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My Favorite Theam for Firefox

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Camifox is a spectacular theme for Mozilla Firefox 3, especially for OS X users - personally I can't stand the default Firefox theme on Mac OS X - Camifox corrects all of the things that annoy me without sacrificing the native look and feel.

devWORK

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As of January 2nd I've started work at deviantART.com... It's a bit overwhelming and frankly a lot more fun than I expected! I'll probably have even less time for this site now that I'm working full time, however, I'm still around and you can find me over at 20after4.deviantart.com ...

XULRunner + Python

XULRunner and Python could be a pretty interesting platform for developing GUI desktop applications. ActiveState's dragon wrangler Shane Caraveo shows you how!

Much Awesomeness

I have recently discovered a couple of awesome developments which are worth mentioning:
  • The Awesome X Window Manager (awesome wm) is a light-weight, tiling window manager based on dwm. Similar to wmii or ion but seemingly more advanced and very easy to use. Version 2 is available from Debian and Ubuntu repositories so you can simply apt-get install awesome ... now isn't that awesome?
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The ultimate embedded MP3 player: SoundManager 2 and hAudio

Tonight I implemented this MP3 player for my band's website using SoundManager 2 and minimal support for the hAudio Microformat.

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Frank.unpets

Facebook users: check out the application that a couple of my friends and I have been working on:
Frank.Unpets
We just released this for public consumption a couple of days ago. More...

Drupal: Developer Unfriendly?

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Jesse Farmer has a good article at 20Bits critiquing 4 Problems with Drupal. The problems that Jesse points out are very relevant and this is really worth reading if you are looking into Drupal. I don't agree with some of the conclusions and I will not be switching to Rails/MVC but Drupal is definitely defective even if it is very useful. From TFA: More...

Douchebag of the week award goes to: VectorMagic

Note: VectorMagic is an awesome piece of software online service that will vectorize your images to SVG or EPS format. It does a much better job than adobe illustrator or other similar "tracing" software, however, the price that they have decided to charge ($2.50 per image) is not so awesome. Uploading photos to an online service for processing is an inconvenience compared to using desktop software, however, the superior quality provided by VectorMagic outweighs the slight inconvenience. When using a free service there isn't much concern about inconveniences, however, they are now charging a very premium price for the same service. Adobe or Google should buy this company and quickly. Their business model is flawed, I can't see them making it as a start-up.



5:58 PM
Monkey: man did you see what became of our beloved vectormagic? ...boo I say!
6:48 PM
 Trench: nope, I haven't seen vector magic since the day I showed it off
6:49 PM
 Monkey: oh... well I used to use it all the time... now it's not free ;(
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Scammers Hijack Sharaza's domain & trademark

From an article on TorrentFreak.com:
After taking control of Shareaza.com, imposters trying to pass themselves off as an open-source dev team have stepped up their action to destroy the GNU GPL licensed project. In an audacious move, lawyers representing Discordia Ltd have filed to register the “Shareaza” trademark at the US Patent Office.
The real site is at http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/, meanwhile the Shareaza.com site has been taken over by an impostor.