Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

March, 2007

:::FreeFrame Open Realtime Video Effects:::

FreeFrame is the open-source cross-platform real-time video effects plugin system designed for use in VJing applications (with bindings for Max, PD, vvvv, AfterFX et al)

The Warper

The Warper is a single lens projector that attaches to your computer monitor and allows you to enlarge and project images onto a wall, movie screen, white sheet, etc.

Spot-On: Chris Nolan: Papering Over Problems

Newspapers are in trouble

DIIRWB

Djurslands International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband

The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design

Nowhere is the process of design communication more critical than in teaching beginning designers, since the effectiveness of the communication is crucial to the success of the student.

Notes on the future of Open RAW formats, and a look at DNG (by Stuart Nixon) | OpenRAW

Critical thoughts on Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) raw file format

Tony Monroe

The creator of cowsay :D

An open letter to Frank Gehry. - By Jonathan Lethem - Slate Magazine
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YesButNoButYes: Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

Comics are great because as they get older not only do they get more valuable (at least my future children hope so because they ain't going to no college unless a certain Mr. Spiderman can afford to send them) but they also get funnier.

SourceForge.net: Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring
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Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.

REWiki

A centralized reverse-engineering documentation project

Squid Web Proxy Cache

Free (as in speech) Web Proxy application

A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source - New York Times
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pygame - python game development
Black Panther Newspaper Covers
Apophysis.org

Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows

An Introduction to the Z Shell - Table of Contents
Debian Installation Tips
P2P File-Sharing Ruins Physical Piracy Business | TorrentFreak

File-sharing is causing worldwide havok, costing billions of dollars and creating unemployment. It’s true that some people are feeling the P2P effect; they’re called ‘physical pirates’ and one of them says that file-sharing has ruined his business

19th century Shipping Posters - a photoset on Flickr
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Clipper ship trade cards are cards that were issued by dispatch lines to advertise specific voyages of clipper ships from one port (usually New York or Boston) to another (usually San Francisco).

Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO

This document attempts to list most of the hardware known to be either supported or unsupported under Linux.

USB Knoppix 5.1.0 | Pen Drive Linux

Knoppix is based on Debian GNU/Linux and includes many useful applications such as Abiword, OpenOffice, Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, Apache, PHP, MySQL along with hundreds of other open source applications.

Helvetica documentary world premier haiku contest

@ The Extensis Community Blog

Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design

OJR's design experts review usability research and offer suggestions on how you can make your online articles better connect with readers.

Building your custom dyne:bolic

Dyne:bolic has lots of power, but you might have some special needs. For example, maybe you want to include some of your own media files so you can take your studio kit into the world with you.

SXSW Panel: Business side of web design

A 40 step review of good processes and habits to run a Web design business.

superveloz.net | Andreu Balius + Alex Trochut + Flan + Inklude
Your Wi-Fi can tell people a lot about you | CNET News.com
Toothpaste For Dinner

"The most addictive comic on the web"

DIY video projector
Fresnel Lens Collimated Display - PC Flight Simulations and Games

DIY screen projection

diyAudio Forums - DIY Video Projector
Why Are Text Messages Marked Up 7314%? - Consumerist
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Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services.

Slashdot | What to Do When Your Security is Breached
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from the set-fire-to-the-servers-and-run dept.

Cube Engine Games

The engine, though designed for simplicity and elegance as opposed to feature & eyecandy checklists, still competes nicely thanks to its novel "6-directional heighfield deformable cube octree" world structure that is the basis for its in-game editing.

Core Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A programming game in which two or more battle programs (called warriors) compete for the control of the MARS virtual computer (Memory Array Redcode Simulator).

Logo Trends 2005

Trends have become something impossible — and maybe unwise — to ignore.

BoxOfApples :: Fruit Crate Label Art
Map proves Portuguese discovered Australia: new book - washingtonpost.com
USNews.com: America Needs More Boing Boing Economics

My favorite site for all things weird, innovative, and creative is Boing Boing and not just because the site is "a directory of wonderful things." It's also that it reminds me of how important innovation and creativity are for the future of the U.S. econo

Going Overground - Steven Heller

Under increasing pressure, advertisers look for novel ways to reach consumers.

