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Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site: list of useful “bookmarklets” (snippets of Javascript used as bookmarkable scripts).

Some examples:
Link Bookmarklets
Form Bookmarklets
Text and Data Bookmarklets

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Using Mozilla in testing and debugging web sites: aricle on using extended features of Mozilla to do thorough testing of websites; can help even non-Mozilla browsers work before.

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Strategy Central @ NetscapeStrategy Central @ standards-compliant website designs.

Collection of case studies, presentations, and articles on standards-compliant website designs.

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Top 75 Network Security Tools

In May of 2003, I conducted a survey of Nmap users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to determine their favorite security tools. Each respondent could list up to 8. This was a followup to the highly successful June 2000 Top 50 list. An astounding 1854 people responded in ‘03, and their recommendations were so impressive that I have expanded the list to 75 tools! Anyone in the security field would be well advised to go over the list and investigate tools they are unfamiliar with. I discovered several powerful new tools this way. I also plan to point newbies to this page whenever they write me saying “I do not know where to start”.

Respondents were allowed to list open source or commercial tools on any platform. Commercial tools are noted as such in the list below. Many of the descriptions were taken from the application home page or the Debian or Freshmeat package descriptions. I removed marketing fluff like “revolutionary” and “next generation”. No votes for the Nmap Security Scanner were counted because the survey was taken on an Nmap mailing list. This audience also means that the list is slightly biased toward “attack” tools rather than defensive ones.

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TAP @ Stanford: Biulding the Semantic Web. Includes TAPACHE, a specifically-tailored version of Apache.

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Various anti-spam tools

• freshmeat.net: Editorials – SpamAssassin vs. Spastic: FRESHMEAT article comparing the two approaches/systems.
• Vipul’s Razor: a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network. Through user contribution, Razor establishes a distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam in propagation that is consulted by email clients to filter out known spam.
• POPFile: a *locally-installed* antispam & sorting tool for Windoze & LINUX.
• ActiveSpam Killer: Everytime an email is received, a message is sent back to the sender asking for confirmation. If that sender does not confirm the message, it remains queued for delivery. If the sender confirms, the message is delivered and removed from the queue.

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List of projects for GNUStep (a NeXTStep GPL clone)

• DSITRI Project – mySTEP: LINUX-based NeXStep clone
• myPDA : same but for LINUX-based PDAs (Zaurus, iPaq/LINUX)
• LINUXStep: another GPL’d NeXTStep clone
• Simply GNUStep : a SourceForge NeXTStep project
• InterfaceWM>: SourceForge GPL’d project to implement the WM (Workspace Manager) concept borrowed from NeXTStep

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STREETWARE @ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: wonderful collection of “concept” wearable devices.

My favoritest (name-wise) is a toss up between the “Squi” (cellphone, organizer, email and web browser all in one) and “Suction Babies” (Small wearable care robots roam the surface of your skin applying lotion, meedication, cleansing, and shaving: for the programmer with no time for these activities”).

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Eyetop: Fashion eyewear for wearables.

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‘Pacemaker’-like GPS Device for Humans: Slashdot article about a subdermal GPS Personal Location Device from Applied Digital Solutions.

Other links for more detail:

• Subdermal GPS Personal Location Device: Press release from Applied Digital Solutions.
• Digital Angel: a “personal GPS” device made by Applied Digital Solutions

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Checky: Plug-in for Mozilla based Browsers.

Plugin to MOZILLA-based browsers which accesses/utilizes a wide range of syntax checkers including W3C, Bobby (ADA-compliance), and RSS.

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XWDB Open Source XML Database Software: XML database integration toolkit for XML, relational, and graph databases.

The toolkit includes an XML adaptor for RDBMSs, a graph/XML data store implemented using a RDBMS, and tools for browsing and querying federated databases.

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Booby bookmark manager: online bookmarks, contacts, todos and notes management.

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Group for User Interface Research @ UC Berkeley: interesting collection of projects @ UC Berkeley.

Includes:

• DENIM: an informal tool for early stage web site and UI Design. (hand sketches with hyperlinks implemented).
• QUILL and GDT”: Toosl for designing gestures for pen-based interfaces.
• Context Fabric: Infrastructure Support for Context-Awareness.
  Modern computer systems impose severe limitations on who can use computers and where they are used. Context-aware computing seeks to overcome these limitations by providing tighter ties between the physical and social worlds we live in and the virtual world in which computers operate. The Context Fabric focuses on service infrastructure support for context-awareness, to greatly simplify the task of creating and maintaining context-aware applications.

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DENIM and SILK: UC Berkeley project for sketch-based UI design.

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BlogSkins.com: free skins for MT & Blogger.

So far, a so-so collection. But the notion of “skins” with MT is intriguing …

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PowerBlog.net: Windows-based blogging client.

Has both a free (Ads included) and for-pay ($9.95, no ads) version.

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MailWasher: spam filer/system that sends “bounce” messages back to spammers.

Simple, effective (I think).

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XML-RPC API (for blogging clients).

So far not too many listed; the most interesting is the PHP Blogging API from Dented Reality in Australia (love the company name!) which purports to support BLOGGER and MoveableType.

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BlogFrocks: absolutely *stunning* examples of templates which can be used freely via / for MoveableType.

Products of the Design Journal, an online ‘zine describing techniques.

An example of an alternate “skin” (dynamic!) is here.

this site deserves *much* study.

An offshoot of this site:

Dometicat’s Skins Tutorial: a nice, concise description of “skinning” and some pointers to specific systems/blogging systems and tips for same.

For example, Moveable Type template definitions for skinning.

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