Has the internet run out of ideas already? | Technology | The Observer
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Sentiment building. "We're now at the stage where we should be getting the next wave of disruptive surprises. But – guess what? – they're nowhere to be seen. Instead, we're getting an endless stream of incremental changes and me-tooism. If I see one more proposal for a photo-sharing or location-based web service, anything with "app" in it, or anything that invites me to "rate" something, I'll scream."
guardian
ideas
innovation
free
notfree
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
digital
innovation
social
technology
free
notfree
via:blech
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
Learn Python The Hard Way | A Beginner Programming Book
august 2011 by ohskylab
HTML version is free. eBook is supercheap. Not that one should choose programming books on cost.
python
learning
book
free
from delicious
august 2011 by ohskylab
Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns – A Free New Book
january 2011 by ohskylab
"I personally feel that until a developer is interested enough in learning about patterns to make the leap to invest in these, the majority of material they have accessible online doesn’t focus enough on how to apply design patterns to JavaScript or jQuery. That’s where having a free book of this nature comes in useful."
jquery
javascript
patterns
web
book
free
from delicious
january 2011 by ohskylab
The Free Music Philosophy as adopted by Irdial~Discs
june 2010 by ohskylab
"The idea is similar to the notion of Free Software, and like with freeware, the word “free”refers to freedom, not price. Specifically, Free Music means that any individual has the freedom of copying, distributing, and modifying music for personal, noncommercial purposes. Free Music does not mean that record labels and musicians cannot charge for records, tapes, CDs, or files."
irdial
copyright
free
music
opensource
june 2010 by ohskylab
The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059] : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
june 2010 by ohskylab
"The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public."
irdial
audio
creativecommons
mp3
free
encryption
history
radio
communication
sound
june 2010 by ohskylab
Robotlegs AS3 Micro-Architecture - Home
january 2010 by ohskylab
"A pure AS3 micro-architecture (framework) with a light footprint and limited scope. Simply put, Robotlegs is there to help you wire your objects together. It provides the glue that your application needs to easily function in a decoupled way."
flash
free
api
framework
architecture
mvc
as3
january 2010 by ohskylab
ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X
january 2010 by ohskylab
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
web
mac
osx
free
optimization
hpw
compression
png
images
tools
via:infovore
january 2010 by ohskylab
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research
december 2009 by ohskylab
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.
science
visualisation
microsoft
free
technology
analysis
fourthparadigm
datamining
december 2009 by ohskylab
Si Begg :: 24 Bit Error Collection
july 2009 by ohskylab
Si Begg's next release out for free. "Don't get me wrong I'm all for me making money out of my music. But as I say, i'm not exactly churning out platinum hit singles here. I'm thinking its more likely I'll make my money a) from possibly licensing the tracks to compilations b) PRS royalties from radio play etc c) maybe getting the tracks used in film and TV d) gig, remix and production work encouraged by generally raising my profile. All of which is more likely to happen the more people that get to hear and hopefully enjoy my music."
sibegg
music
audio
mp3
free
promotion
marketing
electronic
july 2009 by ohskylab
Tam Variations | LJ Kruzer
may 2009 by ohskylab
"LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data."
audio
music
mp3
free
unchartedaudio
ljkruzer
friends
may 2009 by ohskylab
FACT magazine: Download/Interview: The Village Orchestra (Full Album)
april 2009 by ohskylab
Really enjoying this album. "We’ve hooked up with the excellent Highpoint Lowlife label to give away The Village Orchestra’s 2005 full-length Et In Arcadia Ego for free."
music
audio
ambient
free
mp3
highpointlowlife
thevillageorchestra
distribution
top
april 2009 by ohskylab
My Freecycle Network (beta)
january 2009 by ohskylab
Freecycle starting the move away from Yahoo! Groups towards custom solution.
environment
free
freecycle
recycling
activism
january 2009 by ohskylab
Laconica
january 2009 by ohskylab
"A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web."
web
tools
software
collaboration
microblogging
free
laconica
identi.ca
january 2009 by ohskylab
Open Source Flash MP3 Player
january 2009 by ohskylab
"An open source flash MP3 player which can be customized and integrated into websites easily. It has 5 different versions that lets you only use a "play button" or a player which lets users to choose tracks from multiple files."
web
mp3
audio
flash
free
music
january 2009 by ohskylab
24 ways: Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery Network
december 2008 by ohskylab
Poor man's CDN. Interesting, but not entirely convinced that this is a good idea.
