/misc | Feb 03, 2012

• Windows (7, Vista, XP, 2000, Me, NT4, 98SE)
• Mac OS (10.6, 10.4, 10.3, 10, 9)
• iOS 4.2
• Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, Outlook (2010, 2007, 2002, 2000, 97), Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Entourage, and more
• Internet Explorer (8, 7, 6, 5, 4, more) and Safari

/misc | Feb 02, 2012

• Long-time reader Firace kindly informs us of his PowrTaskr, a "simple, zero-configuration Windows program that makes Google Tasks ... as responsive as a native executable"
• HDAT2 - If you use virtually any electronic data storage device (HDD, SSD, CD, etc), you need to check this out. Repair disks, access/edit/remove HPA/DCO, issue ATA commands like security erase, etc.
• TAFT "is an ATA (IDE) forensics tool that communicates directly with the ATA controller. It can retrieve various information about a hard disk, as well as look at and change the HPA and DCO settings."
• OSFClone "is a free, self-booting solution which enables you to create or clone exact raw disk images quickly and independent of the installed operating system."
• Redo Backup and Recovery is a "bare metal restore solution with graphical interface on a live CD."
• Trend Micro Rescue Disk is yet another live CD-based antimalware option from the makers of the venerable Sysclean.

/misc | Jan 31, 2012

• WeTransfer - entire site requires Flash; uses SSL
• YouSendIt - "Select File" button requires Flash; uses SSL
• Let's Crate - no Flash (or SSL, apparently). See Sahil Lavingia's other cool project, Gumroad, which makes selling digital content ridiculously easy.
• Ge.tt - no Flash (or SSL, apparently). (via Bjorn Larsen)

/misc | Dec 20, 2011

• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• Silence is the corner-stone of character. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. -- Jean Arp

/misc | Dec 01, 2011

On 11/16, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system. This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same. Join all of us on the 16th to stop this bill.

• Website Blocking - The government and corporations can order service providers to block websites for infringing links posted by any users.
• Risk of Jail for Ordinary Users - It becomes a felony with a potential 5 year sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.
• Chaos for the Internet - Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new legal threats. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn't be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.

/misc | Nov 14, 2011

• eml2mbox.sh is an eml to mbox conversion utility in shell. Despite having been posted 8 years ago, thoran kindly sent a copy of his script (the posted version had been inadvertently truncated). Worked a treat moving eml files recovered from a corrupt dbx file to mbox and from there into Apple Mail.
• eml2mbox is a cross-platform (Ruby) eml to mbox converter. Simply copy it to a directory containing eml files and run ruby ./eml2mbox.rb to generate an mbox file in the same directory containing all of the email messages.
• IMAPSize, by the author of eml2mbox, is a freeware Windows app for managing IMAP accounts that also includes eml2mbox (under the Tools menu).
• eml2mbx is a green, standalone Windows app that "packs separate plain text e-mail files (including all attachments) into mbox files".

/misc | Oct 18, 2011

When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral.

But he said: "I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin; the sun and moon will be the jade symbols hanging by my side; planets and constellations will shine as jewels all around me, and all beings will be present as mourners at the wake. What more is needed? Everything is amply taken care of!"

But they said: "We fear that crows and kites will eat our Master."

"Well," said Chuang Tzu, "above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. In either case I shall be eaten. Why are you so partial to birds?"

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