Archive for category ‘Links’

I thought this was pretty cool. I play with it for about an hour when I first found it. Searchme is a search engine with a twist. Instead of showing a list of text based results, it visually shows the results. I guess it’s a screenshot of the website and displayed in the iTunes CoverFlow type design. You just have to see it for yourself.

[Update July 28, 2008] I just came across Viewzi which is supposed to be the same type of thing as Searchme. To be honest with you I think it’s broken. I searched for “david” and got some completely unrelated stuff. The first link was a few recent news articles. None of which had the word “david” in them.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Flex Style Explorer. I use it almost on a daily basic. But I’ve now run across more explorers. The first is the Flex Filter Explorer. I think the biggest issue I have with this one is it only shows the MXML code and not the Actionscript code. The next and final explorer is the Flex Primitive Explorer. This one does primitive shapes using the Graphics class.

There is just so much great software out there for the Mac. Before I got a Mac I was under the impression software for the Mac was few and far between. Here is a list of some great places for Mac software or individual software:

Cool OSX Apps
TinyAlarm
MacUpdate
Mac Specialist – Essential Mac OS X Software
SCPlugin
Titanium Software

Here is the very first video ever added to YouTube by one of the original YouTube creators, Jawed Karim, at 8:27 pm on Saturday April 23rd, 2005:

After I found this, I spent the next 3 hours looking up websites. It’s call the Wayback Machine. Not to be confused with the time machine from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

What it does is allows you to look at old versions of a website. Some of the images won’t be displayed but it still works pretty well. It’s funny to look at older versions of websites.

Check out Google.com from back in December 1998.

A while back Dropbox held a private beta. I missed out on that by about 3 days. That’s what I get for being lazy and procrastinating.
Well, yesterday they came out of private beta. Dropbox is a little similar to Subversion but without merging. Better yet, think if it as a flash drive that you don’t have to carry around.

Dropbox is a freeware application that
instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to
any computer. After you install, it will create a
folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder
will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, and each time a
change is saved, it backs up and syncs the file again over all of the machines connected to that folder. Dropbox even does revision history. So if you accidentally saved a file and
wanted to revert to an old version or deleted a file, Dropbox can
recover the previous version.

Dropbox even has a web interface so if you are on a machine that doesn’t have the Dropbox software installed you can still work with your files and even add files.

DropBox is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and is free to sign up and allows up to 2Gb for a free account. Paid accounts are coming soon.