Category — Interesting places

Posterous is a another type of blogging site. The idea is so simple, you might think, “Why haven’t I thought about it before?”
Posterous skip the sign up/setup process. You create your very own blog by writing an email to post@posterous.com. Posterous then creates a blog for you from your name, such as http://firstname.posterous.com. Very nice…
Check out mine at fatnote.posterous.com
There is no theme or template to choose from, but if the most important part of your blog is your post, then the default theme from Posterous does a wonderful job of emphasizing it.

Tags: befunky

I just can’t help but stop everything and write this blog. While I was searching for a Joomla replacement, I found this CushyCMS to be awesomely awesome.
Why? It’s just as simple as a CMS can be. No other simpler CMS than this one ever
As a designer, you can create a website using any tool you want, then define editable areas using ‘class=”cushycms’ tag to any page you want your client to access. Add your client account to CushyCMS. It’s done.

Worldwide Social Network Market Share - O’Reilly Radar
I’m not surprised to see that Hi5 is the most popular social network in Thailand. Even I who don’t care much about these things got convinced into creating my own profile on HI5. However, I still don’t understand its benefit. Why would I want to use it?
Anyway, the map itself is interesting enough. Thailand shares the same interest in HI5 with Mongolia, Tunisia, Portugal, Romania, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. hmmm

Who would have thought anybody would want to create an open source OS base on the dreadful Windows 95?

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

It’s kinda interesting. I might try it some time on my old computer.

Tags: WindowsXP, ReactOS, Windows, Open source

In my search for a dream browser, the one that let me browse, work and blog, I thought I would give Flock a try.
My criteria is I want to a browser with Gecko as a rendering engine. I want to write my blog without going to the web interface, but from either my software or my browser addon. The browser has to be fast, light, and beautiful. I hate it when the interface gets in a way when I browse the web.
I’m writing this blog entry on Flock which seems to be OK, except!!!! there is no option to select a category? How is that possible? Is it hidden somewhere? If so, I can’t find it.

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I thought buying music from iTunes was a total rip off. You have to pay almost as much as buying a CD, while you only get the songs in digital format, no touchable material whatsoever. And, Apple might get as much as 10 cents per song.
Why do I need to think about ‘buying’ if I can just download the songs for free from torrent and just plain google search, you might ask? Because, I don’t feel good doing it that way.
I found MP3fiesta.com a few days ago, and kinda shocked what they have to offer. You can download any song from their list (millions) for about 10 cents per song. Who are they?

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I’m writing a review for this great piece of … I don’t know exactly which I should call this thing, a wireless router, a NAS, a Web server, a print server, a Firewall, an iTune server, a bit torrent downloader!!!!11one11!?…
In fact, you can call call it whatever you want, but this thing can do all of the above.
The box looks ugly, the web interface is even uglier, but who cares? It works, and that’s all that matters.
I’ve been using it intensively for the past week as my BT downloader. There’s not many settings for this section, no throttle, no control like what you have in any BT software you find in your PC. But I think just feature alone is enough for me to buy it already.

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At first I was going to write about another great mac applications I was using. Then I found a blog post from VinodLive.com which was just as good as it gets in compiling free software for the mac. (and some has a PC version as well)

A few software that I found a lot of use are

Jing - record your screen action - It’s free for both Mac and Pc version.
AppDelete - uninstaller for the Mac
Quicksilver - of course, I can’t live without this great app anymore.

Technorati Tags: mac app

You can buy a portable recorder with $6.98!

OMG! “IT’S FUN - IT’S REVOLUTIONARY. IT’S ELECTRONIC (oh? :P)”

I found this ad in a (electronic) copy of X-Men first issue which was released in 1963. $6.98 back in 1963 is probably comparable to $300 to $400 nowadays which is about the price of an iPod.
But to be able to own a record cutter at $400 right now would be a lot cooler to me than getting an iPod at $400. Besides, manufacturing this record cutter machine nowadays would probably cost a lot more than manufacturing iPod, too.