SweetCron is a bit of self-hosted lifestreaming software from Yongfook, the creator of opensourcefood. It’s kind of like a hybrid of Tumblr and Friendfeed. While SweetCron hasn’t officially been released yet, Yongfook is already using it on his own blog, so we have a pretty clear notion of what …

Flexigrid is a jQuery based way of making flexible goods grids, either by inputting fresh input or grabbing it from an existing table, XML, or JSON source. The “flexi-” in Flexigrid refers to its resizable height, width and columns. Flexigrid additionally now has a toolbar, a search function, an…

Bittorrent has become pretty popular as an efficient, decentralized way of distributing large files, and now the same technology is being applied to streaming. P2P-Next is working on an experimental .tstream format that will share streaming video using a minimum of bandwidth. It works like a reg…

Yahoo! Fire Eagle got a lot of attention when it launched back in March, and for good reason: a cross-platform system for building location info into an application? The buzz died down, though, considering there weren’t any cool applications using Fire Eagle. That’s changing now, though, as the fi…

Silverback, a new OS X application from the renowned UK-based design team Clearleft, was a mystery for fairly a while. The app had a site with some neat visual tricks and a gorilla with a clipboard, and it said the application was for designers, but what did it do? The suspense was killing us! We …

Ruh roh, Shaggy — you remember that disk encryption attack that involved cooling off your target’s RAM and yanking it to get a bitdump before the contents faded? Well, it looks like things just got a lot simpler for would-be attackers — check out that USB flash key designed by protection resea…

Leon Chevalier of Aciddrop.com has just released a free script that can considerably speed-up your website or blog’s load date. PHPSpeedy works by making fewer HTTP requests, adding a far-future expires header, Gziping page components and minifying Javascript, CSS and HTML.
The end results are p…

As the Writer’s Strike continues into the end of January with no real end in sight, most citizens are running out of quality TV programs to watch. Heck, we’re even running out of quality-less programs to watch. Unless you are a fan of reality shows such as Gladiator, there isn’t much coming in the…

Mozilla has just revealed a first look at its new Mobile Firefox interface. Actually, Mozilla has designed two UI’s: one for touch screen devices, like most PDA’s, smart phones (and the iPhone, of course), and one for non-touch devices, like most cell phones.
The Firefox mobile browser takes som…

Schnippselchen is a source cipher management app that lets software developers manage multiple types of cipher that may need to be reused. The program has a sidebar with a “Categories” section (helpful for separating cipher by language) and a “Snippets” section for the actual titles of your ciph…