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Sep 27, 2005

Lighten Up + More (Updated 29/09/05)

Lots of ground covered in this DrunkenBlog post. Interesting that he posits the idea that little innovation will come from Apple in the future due to lack of R & D spend and that Microsoft will end up making more by spinning out innovative ideas because they will take far to long to develop internally.

The genius that is TiddlyWiki now has a Dev site. I need to whack one of these up somewhere but I'm so tied to Blosxom I can't think what I'd do in TiddlyWiki form.

This looks cool - $100 Laptop. It'd be fantastic if robust tech could get out there into the hands of the people that need it the most.

Turntable goodness.

I need to get back into tramping - this book looks like a useful resource for lightening your load - Lighten Up! from the always interesting Cool Tools.

From TinyApps comes a link to some useful utilities GNU Win32 - Ports of Unix tools.

Mark Russinovich troubleshoots Diagnosing Windows Explorer Hangs using his own ProcExplorer, Regmon and Filemon tools.

Unfortunately not open-source but it is the best tool I've found in terms of an online Dictionary / Thesaurus tool - Wordweb Free. For open source types there are many freely available dict clients that will perform lookups on dict servers - unfortunately they don't help much unless you get the spelling right in your query anyway but at least they help with the thesaurus side of things.

There seems to be a looming OS X backlash - the upside of having high-profile 'Netizens congregate around your platform is that its great PR - the downside is that when they run into problems or get frustrated by the platform its negative PR. I guess based on Apples reluctance to throw resources into fixing some fundemental OS X (crappy finder) issues the company itself probably doesn't care.

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