David’s links of the week October 27th through October 28th:
- QR Codes Can Digitize Your World – And Back Again – You’re probably already familiar with the bar code. It’s a series of differently widthed and spaced lines that confers a numerical value to the item it is attached to. While it appears to be a 2D object, it’s actually one dimensional, since the scanner picks up all the information it needs by taking a cross-section of the image.
- welcome | irrepressible.info – Spread censored information, brought to you by Amnesty International.
- COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes – COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
- 6 Ways To Search ‘By Date’ On Google – A normal search yielded lots of search results but how do you get the latest up to date information? Google results quite routinely includes pages from the way distant past.There are two faces to the ‘date’ conundrum.1. How to find the date of the page I am reading?
2. How to search within a specific date? - GMAN: FlickrDown – Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I whipped up this program so I could download them more easily.
- What I Learned using Linux over the last 10 years – I started using Linux as my primary desktop and operating system in 1998. After brief flirtations with FVWM 95 and Enlightenment, I settle on Gnome (with it’s various WMs over the years ) and Redhat/Fedora (until switching to Ubuntu last fall ).
- Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems – These days, it only takes an increasingly-cheap USB thumb drive and a program like UNetbootin to create a portable Linux desktop you can run on any computer that can boot from a USB port. But check out the list of distributions UNetbootin can download and install—it#039;s huge, and the names don#039;t tell you much about which distro is best for on-the-go computing. Today we#039;re detailing four no-install distributions—Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xubuntu, and Fedora—and helping you decide which might work for that spare thumb drive you#039;ve got lying around, or as just a part of your multi-gig monster stick. Read on for a four-way faceoff of bootable Linux systems.
- Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X – Linux application developers are finding that they can attract new contributors to their open source software projects by porting them to Windows and Mac OS X. Ars looks at how portability can expand the open source developer community and create a migration path that may bring new users to the Linux platform.
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