From the monthly archives:

October 2005

roundcube

I recently heard about a new webmail client from my friend Justin, who’s infatuated with it. RoundCube, a “browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface,” is the latest and greatest webmail client. It’s only in the alpha stage of development, which explains the jagged installation procedures, but that doesn’t mean it can’t kick some major squirrels. RoundCube is much smaller, scalable, and less resource intensive than another competitor, Zimbra, which weighs in at 150 megabytes. The interface is the stunning with lots of AJAX magic as well as user configurable via XHTML and CSS 2 skinning. I love RoundCube so much, I’m declaring it better than Gmail. Yes, you read that correctly. Hopefully by the end of this article you will have a fully functioning RoundCube webmail client on your server.

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My favorite social bookmarking and technology news website, Digg, is about to get a whole lot better. This is because some big names have invested 2.8 million dollars into Digg, which has been rapidly growing since its inception. Investors included the co-founder of eBay and Netscape. I hope this means that they will have the money get more servers as Digg has been fairly slow recently. This is fantastic news. You can read the article here and the Digg for the article here.

Here’s what one of the Digg founders and former TechTV show host, Kevin Rose had to say in regards to questions raised:
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Updates

October 28, 2005 · 0 comments

I changed somethings in the header, so if you are seeing two headlines you need to clear your cache so the browser can get the latest CSS file.

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My Awesome Pumpkin

October 27, 2005 · 1 comment

I tried to carve my school mascot Buzz, the Yellow Jacket, into a pumpkin I bought today. I’ll let you decide if I was close or not. It was ridiculously hard considering I just had one huge knife. Getting details in there was a pain.

Buzz!

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Flickr Does Prints

October 26, 2005 · 5 comments

It’s about time Flickr can print photos. This is great news, finally I can do something with some of my better photos. I know lots of people that will take Flickr up on this new feature. Check out the Flickr blog for more info.

Over the last year, we’ve been asked 15,381 times, “How about printing? When are we going to get printing!?” Today we are happy to answer: “Today!” For now it is U.S. only (we know! we’re working hard on rolling it out everywhere!). You can order prints to be delivered by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing, even. In both cases, you get 10 free 4×6″ prints to get started.

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FeedBurner

October 25, 2005 · 5 comments

I just started using FeedBurner for my RSS feeds, making it easier for me to keep track of everyone. If you are currently subscribing to any of my RSS feeds, please change them to the new URLs.

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The Open Office Suite is an open source must have. Download the latest version here.

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Ubuntu Linux LogoUbuntu, a popular distribution of the Linux operating system, has acquired a wildly growing user base and today I have joined them. Described as being Linux for Human Beings, Ubuntu is somewhere in between Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) and Fedora Core in terms of ease of use. It is far from Gentoo (my personal favorite because of the emerge package manager), which should be pleasing to novice users that want a more versatile Linux installation. Ubuntu has recently been awarded Best Distribution.
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Ubuntu

October 22, 2005

I recently remembered that I wasn’t using the internal hard drive in my Mac Mini, rather my external firewire drive… so I’m going to go about installing a distro of Linux called Ubuntu on it. Hopefully it will have native support for most of the hardware in the mini, or I will switch to [...]

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Flock, Under Those Feathers

October 21, 2005

Flock is the latest open source browser, catering especially to bloggers and Web 2.0 savvy users. It is heavily based upon open source code from Mozilla’s Firefox browser and was developed by a group of a 10 guys and a gal in a garage in Palo Alto, California (with lots of contributions from many [...]

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TheModWiki.org Hits Top 2000

October 21, 2005

My pc modding website, TheModWiki.org, has a folding team and we have just ranked among the top 2000 folding teams. This is out of roughly 40,000 teams. It is quite an accomplishment considering we only began folding mid-summer. You can check out the Stanford folding stats here. If you want to [...]

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Fox Needs to Get Their Act Together

October 20, 2005

For the past three weeks Fox has dumped airings of The O.C. for a football game, a baseball game, and just tonight for no reason, showing back to back episodes of Reunion. This is a horrible way to treat their best show. And it’s not like they vividly advertise when it will be [...]

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Flock 0.4.8 Released

October 20, 2005

As the title says… go get it.
login: caveat
password: emptor
P.S. I am in the midst of a Flock review but have been swamped with school work. Expect it this weekend.
Update: The Developer Preview is live.

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Over 30,000 Served

October 19, 2005

Keep ‘em coming guys! ;-)

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My Experience with ShrinkTo5

October 19, 2005

My favorite DVD ripping utility, DVD Shrink, recently got shutdown for some legal reasons. A team of developers came up with an open source solution to replace DVD Shrink and called it ShrinkTo5. Their name stems from the fact that a typical DVD (DVD5 not DVD9) holds 4.7GB, roughly 5GB, of data. [...]

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