C-Evo
Monday, January 29th, 2007Freeware version of Civilization
and a freeware version of that underrated classic colonization.
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Archive for January, 2007
Miner Willy - the opera
Saturday, January 27th, 2007For all of you that remember Manic Miner, this is sheer mentalism.
(click the audio tab at the bottom to get the link to 3 mp3’s).
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J. River Media Center Problems on Vista
Saturday, January 27th, 2007it took over without asking as the preferred application for viewing JPEGs, then didn’t work properly (you really really don’t a program that has a countdown-based evaluation mode to be the default JPEG viewer EVER). After I uninstalled it, notepad was the preferred application 
EDIT: maybe I was a little hasty, check the comments.
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Top 100 singles of 2006
Saturday, January 27th, 2007…according to Pitchfork anyway, I disagree with a lot of them (there’s a lot of sh*tty rap in there, including a song that butchers Junior Reid) but nice to see The Pipettes, Hot Chip, Voxtrot & “Kick Push” and “Young Folks” in there.
Singles I hadn’t heard of that are in there that I like include Kelis - Bossy & The Field - Over the Ice.
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Warzone 2100
Saturday, January 27th, 2007This was a pretty good RTS back in the day… anyone the source code was liberated and is continuing to be developed, so now you can get it all for free (and multiplatform too).
In fact it’s even available as a package in the fedora core 6 and others yum repository.
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Cross platform jukebox software
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Two ITunes / WMP competitors that run on Mac / Windows / Linux:
Both seem pretty good
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Worlds…
Friday, January 19th, 2007Ripping off other’s work
Friday, January 19th, 2007Dustsniper is / was ripping off an open-source project (JBidWatcher) and reselling it as his own on ebay.
The developer had this to say:
“If you have purchased a program calling itself ‘SnipeIt’ on
eBay, by a seller ‘dustsniper’, you have paid someone who is
stealing my work and reselling it for his own profit.
I’ve spent more than six years on JBidwatcher, and this has
happened a few times, but I usually find out sooner, and they
agree to stop. This person has been doing it since at least
May, and has made over $2,000 at my expense.
I can’t really express how deeply used this makes me feel. I have
no desire to continue fighting with eBay, figuring out their
ever-more complex changes, for this persons profit. I know
a great many people use and trust JBidwatcher because of its
open source nature, but open source is also subject to just
this kind of predation.
It’s not about money; it never has been with JBidwatcher, which
is why I make it available free. It’s about the sense of
violation, and the feeling that I’ve worked hard on my own
project for what ends up being someone else’s profit. I haven’t
made a decision on what to do, but end-of-life-ing
JBidwatcher is high on the list. Six years was a good run.“
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Karaoke in Farringdon
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007My favourite Firefox extensions
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Popularity: 5% [?]