April 09, 2007
WEB TRAILER: Drawn By Pain
Drawn By Pain is a web series that involves live action and anime-like drawings. From what I can tell, a real life girl has the ability to bring her drawings to life. Of course, the little girl has been damaged all to hell.
The trailer's better than most web made shows I've seen. It's too late to view any of the series but view it I shall. As soon as I'm awake at a "decent" hour.
Also, the brightcove feature looks like a handy bit of code. The auto-start is a bit annoying. I might drop the code below the jump in a day or so.
UPDATE: It happened. The trailer's under the cut.
(via shey.net, drawnbypain.com)
Posted by Groonk at 03:41 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Anime, Apps, Trailers, Web Design
October 18, 2006
Flash Earth Sees Planet Through Many Eyes
Flash Earth combines other map apps(lke google, microsoft, NASA and yahoo) into one mashup of a map service.
I tried to zoom in on Baghdad with NASA's daily updated map but the image was incomplete. So was the city of Huntsville.
Hutsville and Iraq are obfuscated. How strange.
Posted by Groonk at 11:00 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Flash, Technology
August 01, 2006
The Internet Answers Your Most Silliest, Darkest, Serious Questions
Michael Gaiman has created a wonderful internet social interaction space.
I've been on it a while. I'm seriously addicted.
"which would you rather have: the power of flight or invisbility?"
"who would win if a flying shark and a flying crocodile got in a fight?"
(dearinter.net: consensus life coaching)
Ah, Internet. So many questions. Can you truly answer them all?
(via neil gaiman)
Posted by Groonk at 01:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture, Just Freaking Neat
May 20, 2006
Somewhere a Clock is Ticking
A sizable directory of Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns.
The clock that piqued my interest was the Mars24 Sunclock on the Goddard Institute of Space Studies page.
Mars24 is a Java program and browser applet which displays a Mars "sunclock", a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the time in 24-hour format. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle for a given location on Mars.
[...]
(Alternate) Time Systems -- Doomsday -- Miscellaneous -- National Debt
Population -- Sun -- Planetary -- Current Time -- Time Lines -- Countdown
Counters/Trackers -- Clock, Counter, Countdown Code -- Meta Clock Pages -- Year 2000
(Those listed immediately above are merely section titles.)
Posted by Groonk at 05:53 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Mars, Research
January 18, 2006
In case you were wondering
Friends' confusion over the current dancing banana on the top right there has caused me to explain myself.
Peanut Butter Terror Time is linked to the Department of Homeland Security threat indicator. By all rights he should change color just like the Sesame Street indicator.
Damn banana has yet to hit Oscar or Elmo. It just stays at Master Shake.
Stay ever vigilant eh, Mr Bush?
Posted by Groonk at 03:18 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Politics, Web Design
November 08, 2005
The Baby Name Wizard's: Name Voyager
This little web-app tracks the popularity of of your name as-you-type it in.
It seems that my name, my true name, was most popular in the 1910s with about 600 million baby boys running about the Earth calling themselves me.
While Xander, Damien, and Jesus are the boy names on the rise in 2004.
And Adrianna, Abigail, and Willow are the popular girl names of 2004.
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 08:29 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Research
October 19, 2005
Jim Bumgardner is an App Creating GENIUS
On the one hand Jim Bumgardner made this mind geekingly cool collage of covers from the visual index of science fiction cover art which is arranged horizontally by time, and vertically by average hue.
I waste hours flipping around in there.
He also made a Flickr texture picker.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 04:29 AM | Comments (2) | Ministry of Apps, Art, Flickrlicious
September 29, 2005
Patterns and Code
Tons of patterns and dhtml/php/mysql bits of code free for use on Squidfingers.
Including a neat slideout menu.
Posted by Groonk at 02:31 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, CSS, DHTML, Web Design
Amusing Conversations with iGod
I grew bored after a minute, but Medicmike managed to amuse the fuck outta me.
Excerpts from Medicmike's chat:
God: Please don't be so rude.
Me: Please don't be so omnipotent.
God: Thanks for asking politely. I was not trying to be a omnipotent.
