Simon Willison’s Weblog

NewsFire 1.0 (via) $19.99—NetNewsWire finally has some stylish competition.

# 6th February 2005, 4:23 pm

Total Immersions D’Fusion Technology (via) Awesomely impressive augmented reality video (Windows Media, unfortunately).

# 6th February 2005, 9:28 am

Stewart Butterfield on Flickr. Interview in preparation for EtCon.

# 5th February 2005, 6:50 pm / flickr

Subversion on Windows quick start (via) Subversion cheat sheet.

# 5th February 2005, 6:43 pm / subversion, windows

Ned Batchelder: Css-discuss wiki. Ned says nice things about the Wiki.

# 2nd February 2005, 8:23 pm / css, ned-batchelder

Introducing the Panic Goods store! Some background details.

# 1st February 2005, 11:45 pm

PanicGoods (via) Slick interface, but bad accessibility (no fallback if JavaScript is disabled).

# 1st February 2005, 11:43 pm

The BBC’s new complaints site launches. Roll up, roll up. “It seems we live in an age when technology amplifies our strength of our voices but not always the quality of what we say.”

# 1st February 2005, 11:36 pm

New Blog Gets Big Bucks; Popular Blog Goes on Hiatus;. Crikey: Sony are sponsoring that new LifeHacker blog to the tune of $25,000 a month!

# 1st February 2005, 9:34 pm

MSN Search: spam like it’s 1999. Phil spots some nasty holes in their ranking algorithms.

# 1st February 2005, 6:36 pm

Installing OS X on a PC (via) Using the open source PearPC emulator.

# 1st February 2005, 6:33 pm

Apple restricting DVD region-changes -- voluntarily! As a UK owner of a US PowerBook I ended up having to hack my firmware.

# 1st February 2005, 4:50 pm

Build Your Own PVR (for free) with HackTV (via) You also need a digital camcorder with a video pass-through option.

# 1st February 2005, 1:12 pm

digitalmedia.oreilly.com. I hadn’t seen this one before.

# 1st February 2005, 1:04 pm

mini Tower (via) Here come the accessories.

# 1st February 2005, 1:02 pm

The Mysterious Disappearance of Carol Hersee (via) The famous test card, and the creepy clown, explained at last.

# 31st January 2005, 10:06 pm

Interview with a link spammer. Or how knowledge of LWP can earn you seven figures.

# 31st January 2005, 9:19 pm

Favatars. Utterly brilliant hack by Stuart.

# 31st January 2005, 1:22 pm

How to Study: A Brief Guide. It’s a shame I only stumbled on this 45 minutes before my hardest exam...

# 31st January 2005, 8:38 am

Opera 8.0 previews and betas. liorean’s overview of the state of Opera.

# 31st January 2005, 5:23 am

Web Application Form Design. Smart thinking on form layout.

# 30th January 2005, 6:58 pm

Back to Iraq 3.0: Election Day (via) Early indications are that they pulled if off. Excellent news.

# 30th January 2005, 5:58 pm

Baghdad Girl (via) 13 year old Iraqi cat blogger.

# 28th January 2005, 2:07 pm

Hacker or Lynx user? That is the question.

# 28th January 2005, 12:10 am

NSLog() has a funky new design. I don’t know how long it’s looked like this, but I love it.

# 27th January 2005, 11:20 pm

Darin Fisher joins Ben Goodger at Google. Maybe they’re interested in XUL and Mozilla’s other cross-platform tools.

# 27th January 2005, 3:30 pm

Ruby On Rails + XUL Experiment. States that Wiki is Hawaiian for “can’t find shit.”

# 27th January 2005, 3:16 am / rails

Copyright vs Community with Cory Doctorow (via) If you haven’t seen Cory speaking before, watch this.

# 26th January 2005, 9:43 pm / cory-doctorow

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty. There’s a graph and everything.

# 26th January 2005, 6:56 pm

Iraq and cynicism. .

# 26th January 2005, 6:50 pm