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Opera going tiny
Making the most of Google Desktop search
CherryOS, Open Source Software and theft
Shocking news: Apple involved in theft of copyrighted material
Google Toolbar 3 Beta
Freeware Flash tool: Wink
Jon Udells screencast of the life of a Wikipedia article
How to run a program as another user in Windows
Opera vs Firefox
Spell check for your browser

Opera going tiny
This is just so incredibly cool. Opera has released a browser that will run on almost any J2ME (Java micro) cell phone with data connectivity. (Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and others have support for J2ME and GPRS). Norwegian blogger and... (5 comment(s))

Making the most of Google Desktop search
I was a little slow to really pick up how cool Google Desktop Search actually is. Even with it installed I really didn't get to utilize it 100%. Among the things I couldn't get it to do, was search through... (0 comment(s))

CherryOS, Open Source Software and theft
Or how I came to read about Maui X-Stream and their software (CherryOS and VX30), that it appears is more or less based on every open source software out there. This story by Drunkenblog sets a standard for investigative journalism... (0 comment(s))

Shocking news: Apple involved in theft of copyrighted material
I would have thought a software and IP-house such as Apple would keep its path clean and make sure not to infringe other peoples copyright or downright steal other peoples creations. Not so it seems. Apple and copyright violations -... (6 comment(s))

Google Toolbar 3 Beta
Google Toolbar 3 beta has been released. New features:SpellCheck: Whenever users type into a web form (including web-based email, discussion forums, and intranet web applications), SpellCheck instantly reviews and suggests corrections. The AutoFix option enables users to automatically check and... (2 comment(s))

Freeware Flash tool: Wink
This is a nice little program: Wink Wink is a freeware tool for Windows for creating tutorials on how to use software, websites etc. Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in... (2 comment(s))

Jon Udells screencast of the life of a Wikipedia article
This one seems to be going the rounds on the blogs I read: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie Its very interesting to see the evolution of this article through 2 years. To me it shows the power of Wikipedia as... (3 comment(s))

How to run a program as another user in Windows
Thank you Gisle, I knew there was support for "sudo" in Windows XP, but I have never used it. As most of you know, most single users run their Windows setup as administrators, giving any program or script full access... (1 comment(s))

Opera vs Firefox
These two good articles describes how to get more out of your Firefox, Mozilla or Opera browser. (0 comment(s))

Spell check for your browser
More and more of my writing happens in the browser, with much of the text being inputed into forms. Whether it is typing articles for my blogs or commenting in others or doing most anything else. While some online applications... (4 comment(s))

How to fix Internet Explorer security holes
Yet another huge exploit in Internet Explorer discovered and published by Secunia The scary part? The exploit can easily allow any site you visit to create windows folders and files on your computer, and thereby destroy your windows installation, turn... (0 comment(s))

Why is network printing slow in Windows XP SP2?
Its a good question, that I will try to find the answer for. The problem isn't only limited to network printing, it also involves slower access to network shares, programs running slower when checking documents on network shares etc. The... (4 comment(s))

Windows client for MovableType and more
Ecto is a pretty cool new tool for MovableType, Blogger, Typepad and Windows users (Uses XML-RPC so it should be possible to use it with any blog system utilizing XML-RPC), at the moment it is in pre 1.0 beta, and... (4 comment(s))

How the use of a Wiki is influencing the Echo process
Some of you might have noticed that theres a project going on to replace todays RSS formats with a format everyone can agree upon. Yesterday Clay Shirky wrote a nice piece called "RSS, Echo, Wikis, and Personality Wars" where he... (0 comment(s))

Flash font browser
This is a nifty little tool, made in Flash, allowing you to browse your installed fonts: STC fontBrowser [Via Quasimondo]... (3 comment(s))

Expired LZW patent sets GIF free in applications
This is great news. Although the patent has only expired in the US due to the 20 year rule, it will most certainly make it possible for Open Source products to start supporting GIF again without having to pay blood... (1 comment(s))

Futurama the game
A cool Flash site for the soon-to-be-released Futurama Game (PS 2 and XBox) Futurama the game Nice looking site, but having to wait forever (on 4 Mbit/s) everytime I make click a link is not fun. Not sure if its... (1 comment(s))

A few good tips on how to battle spam with Eudora
Install Spamnix, this anti-spam tool comes as a free trial and doesn't cost much to buyMake sure that images in spam e-mails are never shown, most of them are linked with information about who you are - if you open... (2 comment(s))