God:I would search for it. Have you tried looking in the Open Directory? I will try to find out..
God:I do not kill.
Me: You are a liar.
God: Yes, I have been known to bend the truth occasionally.
God: Yes I am the one and only devil.
Posted by Groonk at 01:38 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Flash, Religion
September 03, 2005
A Disaster map "Wiki"
Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that's awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That's pretty amazing in itself, but there's more: All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in search of information on the flood themselves.
Since Scipionus.com launched Wednesday, it has become a giant visual "wiki" page, attracting tens of thousands of visitors who are collaborating in creating a public document of astonishing detail.
(via wired news)
Posted by Groonk at 11:31 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Research, USA
July 30, 2005
More Flickr Apps
On the one hand I'm obssessed with Flickr.
On the other hand I'm obssessed with Google Earth.
Let's put those hands together.
There's a dyanmic layer that links from Google Earth to geotagged Flickr images.
You can now reverse it and "link to Google Earth dynamically from within the Flickr website, letting Google Earth fly you to the spot where your geotagged photo was taken"
(via ogleearth)
You can also automate geotagging with Firefox extension Grease Monkey.
(via ogleearth)
Then there's Geobloggers:
Now all I need is a GPS.
Posted by Groonk at 06:38 PM | Comments (2) | Ministry of Apps, Flickrlicious, Google-fied
July 28, 2005
Shuttle/ISS rendezvous Revisited
I would have had pictures the first time but Groonk Command and Control isn't fully functional yet.
But now I have half my image resizing capabilities and Google Earth on my side:
just north of Australia
full globe view
off the coast of japan
they passed me by again...the bastards
Many,many thanks go to ogle earth for the live Gearth/Shuttle tracking application.
Posted by Groonk at 05:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Blogged, Google-fied, Science, USA, World
July 27, 2005
Track the Space Shuttle and ISS with Google Maps
Run your own mission control from home and track the shuttle and the space station using google maps.
Course without any kind of communication with said places, you're pretty much commanding naval lint.
But you can watch the rendezvous at 6:18 CDT Thursday July 28 2005.
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 07:36 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied, Science
July 20, 2005
Attack of the Show Actually Useful
I never thought I'd see the day. That piece of crap show called AOTS had some links that are worth something:
Slogger is an extension for Mozilla Firefox which can create a customizable browser history, automatically store all pages you visit locally, log pages via various search providers, and more. Slogger has many options and is designed to be highly customizable.
My Rate PlanMyrateplan.com helps you sort out the best cellphone rates in your general area.
Old News baby
oldnewsbaby.com allows you to submit URLs to be commented on and rated by other users of the site. As you submit cool URLs, your coolness will increase and you will move up the cool users chart and have more influence on the site.
Montage-a-Google
Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters
You Send It
If the file's too big for email...yousendit.com will send it for you.
Flickrdown
A program that pulls pictures from wonderful Flickr and allows you to download them hella easier.
Wavepad
WavePad audio editing software is a sound editor program for Windows. This audio editing software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad is a wav editor and MP3 editor, and supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, Real Audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.(and it's FREE!)
(all via sarah's damn good downloads and sarah's damn good websites)
Posted by Groonk at 12:17 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Linkable
June 29, 2005
Google Earth
As luck would have it, the sucker isn't working right now.
Google appreciates my patience though.
They don't know a damn thing about me, do they?
update 7/2/05: Ponzu sends a Major Geeks link that's still Google Earth active.
(via undrew)
Posted by Groonk at 05:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
June 21, 2005
Census Hack of Google Maps
I'm unofficially keeping up with all things google.
This time a fellow combined 2000 census data with google maps.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 11:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
April 27, 2005
BTbot
BTbot is a BitTorrent searchengine.
Posted by Groonk at 02:41 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
46 Best FREE Software Utilities
The "best of the best" of freeware collected and reviewed in one place.
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 01:04 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
April 23, 2005
Azureus
So I'm a bit behind the times. I'm only one guy. I was searching for a site I discoverd months ago that archived an ass-load of Daily Show episodes. I didn't find that. I did find Azureus.
