SnipURL is another service to turn long URLs into short URLs (that are easier to type and that don't wrap in email messages), but SnipURL is the coolest one so far. SnipURL has a bunch of extra features such as counting the number of hits to a snipped URL and easily importing data into Excel.
10:45:37 AM      

Today I joined the Amazon.com Associates Program, which threatens to make me rich. See, if I link to products on Amazon.com and convince my flock of readers to click on those links and buy the products, then I get a few cents now and then. Actually, the Associates Program is far more than that, but that's all I managed to glean in the few minutes before I hurriedly updated all the Amazon.com links in my existing blog entries.
9:26:00 PM      

Wow. I knew the day would come when we'd have a terabyte of storage, but I never imagined that it would be packaged so conveniently. I want one. I don't need one, but it'd be cool to say, "Yeah, there's my terabyte."

1:28:08 PM      

Tim Bray plugs DynDNS.org. Thought I'd do the same. I've been using it for just a few weeks. It seems to work well, and you can't beat free. I'm not hosting anything for public consumption from my home computers (yet), but DynDNS gives me access to my personal Scopeware Server.
9:19:38 AM      

A small monospaced font for those of us who need or want to get as much text on to the screen as possible.
1:22:24 PM      

"Starting today, you can find books at Amazon.com based on every word inside them ..." (See How It Works for more information.)

11:14:31 AM      

Demo of fisheye menu: an alternative to scrolling for browsing a long list of items.
10:30:13 AM      

Deductus is disk catalog and personal full-text search engine with explorer-like interface.
9:30:23 AM      

A bit of a debate about "Local Hard Disk Google" vs. folders.
9:27:10 AM      

Longhorn technical evangelist Jeremy Mazner offers some interesting tidbits on why Microsoft is including a new storage platform in its "Yukon" version of SQL Server and "Longhorn" version of Windows.
9:26:22 AM      

Somebody at Lockergnome really likes our product. It's good to see that someone gets the concept. Don't wait for Longhorn.
8:19:02 AM      

This is a public email-to-RSS gateway. Looks useful for stuff like mailing lists.
11:38:00 AM      

Like TiVo for Internet radio. With the proliferation of multi-GB MP3 devices like the iPod, I've noticed an emerging interest in carrying around hours of pre-recorded radio shows, interviews, and lectures--not just music. For example, Dave talks about using RSS enclosures to distribute interviews.
7:35:30 PM      

A Python IDE to check out.
1:36:06 AM      

Scoble seems to say that WinFS will be Marc Cantor's Next Generation Calendar Event aggregator and more. [From a John Robb posting.]
9:39:59 AM      

Intel Corp. has built a prototype of a "personal server" that could become the personal multimedia diary of the future. [It'd be great to put Lifestreams on there.]
9:12:24 AM      

Rory reviews O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf. Unfortunately, I find myself in a place where I get most of the information that I need for my job from the MSDN Library, but that can change overnight. I have also largely tamed myself of the habit of buying technical books that I really don't need, but there are lots of books from which I hanker to read one or two chapters.
11:22:27 AM      

Recently recommended by Lockergnome. "Free with an easy to use interface that maintains some powerful features." Need to check it out. I'm always looking for new ways to present chronologically ordered streams of information. That's what Vision is about. It's not just a search utility. It's an information aggregator too.
9:17:22 AM      

Dow Jones columnist Jeremy Wagstaff interviewed Mark Goodstein of X1 via email back in July.
4:19:46 PM      

Local weather forecasts as RSS feeds. Can't wait for it to be finished.
9:55:13 PM      

