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Entries from February 2008

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out!

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out! With such a nice integration with OSX! Unlike Beta 2 this version runs perfectly on my Mac OSX (for a morning) — even with Chinese Characters input. With a relatively small memory footprint!
Mozillalinks have a deep look to firefox 3 beta 3 review, and there is also a screenshots […]

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Tags: osx · software

links for 2008-02-12

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments

FlickrExport
A shareware for iPhoto to integrate with Flickr
(tags: flickr osx software photo)

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
(tags: tutorials inspiration drawing graphics howto illustrator)

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links for 2008-02-10

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Sniff browser history for improved user experience
Nice trick for displaying content depends on user’s browser history (like show “Digg this” but not 100 other badge if user have visited Digg before.
(tags: css webdesign javascript usability web2.0)

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links for 2008-02-07

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
Encrypt a file system
(tags: osx software security)

SuperDuper!
Tools to backup a whole bootable osx partition to another
(tags: osx software backup)

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My First Mac Product Casulty - Mighty Mouse

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Hmm, I’m really happy and satisfied with my MacBook Pro compared with previous notebook experience (I previously owned IBM, Dell and HP notebook), but sometime Apple is not really keeping their standard — the Mighty Mouse, in my experience, is just not so mighty.
What Mighty Mouse did right:

Beautiful, white color design, match the elegant feeling […]

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links for 2008-02-03

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Pixelmator
Nice image editing software for Mac
(tags: osx software photo webdesign design graphics)

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Ridiculous! Hong Kong Police Force is totally ass-hole!

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

!!!! Police arrested 4 more people for the “photos”~ !!!!!
Few points really made me angry~ how dare they say these:
- The Chief Police Officer said it is illegal for anyone to own even just one of those photos. But please be specific Mr. Tang, which law are you talking about? Why don’t you charge every […]

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Tags: randomthought

links for 2008-02-01

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows
(tags: osx software video)

Vidalia - Home
GUI for easily connect to Tor
(tags: software privacy)

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | Know-How | Smashing Magazine
(tags: webdesign inspiration usability)

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Debate on Micro-kernel

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Just came across an article on Micro-kernel, worth reading for those who want to know a bit about the debate (and it don’t have many technical information). I agree that the micro-kernel (MINIX 3) written by the article author, is really the most easy-to-understand operating system in the world! I’ve been playing around with it, […]

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Tags: hacking · randomthought · software