IE 7 is Released

M$ released their “updated” browser today, officially.  Here’s a “bottom line” review from ZDNet:
The bottom line: IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to
leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely
caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and
greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox.

Joyent Promotional Video for Sun

My domain is hosted at TextDrive, a company owned by Joyent.  They are huge on Sun products, especially the new Solaris 10 and the X4500 box.  Here is a promotional video from Sun that shows what Joyent is doing with their products.

Server Monitoring Software

We’ve been looking for a good server monitoring software at work…only to find most of the “free” stuff out there is a pain in the ass to get working.  Maybe you get what you pay for?  Anyways, I’ve been reading up on Status2k, which is a commercial server monitoring software that many of the big [...]

AIM: Lite

AOL is adopting a new motto of making “light, open, cutting-edge” software and it’s starting with AIM: Lite.  Read about it here and download it here.

Pixel – “Photoshop” for Linux

This software looks freakin’ awesome.  Supposedly, it does just about everything Photoshop does at a fraction of the cost ($79 for full version), and the best part, it’s available for Linux.  Yes, Windows and Mac OS X also…but LINUX!  Website and screenshots.
p.s.  Did you notice their site runs on WordPress? 

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader 2.0 is out.  It loads PDFs ultra fast, has a small footprint to install (1.5mb), and does everything Adobe does without the 10 minute startup time.  Link.

Unix/Linux Timeline

Sheesh!  This is a huge and very comprehensive “family tree” of the history of Unix, Linux, Solaris, etc.  Huge…check it out.

Zenoss

Network monitoring software for Linux.  Link.

Typetester

This is a great resource for testing and comparing different fonts for your site, before you actually make the change.  Link.

Joyent Starts Bingo Disk

Bingo Disk, a new service created by Joyent, was started today. It’s 100gigs of online storage for $199 a year. WebDAV support, totally secure and practically impossible for data loss (by the hardware…if you delete it, you’re screwed). The whole thing runs off Sun Solaris 10 and their X4500 servers. I [...]

Photoshop Tutorial – City Destruction

Title says it all.  If you use Photoshop at all, you should be able to pickup some good points from this.  Link.

Shorty

Like TinyURL, this software  shortens long-ass URL’s into tiny, easy to remember ones with the difference with Shorty being, it’s stored on YOUR server.  Pretty nice, should you need to use such a service.  Link.