For this week’s How-To we’re going to show you how you can use RSS and BitTorrent to find and download your favorite shows, automatically, using free software.[...]
Disclaimer
Make sure you check with your local, state and country’s laws—In some cases you may be downloading (and uploading) copyrighted material. So far, there hasn’t been a legal case that we know of where broadcast TV networks have stopped or wanted to stop BitTorrent downloads of their shows, but we have heard that pay networks like Showtime, HBO, etc. have sent letters to some individuals for sharing recorded TV. This is all new territory for the most part, and it will be interesting to see what happens and if the TV networks realize that this could be their future distribution chain.
Never miss an episode of your favorite show.
(via engadget)
Posted by Groonk at 06:12 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
April 21, 2005
Gmail Drive
In case I haven't posted on before. Here it is for the first time...again.
If you need a little extra space or need to transfer files from one computer to another, both with internet access, check out GMail Drive Extension, a handy little app that allows you to create a hard drive icon on your desktop that links directly to your GMail 1-2GB of free online storage!
(via teknesia)
Posted by Groonk at 03:59 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
April 19, 2005
Become Your Own South Park Character
Only the gods know why you'd want too. But here it is.
Posted by Groonk at 02:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
April 14, 2005
Google Video Search: Beta
Google's next bid on world domination involves video searches:
At present, Google Video allows you to search within an expanding archive of TV content -- sports, docs, and news, mostly. But today, with the launch of the company's Video Upload Program, Google has begun accepting video content from anyone who cares to upload it. Submitted content won't be available for viewing right away, the Google faq says -- they're just now starting the gathering phase. And yes, would-be sharers must consider certain legal and technical details.
In review, I have tracked several Google innovations:
1) Gmail
2) Google Moz browser
3) Google SMS
4) The Google-Famous Libraries Project
5) Google Maps
6) Google Maps via Satellite
And that's not counting pre-existing features like Froogle, Google Image search, Google News, Google Local, and etc and etc.
You can't tell me they're not aiming for world domination
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 11:52 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
April 13, 2005
Google's Satellite Maps bring Surprises
...it is possible to see in the satellite image the complete layout of the streets and infrastructure of Black Rock City, the makeshift town around which Burning Man, a countercultural festival held late each summer, is built.
burning man
icebreaker
bombs
But the unexpected appearance of the pre-event Burning Man construction is hardly the only surprise in Google's database of satellite images. And other satellite imagery companies say that they, too, are often startled by what they find when they analyze the hundreds of shots they take daily.Notable surprises include a just-erupted volcano, violent scenes from Iraq (a bomb going off in Baghdad and a firefight in Najaf) and even a 747 landing in Tokyo, something difficult to capture given that the satellite is moving at 17,000 mph.
Much larger photos are on the Wired site.
I just tracked my apartment and my route to school. It's neat and disconcerting at the same time.
Space Imaging allows you to search the entire globe using satellite views.
(via wirednews)
Posted by Groonk at 12:38 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture, Google-fied, Technology
April 11, 2005
Dummy Text
"Greeking" is dummy text used by designers when they don't have real copy to work with. You've seen it: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit..."
I usually use "blah's" but this is more colorful.
"Greeking" available in normal or hillybilly/Matrix/Technobabble/classic Latin flavors.
(via wilwheaton)
Posted by Groonk at 07:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
April 09, 2005
Craigs list for rent ads merged with Google Maps
An insanely wonderful hack of Google Maps and Craigs List:
the service places all the houses/apartments for rent/sale on Craigslist as waypoints on a Google Map, color-coded by price, with links to the Craigslist ads.
I hope that noise is still running when I graduate and am ready to leave this joint.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 02:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
April 06, 2005
Google Finds Your Ass via Satellite
Google needs to work on making their mapping software a bit more accurate before they start adding shit to it.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals.The satellite technology, which Google began offering late Monday at , is part of the package that the Mountain View-based company acquired when it bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp. for an undisclosed amount nearly six months ago.http://maps.google.com
This marks the first time since the deal closed that Google has offered free access to Keyhole's high-tech maps through its search engine. Users previously had to pay $29.95 to download a version of Keyhole's basic software package.
