TinyApps.Org Newsletter Issue 37 - February 19, 2004 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein ================================ BLOG HIGHLIGHTS SINCE 2004/1/14 http://tinyapps.org/blog/ ================================ Thanks to Blogger, TinyApps now features syndication powered by Atom. http://tinyapps.org/weblog/index.rss The RSS Reader Panel for Firebird/Firefox mentioned last month now supports Atom feeds! http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0 Online Converter http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1 FileZilla is slightly too large to be listed on TinyApps, but it is a powerful (and open source) FTP client with many great features, including: Resume uploads/downloads, SFTP support, Site Manager with folders, firewall support, and much more. http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ History of BIOS and IDE Limits http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html FreeGrid v0.5b [30k] Light spreadsheet for Palm. http://step.polymtl.ca/~chenier/ EBCD (Emergency Boot CD) can come in handy when faced with a non-booting/damaged/misconfigured machine. Copy/move files, image drives, recover MBR, change admin password on Windows NT/2000/XP, unerase deleted files, unformat, much more. http://mirror01.iptelecom.net.ua/~ebcd/ Guide To Ghost System Recovery which includes loads of great info found nowhere else, and great tips like "Don't Install Ghost". The author offers a clean, minimalist approach, demonstrating that the floppy version of Ghost is all you want or need to make the most of this fine app. http://lostgallifreyan.com/Ghost%20System%20Recovery/GSR%20Guide%20v2003.htm Programming from the Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett teaches programming and computer science through assembly language. http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ DOS USB Drivers http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm ReactOS - "Open source effort to develop a quality operating system compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers." - GUI is now up and running! http://www.reactos.com/ How to Tweak Windows XP for Optimal Performance http://www.techreviewer.com/viewpage.cfm/pi/9 LitePC XPlite - "Clean installations of Windows XP in under 350MB and Windows 2000 approaching less than 200 MB" http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=32 The Knoppix 3.4 c't edition can write to NTFS partitions (thanks to Captive) and boot from external USB/Firewire devices. http://www.heise.de/ct/04/04/124/default.shtml NanoBlogger "is a small weblog engine written in Bash, that uses common unix tools, such as cat, grep and sed. It's free to use and modify under the GNU General Public License." Features include: archiving, category support, permalinks, RSS syndication, no dependency on any javascript, server-side scripting, or server-side includes, no dependency on any external database (uses flat- file), more. http://home.columbus.rr.com/n1xt3r/nanoblogger/ ====== THANKS ====== Financial Contributors http://tinyapps.org/contributors.html Free Mailing List Hosting http://www.freelists.org/ MailandFiles ($5/month for 50MB of mail and files storage) http://www.mailandfiles.com/ ============= (UN)SUBSCRIBE ============= Send a blank email to tinyapps-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with either 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. You can also use the web interface, which has additional options: http://tinyapps.org/ezine.html ========== DISCLAIMER ========== You are 100% responsible for your own actions. Visiting a link, downloading a program, in short, *living*, is done entirely at your own risk (and joy).