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BookTome and other book organizers

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bookTome is a freeware tool to manage one's book collection and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

bookTome is a book management system which allows users to enter information about their book collection and then sort and search this information in a variety of different manners.

bookTome can catalog and manage your library or personal book collection and it is suitable for collections of all sizes and types.
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http://booktome.shanemca.com/

Click here to read more suggestions on the forum for alternate book management tools..


Tech News Weekly: Edition 29-09

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From this week's edition:
  • 1. Oz Cops Turn to Wardriving to Fight Wi-Fi 'jackers
  • 2. Clever Attack Exploits Fully-patched Linux Kernel
  • 3. Facebook 'breaches Canadian law'
  • 4. Why Amazon Went Big Brother On Some Kindle E-books
  • 5. Mozilla Design Challenge Showcases New Browser Tab Concepts
  • 6. Researchers To Release Tool That Silently Hijacks EV SSL Sessions
  • 7. BlackBerry Update Bursting With Spyware
  • 8. Glitch Hits Visa Users With More Than $23 Quadrillion Charge
  • 9. Twitter's Underwear Exposed After Google Apps Hack
  • 10. Hand in Liquid Nitrogen

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RobotWar and the Army of Clones

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Back in 1981 Silas Warner created a game for MUSE Software which would go on to spawn an entire army of clones. Silas is probably better know as the author of the legendary Castle Wolfenstein. However it was RobotWar which went on to inspire a whole new genre.

Silas developed RobotWar for the PLATO computer system and later ported it to the Apple II for release by MUSE. The game is set at a time in the distant future when war has been declared hazardous to human health. Wars still rage, but the combatants are robots programmed to battle to the death.

This is a game for coders, as you will be programming your robots in your choice of language, such as C, Pascal, assembly or Java. The article has a few links to various versions.

http://retrocode.blo...-army-of-clones.html

RobotWar was one of the very first (of many) games that i wrote a clone of while i was first learning to program.. Great stuff.

Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

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This is actually quite interesting.. Mozilla (makers of FireFox) are having a contest to see who can come up with the best ideas for innovating the next user interface development that will go beyond the concept of "Tabs".  Now personally I *love* tabs, so i'm curious to see what people come up with.

For this Design Challenge we are focusing on finding creative solutions to the question: "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser - How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?"

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To participate in the Design Challenge you need to create a mockup of your proposed solution. A mockup can be anything from a napkin drawing, to a wireframe, to a polished graphic.

You also need to create a video explaining your idea(s), presenting the mockup and showing how your idea works.

http://design-challe...ozilla.com/summer09/

UPDATE:

The winners have now been announced:
http://design-challe...ozilla.com/summer09/

Mozilla gives add-on developers a tip jar

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Ok this is a good step forward.  Firefox is common enough that this should make people a little more comfortable with the idea of donating to support software, which is a good thing.

Mozilla has introduced a new pilot program for Firefox developers to make a little money off add-ons they've created. Developers now have the option to place a "contribution" button on their add-on page, which lets users donate any amount they wish via PayPal.

http://news.cnet.com..._3-10288390-248.html


Blog Find: How to unblock blocked startup items in Vista

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From freewaregenius blog today:

If you’ve ever encountered a blocked startup app in Vista and would like a work-around that can bypass it then read on. This posting will describe how to launch an app on startup as a scheduled task, which will circumvent the startup apps list altogether. Ultimately you will be able to get your app to launch without seeing the notice in the screenshot and without having to shut down Vista’s User Account Control security infrastructure.

http://www.freewareg...rtup-items-in-vista/


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