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Picasa is now a free download. I haven’t tried it, but the interface looks as simple to use as iPhoto. As a matter of opinion, I would go so far as to say they nicked iPhoto’s look and feel, as Cheney would say, big time.

Fast user switching in OSX without the wasted menubar space.

Uses webkit, cocoa, and Apple’s UI guidelines. Extremely surprised. Actually rocks.

Panther Exposé functionality in Windows for free

A project management tool written using Rails.

TheyBlinked has some excellent feedback on his experience with GMail.

BerkeleyDB for Java, should the need arise

The firesomething extension for Mozilla Firefox had me LMAO. This handy extension nips the con-TRO-versy about the browser name squarely in the bud by randomizing the name of the browser before each launch. You can also hard code a single name for the browser as well, but where’s the spontaneity in that?

WinExposé: Panther’s exposé functionality on Windows. Even though I’m counting down the seconds until Apple’s lawyers swoop down on this company like the Witch King of Angmar with a cease and desist, I would love to have exposé on my Thinkpad.

Maestro, the software that NASA uses to control the Martian rover Spirit, is now available for download. Although whatever possible immediate use it has for anyone who doesn’t happen to be a rocket scientist with an interplanetary rover is beyond me.

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Magnolia is the first open-source content-management-system (CMS) which adheres to the upcoming standard of Java content repositories.

Its main goal is ease of use for all parties involved in running a CMS. It features a very flexible structure, platform-independence through the use of Java and XML, a simple to use API, easy templating through the [...]

Unsanity has released shapeshifter which the company touts as a “ revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using ‘themes’“. Apparently themeing on OSX has been a giant PITA for professional themers because the OS makes it very difficult to create GUI changes without altering core system files. This [...]

Multiple versions of Internet Explorer co-existing on a single box. Kick-ay-uss, but I wish this page existed in 2000.

The CMS as elegant simple code meme continues with pyblosxom.

A cookbook to building Mozilla Firebird or Thunderbird on Windows using only freely available development tools.

Despite its completeness, I absolutely hated using bugzilla for determining what had and hadn’t been fixed in some previous Phoenix builds. Burning Edge for Firebird is a marked improvement I think: blog formatted and related links with easy to scan regressions and fixes. Usability level - very high. Niceness.
There are also processor optimized builds at [...]

Modified RSS to SMTP aggregator: read rss feeds with your favorite email client. The script makes use of Mark Pilgrim’s rss parser and Aaron Swartz’s html2text converter. Python-rific, absolutely work stealthy.

Perforce, a heavy-duty cross-platform source-control management system I use for my daily bread now has an OS X Client.

I sing the virtues of Netjuke, a really great piece of software that allows you to intelligently manage and stream the contents of your mp3 collection over the internet. I’m very happy because the streaming works through the firewall over here in cubeland. But because I can stream my entire collection, it obsoletes my 30g [...]

Opera is planning an update to the Mac version of their browser tomorrow. Yeah! Thank you Opera! I hope it works as well and is proportionally snappy as the Windows version. Safari is a great native browser from Apple, but Opera needs to show them how it’s done. We’ll see tomorrow.
EDIT: Darn, it’s just an [...]