Research Systems Unix Group: iHook
iHook – a graphical interface designed as a frontend for commandline executables.
Net Art Commissions and Support
Control your own data
The SWIPE Toolkit
From the site:
The SWIPE Toolkit is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver’s license or stored in some of the many commercial data warehouses.
Free Voice over IP – Worldwide..
Free World Dialup – by pulver.com
From the site:
Free World Dialup (FWD) allows you to make free phone calls over the Internet using a ‘regular’ telephone or a computer program. You can join today, at no cost, by either using programs already on your computer, or by downloading a free program. Later, an IP phone upgrade will let you realize the total freedom FWD provides whether on Cable, DSL, Dialup modem, or WiFi around town.
Text to Speech – File (put it on your iPod)
codepoetry :: projects :: Text Reader
From the site:
All I wanted was a program that took a text file and saved it to an audio file for my iPod. All I could find were programs I had to pay for to do this simple task that can be accomplished in one line of AppleScript. That’s silly. So, I wrote a very simple program to do this and more.
Nobody knows how to make money, really..
Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Article tag line:
Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Social networking tool companies are sizzling as start-up venture investments, but can
they make money?
Shady (online, social software) marketing tactics..?
New Media Strategies and us
From the post:
But “Dixie” ‘s posts about “All My Children” got me curious. I looked up her IP address. Why am I not surprised it’s registered to a company called New Media Strategies and that New Media Strategies offers:
Highly effective online Word-of-Mouth marketing (that) drives buzz about your brands and products. NMS harnesses the power of the online communities and opinion leaders to raise awareness of your brands and, ultimately, produce sales that bolsters your bottom line.
So, just in case Google indexes this page: New Media Strategies sucks. Let me repeat, “New Media Strategies sucks.”
Make those walls transparent at the flip of a switch or programming matter
Programmable Matter FAQ
From the FAQ
Programmable matter is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc.¬† Primitive forms may allow only limited adjustment of one or two traits (e.g., the “photodarkening” or “photochromic” materials found in light-sensitive sunglasses), but there are theoretical forms which, using known principles of electronics, should be capable of emulating a broad range of naturally occurring materials, or of exhibiting unnatural properties which cannot be produced by other means.
Evolutionary distributed SHEEP (screensaver)
WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X
Use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows applications on Darwin and Mac OS X.