Archive for the 'Software' Category

Let your computer dream!

Yesterday, while I was reading the user comments on this lifehacker post I came across this amazing piece of software called Electric Sheep.

Electric Sheep is an open source distributed screen saver, the odd name is based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, and it’s goal is to create and render animations of flaming fractals full with eye-catching colors and effects that are called “sheeps”.

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Managing your online business with Google

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Ok it’s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I’ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.

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If anything can go wrong, it will…

Well you may already know the Murphy Law “If anything can go wrong, it will”, well believe me: it’s true.

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ZoneAlarm Firewall Sucks

With my 12Mbps Internet connection I was only being able to download with speeds of 550 - 600 KBps (that’s about 4.8Mpbs), I called my ISP and they said that everything was fine and that my signal was about 12.6Mbps, they also said that the low download speed should be caused by some spyware or malware I had on my computer…

Read on to find the solution (if this also works for you please go on and comment).

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CSS Multibrowser Tool

So, you want to make your CSS look and work great in both Firefox and IE?

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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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Two very useful programs…

I was searching for software that could display a visual representation of database relationships and I came across these two gems on Open Source Windows.

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Testing Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions are considered by many one of most complex programming subjects. Well…

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Solitaire Players of the World Unite!

Dr. Luis van Ahn presented in his fantastic Google Tech Talk Video called Human Computation (he speaks very fast sometimes in this video).

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Microsoft Research

Microsoft Vision seems really promising, check it out.


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