So when I read that Mozilla created the Prism project I really couldn’t think of a valid application as I could just have tabs in Firefox always open. Well I have found a use for it and it is for streaming website’s like Pandora or Jango, so they always have their own browser window and I don’t have to worry about accidentally closing it and interrupting my music while I work. Isn’t technology great?
Well for those of us who work in an office we find that our headphones are on a lot. This site is very similar to Pandora but with a slight twist. I think it is easier to build custom radio stations and it automatically selects music you may like. Great for creating the never ending play list to run while you are at work. They are in private beta right now but I managed to get an invite inside and so far so good. Also I think the quality of music sounds a little better then Pandora. Also it is a little nicer because it shows you all the related artists and you can add them to your play list. The more you add the less they suggest other people and the less you add the more they play their recommendations.
Here is an online MLA citation website that will build the citation for you!
Ah yes please! This multi projector simulator is known as MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG)™, why does the government always get the best toys? Oh wait…that’s right its because I give them 1/3 of my paycheck every 2 weeks! I wonder how much fun Ratchet & Clank would be to play on this thing!
Alright I am soooo angry! I totally invented this in high school in my physics class as our final project in 1998. Totally should have gotten the patent right to this. It is like the 4th item that I have lost to someone else! I also thought of Netflix for both movies and video games before it was popular. I also had the idea for Gametap the online gaming community! Guess I should act on these ideas before someone else does!
So for those of us who pay for their web hosting this site does really well. It is not the hosting service that I use (Lunarpages) but is rated number one as my hosting is rated number 2. Currently this site is hosting websites with a ton of data 500GB of data storage, 5000 GB monthly bandwidth, email, fantastico script library. Good stuff!
Sometimes I find myself coming across strange file formats I want to convert and converters aren’t always free. It just so happens this one is and has no limit on the lines you want to convert. It will take a .DBF file and convert it to .TXT, .XLS, .CSV and a bunch of others. This came in super handy especially for our statistics project. Here is their official web page
So I finally found a use for Yahoo! Pipes. I created a pipe that takes the Digg RSS feeds and filters them down for pics only. Only works well for RSS feeds that have a lot of extra fluff when you only care about something very specific on that feed. Most of my feeds I like to read everything they post but Digg is a different story. Mainly because they post so many posts a day its crazy!
Kexi 
There have been a lot of people over the last few months who have been quite clear in stating that they do not feel Open Office Base is a solid replacement for Microsoft’s Access. My answer to these individuals is to look into Kexi instead. It offers a solid, consistent UI, an active community of users and a future that looks pretty darn bright to me. I see this cross-platform data management application as a means of freeing your company from an otherwise expensive alternative.
VirtualDub
Video editing for Windows is certainly not limited to the Windows Movie Maker. VirtualDub allows its users a clean, user –friendly tool to capture, edit and produce their videos without sacrificing quality or spending any money on an application with unneeded features. Thanks to VirtualDub, which rovides decent documentation and frequent revisions, this is one of the better, yet lesser known open source video editing applications for the Windows OS.
WinMerge 
Personally, I am shocked that this program is not OEM released into every Windows desktop released from the factory floor. WinMerge does a fantastic job at helping to manage projects, making sure that the data inside the file is always the newest, not just the file itself. For example, take two of the same files and use the program to compare them. You’ll see, instantly, using colors to guide you, which syntax has changed and which is missing from one file vs. another. This is a have must for programmers and web designers.
Pentaho BI Suite 
Business intelligence is not a minor issue for most companies – having a solid open source application that can legitimately compete with the big boys is nothing to sneeze at. Pentaho Open BI Suite provides businesses with enterprise class tools to help in this critical data gathering. Reporting, analysis, dashboards and process management: the Pentaho suite does it all.
This spiffy little website lets you create those little favicons in your browser. It also has a good library of ones people have put up for public use. This is a lot easier then using Photoshop to create the icons like I have done in the past. You can also upload images which it will convert for you to use.