google
free
cdn
delivery
web
hosting
december 2008 by ohskylab
Buzzmachines.com - Jeskola Buzz free modular software music studio
november 2008 by ohskylab
"Free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want."
tools
music
software
windows
audio
free
opensource
tracker
november 2008 by ohskylab
Lighthead - Caffeine
june 2008 by ohskylab
"A tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show
mac
software
sleep
free
tools
june 2008 by ohskylab
3dtracking
june 2008 by ohskylab
"Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route."
gps
geo
mobile
walking
n95
free
june 2008 by ohskylab
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
february 2008 by ohskylab
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
free
economics
business
marketing
wired
web
rvrb
february 2008 by ohskylab
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
february 2008 by ohskylab
"When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?"
business
free
economics
web
content
innovation
strategy
rvrb
february 2008 by ohskylab
The Albain Retrospective – lestrade – Music at Last.fm
january 2008 by ohskylab
Free album from JH. Hurrah!
music
mp3
free
last.fm
friends
january 2008 by ohskylab
ADrive - Online Storage & Backup
november 2007 by ohskylab
"Centralized storage vault for all types of files." 50Gb
storage
backup
free
november 2007 by ohskylab
Feed43 (Feed For Free) : Convert any web page to news feed on the fly
october 2007 by ohskylab
"This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly."
rss
feeds
free
web
syndication
october 2007 by ohskylab
Technology Mile
september 2007 by ohskylab
Free wireless access in Islington.
free
london
wifi
wireless
islington
september 2007 by ohskylab
ThinkFree Online beta
february 2007 by ohskylab
"ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off."
office
web2.0
tools
free
ajax
collaboration
fowalondon07
february 2007 by ohskylab
MySpace MP3 Gopher - Home and Development Page
september 2006 by ohskylab
"A stand-alone application which allows you to download an artist's MP3 files from MySpace even if the downloading of said song is disabled."
myspace
music
mp3
hacks
software
free
audio
september 2006 by ohskylab
WinWGet - download manager based on wget for Windows
september 2006 by ohskylab
"A GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Wget. It is FREE. It will keep track of your downloads - add, clone, edit, delete jobs."
windows
wget
free
software
tools
september 2006 by ohskylab
.:: DDF ::.
september 2006 by ohskylab
Free music for download, including tracks from Cursor Miner and Si Begg
music
mp3
free
friends
september 2006 by ohskylab
sonicSQUIRREL.net - netlabels :::: 70107.7833333 minutes of music 1376333 listened tracks so far
august 2006 by ohskylab
"A platform and distribution channel for netlabels. All music available on this website is free to download according to the terms of the netlabel."
community
free
mp3
music
netlabels
netaudio
august 2006 by ohskylab
DevjaVu - Free, Simple Hosted Trac and Source Control
july 2006 by ohskylab
"Free, simple hosted Trac and Subversion source control."
trac
subversion
free
svn
development
vcs
wiki
productivity
july 2006 by ohskylab
Free condoms for your Windows install | MetaFilter
march 2006 by ohskylab
More on SVS: "Safely install software in a virtual layer".
applications
free
hacks
lifehacks
productivity
programs
security
software
testing
utility
win32
xp
microsoft
mefi
march 2006 by ohskylab
Portable NVU 1.0 (USB Drive-Friendly) :: Mozilla Stuff :: JohnHaller.com
march 2006 by ohskylab
"Allows you to carry your whole webpage editor with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. "
web
utilities
tools
software
editing
development
free
portable
march 2006 by ohskylab
apache friends - xampp
march 2006 by ohskylab
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
apache
php
windows
mysql
development
free
web
march 2006 by ohskylab
CBS TOP 100 DOWNLOAD
february 2006 by ohskylab
Lots of mp3s.
mp3
music
disco
techno
electro
free
top
february 2006 by ohskylab
Workrave
december 2005 by ohskylab
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.
health
software
rsi
opensource
programming
windows
linux
keyboard
work
free
freeware
gtd
lifehacks
ergonomics
december 2005 by ohskylab
CSSVista: Live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously
november 2005 by ohskylab
CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously.
css
software
web
firefox
design
ie
browser
development
editor
free
resources
applications
november 2005 by ohskylab
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
october 2005 by ohskylab
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
collaboration
writing
web
software
37signals
wiki
ajax
web2.0
writeboard
design
free
online
productivity
business
internet
text
groupware
october 2005 by ohskylab
..:TRAMAVIRTUAL:..
august 2005 by ohskylab
Free mp3 compilation from Tramavirtual
brazil
free
mp3
music
audio
top
august 2005 by ohskylab
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