A more traditional map will continue to be the first choice served up by Google's search engine. Users will have the option of retrieving a satellite picture by clicking on a button.
(via mywaynews)
Posted by Groonk at 02:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
March 28, 2005
Flickr Nekkidness
If you drop the word "nude" or "naked" in the Flickr postcard browser, you will be granted the sight of various naked bodies who exist in the Flickr community.
Keep in mind that you cannot control whose naked body appears.
You have been warned.
(via fleshbot)
Posted by Groonk at 11:33 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Sex
March 22, 2005
Rewriting Google
Some guy invented Butler. Butler is an app that, "enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things."
* removes ads on most Google pages
* fixes fonts on most Google pages
* Google web search:
o adds links to other search sites ("Try your search on...")
o in news results, adds links to other news sites
o in movie results, adds links to other movie sites
o in weather results, adds links to other weather sites
o in product results, adds links to other product sites
* Google image search:
o adds links to other image/photo/art sites
* Google News:
o adds links to other news sites
* Froogle:
o adds links to other product sites
* Google Print:
o Removes image copying restrictions
o adds links to other book sites
* Google Toolbar Firefox page:
o adds links to other Firefox-friendly toolbars
I haven't tried it, but I am considering it.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 03:08 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
iPodder and others
iPodder is a free cross platform podding software and here are some others.
Posted by Groonk at 02:42 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
March 04, 2005
The iPod-Linux Project
"After extracting the bootloader it was only a couple of days' worth of work to get iPod Linux booting," Leach told New Scientist. "Otherwise it would have taken months."Leach explains that the iPod Linux project is partly for fun but also has a more serious purpose. "It changes the iPod from a consumer device, where the manufacturer sets the rules about what it will and won't do, into a general purpose device," he says. "Much of the interest has been to develop various games, but things like a simple calculator, drawing program and even a GPS/mapping interface are all possible."
Here's a summary of the project and an installer page.
(via newscientist)
Posted by Groonk at 02:06 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Anti-blog-spam techniques
This was published too little too late for my purposes.
Hopefully, I can upgrade everything on this bit of noise soon. Thenpeople who have smart-ass things to say can drop their words again.
Posted by Groonk at 02:00 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
February 21, 2005
Tomorrow's Science, Today
There's a recently launched screensaver that searches for teh answer to Einstein's gneral relativity theory using your computer's processing power:
WASHINGTON - Physicists on Saturday kicked off a campaign to enlist Internet users to help solve one of the biggest unresolved questions surrounding Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity: Do gravitational waves really exist?
It's similar to the SETI project. The SETI project always farked my computer over, so be warned.
And coming to a school near you:
You see, Foothills is wired with a state-of-the-art, infrared sound system. It's transmitted from this necklace and bathes the classroom in the teacher's voice. Now, every seat is a front-row seat."It makes an amazing difference. I can honestly say I've never had to raise my voice to the kids," said teacher Jennifer Hebertson.
"So, has it changed things for the students as well?" Whitaker asked.
"You know, I think they are better behaved. And they are more likely to ask questions and more likely to participate," she replied.
Both news tidbits via 7d.
Posted by Groonk at 11:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Technology
February 17, 2005
Foxy Tunes
Last app of the night.
What is Foxy Tunes?
# It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser.
# The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted.
# FoxyTunes has several nice features. You can control the playback, adjust the volume, see what's playing and more.
Firefox gets sweeter and sweeter.
Posted by Groonk at 10:25 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Colorzilla
Colorzilla, where have you been all my net-life?
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there's more...
(via Ponzu)
Posted by Groonk at 10:12 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Dictionary search
Dictionary Search provides a very easy way to lookup (or translate) a word in a Web page or an email in an online dictionary such as dictionary.com. Simply select the word you want to lookup. Then right click and select "Dictionary Search for ...". A new tab or browser window will open with the meaning of the word you selected. It works for both the browser and mailer of the Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird
Learn, you illiterate bastards! I know I will try.