The Big Page of Branding & Corporate Identity Design
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RRADical Pd

A project to create a collection of Pd patches, that make Pd easier and faster to use for people who are more comfortable with commercial software like Reason(tm) or Reaktor(tm).

Beef Up Your Wireless Router
Geeks in Paradise | InfoWorld | The Business Case for Open Source Software

There's a lot more to making a business decision for OSS than just the up front cost. As the Open Source zealots like to say, "Free as in freedom, not as in beer."

Rockin' on without Microsoft | Newsmakers | CNET News.com

Since jettisoning all of Microsoft products three years ago, Ernie Ball has also gained notoriety as a company that dumped most of its proprietary software--and still lived to tell the tale.

WikiGrupoNomade

wiki del proyecto nomade>>interfase entre software libre y artistas

A List Apart: Articles: The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
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Web Typography Sucks | Slides and notes from SxSW 2007
Michael Jackson's Credit Card

It was, quite simply, our greatest prank to date.

ScatterChat

ScatterChat is a secure instant messaging client designed for non-technical users who require secure and anonymous communications. Our typical end-users include human rights and democracy advocates operating in hostile territory.

R A S T A S O F T :: jaromil's free software
Pawfal [ poor artists working for a living ]

audio visual software for linux since 1999

Installing using an RPM file « Ubuntu Blog
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Ricardo Galli, de software libre » WP-Cache 2.0

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.

Fauxto... like photo.

online image editing

OmniNerd - Articles: 2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary

Operating system vendors are forced to constantly patch their software to keep consumers protected from the latest digital threats. But which operating systems are the most secure?

faith 47
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YubNub

a command line for the web

Uni-Form
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Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.

Perlin Noise

Random number generators certainly have their uses, but at times their output can be too harsh to appear natural. This article will present a function which has a very wide range of uses, more than I can think of, but basically anywhere where you need som

The Programming Language Lua

Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. This means that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions.

Zope.org - The Zope Book Releases

The Zope Book is available online and in PDF format.

How to triple boot Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu on a Dell PC
OSx86 Project

OSX on x86!

Photoshop Tutorials from PhotoshopCAFE
logotypes.ru

All logos are available in Adobe Illustrator format and are compressed by ZIP.

STANFORD Magazine: Information Expert Edward Tufte
Nieman Narrative Digest - Natural Narratives

Seven principles for writing about nature and science in ways that depart from the usual approaches.

B3TA : Phallic logo awards

The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis?

Interview with Anthony Dunne

While electronics and computing remain essential elements of the course, his students are also exploring how design can connect with other technologies, such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. The result is a wide range of projects, often speculative an

Geek to Live: Mastering Wget - Lifehacker
Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools
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opendesigns - Home

OpenDesigns is a initiative that try to share open/free/libre designs of any kind of objects. Any design is released under the Libre Designs General Public License.

The software police and your company - MarketWatch
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What's the real total cost of ownership?

A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen :: f0rked.com

I tried irssi and immediately found it to be the most intuitive and easy to use IRC client yet. It has the features I want in an IRC client and I have been using irssi ever since.

Before the blog - zines from the 80s...
How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT

Talk to someone who has worked in IT for decades and more often than not, they'll regale you with stories of the "good old days," when the workplace was lively and creative juices flowed.

ESAD PV29 Neville Brody

conference video

GNE Museum

The GNE Museum is a guide to the Game Neverending Prototype game.

I S O 5 0 - The Visual Work of Scott Hansen
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Fluxus

3d OpenGL livecoding environment

OpenLab

This project provides a meeting place for London based artists who use and develop open source software as their creative tool.

carto:net - Comparing .SWF (ShockWave Flash) and .SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format specifications
NodeBox | Fatpath

Fatpath does mathematics on path points. In essence, it adds text paths together.

A Guide to earning an income from a Free and Open Source project

for independent developers