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Proggy Programming Fonts


Today I came across another collection of programming fonts to add to the fonts Reia collected a couple months ago.

The proggy fonts are a set of fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings. They are distributed in Microsoft’s .fon format, the truetype (ttf) format, as well as XWindows (Linux/BSD…) pcf format. The .fon […]

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Firefox Secrets

This WindowsSecrets.com article covers Firefox secrets from editing config settings to limiting Firefox’s memory cache to speeding up Firefox on Windows XP.

It’s not so long ago that we learned to master the Windows Registry, a buzzing hive of little-known configuration settings. Now we find that Firefox 1.0, the hot new browser released on Nov. 9 […]

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M.C. Hawking — A Brief History of Rhyme

The latest album by Physicist turned Gangsta Rapper, MC Hawking

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Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns

This site is a pretty exhaustive listing of about any kind of Internet clock or counter.

A few of the clocks listed:

Digital Doomsday clock
Binary clock
Martian clock
Salary clock — for super sadness compare your accummulating wages to that of, say, Tiger Woods
US National Debt clock

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The 100 Oldest .com Domains

List of the oldest 100 .coms that are still in use

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VoodooPad — a desktop wiki

Voodoopad is a sort of desktop wiki/note-taking tool that you can type or sketch into.

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Deal Hunting the Geek Way

I figured the Christmas shopping season was a good time to post a couple deal sites I came across recently. The first, NaughtyCodes.com lists coupon codes for many online stores, including Tweeter.com, TheSpaceStore.com, and, even TheFerretStore.com.

We find and list ALL of the coupon codes and promotional codes that can be found. If it’s out […]

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Play Sony PSP Online

First the Nintendo DS was tunneled with XLink: Kai, and now the PSP is as well. The PSP is reportedly even easier to tunnel because it uses the recognized standards of wireless networking, rather than a closed, proprietary system like Nintendo’s. Great news for all you PSP fans out there… Now you just have to […]

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Half-Life: the story

If you’re a Half-Life fan and loved the story, but had niggling questions about the backstory, the Half-Life saga story guide should clear several doubts that you have. In it, Chan Karunamuni explains the events and history of the Half-Life world. It seems a G-man sighting gallery is also in the works - that will […]

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Thunderbird 1.0 is out

Get it. :-)
*edit* — STILL no OPML import? what the? What on earth is the point of having an RSS reader built into it when you can’t import the standard export format for all the other rss readers? I’d have thought they’d get that fixed before releasing something they felt worthy of being an actual […]

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How’d I Get Here?

How’d I Get Here is a new Firefox extension that, as the name suggests, helps you backtrack your path to the current page.

Go “back” even after opening a link in a new tab and closing the original tab.
Remember how you found a site you bookmarked yesterday.
When you are sent a link you have already seen, […]

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The Powerstation for Your Laptop

“New microengines could provide 10 times longer life than batteries for cell phones, laptops…”

It seems that those clever people over at Georgia Tech have been wondering how to get their laptops, cellular phones and iPods to run a little bit longer.
They have developed a microgenerator about 10mm wide (about the size of a fingernail) which, […]

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Web-Browser Archive

Wouldn’t you love to see what your website looks like when viewed with the original NCSA Mosaic browser, or MS Internet Explorer 3?
Perhaps you’ve brought that old Commodore Amiga out of the closet and need to get your hands on a copy of iBrowse.
evolt.org’s “browser archive” seems to have, within its file-system, every version of […]

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

If you want to learn computer programming you can’t go wrong with an education provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science“. Unfortunately, a MIT education isn’t available to everybody.
What if you could get a MIT education from the comfort of your Aeron?
MIT’s “Structure and Interpretation of Computer […]

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Play Nintendo DS Online

XLink Kai, the people that brought online play to the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2, have already partially got internet tunneling working for the Nintendo DS. It’s in the very beginning stages at the moment so it’s not something that just anyone can do, but it looks like it will be possible, even if Nintendo never […]

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SAM - Skype® Answering Machine

Skype® is big news right now. The technology provides free telephony over TCP/IP. But what use is a telephone without an answering machine?
Enter SAM, the Skype® Answering Machine.
When you are away from your PC and there is no one to answer your incoming calls, SAM will pick up the call, play a greeting message and […]

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