(via 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 10:09 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
February 16, 2005
Google Map review
Some prink reviewed Google Maps and found aspects of it wanting. Well that's why it's still in beta, prink.
But as a product still in "beta," or test phase, Google Maps clearly needs fine-tuning. I wouldn't abandon Yahoo, Mapquest or MSN quite yet.
Yahoo maps never helped me find anything.
(via 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 10:52 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
February 14, 2005
Linky: Open a Plethora of links at once in Moz/Firefox
This plugin allows you to open multiple windows or tabs in moz or firefox. I'll borrow Boingboing's visual aid cause I'm a lazy bastard.
Know this, I have the most perfect use for this plugin.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 01:25 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
The Workings of Google Maps
I like knowing how some things work. Joel Webber has blogged his analysis on the most excellent Google Maps system.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 01:13 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
February 08, 2005
Believe in Ogg
I swear I'm going to tap Ponzu's brain for all the stuff he finds and make a mint.
Ogg vorbis is...
...a new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented.
I'm currently listening to songs that have a 115 kbps and they sound like at least 320 kbps....and it hardly takes up any space.
Ogg vorbis could be handy for me in the future.
(via ponzu)
Posted by Groonk at 11:07 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Google Map: Beta
Sweet Zeus!
Google's highly detailed city mapping system is too awesome for words.
(via goto+play)
Posted by Groonk at 05:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
January 20, 2005
Midi Madness
For you kids who need new ringtones, an open directory of movie theme and all Star Wars MIDIs shared by 7d.
Oh, let's not forget the good Doctor.
Many months ago I found some Naruto MIDIs for that same purpose. Though every last Naruto MIDI I want is unavailable.
Posted by Groonk at 05:49 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
More Free Games
Download Grnad Theft Auto, Wild Metal, or Grand Theft Auto II for free on your PC.
(via ponzu)
Posted by Groonk at 01:23 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
January 12, 2005
The Font Thing
All you design folk should know this, Sue Fisher's, The Font Thing is the most awesomest( a new word by me) free font viewer I ever used.
Posted by Groonk at 01:33 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 19, 2004
Social Bookmarks
del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
This has to be the handiest fucking thing evah.
(via Alien Loves Predator)
Posted by Groonk at 06:10 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 09, 2004
Sharedemon
One demon that is not so troublesome. Download (bit torrent) even more shows, TV, music, books, anime, etc, etc, etc...
via ponzu
Posted by Groonk at 06:17 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 07, 2004
Adventures in Space add-ons
A couple of add-ons for the Space sim posted a while back:
and my new favorite enterprise the Space Elevator (version 2)
via MedicMike
Posted by Groonk at 01:36 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Save your Searches
"The future is all about developing your own personal web," said Tony Macklin, spokesman for Ask Jeeves.[...]
Ask Jeeves has added the ability to "save" websites of interest so the next time a users visits the site they can search through the sites they have previously found.
Sites saved in this way can be arranged in folders and have notes attached to them to explain why they were saved.
Funny. This site has turned into my own personal web search. Not as organized as I'd like, but I'm working on fixing that.
Posted by Groonk at 01:15 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 06, 2004
Scrapped
Lycos has shut down the campaign saying it had been started to stimulate debate about anti-spam measures and had now achieved this aim.
So spammers get to skirt the edge of the law but we can't fight back with similar tactics. Wow. Talk about your double standard.
Posted by Groonk at 06:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 02, 2004
Know the time
Matthew Good's website has lots of good stuff, not the least of it being a cool looking clock that can go on your desktop or website.
Posted by Groonk at 01:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Make love, not spam
Earlier this week Lycos Europe released a screensaver that bombards spam websites with data to try to increase the cost of running such sites.But analysis shows that, in some cases, spam websites are being completely overwhelmed by the traffic being directed their way.
The Lycos plan has also come under fire for encouraging vigilantism.
I say spammers are getting what they rightly deserve. People who call it vigilantism have obviously not had their site crippled by those fucks.
Posted by Groonk at 01:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
December 01, 2004
Google SMS
Google now has an SMS service that's most intriguing:
Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you're looking to find.
