It seems that every new web application now sports the beta byline. Furthermore, it seems to stay that way for an undeterminable amount of time. This begs the question whether the beta term has lost its definition.

In a post on Napsterization.org, Mary Hodder poses just that question. She also postures that charging […]

For those (like me) who can’t be bothered to construct the CSS necessary for hip trends like rounded corner boxes, there’s the CSS Rounded Box Generator. I love it when people make things easier for me.

Okay, Google’s Gmail is pretty cool, I’m sure you’ll agree. But it does have only 1GB of storage space for each account. What if you need more capacity?
Enter Hellacious Riders - with a massive 1TB of storage space for each user. Each account also supports 500MB attachments. Hoorah!
Why?
The answer is simple to help people store […]

Awesome.

Fascinated by how peer-to-peer applications work? Wondering how many lines of code are needed to produce such a wondeful application? Well apparently it only takes 15 lines of Python.

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of […]

The Ars crew takes a look at the recently released 1.0 version of Mozilla Thunderbird. I use this as my email client and I am glad to see they find it suitable for everyday use.

Without a doubt, Mozilla Thunderbird is a very good e-mail client. It sends and receives mail, it checks it for spam, […]

Why just procrastinate when you can procrastinate in a structured fashion? In his essay, Structured Procrastination, John Perry delves into something that I believe I have been practicing for many, many years. However, now I have a name for it — structured procrastination.

The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered […]

Microsoft Visio is a useful tool… but it really needs better stencils… here are a few places to find them.

I find this amazing. It’s not just the text online, but scanned pages. So it’s like actually really reading a book online because it is the book online and not just the words. Even better I can read a page a day and just bookmark it and return to it the next day. No more […]

Lord knows the Internet provides plenty of ways to waste time. One great way is simple online games. In that vein, MarkTAW.com has a listing of online games sure to waste many minutes of your work day.

If you’re still bored and looking to waste even more time, you might want to check out […]

To keep with my video game themed posts lately, I’m going to plug the excellent OverClocked ReMix community site.

OverClocked ReMix is a website dedicated to reviving the video and computer game music of yesterday, and reinterpreting that of today, with new technology & capabilities. This site’s mission is to prove that this music is not […]

We’ve covered the Ambient Orb before, but the proprietary network needed to operate the thing is a problem for those of us that don’t live in a densely populated area covered by the network. However, BT Research Labs is working on an ambient orb that uses WiFi to get its data.

The device communicates with […]

If you ask Scot Melland, it’s a good time to be a Linux professional. IT jobs across the board are picking up, but Melland, the CEO of Internet career site Dice, says Linux knowledge is a particularly hot commodity. Job postings on Dice for Linux professionals are multiplying at a much faster rate than any […]

What self-respecting game geek has never heard of Squaresoft aka Square Enix’s Final Fantasy franchise? The game has already spawned several offshoots and its twelfth incarnation is already in progress, solidifying the oxymoron of the name.
Its movie spin-off, Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, was a box-office flop for its dead-eyed CG characters and flimsy story line. […]

Now you can use paypal in itunes (at least, if you’re in the USA)

Interesting article with the research of a Russian who claimed to have discovered the key to antigravity in insect chitin.