This kind of shit is actually funny until it happens to you. I got tired of Microsoft Office a long time ago and switched to NeoOffice on my Mac. Actually, for simple word processing and spreadsheets, you cannot really beat Google Docs – it’s great for light users or for those who only occasionally need a word processor or spreadsheet software.

Fucking genius. Live coding rocks (in a very geeky way, of course).

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Brainfuck is so bad it’s good! There is also a JavaScript Brainfuck interpreter if you are so inclined.

We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music.

›› John Curran, from Microsoft UK

What the hell happened, Larry? All the data lost? No backups? No backup of backups? Lots of people are bummed out but seriously folks, it’s data on a free service — what did you expect? There are more severe that you can lose in times like this.

Of course, I am sad my bookmarks are all gone, but I am gonna give it a few more days before switching back to my old, inactive delicious account.

There was a time when iTunes was a (relatively) snappy and meagre 10MB download and it played back music well enough. Nowadays, Apple’s free audio player software (now at version 8.0.2) is a jukebox, store, sync software and video player all rolled into one that weighs in at a grand 60MB. There are times when I wish there was an iTunes Lite option that did not have the extra features I don’t need and just played audio.

I can’t wait for Songbird 1.0 to come out — with iPod support baked in, it can completely replace iTunes for most people (on Macs and Windows).

This beautiful coin won a Dutch contest to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. The winning designer, Stani Michiels, (actually, it’s more the winning architect) has a nice detailed process story about the winning design. The stunning thing for me was that the entire process of designing the coin was all done with free software — Python, SPE editor, PIL, pyCairo, Gimp, Inkscape, Phatch — on an Asus Eee PC that ran Ubuntu.

Absolutely stunning work and a glowing tribute to the versatility, quality and cost of Linux in a ‘production’ environment. If only Linux and most other free software were easy enough for more people (like our parents) to access and use on their desktops, the world might be better, freer and less energy-hungry than it is now.

[Via Design Oberserver]

Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco — in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency.

›› Richard Stallman rips into the One Laptop Per Child project

If you are on a Mac, need a simple software to automate your backups and don’t have much money to spare, you definitely need to take a look at iBackup. Created by Martin Jahn, iBackup is a simple-to-use back up tool that allows for easy restoration as well. Not only does it back up your files, it can also save system preferences and settings from applications like iCal, iSync, Keychains, etc. Very highly recommended for those who need a simple backup tool that can automate backups with minimum fuss.

If you are using it in a commercial environment, you need to pay for it though. But that’s not really a lot to ask for, is it?

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‘Whoa’, but hey, it is beta software.

[Via atc]

Looks like the browser wars are upon us again. With the introduction of Google’s Chrome browser to the party, I cannot wait to see how the loyalty of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera users will be tested (and I include myself in there). The IHT has a good write-up on how Google doesn’t actually have to win this browser war to cause Microsoft to wobble.

And yeah, I am convinced Chrome is going to be the killer app for Android. In fact, since it’s WebKit powered, it could be ported to the iPhone someday, somehow.