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Fyre is a small UNIX/Linux program to visualize so called Peter de Jong Map maps.

These maps are defined by

x' = sin(a * y) - cos(b * x)
y' = sin(c * x) - cos(d * y)

and depending on the used parameters can result in nice images. Fyre can be controlled over the command-line or ...

FreeMind is a Java based Open Source Mind Mapping program.

It may not look as polished as some of its commercial competitors but yet can give you great support on finding and structuring ideas. Furthermore it is available on probably every platform running Java.

FreeMind

If the user decides that the Mind Mapping process is completed ...

Shooter is a Firefox extension for taking screenshots of websites. Either the whole page or a specific part of it, defined by drawing a rectangle, can be captured.

The screenshots can be saved as PNG or JPEG.

Get Shooter from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13485/

Namebench is a free and open-source utility to measure the speed of different DNS servers.

Essentially you have to provide one or more DNS server addresses and it runs multiple tests to find out the fastest. Global and local DNS providers can also be included in the benchmarks. At the end of the tests a ...

»BwanaDik is an IP address (WAN and LAN) menu item. Yes, another IP address app. Just what the world needs.« At least that’s what the author is saying about this little app that lives entirely in the menu bar. But of course this is pure understatement because unlike other similar programs I know BwanaDik ...

If you ever wondered what exactly happens when booting Linux, bootchart is the right tool for you.

Install it with the package manager of your distribution, for example apt-get install bootchart on Ubuntu. Next time starting your computer the boot process should be logged by bootchart automatically. Depending on the boot loader and distribution ...

Apples development tools Xcode come with some additional applications that might be interesting not only for developers. By default they are located in /Developer/Applications. One of them is called FileMerge and its purpose is to visually present differences between two files.

For each difference found an action can be set whether to keep the left, ...

Hard Disks keep getting bigger and bigger and I'm always wondering how I manage it that mine still fill up in no time.

That is where GrandPerspective comes in handy. Its main task is to scan folders and give a visual representation of the files and subfolder sizes as shown on the screenshot below.

In ...

Mac OS X 10.6 comes with an application firewall and the FreeBSD port-level firewall ipfw built in. The settings of the application firewall can be accessed from within the Firewall tab in System Preferences whereas ipfw has to be configured via shell.

If you don't feel comfortable with configuring ipfw this way but still want ...

Werbung im Internet kann funktionieren, davon bin ich überzeugt. Womit ich allerdings nichts anfangen kann sind aufdringliche Printanzeigen übertragen ins Virtuelle und erweitert um bewegte Elemente und vielleicht sogar noch Ton. Zwei Programme, die helfen, Internetseiten wieder lesbarer zu machen werden im Folgenden vorgestellt:
ClickToFlash
Obwohl die Bedeutung des Adobe Flash-Formats im World Wide Web - ...