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Whenever i need to manage my subversion repository, i am using rapidsvn under Ubuntu. Pretty simple interface, but it fullfills its purpose.

I am really a big fan of XMind, the nice and free Mind Mapping Tool.

I say YES. I’ve definitely fallen in love with the new Safari 4.0 browser.

Ok, for online development tasks i like Firefox with the nice Firebug and the other Plugins. But for personal use i am using Safari.

Dumping it into a file (e.g. repository.dump)

svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository.dump

Loading the dumped file back into a repository

svnadmin load /path/to/repository < repository.dump

Wheew! I like the new Firefox3 RC. Especially the smooth integration into MacOSX. It was always frustrating to see this ugly old design of Firefox < 3. But now:

Great. And a lot of cool bookmark features with Places.

Like you can see, there is also a delicious Add-on available: http://del.icio.us/extensions/firefox/delicious.xpi

Image via Wikipedia

Just visited Twitter to see how they implemented their Captcha functionality and then i saw that they use reCAPTCHA. I’ve never heard of this before, but it seems to be really cool and easy to use:

reCAPTCHA helps prevent automated abuse of your site (such as comment spam or bogus registrations) by using a CAPTCHA to ensure that only humans perform certain actions.
[...]
reCAPTCHA is a Web service. [...] For many applications and programming languages such as WordPress and PHP we also have easy-to-install plugins available.

And the best: it’s free!

Adobe has opened the registrations to their really phat looking online photo editing tool “Adobe Photoshop Exress“. Its based on Flash and runs fine on Safari. On Firefox i had some problems.

The editing features are not comparable to the real Photoshop Software or maybe GIMP, but for quick modifying of pictures its sufficient, i think.

But watch out what kind of photos you upload, because you grant Adobe a very exclusive right (see https://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html):

[...] However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

Starling

• Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.

Install pptp-linux

sudo apt-get install pptp-linux

Install pptp graphical client

Add “deb http://quozl.netrek.org/pptp/pptpconfig ./” to /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install pptpconfig

To start the client execute

sudo pptpconfig

I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.

Just needed to replace some difficult strings in a huge text-file and found this site which explains how to use regular expressions with my favorite editor TextMate.

This small regular expression surrounds for example the value-attributes of elements with quotes, if the value has the length 2.

Find: value=(..)
Replace: value="$1"

After fifteen months of hard work, the Camino Project is pleased to announce the release of Camino 1.5, a substantial update to the popular Camino 1.0 web browser.

(see www.caminobrowser.org/blog/)

After using the launching tool Quicksilver (and before this Launchbar) for a long period of time, i moved to Butler, because Quicksilver crashed several times. And i have to say:

• Butler is faster than the other tools
• Butler is much more stable (especially than Quicksilver ;)
• Butler has more features (you can discover everyday something new and cool). Example: multiple clipboards.
• Butler has a very nifty iTunes control
  
• Butler is free (Quicksilver too, but Launchbar isn’t)

The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

(see http://www.movabletype.org/opensource)

Whow, just saw a presentation by Blaise Aguera y Arcas about  Microsoft’s Photosynth. What a amazing software!

Just found krugle. A nifty search engine which helps you finding source-code by searching through projects which are available in the internet. It also allows you to add comments to the code.

Krugle helps programmers find existing source code and the information they need to evaluate, deploy and fix code.

There is a demo-video which shows all the features.