Wikiversity

October 7th, 2007

Online studying has leaped forward with Wikiversity. A subsection of Wikimedia, it hosts free learning materials and activities. Next time you’ve got nothing to do, might as well learn eh.

Wikiversity

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Guitar Tuner

October 7th, 2007

If you don’t have a piano or you’re too lazy to bother with one, there’s a right program for you on teh intrawebs. This has helped me in times of need.

Howtotuneaguitar.org

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Song Title Generator

October 7th, 2007

Angstrom wrote up a nifty title generator, if you’re feeling uninspired. It’s a useful bookmark to have.

Timeshard Song Title Generator 

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Scots: “um” for understanding

September 25th, 2007

Scottish academics have found that disfluences in speech significantly enhance an audience’s understanding. Such errors force us to ‘tune in’ and remember more of what is being said.

Personally, I find people who incessantly “um and er” very annoying.

Scotsman News

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Torpark: Portable Anonymous Internet

September 22nd, 2007

Torpark is a portable Firefox which runs through the TOR network.

It is very useful for bypassing proxy servers or firewalls. Albeit slow, it gets the job done. There are a few restrictions - it is not recommended to give any personal info or credentials through the browser as it may be intercepted.

What you download is a .exe which then extracts to a directory of your choice. After extraction, run the executable. Now it will start up Tor. This will take a while. If you get a message, choose to ‘Keep waiting and don’t ask again’. Eventually you’ll get there.

Remember: be careful when giving out credentials/personal info. 

Download Torpark

Note: If Download.com is blocked for you you can search Google for a list of mirrors. 

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Rasterwerks Phosphor Beta 1

September 22nd, 2007

Phosphor is an In-Browser multiplayer first person shooter reminiscent of Quake or Doom.

It does have some limitations, however, as they recommend multiplayer over the internet to be kept at under 4 players. Over LAN this increases to 6 players.

Powered by Shockwave, it runs very smooth and it would be very interesting to take a look at further releases:

Rasterwerks Phosphor

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