The JAFT Journal

links for 2009-11-10

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:07:53 -0700

Text Only Plans - Qwert -Texting Only Cell Plans

Stop paying for expensive voice features you’re not even using! QWERT offers Nationwide text only cell plans with affordable pay as you go service. No credit checks, no contracts, no long term commitments.

(tags: phone service cellphone text telephony texting gsm sms cell)

links for 2009-11-06

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:48 -0700

Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference Card Directory

(tags: software reference web programming tutorials cheatsheet cheatsheets workfriendly)

links for 2009-10-23

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:05:46 -0700

EVGA

Take any available USB port on your Desktop or Notebook and turn it into an additional video output for use with another display. UV PLUS+ is powered by USB and uses Lossless Compression for transferring video signal which provides a crystal clear viewing experience on your additional display.

(tags: usb multimonitor productivity gadgets)

links for 2009-10-20

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:04:48 -0700

Skinomi TechSkin

TechSkin™ is made from a clear, thermoplastic urethane film – the toughest of its class. It has the ability to resist the highest level of abrasion, making it the ultimate protection for gadgets and devices. The film’s “self healing” technology makes it immune to scratches and virtually indestructible. Passing numerous OEM tests in the United States, the TechSkin’s film has been hailed superior in scratch resistance to any other film on the market.

(tags: addons protection skins safety)

Are we done shopping yet?!?!?!? [Flickr]

Flick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:20:20 PDT

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links for 2009-10-03

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:05:03 -0700

Dell - Windows 7 Center

(tags: Dell windows drivers support)
Squeaker | Nanoblogging

what RU doing? (exactly 14 characters)

(tags: parody twitter-like funny socialmedia twitter microblogging social internet nanoblogging)
Woofer | Macroblogging

What are you doing? (minimum 1400 characters)

(tags: parody twitter-like funny socialmedia twitter microblogging social internet)
IPInfoDB

Are you looking for the geographical location of an IP address? You are at the right place.

(tags: geolocation geoip geo ipaddress geocode location googlemaps tools database lookup ip)
Share screenshots via the internet in seconds: take a screensnap, edit screenshot quickly and send to the internet

Share screenshots via Internet in seconds: take a shot, edit it quickly and send to the Internet, to get a link which you can immediately provide to anyone

(tags: screencapture screenshots screen capture screenshot tools utilities freeware productivity apps windows utility images)

links for 2009-09-16

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:07:00 -0700

RapidSSL

(tags: certificate certificates security sysadmin ssl network business services website hosting webhosting)

links for 2009-09-12

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:04:46 -0700

10 Minute Mail

Beat spam with the best disposable e-mail service.

(tags: disposable e-mail antispam webmail temporary anonymous spam mail privacy service email internet lifehacks freeware utilities tips web2.0 free security tools)

links for 2009-09-11

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:07:15 -0700

Malwarebytes.org

Malwarebytes is a site dedicated to fighting malware. Malwarebytes has developed a variety of tools that can identify and remove malicious software from your computer. When your computer becomes infected, Malwarebytes can provide the needed assistance to remove the infection and restore the machine back to optimum performance.

(tags: anti-virus antimalware anti-malware trojan antispyware spyware antivirus tools utilities software freeware windows free sysadmin utility internet admin download)

links for 2009-09-07

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:05:49 -0700

The new employee connection: Social networking behind the firewall

In industries from retail to high tech, banking and manufacturing, companies are increasingly building networks behind the firewall where employees can create profiles and connect with one another in ways first demonstrated by LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.

(tags: SocialNetworking research web2.0 workfriendly enterprise2.0)

links for 2009-09-05

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:02:37 -0700

Toysoft, Inc.

Applications for the BlackBerry

(tags: software blackberry applications)
Pipl - People Search

The most comprehensive people search on the web

(tags: searchengines people identity directory database information searchengine privacy research search social networking tools free reference resources web2.0)

links for 2009-09-04

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:04:17 -0700

Xvid.org

Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative development effort. All code is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license. The Xvid video codec implements MPEG-4 Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile standards. It permits compressing and decompressing digital video in order to reduce the required bandwidth of video data for transmission over computer networks or efficient storage on CDs or DVDs. Due to its unrivalled quality Xvid has gained great popularity and is used in many other GPLed applications, like e.g. Transcode, MEncoder, MPlayer, Xine and many more.

