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pickle.dump(links, blog) // Non-techie edition

August 17th, 2004

• The Order of the Stick is my favorite web comic - it’s DnD-related! Check out the cast of characters. Not sure if this is for you? Check out strip 3 - if this hasn’t got you chuckling in pure appreciation, The Order of the Stick probably isn’t for you. Otherwise, enjoy!
• Learn how to tie a tie - I don’t remember how to tie a tie. I don’t really have many chances to wear one anyway but you never know when this may come in handy when you’re single and wife/girlfriend-less. Weird how the ladies know how to tie better ties than guys.
• The 25 most difficult questions you’ll be asked on a job interview
• The most important games ever made - an ongoing piece of work. Halflife should be in there. Baldur’s Gate too. Maybe Fallout.

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pickle.dump(links, blog) // August 6, 2004 edition

August 7th, 2004

• MWSnap - This is one bad ass screen capture utility, available at competitive pricing - it’s free! It allows you to snap a selected portion of the screen (no need for resizing, cropping), and perhaps best of all, allows you to add a mouse pointer to your screen caps. Finally I can put mouse pointers in those screenshots I seem so fond of taking.
• Ian Lloyd’s Accessify.com has a whole bunch of accessibility tools and wizards to help the web developer generate code that’s accessible. The Accessibility Toolbox is pretty instructive - it generates HTML code for form elements that’s accessible. Are your forms not accessible yet?
• Battle Torrent is a project that promises ‘A greatly simplified BitTorrent experience’. I’m not sure if there’s any active development (they’re looking for a lead developer at the moment). Either way, this is something we have wanted to work on and it’s great to see that we are not the only ones who think BitTorrent is amazing and it’d be even more amazing if mom and pop could use it.
• How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately - For those of you without a proper internet connection at work. Or those of you who want privacy.
• Punching holes into firewalls explains how tunnelling can always get you by a firewall, so long as you let a single protocol out (HTTP is ever so commonly allowed).

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 7, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (3) | Category: Linkapalooza

pickle.dump(links, blog)

August 3rd, 2004

Well, I don’t have a link blog and the Externals section is totally borked (I still keep my del.icio.us account going though), so I’m finding it so hard to keep track of links I’m picking up and intending to write about. Well, this is a whole genus of links that you want to link to but don’t quite feel worthy of a complete blog entry (know what I mean?). Someday I will fix this broken weblog. For now, I procrastinate.

• Lockergnome is looking for contributors and writers. Applied and accepted (for the Web Browser channel, naturally). Chris Pirillo’s a nice dude. Though I could be saying that because he likes muvee autoProducer so much.
• The Simple Guide to the A-List Bloggers is a hilarious parody of A-List bloggers (such as Dave Winer and Chris Pirillo) and their blogging styles. Of course, you’d have to actually have read these peoples’ blogs regularly to get the humor.
• Audioscrobbler is interesting stuff (OK so I’m a little late to pick this one up). My user details. Seems to go down quite often though, and still in teething stages. But promising. Via dot-totally.co.uk.
• Free CSS menus (complete with rollovers). These look fantastic. Fully XHTML and CSS standards-compliant.
• Webnote is an online tool for taking notes. Some mean DHTML/JS-fu going on there.
• FreeTechBooks links to a good collection of free books in electronic form. All legal of course.
• Conversational cheap shots. Add a varied collection of verbal weaponry to your arsenal. Get ahead in flame wars.
• The Programmers’ Stone celebrates the Art of Programming. A little wordy. I should print this out to read.

Posted by Chu Yeow at August 3, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (4) | Category: Linkapalooza