OpenDNS is a free DNS service that promises to be safer and faster than your ISP’s DNS. They offer a safer DNS by intercepting phishing attempts and warning you if you attempt to visit a phishing site. OpenDNS will also fix typos in the URLs you enter whenever it can. For example, if you’re using OpenDNS craigslist.og will lead directly to craigslist.org.
Tangerine is an application for OSX that hooks into iTunes and creates playlists based on the beats per minute (BMP) of songs in your library.
A colleague just asked me if I knew of a good CVS client for OSX. Being a Subversion user myself, and having never used CVS, I did not have a recommendation for her. So, I was wondering if anyone reading this would have any experience based recommendations? Please leave a comment. Thanks.
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few months, you have undoubtedly heard of Twitter. I like to think of Twitter as asynchronous instant messaging where you publicly post what you are doing at any given time. Other Twitter users can then follow your activities, track you as a friend or favorite, and even reply to your “tweets”. Want to find out more? Check out this 12-Minute Definitive Guide to Twitter.
Mark this as nifty… VirtualSafari is a Web-based frontend for Apple’s WebKit HTML rendering engine. It makes it possible to host a website which looks like the Safari browser and allows the end-user to *load* pages rendered with the WebKit engine (see the demo). When you load up VirtualSafari in any browser, you are shown a window that looks like the Safari browser. Enter an url into a text box, and your URL is sent to a PERL script that processes the page in Webkit and sends it back to the VirtualSafari page. It should be noted that VirtualSafari is an application that must be run on a Mac with a working web server, so if you have one Mac in your office that is used for testing purposes, all PC client can remotely look at pages as they would display in Safari.
With Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager you can remotely manage any number of IIS 6.0 servers from a Windows XP Professional workstation. Sure you could use remote desktop, but if you simply need to start and stop a server or create a virtual directory this tool is perfect!
[Link from Charlie Arehart]
Letterpop is an amazing AJAX/Web 2.0 online newsletter creator. You can choose from a number of templates and upload your own images and photos. One of the nicer features is that you do not need to create an account to create a basic newsletter, so it’s really easy to give this app a no strings attached test drive.
StartupSound is a prefPane plugin for OSX that allows you to control the volume of the Mac startup sound. You can make it quieter, louder (not sure why) or silent.
John Pozadzides tells you How He’d Hack Your Weak Passwords. It’s neat to see how somebody might attempt to crack your passwords. And while you are learning some password cracking techniques, keep in mind how you might create better, less crackable passwords in the future.
SearchLoad Options is one of my favorite Firefox extensions. Quite simply it gives you an number of options for how the default search bar should behave. For example you can have each search open up in a new tab and clear the search bar text after a specified number of seconds.
