wade womersley – york based software engineer
PeerBlock was a “spin off” from PeerGuardian, a program that completely blocks access to certain IP addresses at the network level making it completely impossible to connect to them (or from people on those IP addresses to connect to you.) The reason I love this program so much is it blocks access to known spyware … Read More “PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver” »
While I never really got into WoW (I have played, I have characters, I rarely touch it) I do love FFXI and have played many many hours on that game – less now, it just feels dated and that can ruin a game for me. However, FFXIV is coming soon, sometime in 2010, and I … Read More “FFXIV – Final Fantasy 14 – TGS Trailer” »
I’m torn on this, it has some great ideas (updating interface with dynamic search – real time search Ben?) and it has some big failings (updating interface with resizing objects.)For example, the login screen, rarely seen but those little changes with the moving/scaling image is a great idea; the live search with an updating UI … Read More “Copenhagen User Experience” »
That’s the name of the video “Good News – Windows 7.” The little kid is called Kelly and she believes “seven” is a happy word – it does stand for “togetherness” in China though so maybe that’s the underlying message here – “with Windows 7, we’re together again and I’m stealing your soul.” At the … Read More “Good News – Windows 7” »
Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which … Read More “Linux RAID, MySQL” »
Opera 10 has now been released and can be downloaded from the official Opera website. It is available in 43 different languages for Windows, Linux and Mac. New features include: Opera turbo Opera’s proxy servers are now used for image and content compression so even people on a slower connection should experience a speed boost. … Read More “Opera 10 Final Available” »