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BarracudaDrive update #
Wilfred kindly informs us that his BarracudaDrive (mentioned last year) has been updated to include support for international character sets.
/misc | Jan 29, 2006
Goodbye Google Ads #I have loved Google from the earliest beta days and am deeply grateful to Larry and Sergey for creating such an accurate search engine. However, the company has clearly lost its moral compass. Google claims "Our informal corporate motto is 'Don't be evil.'" while at the same time covering up the Tiananmen Square Massacre to please China's communist government. They would clearly have no problem hushing up the Holocaust for the Nazis, so long as it meant more market share.
So while Google ads have helped pay for maintaining TinyApps.Org, it is time to say goodbye. I strongly urge web publishers to remove Google Ads from their sites, as well. If you own Google stock, please consider selling it. Those of us who still enjoy the benefit of freedom (for the moment, anyway) have the duty to defend it.
UPDATE: There is apparently a rather large backlash against Google forming.
UPDATE 2: Lawmaker: IBM aided Holocaust, Google following same path
UPDATE 3: YES!!! Google does the right thing four years later: We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.UPDATE 4: Apparently this was all talk, no walk: Google co-founder: Maybe we'll stay in China after all - A month after storming the moral high-ground over China's hacking activities, Sergey Brin has declared the firm is happy to get off its high horse and kick its heels in the country a little longer.
UPDATE 5: Finally some real action: So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services - Google Search, Google News, and Google Images - on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong.
/misc | Jan 28, 2006
ViewSourceWith - Firefox Extension #If Firefox's featureless page source viewer has got you down, use your favorite text editor instead with ViewSourceWith.
/misc | Jan 27, 2006
Freeware ISO burning and creation #ISO Recorder creates and burns ISO images under Windows XP. (via Mike Mills)
/windows | Jan 24, 2006
DaveProxy - free and easy proxy server for anonymous browsing #DaveProxy is a free internet proxy, that allows you to surf the world wide web safely and anonymously. Due to the nature of proxy servers, this also allows you to bypass company firewalls and proxies, allowing you to browse your favourite websites at work or school... Simply enter the web address of the site you want to visit in the text box and click go.
/misc | Jan 24, 2006
More on Alito from a former classmate #Andrew Napolitano is a former classmate of Alito's at Princeton and a former New Jersey Superior Court judge now working for Fox News. He tells The Daily Princetonian: "Sam Alito is just what George Bush is looking for: a big government conservative who will almost always side with the government against the individual, and the federal government against the state."
That may be what George Bush is looking for, but what American in their right mind would ever want a Supreme Court justice who will "almost always side with the government against the individual"?
That reminds me of a qoute from a certain German politican of the 20th century: "It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual."
/misc | Jan 22, 2006
Why Alito must be stopped #"With the fate of the U.S. Constitution in the balance, it's hard to believe there's no senator prepared to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whose theories on the 'unitary executive' could spell the end of the American democratic Republic... Under this government envisioned by Alito and Bush, Americans would no longer have freedoms based on the Constitution and the law, but on Bush's tolerance and charity. Americans would, in essence, become Bush's subjects dependent on his good graces, rather than citizens possessing inalienable rights. He would be a modern-day king... As strongly as many people feel about Roe v. Wade, it would detract from what is of even greater importance in the Alito confirmation, that he would help consolidate the precedent of an American strongman Executive with virtually no limits on his powers." (from Alito Filibuster: It Only Takes One)
Call or email your senators today and let them know how you feel.
/misc | Jan 22, 2006
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. #This is insane.
/misc | Jan 09, 2006
Swell OS X freeware from Lobotomo Software #- IPSecuritas lets you easily setup IPSec VPN connections to another host or network over the Internet. Reportedly works wonderfully with ZyWall VPN routers, among many others.
- WinShortcutter can follow Windows shortcuts and open the corresponding document. If the shortcut points to another network drive, WinShortcutter will also mount the drive before accessing the link. And if you want to do other Apple users a favor, you can also leave a proper Apple alias with the shortcut.
- Bubble Pop is the kind of game that will help keep you sane on long flights, but can just as easily destroy your productivity on the ground. Play with extreme caution.
/mac | Jan 07, 2006
Your blog can be about anything, so long as it's Chairman Mao #You've no doubt heard about Microsoft faithfully serving China by quashing free thinkers and the like. Michael Connolly defends his employer with the following logic:
In China, there is a unique issue for our entire industry: there are certain aspects of speech in China that are regulated by the government. We've made a choice to run a service in China, and to do that, we need to adhere to local regulations and laws.The next day, he follows with:
When we look at adherence to local law, we are only concerned with the Spaces associated with the particular market the official has jurisdiction over. So, if Germany has issues with Nazi propaganda on a Space that is set up by a German user in Germany, we need to pay attention to that, since Nazi propaganda is illegal in Germany.By the same logic, if the Nazis still controlled Germany, Microsoft would have no problem hushing up that troublesome little holocaust issue, I suppose. To be fair, even that holiest of holies, Google ("Don't be evil"), sees fit to omit "contentious" news stories from search results in China. I wonder if they mean "contentious" as in, "Chinese protesters report a massacre"?
/misc | Jan 06, 2006
Freeware console SFTP client #MOVEit Freely is a free command line FTP/secure FTP client for Windows 95 to 2003 systems. Convert existing batch-driven, non-secure file transfers into secure file transfers. Direct link to portable (green) version here. (via Jonathan Lampe)
/windows | Jan 05, 2006
Batch convert TIFF to PDF under OS X #Paul Thompson kindly responded to my question on how to convert multiple TIF files into multiple PDF documents:
You can create pdf files from a tif file by using the console program: sips
% sips -s format pdf input_directory/*.tif --out output_directory
ignore the warnings it renames the files for you.
to get more information on sips type:
% man sips
/mac | Jan 04, 2006
scanR #scanR is an online service that turns your camera phone (1 megapixel or higher) into a scanner, copier and fax. (via Will Stevenson)
/misc | Jan 02, 2006
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