For example, you can find out where a pizza is, where your friend (or enemy) lives, and more importantly, you can find out word definitions.
Google is becoming handy as fuck, lately.
link via teknesia
Posted by Groonk at 03:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Google-fied
November 30, 2004
Blog Torrent
What is Blog Torrent?
Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. Blog Torrent is easy to install on your website: we don't use MySQL so installation is as easy as uploading a folder to your web host, and all administration happens in the web interface. Blog Torrent is easy for users: even if they don't know what bittorrent is, they get an installer that downloads the file they want. But most of all, Blog Torrent makes publishing with bittorrent painless. Just click "upload", pick a file, and you're done. This is our preview release and it has a lot of bugs and rough edges... but we're smoothing them out for the next version, so stay tuned.
via dph
Posted by Groonk at 12:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Some torrenting action
Gathering up all the anime fan sub torrenting links, too.
animesuki
scarywater (an unlicensed anime fansub Bit Torrent tracker)
ANBUdom
A torrent listing of Samurai Champloo
animeka - (A French fansub site)
Posted by Groonk at 11:48 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture
November 29, 2004
Fight Spammers with a screensaver
Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.
Considering my countless spam problems, that thing would be a godsend.
Link via Pentacleus
Posted by Groonk at 03:09 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
November 18, 2004
Download all your shows
What we have here are two links of bit torrenty goodness.
http://www.tvtorrents.net
http://www.suprnova.org
Between those two links you can download tons of games, apps, tv shows, or whatever strikes your fancy. Maybe I can finally find out what this "The Lost" show is all about.
link via 7d
Posted by Groonk at 03:36 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture
November 16, 2004
Adventures in Space
So you wanna be an astronaut, eh?
Get to training:
ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system - the choice is yours. But make no mistake - ORBITER is not a space shooter. The emphasis is firmly on realism, and the learning curve can be steep. Be prepared to invest some time and effort to brush up on your orbital mechanics background.
via MedicMike
Posted by Groonk at 06:40 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
November 09, 2004
10 x 10
Another news type generator like newsmap.
They explain 10X10 as:
Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.
Posted by Groonk at 03:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
October 28, 2004
Free Image viewer
Gonna use this one day.
SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.
Check out the demo. It's pretty sweet, for a free thing.
via Ponzu
Posted by Groonk at 07:19 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
September 30, 2004
How to find malware in Windows
A good guide to find all the places in a Windows installation that a worm or virus can hide:
2. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "Run" section of the Windows Registry. Items in the "Run" section (and in other parts of the Registry listed below) can be programs or files that programs open (documents), as explained in No. 1 above.3. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "RunServices" section of the Registry.
4. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "RunOnce" part of the Registry.
link via boingboing
Posted by Groonk at 03:35 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
September 21, 2004
Google Moz browser on the way?
The evidence:
Some compelling evidence that Google is developing its own Mozilla-based browser; besides the registration of gbrowser.com, there's the annotations in the Mozilla bug-tracker like this one: "this is a duplicate of a private bug about working with Google. So closing this one."
Posted by Groonk at 08:57 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Inspired Gmail hacks
...Gmail's copious storage space has inspired a number of programmers to come up with completely novel ways of using the service.These include a "weblog" or online message board that uses Gmail to store postings and a desktop file system that plugs straight into the Gmail system.
These projects were largely started for fun, but might perhaps provide a glimpse of new features that Google could eventually add to the service for itself, according to some observers.
"The great thing about web applications is that people can extend them, and there's a real community out there to do it," says William Crawford, a programmer and author for the computer publisher O'Reilly. "A lot of people will just do it because it's fun, or to make their lives easier, or both. That's why programmers are such interesting people to hang around with."
Posted by Groonk at 08:14 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
September 19, 2004
Rediscover the web
By the by, if you haven't downloaded the latest Firefox browser, you need to get on that.
Posted by Groonk at 11:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
September 08, 2004
Agent Filter
Another angle for which to fight my comment spam woes as suggested by Ponzu.
