Cindy Scroggins admits a view that is mildly conservative.

As a self-proclaimed hacker, who means you no harm, I stand on the shoulders of giants. The following people have set the standard for hacking and have given all of us newbies something to the strive for. These are some of the Great Ones, the ones we admire, emulate. These are my favs.

Going to try this again for the old 1520

HTPC case

Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H

wireless keyboard

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac.

For problems installing windows 7 updates

Finally, a website to tell you just how good your stuff is

For Jazz, Gospel, and Soul

Power Everything with USB

You’re launching the first version of your web application. You’re pre-revenue. Your every waking moment is consumed with the backlog of product enhancements you believe will help your app break through. And you’re about to land on the top of Reddit because of a security flaw.

We’re software security people. Our industry is built around breaking software. People like us are the ones putting people like you on the top of Reddit. People like you are the weak, and people like us are the tyranny of evil men.

You’re listening to us because you’ve finally given up trying to control the security of your application. Everything else you’ve tried has failed. The advice the “security industry” has given you has had negligible business value, because you’re not a Fortune-500, and you aren’t shipping shrink-wrap to 1,000 enterprises. And the failure of that advice is partly our fault. This is our response.

Read the advice we’re giving here. See how you’re doing. Honestly, are you on top of these issues? Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem.

The "Butterfly keyer" program converts the Butterfly demo board into an Iambic keyer which can decode and display the characters you send using the paddle. This forces you to have proper letter and word spacing, otherwise the letters will not decode or there will be no spaces between words. One of the most common errors both Novices and Old Timers alike make when sending Morse is running their letters and words together, so its hard for someone trying to copy your sending to tell when a letter stops or a word starts. The Butterfly keyer can also help you with learning to copy Morse code, as it can send random 5 character groups, then display the characters so you can check your copy. The keyer also features selectable 5 to 40 wpm code speeds in 1 wpm steps, selectable A or B Iambic modes and two 63 character message memories.

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.

Tweet A Sound is a desktop application that uses Twitter as a platform for sharing sonic tweets. Pushing the idea of “social sound design”, Tweet A Sound allows you to design a sound and share it in a community of like-minded folks. It is an opportunity for fun interaction with sound.

I am not sure how I missed this.

SONY PD150

Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as it’s foundation.

Studio Arm for XLR Microphones

ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your PC. Open, edit, and save files on remote computers from within your favorite programs—even when they are on a server half a world away. ExpanDrive enhances every single application on your computer by transparently connecting it to remote data.

I must own this.

Some useful things, actually

The OKM stereo microphone set consists of a pair of miniature in-ear microphones designed for binaural recordings – ideal and discrete when recording in public places.

BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices.

Last year I suggested potential Summer of Code projects and one of my favorite suggestions was “How about a good open-source program to manage your book library? Something like the Delicious Library program, but that works with Linux?” In the blog comments, Colin Colehour left an excellent comment: “Matt, Can’t you use Google Books to keep track of your book library at home? You can add books that you own to the ‘my library’ list and then export that as an xml file and they have RSS feeds.”

Probably not legal in your area, but nifty nonetheless.

The latest obsession.

Fantastic resource

I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on. There have been times when I can’t imagine how we would have solved a particular problem without them. Yet there are also times when I’ve been completely exasperated at the amount of time and energy they’ve consumed, seemingly to very little reward.

Text editor nerdery

There are many observations, good and bad, in this aritcle. Worth a read and expect to hear more on the subject from me.

A companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media.

Adapted from Gruber's code.

Hackintosh tutorial.

"Verbing weirds language"

calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for the SONY PRS 500/505/700, Cybook Gen 3, Amazon Kindle (1 and 2) and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software). Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and the creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library view. If an book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display. This project is a maintenance fork created to implementing patches and bug fixes to synergy.

Mann and Gruber talking about doing there thing. Worth a listen unlike every other "improve" your blogging schtick.

"Universities are at once places of higher learning- the search for knowledge unhampered by commercial responsibility- and full of opportunity. And yet often, the physical space of the campus, the academic landscape, tells us that they are structured, rigid environments whose administrators are often out of touch with how physical traditions affect classroom culture and pure research. What I have tried to capture in the images is both a severe beauty - the light and subtleties of surface that continue to give me hope - and the emptiness of these spaces of learning, rich with promise."

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

I think it falls under "fair use" myself, but here is another perspective.

Open Source twitter

"The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames." Looks fantastic, but $50. Damn, that isn't cheap.

“Particls reduces rivers of news to a trickle”

Looks like a powerful service to monitor what people are saying on the web and where. 30 free trial, but I am not excite about how limited the $99 month plan is. Still, might be useful for some.

"It is almost impossible to look and read at the same time: they are different actions." 
—Gerard Unger, While You’re Reading

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Very much an alpha product at the moment.

A list of obvious things. But, then again, obvious things are the neglected things.

I hesitate to use the word for this situation, but the photography is "gorgeous."

Yes, even the iPhone. (Finally!)

See your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.

Great replica of an item from one of the greatest games of all time

Legitimately useful links for freelancing