate trying to format the résumé on my website. I’ve tried a couple different ways, but my laziness has always inhibited me from getting it the way I want it. Well, I think I might try better living with the XML Résumé Library.

The XML Résumé Library is an XML and XSL based [...]

I broke my cellphone for the 10th time this month and figured it’s a good time to get a new one. With this I also decided that moving to another carrier will not be an issue. So with this I am asking the audience which phone they recommend for Scrivs. Let’s make the price under [...]

Not long ago, DarkBlue told us about The Rasterbator, a web service for creating rasterized images from any picture.

Well, it seems that the Rasterbator inspired the SourceForge project listing dotamatic.

dotamatic is written in the “it” language Python and also uses the wxPython library for the user interface and printing capabilities.

I haven’t actually tried the program, [...]

A nice little history of the Contra series, from the NES up through Neo Contra for the PS2.
Contra was one of the first games I ever played on the NES, and one of the only ones my dad would play with me. I remember staying up late every Saturday night to play the game, of [...]

Opera Software has released Opera 7.60 Preview 3 for Windows for download. I took a quick spin with it to see what new features they’ve added. Granted, I am a big Firefox fan, but I’m not so closed in my belief that Firefox rocks (which it does) that I can’t recognize the goodness in other [...]

This could very well turn into an obsession. It’s a tool that finds the shortest path between two Wikipedia subjects.

My first query was to find a path from Bill Clinton to Object-oriented programming. Surprisingly, those two subjects are but four degrees apart: Bill Clinton -> Yale University -> Turing Award -> Object oriented [...]

The new concept of micro-rebooting takes the presence of software bugs as a given and, instead, works toward shortening recovery time.

That’s the concept behind “recovery-oriented computing,” a 180-degree turn from traditional thinking. The idea is that since software can’t be created without crash-causing flaws, it should be built to reboot much faster, allowing users to [...]

At least according to Microsoft.