Way back in May, I posted a snippet about Zoe (and by the way, I had a hard time finding that snippet, because I called Zoë "Zoë" instead of "Zoe," which is what I tried to look for). Zoe has been getting lots of attention, for good reason. These people like or use Zoe for many of the same reasons that I like and use Scopeware Server. Scopeware Server is the archive and search interface for all of my email (plus some other content, but it's mostly email). Zoe's built-in FTP server is a marvelous trick. I prefer the Lifestreams interface that Scopeware presents to Zoe's interface—nothing beats Lifestreams for me yet. Zoe is also rather narrowly focused on Internet content (email and RSS). I have to admit though that it's fun to click on Zoe's many links. Zoe automatically pulls out, indexes, and exposes many properties and components in email. You can accomplish a lot just by clicking in Zoe.
2:36:14 AM      

As John points out, X1 is a great way to search email in Outlook. Despite all of Outlook's problems and vulnerabilities, lots of people out there use it with many practically living in it. A free tool to search Outlook email will likely be very popular.
10:52:55 PM      

This is very funny. Yes, Macs are cool, but they're not perfect.
1:24:52 PM      

Dave Winer has seen fit to mention X1 in his blog. X1 is a competitor to Scopeware Vision.
1:03:24 PM      

Apple and Macs are cool. If I were making twice as much money as I am, then sure, I'd have some Macs (probably more Macs than PCs). Everyone else in my family has Macs. My first three computers were Macintoshes. I've been lusting after a Mac ever since Apple released OS X.
11:02:17 PM      

I have to remember to check this out. From a quick read of the description, clevercactus sounds vaguely like a Vision for email, PIM, and RSS feeds.
10:22:26 PM      

Cool extension for tabbed browsing in various Mozilla browsers.
10:20:35 PM      

I've often wondered what those weird InprocServer32 and LocalServer32 values were. I can't find any documentation about them except a couple references in Google Groups.
1:09:15 PM      

Apparently, the RIAA has calculated digital signatures for many of the files that appeared on Napster and its ilk. The signatures allow the RIAA to determine if files on a computer originated from a file-sharing service. Anyone with such files will want to change their signatures. Some MP3 players can re-encode MP3 files and the new files might have completely new signatures (depending on what the RIAA is hashing to generate the signatures). Someone clever out there could easily write a little utility to change a small fraction of bits randomly throughout an MP3 file without noticeably affecting the sound quality.
10:43:49 PM      

I'm sure I'll get confused about this again. I just have to keep in mind that C/C++ has weak, static typing and Python has strong, dynamic typing. I guess Java has strong, static typing (no coercions in Java). Perl and Awk have weak, dynamic typing.
2:08:48 AM      

Python for .NET integrates Python with the .NET Common Language Runtime. This allows you to script .NET applications in Python or otherwise use CLR services and components from Python. Jon Udell wrote about it in Dynamic languages and virtual machines. The point is to be productive and adaptable.
1:48:09 AM      

This is a mirror of this.
6:57:42 PM      

Ohmigosh, this makes me incredibly happy. It gives me a shot at handling recurring items. It also doesn't show up in Google yet, but maybe it will now that I've linked to it. It's way too important. I'm going to mirror it.
6:55:07 PM      

Jeremy Zawodny reports that Yahoo! launched a blog service in Korea.
5:08:57 PM      

Article about RSS aggregators. Worth reading, but a bit over the top.
10:46:28 AM      

Spring is an innovative, web-inspired desktop for OS X. Makes you think how different the user experience could be.
10:45:11 AM      

Interesting post about what Longhorn's WinFS might be. The comments are the best part. One guy says "we've used directories/folders for years with no trouble, and AFAIK, there's no real reason to change it." Other people jump in and say "No!" to that. Someone says "If WinFS does what I hope it will do it could be a killer app in Longhorn." Yeah, I wonder. Let's hope that WinFS is a killer app in Longhorn and that people realize that they can have an alternative to directories and folders with Vision long before Longhorn arrives.
10:25:26 AM      

I've been meaning for years to convert some of those VHS tapes of Hanju to a digital format. If this thing also works as a general-purpose DVD writer, then it may be worth it.
11:39:41 PM      

Google has a built-in calculator.
11:09:22 PM