Apple II crack screens I know, it doesn’t sound very exiting It’s still up in the air when this phenomenon began to happen (1981 is as good a guess as any), but Apple II pirates, not content to merely get commercial software copied and the protection removed, started giving themselves group names (“Midwest Pirates’ Guild”, [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
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Saturday, February 5, 2005
Search Google by file extension Ever want to search the web for an Excel spreadsheet checkbook? Easy. Type filetype:xls checkbook into the search box at Google. Behemoth search engine Google indexes more than just web pages. Narrow your search down to specific types of files with the “filetype” directive. How about PDF’s on productivity? Or [...]
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Saturday, February 5, 2005
The Saga of Blood Ninja collection of old cybersex text pranks that a user named Bloodninja played in AOL chat rooms Partner6: So you’re really a 18 yr old girl right? J-Dogg: Yeah, J for Julie. Partner6: So whats with the “Dogg” J-Dogg: Uh, It’s cause I’m into the latina gangs and shit. You know, [...]
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Thursday, February 3, 2005
Courtney Does The Math I have a love hate relationship with Courtney Love. Hate her, but love most of the crap she’s made. Anyway, the article is four and a half years old, but it still holds up…only record companies make money on recordings, bands make money on tour, and the real pirates are the [...]
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Thursday, February 3, 2005
Windows vs. Windows We all new it was bound to happen, in fact it already did. Microsoft has decided to blame software pirates for the loss of sales. Anyone remember the product activation required for Windows XP? Ok, I admit it, I’m a software pirate. I run XP Corp on both of the computers that [...]
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Chatter Email Client for the Treo 600/650 For me, the killer app on Palm’s Handspring Treo has got to be email. I mean look at the Blackberry. Essentially the Blackberry is built around push IMAP, and look how popular it is. I got in on the ground floor with Snappermail and it’s a kick-ass app. [...]
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Copy files back and forth from the iPod with simple shell commands I don’t own a mac or any version of the iPod so take what I say with a grain of salt. However, applematters gives me the feeling that it’s possible. Read the article
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005
What does “robust” mean? I know you could look it up in the dictionary, and I know judging by the past two posts this is becoming a “developogasm,” but I just can’t control myself. So what does “robust” mean? The problem with “robustness” is that defining what robustness is is situational – the very qualities [...]
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005
The history of Windows PowerToys I use them (while in Windows) and I know a few people who love them (my brother geeks out about Image Resizer power toy). Anyway, this is a pretty interesting article from the person who built TweakUI (which I love) and PowerToys, made by the Shell extensions team at Microsoft. [...]
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Wednesday, February 2, 2005
I fucking hate Windows Also known as Control how much network bandwith Automatic Updates will use I know this was talked about when Windows XP first came out, but god damn it! This shat happens all the time with Microsoft. Making decisions for the user all the god damn time! By default, the Background Intelligent [...]