Spamnix for Eudora evolving
Eudora has always been my favorite mail application. It (almost) supports standard mailbox format (one mailbox = one file) so its easy to port mail from one platform to another, if configured right its virtually bulletproof against viruses, and it... (0 comment(s))

Fix to get Amphetadesk RFC compliant
My favorite RSS aggregator is AmphetaDesk, its available for a whole range of platforms (including easy installs for Windows, Mac OS 7-9, Mac OS X etc). Its a really nice piece of software, but in making it they implemented the... (0 comment(s))

Spam fighting tools: Eudora 6.0 Beta
I have been following anti-spam tools for a while, and in the latest year there has been a boom of services and programs to fight spam - for reasons obvious to anyone with an e-mail account. But what has become... (0 comment(s))

More about Opera
No, I am not paid by Opera, but I thought this article in The Register was fun reading. You can't trust a mother when she praises her child, but you can trust dear old Mum's recommendation for a new piece... (6 comment(s))

Unbelievable effort to support tags in IE ;-)
This is a funny bug found in Internet Explorer (and all other software where the HTML rendering libraries are used, such as Outlook and co.). By including <input type crash> in your HTML code, it is actually possible to get... (8 comment(s))

Interesting Gates interview about bugs in MS software
I knew this before, as it has been stated by marketing zombies at the Redmond company, but its the first time I have seen it states as blunt as in this interview with Mr. Gates himself. Basically: Microsoft does not... (0 comment(s))

Large DVD collection?
Got a lot of DVDs and no time to get an overview of them? Hard to remember which DVDs you have from before? In that case, DVD Profiler is the program for you. Available for Win32 machines, and connected to... (2 comment(s))

Director 9/MX right around the corner
Director MX should be just months away. I have a feeling that it will be announced during DevCon 2002. Looking forward to seeing information about how it integrates into Flash MX and the rest of the MX family. I suspect... (1 comment(s))

Geeks behind the scene of Lord Of The Rings
Just discovered Bjørn Hansen's blogging from OSCON, the Friday 26th of July notes are really interesting: Open Source in VFX, its a short excerpt of the session held by Milton Ngan, the IT Manager for Peter Jackson's Weta Graphics. I... (0 comment(s))

Flash Printer
A cool new application from Blue Pacific (The company behind the Flash generator programs ASP Turbine and PHP Turbine) - Flash Printer Flash Printer gives you the ability to make SWFs the same way you make PDFs with Acrobat. So... (0 comment(s))

Adobe/Macromedia patent fight ends in tie
Adobe and Macromedia Settle Patent Litigation I guess both companies managed to dig up enough patents to knock each-other out. Good one, congratulations to the real winners this round - the lawyers. [Via Mike Chambers]... (0 comment(s))

End User License Agreement strangeness from Macromedia
Matt Rice has discovered a strange EULA (End User License Agreement) from Macromedia. And at the same time he is proving that almost nobody ever reads those. The EULA in question is the license agreement for the Flash Communication Server... (1 comment(s))

VI is for wimps
Thanks to Michael for reminding me of this webgem. Its about how VI, and how its wimpy to use it (obviously) for those of you not knowing VI, its an impressive editor - just a little rough for new comers... (0 comment(s))

Useful Internet Explorer extension!
This is just so cool. iSpell is a spelling tool that works directly in Internet Explorer to spell check everything you put into input fields. :-) It has support for US-english, canadian english, UK english and something they call 'common... (0 comment(s))

Optimaze! released
The Flash compression tool Optimaze! has been released by Ideaworks3D via Electric Rain in the US. The tool can now be bought at the Electric Rain website for US $129. The price might seem steep, but concidering the kind of... (0 comment(s))

More Opera for Macromedia
Interesting announcement from the norwegian browser company Opera today: "Macromedia to Embed the Opera Browser in Web Authoring Products" Today, Opera Software announced an agreement with Macromedia, whereby the two companies will work together to integrate their products for the... (0 comment(s))

Making sketches was never this much fun
Denim is a really wicked cool project that the Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkley have been working on. I'll be a little lazy and quote Branden from his posting (Its late here, ok? ;-):Denim is a pen-based... (0 comment(s))

Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
Robert Hall writes about W3Cs Speech Recognition Grammar Specification which today advanced to "Candidate Recommendation". The standard itself is intersting enough, especially if all the vendors that have their own proporitary formats would at least add support for it. Robert... (0 comment(s))