(tags: video dvd codec codecs xvid)
Yammyy

Yammyy - a Yammer Client for .NET

(tags: yammer socialnetworks desktopclients opensource freeware software windows .net)
Finjan Vital Security- SecureBrowsing

Finjan SecureBrowsing provides you with safety ratings of URLs showing in your browser.

(tags: security_tools browsing securebrowsing antispyware toolbar addons plugins ie addon browser plugin extensions firefox tool download utilities tools security software downloads internet web)
Open Upload

Open Upload is a PHP application to create a private / public file download server similar to MegaUpload or RapidShare.

(tags: tools freeware opensource free internet server web personal p2p upload file share open ftp php)

links for 2009-09-03

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:04:56 -0700

GO Contact Sync

GO Contact Sync is an open source tool that synchronizes your contacts between Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail, it removes the hassle of entering details more than once. It supports contact categories and contact photos so your contacts will look exactly the same. There are a few sync options to suite your needs and it can all be done automatically, so it can be used as a backup tool.

(tags: contacts programs synchronization office outlook productivity utility freeware software tools windows opensource free tool sync gmail)
Xenocode brings the world's software to the web

Run software instantly from the web, with no installation or hassles.

(tags: tools utilities software freeware application portable virtualization browser browsers sandbox test)
Winbolic Link

Winbolic Link creates special folders which serve as links to the contents of another folder. They are functionally similar to "symbolic links" or "symlinks" which unix users are familiar with.

(tags: tools utilities freeware software windows free sysadmin utility tool hack filesystem shell)

links for 2009-09-02

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:05:59 -0700

Jungle Disk - Reliable online backup and storage powered by Amazon S3 and Rackspace - JungleDisk

Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and automatically backup all of your data easily and securely to Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3.

(tags: onlinestorage webservices cloud data disk archive computer hosting service backup storage online web2.0 utilities tools)
Untangle

Open Source Network Gateway - Easily Protect, Control and Monitor the online activities of all your small business or home computers via a single gateway to the internet.

(tags: filtering tools software freeware free sysadmin security opensource networking internet network linux monitoring router vpn firewall spam computers gateway filter proxy)
IPCop.org :: The bad packets stop here!

IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution geared towards home and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) users. The IPCop interface is very user-friendly and task-based. IPCop offers the critical functionality of an expensive network appliance using stock, or even obsolete, hardware and OpenSource Software.

(tags: appliance firewalls routing firewall proxy gateway computers router distro vpn admin server os distribution computer linux network download networking internet sysadmin security opensource software freeware tools)
BZFlag

BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. The name originates from "Battle Zone capture the Flag". It runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It's one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to be developed and improved to this day. It's one of the most popular open source games ever.

(tags: videogames multiplayer gaming game tank entertainment games online fun linux opensource free freeware software)
ImageMagick

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

(tags: tools utilities software freeware opensource free design development photography photos graphics images tool photo image editor converter conversion convert imaging)
Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

(tags: rendering graphic animation 3d modeling art architecture application visualization tool applications video graphics apps download opensource freeware software tools free windows design)

links for 2009-08-31

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:03:23 -0700

WMS and KML Access - Remote Sensing Applications Center

The data links below provide access to MODIS MOD14 fire detections, current large incident locations, and fire weather forecasts in both a Web Mapping Service (WMS) or Keyhole Markup Language (KML/KMZ) format for each specified geographic area. WMSes and KMLs are updated hourly.

(tags: fire kml wms modis gis fires wildfires coding mapping satellite reference free google maps code data map)

links for 2009-08-29

JAFT.Journal@gmail.com — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:03:23 -0700

Format Factory - Free media file format converter

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below: All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF. All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV. All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA. Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file. MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format. Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

(tags: converters format conversion multimedia converter convert application tool video graphics media applications utility utilities tools freeware windows download downloads software)
FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

(tags: tools software windows free opensource video audio media tool mp3 multimedia flash converter conversion convert codecs codec encoder encoding flv mpeg)