Only the Japanese can make something mundane cool - How to fold a t-shirt

Worth getting an old iMac for just to act as a jukebox for iTunes - BrowserTunes

Similar to metadirectories - Virtual Folders allow data collection from disparate sources.

Nice resource - Chess Opening Moves.

A good guide to what you see in a firewall log based on certain types of scans indicative of a possible attack.

More and more popular - database file systems.

Of course BeOS probably had the first dbfs available to the consumer. BeOS is covered in this BeOS Retrospective. I tried BeOS 4 for x86 back in 1999 - it was pretty cool but I didn't have the hardware to dedicate to running it full-time. You can download a community maintained version of BeOS 5 from here or here.

Purely because no one else seems to have compiled this information in one place - Adam Tow a Newton developer presents a WWNC Photoblog on the recent 2004 World Wide Newton Conference in Paris. Links to recent Wired articles on how Newton users keep the platform moving forwards and how Newton fans do a better job of keeping the Newton alive than Apple ever did. There was very little information on 'Einstein' available which was a little frustrating - this is a project to emulate the Newton in software. There is a PDF of Paul Guyots Presentation and a screenshot but not much else.