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Bookmarks for February 4th through February 6th

by Ron Bieber on Saturday, February 7, 2009

  • Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else – (37signals) – "So bottom line: Copying hurts you. You miss out on what makes something good. Instead, try to be exposed to a variety of perspectives and points of view. Take whatever you find useful and leave the rest behind. Fill in the gaps with your own ideas. In the end you have make your own way forward."
  • Social engineering: Anatomy of a hack | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-04 | By Joan Goodchild, CSO Online – "As the founder of Lares, a Colorado-based security consultancy, social-engineering expert Chris Nickerson is often asked by clients to conduct penetration testing of their on-site security. Nickerson leads a team which conducts security risk assessments in a method he refers to as Red Team Testing"
  • The Cosmic Machine – EventBox – Macintosh desktop app that integrates Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Flickr, RSS Feeds, and Reddit all in one app. Interesting.
  • Easy Git! – GitHub – "eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to use GitHub but can’t seem to find the time to learn Git? eg is your answer."

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Using Things To Get Things Done

November 3, 2008

Ron’s “review” of using Things Desktop for Mac with Things for iPhone to “Get Things Done”

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Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 23rd

October 23, 2008

Internet Evolution – Andrew Keen – Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping – "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to [...]

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Things for iPhone (Time Management)

August 21, 2008

I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and buy Things, an application on the iPhone for task management (Getting Things Done style). I’ve only started using it this morning, but I can already see the benefit of getting things out of my head and into my inbox for categorization. I’ll write [...]

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Bookmarks for August 13th

August 13, 2008

19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers – "Today, we are listing here 19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life"
Linux.com :: Using free software for HTTP [...]

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links for 2008-02-26

February 25, 2008

Chyrp
Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.
(tags: blogging tumblr php lamp mysql applications blog cms free opensource oss)

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Pathway Wikipedia Visualizer

September 27, 2006

Photo by rbieber
The Pathway Wikipedia Visualizer. Pretty cool application.

I played around with this application a little tonight. For each page you go to, it lays out all of the links for you. You navigate based on the links laid out and you can keep track visually of everywhere [...]

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Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right

January 10, 2006

Ari Paparo writes about his experience writing a public bookmarking service and why his implementation didn’t hit the popularity that del.ico.us did. Thanks Nalla for the link!

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Riya – Real Competition for Flickr?

October 27, 2005

Nalla sent me a link to TechCrunch » First Screen Shots of Riya, an article about a new photo service with built in photo recognition. This looks pretty cool, aside from the stated 4 hour upload time per gigabyte of data.

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An AJAX based IM Client

September 9, 2005

This Ajax based IM client looks really cool. I’ve been interested in how to dynamically rearrange things in a web page for a while. Maybe now I can find the time to scan the code and find out how to do it.

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Check Out Flickr Album

August 23, 2005

Check out Flickr Album – I found this while surfing around tonight and thought it was pretty cool. Create your own online photo album from a Flickr tag and actually page through it.

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