Posted by odie5533 on April 9, 2010
microdc2 (http://corsair626.no-ip.org/microdc/) is a command-line Direct Connect client originally developed for flavors of Linux. This is a version compiled for Windows/Cygwin and requires a Cygwin environment to run. This program provides a command line version of Direct Connect on Windows which is especially useful if you run an SSHd server with GNU Screen on Windows [...]
Posted by odie5533 on November 4, 2008
I’ve been using the latest trunk builds of Chromium for about a week now. One feature I’ve noticed is the Bookmark Manager, which alone should be enough reason to try out the latest snapshot. So what else has changed? Take a look at the issues list and see for yourself. There’s also the code review [...]
Posted by odie5533 on November 2, 2008
Is Google Chrome Dev Channel not bleeding edge enough for you either? Time to start using Chromium snapshots. These builds are released multiple times daily and contain the latest bug fixes and patches the Chromium team has been working on. While technically they can introduce new and worse bugs, using these can at least assuage [...]
Posted by odie5533 on November 2, 2008
When a user clicks an invite link to join as a collaborator on a Google Docs document, his or her information is automatically added to the document without any confirmation. Using frames, this can allow websites to automatically add you to their Google Document without your knowledge, giving them your email address and name (if [...]
Posted by odie5533 on June 9, 2007
It’s been a while since the last update on this program, so I checked out the latest revision from the cvs server and compiled it with gcc. This is a beta version, and I have no idea if there were any bugs introduced from 1.4.6 -> 1.4.7. If there are any, and they are extremely [...]
Posted by odie5533 on February 9, 2007
Most people could care less whether or not they have access to the source of programs they use, they care about how much it will cost them. More and more commercial software is being released as freeware, just not open source. What does this mean for the end-user? More free software of course. Thus, I [...]
Posted by odie5533 on August 26, 2006
Daz3D is currently offering Bryce 5 for free. As the software normally costs almost $100, I am guessing many people will want to grab it while its free. The offer says it ends September 6th, so be sure to download it before its over and save to a disk/hdd so you won’t loose it. Bryce [...]