Digest, things I've discovered in May 2008
- Thoughts about children toys
- Children, educational software, another suite for children
- Calibrating a CRT monitor
- File name starting with a dot, what's the problem?
- Defeating keyloggers
- Free online Unicode character map
- Flip-text (Unicode in all its glory :-)
- Michael Crawford, Geometric visions - although I am not a fan of this type of music, I appreciate the fact that the author is sharing it with us
- Microsoft Office Word team blog
- Free audiobooks
- Timeline creator
- Canon digital cameras, how to squeeze more out of them; power consumption in Canon digital cameras
- Google chart API + Python bindings
- Setting up multimedia keys in Windows XP
- Steve's tagging for museum exhibits - the concept is very close to the previously discussed image labeling tool
- Python print statement with a twist
Note, it is likely that such posts will soon be rendered obsolete by my delicious profile.
Constantin — 2008-06-02 19:37
That unicode flipper is awesome =)
A related thought on .dot files on Windows: once ntfs-3g became good enough to be enabled by default, I tried creating a folder on a NTFS partition with an “illegal” name (":"), since Linux has absolutely no restrictions about this. Windows booted ok, saw the folder (though I couldn’t open/rename/delete it). I was somewhat surprised that it didn’t crash ;) (remember c:\con\con?)
gr8dude — 2008-06-03 05:10
7331 ‘ǝɹǝɥ sʞɹoʍ ʇı ɟı ǝǝs ǝɯ ʇǝl (I hope this won’t break anything in the database, or elsewhere :-)
If you read Raymond’s site every now and then, you’ll see that most of such decisions were made to prevent users from harming themselves; the file system itself can deal with those things easily.
Yes, CON I remember; bumped into that when I was at the uni, here is a full list of such names: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
Ion Todirel — 2008-06-10 07:43
Canon A550 huh? you should really get a SLR, I hate digicams, besides you can find acceptable small SLRs too, small enough to take it everyday with you…
gr8dude — 2008-06-10 15:47
Actually, CHDK works with many other Canon cameras, not only the A550.
Can you suggest a small SLR? I always thought these devices are the size of a horse, so carrying one with me on a daily basis is out of the question. Do you refer to Canon Powershot G7?
Ion Todirel — 2008-06-11 06:42
G7 is not an SLR, I have a Nikon D40, and I suggest this camera to anyone, while it appears to be not so small, actually it is for a SLR, and weights only x2 more than your A550, you can see a review here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40/
There are some experiments in combining a big image sensor in a small body but the result is definitely not a SLR