Jan 31

A chat with the Creator of vLite

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vLite condenses Windows Vista installation from the normal 15GB to 1.4GB by giving the user the option to omit features of the operating system. The creator is croatian college student Dino Nuhagic. Computerworld has an interview with him. In an excerpt:

“Who can justify a 15GB operating system?” asked Dino Nuhagic, a fifth-year student from Split, a Croatian city on the Adriatic. Not Nuhagic, or the uncounted users who have turned to his creation, vLite.

The free program lets users pick and choose which Vista components, hot fixes, drivers and even language packs are installed, then builds a disk image that can be burned to a DVD for unattended installation of the operating system.

The rest of the interview is found here.

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Jan 31

Writers with Technical Background Needed or Not

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One year ago, I stuck my resume up on Dice and Monster expecting to find a nice job as a system administrator. I wrote a decent resume, outlined my abilities and accomplishments and waited to see my cell phone light up with calls. Nothing happened. I went to both job boards and saw that I had a few hits. I seem to remember about four hits on each board for a total of eight hits.

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Jan 31

Ruport Book Released

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The Ruport Book Project has announced that they’ve begun shipping pre-orders of their book. The primary authors, Gregory Brown and Michale Milner, are core developers of the Ruport reporting system for Ruby as well.

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Jan 31

Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

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There’s no doubt that 2008 will go down in history as the end of the first Microsoft era. This year, Bill Gates will finally hang up his Microsoft mouse and leave the company he cofounded over 30 years ago. Most people know that he’s going off to spend the very large sums of money he has acquired from those Microsoft years, most of which has been used to set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $37.6 billion in assets. But what will that really mean for free software?

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Jan 31

DX ToolBox 3.2.0

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About DX ToolBox
Searches the web for you, gathering information on solar and geomagnetic conditions that affect radio propagation. It also features several propagation forecasting tools, allowing you to quickly and easily estimate current HF (Shortwave) propagation conditions between any two locations in the world. It’s ideal for the ham radio operator, shortwave listener, or other radio enthusiast.

It displays in real-time the following important readings:

- Solar Flux

- A-Index

- K-Index

- Solar Flux

- Sun Spot Number

- X-Ray Flux levels

- X-Ray flares

- Solar Wind

- Earth’s Magnetic Field

- Proton and Electron Flux levels

- Radio Blackout conditions

- Geomagnetic Storm conditions

- Many more features
Jan 31

MiniMail 1.1.1

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About MiniMail
A plugin for Apple’s Mail application. Just like the mini-player in iTunes does for music, MiniMail puts information about your inbox at your fingertips. You can easily see messages as they arrive, and quickly action them. You can resize the window any way you like to conserve as much screen real-estate as possible.
Jan 31

SnapNDrag 2.4.3

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About SnapNDrag
A simple application that makes screen capture extremely easy. Just click a button to capture and then drag the result off to another application or to the Finder.

For example, to email your captured screen, simply drag the result off and drop it on your email application. No file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to delete. It is that simple.
Jan 31

Chock-A-Block 1.0.3

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About Chock-A-Block
A fun and addictive puzzle game of organization and logic. The game focuses on sorting, organizing, and forward thinking rather than arcade reactions and agility. Slide shapes into the grid from any side, filling the grid with blocks. Any solid lines formed from side to side or top to bottom will vanish! Continue fitting shapes, and don’t run out of space!
Jan 31

4D v11 SQL Release 1 (11.1) Release 1 (11.1)

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About 4D v11 SQL Release 1 (11.1)
The 4D development environment is a powerful, 21st Century application development platform. The cornerstone of 4D has always been a comprehensive programming language that is both high level and easy to learn. With over 900 different commands, you can use 4D to go beyond simple data management to build custom applications that look great, are easy to maintain, and can scale up to the demands of the largest enterprise.

Today, with 4D v11 SQL, you benefit from an outstanding platform, fully compliant with all database standards, to design and deploy high-performance software solutions:
- A native SQL database
- An integrated development environment that lets you manage every task needed to build and deploy your applications
- The ability to create cross-platforms solutions
- A web server integrated with our database engine to let you publish static or dynamic html pages immediately
- An open platform that enables your applications to communicate with any other ODBC-compliant database on both internal and external networks.

By choosing 4D v11 SQL for your application development, you’re choosing a powerful, 21st Century platform that is efficient, productive, and that lets you easily add functionality when you need it.
Jan 31

Romi 7.0

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About Romi
Play Rummy Tile, RummyCube, Rummikub, Rami games against the computer at three different levels. The Rummy game is played with two sets of 52 cards and with two wild cards. The purpose of this game is to form groups of three or more cards, which contain either consecutive cards of the same suit or cards of the same number value, but of differing suits.

Romi is localized in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese and Norwegian.
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