Posted by Groonk at 02:28 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
September 03, 2004
MedicMike Web Zen Mini-Overload
Thanks to MedicMike I can now hack the new AIM so that annoying ass Weatherbug will bother me no more or I can reflect upon this strange, yet soothing, quote he IMd me.
Posted by Groonk at 05:06 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture, Weird
September 02, 2004
Fan Web Zen Overload
A collection of links from GDN fan Jeremy (55seddel) in Poplar Bluff, Missouri:
Easter Egg Archive: Easter eggs involving games, books, movies, TV, art, etc, etc
F150Net: Monster Ford 150 resource
UtiliKilts: All the kilt knowledge you can stand
WinCustomize: Ultimate Windows customization (I'm all over the winamp skins)
The Chronicles of George: George is the worst helpdesk technician...ever. A co-worker has collected his tickets and posted them on the web. Hilarity ensues.
Trebuchet: A site "dedicated to the art of hurling"
Posted by Groonk at 10:06 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture, Funny, Research, Weird
August 31, 2004
More 3d software
Brothers Momiage and CarlachM shared a couple of 3d applications.
Posted by Groonk at 03:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
July 30, 2004
Fundrace 2004
Find out who your neighbor supports in the coming election. All you need is a name or address.
You can even search for celebrities by name.
A tad bit invasive for my tastes.
link via 7d
Posted by Groonk at 03:07 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Politics
July 22, 2004
Levitated
I'm unsure of who and what they are, but they have neat flash stuff going on.
Even some open source goodies for sharing.
Posted by Groonk at 12:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Art
July 19, 2004
Flash Paper
Convert files into web-ready Flash documents or PDFs
Posted by Groonk at 01:31 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Flash
July 15, 2004
Pianographique
Turn your computer keyboard into a synthesizer.
Posted by Groonk at 03:23 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
July 12, 2004
Astronomical Images for you, me, everybody
The European Space Agency, the European Southern Observatory, and NASA just released a free Photoshop plug-in that gives anyone access to archival astronomical images and spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and others: "If there is anything that unites astronomy, it is the worldwide use of a single file format - nearly all the images of stars and galaxies produced by telescopes on the ground and in space are stored as so-called FITS files. Unfortunately this file format has been accessible to very few people other than professional scientists using highly specialised image-processing tools."
Posted by Groonk at 07:37 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
July 09, 2004
Propellerhead
What they do:
Propellerhead Software is one of the world’s leading makers of software musical instruments. It pioneered the concept of computer based software synthesis, invented the concept of “recycling” sampled sound material and continues to raise the bar for quality,
link via ponzu
Posted by Groonk at 04:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
June 21, 2004
Newsmap
This is beyond cool.
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.
via Colesear6
Posted by Groonk at 03:45 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
June 17, 2004
BugMeNot
If I'm not mistaken, boingboing posted on this months ago, but I can't seem to find it. Ponzu re-reminded me of BugMeNot and has glowing reports of Mozilla's new browser Firefox.
It seems BugMeNot can plug into Firefox with ease.
BugMeNot, incidentally, is a way for you to bypass annoying ass newspaper web registration featured on sites like http://www.nytimes.com.
Posted by Groonk at 10:41 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
June 16, 2004
Text-Image.com
Look at what Pentacleus found.
Convert any image to ASCII or HTML.
And coming soon...Matrixify
Posted by Groonk at 07:38 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
May 31, 2004
CSS Fisheyed
Give your text some extra life with this bit of CSS code.
Posted by Groonk at 11:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
May 29, 2004
PDF Converter
PDF995 creates PDF's for free.
Posted by Groonk at 01:02 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
Videlectrix
They make Atari 2600 games for your computer.
Odd that there is no way to contact these folks. Maybe it's a big joke.
Pigs on Head is kinda neat, though.
via ponzu
Posted by Groonk at 12:02 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Funny
Blender 3d
An open source (you read that right) 3d program that comes with it's own tutorial and guides.
via ponzu
Posted by Groonk at 11:41 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps
May 12, 2004
Today's Front Pages
This link lists 316 newspaper front pages from 44 countries.
How freaking awesome is that?!
Posted by Groonk at 03:22 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Apps, Culture, History, World