Macromedia DevCon 2002
This years Macromedia DevCon has been titled "Architecting A New Internet Experience", and looks to be one eventfull and amazing experience. If I had to choose only one conference to go to this year - Macromedia DevCon would be it.... (0 comment(s))

ColdFusion MX on OS X
Dick Applebaum over at O'Reilly Network has published the first part of a series of three articles where he writes about ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X [Via John Dowdell]... (0 comment(s))

Macromedia applying for Open Source License
On wednesday the 19th of June Tom Harwood of Macromedia Server Products, CFML Language Development posted a Lisence Approval Request for the "Macromedia Open Source License" to the Open Source Initiative You can follow the discussion/thread at the Opensource.org mailinglist.... (2 comment(s))

Netscape 1997-2002
Scott Andrew has made a nice little "tribute" to Netscape Netscape 4.0 - 1997 - 2002 Lets put Netscape 4.0 to rest. I agree with Scott when he says:Netscape 4.0 is five years old today. That's like 236 in Web... (0 comment(s))

The Web Standards Project and Dreamweaver MX
Dreamweaver is a tool that has been in my toolbox since its 1.0 version. From the start Dreamweaver was a lot better than its competitors. I could easily mention a lot of HTML editors that never have gotten as close... (0 comment(s))

Interesting rebuttal to the ADTI whitepaper
The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) has published its white paper entitled "Opening the Open Source Debate". A white paper I have commented on before, especially the funding of AdTI is interesting, this to me is obviously a white paper... (0 comment(s))

Software: PixFont 2.0 - an easy way to create Pixel Fonts for Flash
PixFont 2.0 made by the russian company Kgroup is a small TrueType Font to TrueType Pixel font converter. The application fixes the problem with the default smoothing of fonts in Flash. Cresk reports that the program says its not a... (2 comment(s))

Adobe LiveMotion in trouble?
In its rumors section, C|Net write that LiveMotion is going through rough times at Adobe. Elsewhere in Silicon Valley, people are wondering what happened to Adobe's ambition to best Macromedia's Flash animation software with its own LiveMotion software. Rumors grinding... (1 comment(s))

1st Movement Flash RSS Reader
Phil's initial work on a Flash RSS reader has spawned another great Flash based RSS reader. Ming Chan has made a Multiblog Flash RSS Reader, it allows you to read three weblogs at a time, save your three favorite weblogs... (0 comment(s))

Release of Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.0 is finally released after 4 long years of development. The Open Source project produced a good browser, but I have to say that it took some time. The release party will be held at the DNA lounge in... (5 comment(s))

Open Source = Bad security?
In the paper "Opening the Open Source Debate", scheduled to be released friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, there are claims that Open-Source leads to less secure software than with proprietary software. The report warns goverments against relying on... (0 comment(s))

Apple Quicktime 6 Public Beta
Apple has released the public beta of Quicktime 6. Including support for Flash 5. [Via SwfNews]... (0 comment(s))

Studio MX shipping, dirt cheap
An amazing package of software was made available on the Macromedia site today (Studio MX press release). Macromedia Studio MX is a software package that includes includes Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Fireworks MX, Macromedia FreeHand 10, and... (0 comment(s))

Opera not so safe after all
Opera is a browser that I have often mentioned whenever vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer has been published (which happens a lot more often than I comment on it, but thats a digression). But all was not good in the paradise... (2 comment(s))

Want WAP/mobile software worth US $15 Million for free?
The wireless portal Room 33 has gone bankrupt, and the people behind the portal has released their software as free open source. The name of the software package is Hambo. The platform is based on Java, XML and WML Hambo... (5 comment(s))

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Anders Jacobsen - Fellow norwegian blogging in English from France. Anders blogs about "Noteworthy URLs, science, software, news, life, the universe, everything"
Doc Searls - one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto. He is frequently blogging live from interesting technology events, and is a very good writer
The EGR weblog - Chris Locke is another of the authors behind Cluetrain, and also the author of Gonzo Marketing. This guy has a lot on his mind, and not afraid to share it
rc6.org - The weblog of Remco Brink, dutch linux and open source enthousiast. Frequently updated with interesting news
Virtuelvis - fellow norwegian blogger Arve Bersvendsens blogs in english about web and technology. Well worth a visit