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rapidsvn. A multi-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system

Daniel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:01:59 +0000

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

XMind – Mind Mapping Tool

Daniel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:40:42 +0000

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

Is it possible to fall in love with a browser?

Daniel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19:29 +0000

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.

Backup a subversion repository

Daniel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:56:39 +0000

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

Firefox3

Daniel — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:28:51 +0000

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

reCAPTCHA

Daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:45:59 +0000

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 Photoshop Express

Daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:59:44 +0000

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.