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What are your software predictions for 2007?
2006 posts
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Shareware, Open Source, Social Software
DonationCoder's Best of the Web 2006
by Chris Brentano Dec 30th 2006
The folks over at DonationCoder have rounded up their top picks for 2006 in a very extensive list of 9 different categories: software, web sites, essays and debates, flash games, humor, gadgets, DonationCoder roundups, programmer stuff, and entrepreneur writing. There are definitely some good picks in there (DownloadSquad and SlashFood made their best web sites list, woot!), and some quirky ones ("Tonight show phony photo booth"), but for the most part they've done a good job covering 2006 from a geek's perspective. I still stand by my claim that "Invisible Bike" takes the cake for the best photo caption of 2006 though, and I'm glad to see that they agree.
What, fair readers, are some of your memorable web moments of '06?
Google's 2006 Year-End Zeitgeist
- bebo
- myspace
- world cup
- metacafe
- radioblog
- wikipedia
- video
- rebelde
- mininova
- wiki
But of course there's lots more to the 2006 Zeitgeist, so go check it out.
Filed under: Developer, Text, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft
XML Notepad 2006
by Ryan Carter Sep 3rd 2006
Everybody likes quick and dirty apps, especially me. Anything quick and dirty that is also free is my holy grail. Microsoft is offering the XML Notepad 2006 for download, which is quick, dirty, and free. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is a simple XML editor for editing XML documents. Sometimes less is more, and this app proves it. XML Notepad does a nice job of helping you organize XML nodes and easily modify XML documents. Like I said, quick and dirty is the focus here, and it isn't (by any means) full featured, but it does it's job well and makes quick work of editing XML, should you ever need to. I 'm sure that most of the time, XML documents are managed by more complex processes and programs, because that is the point after all. This app is nice to have in case you run into a small-scale edit that needs to be done. You don't need to launch your behemoth programming IDE to do it.More screenshots after the jump...
Filed under: Design, Macintosh, Apple
Apple Design Awards 2006 winners
by Jordan Running Aug 9th 2006
Today this year's winners of the annual Apple Design Awards were announced. The awards aim "to recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement on Mac OS X" in eight categories. Here are the winners (uh, spoilers):- Best Developer Tool: TextMate 1.5.2
- Best Use of OS X Graphics: modo 201
- Best Dashboard Widget: iClip lite 2.0
- Best Automator Workflow: Build Real Estate Catalog/Ultimate Productivity Action Pack 1.0
- Best User Experience: iSale 3.1
- Best Game: The Sims 2, 1.0 Rev E
- Best Scientific Computing Solution: EnzymeX 3.1
- Best Student Product: Lineform 1.1
Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows
Big, big list of 2006's most promising PC games
by Jordan Running Mar 28th 2006
In case you were having a hard time trying
to think of PC games you ought to be looking forward to in the next nine months, head over to the GameSpot forums where
user AdrianWerner posted (albeit a couple months ago) an enormous list of "promising" games due
in 2006. "Promising" is by his own reckoning, taking into account their developers' previous
games.There's something like 200 games on his list, with a screenshot for each (but unfortunately no links—you'll
have to Google them yourself). Of course, not all of these will see the light of day this year as planned, but you're
bound to find something there to get excited about. Especially if you really, really like war games.[Via Digg]
Filed under: Design, Developer
Top 20 web development links of 2005
Alessandro
Fulciniti at Web-Graphics has collected his top 20 bookmarks of
2005. They're all, of course, web development links with a focus on CSS and JavaScript with some design,
typography, AJAX, and search engine optimization thrown in. Every one is a must-read for anyone doing web development
in 2006.Rumor alert: Google to sell Google PCs at Wal-Mart
The LA Times' Sallie Hofmeister has published her business predictions for the new year,
and there's a lot of interesting speculation among them, but most interesting is this tidbit: "Sources say
Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC." Of course
this isn't the first talk of a Google-branded computer, and if anyone could pull it off it would be Google. Hofmeister
speculates that Larry Page will use his keynote at CES this Friday to announce the Google PC. Me, I'm not holding my
breath, but I will definitely be watching.[Via Digg]
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!
Google predictions for 2006
So far
I've avoided the predictions-for-'06 lists just for sheer volume (if you've spotted any particularly good ones, though,
please hit up our tips form) but Philipp Lenssen's mostly Google-centric 15 Search Predictions for 2006 at Google Blogoscoped
is pretty good. He gives a probability for each of his predictions: Web-wide Google video search? 80%. Graphical ads on
Google.com? 40%. Google releases revolutionary web translator? 50%. Yahoo! and MSN unclutter themselves? 20%. Head over
to Google Blogoscoped for the full list or post your own predictions in the comments below.Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware
What's coming for Opera in 2006
by Jordan Running Dec 29th 2005
Opera blog
Avencius has posted a solid summary of what's in store for Opera 9 in
2006, based on what can be seen in Preview 1 and what's been written on Opera's blogs and forums. At the top of the
list is improved web standards support including Atom, SVG Basic, Web Forms 2.0, and some CSS3 support. Acid2
compliance, rich text editing, and OPML are among improvements for end users, and Opera Mail will get a new IMAP
back-end and a new sotrage system. Also, Opera 9 will be getting an opera:config interface (a la Firefox's
about:config), site-specific preferences, and an easily editable search engine list. Visit Avencius for more details
plus links to download Opera 9 Preview 1, which is still just a 4MB download (or 11MB if you're on a Mac).
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
