Friday, October 16, 2009

MindCipher

Just found this site full of interesting puzzles and brain teasers.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The State of Solid State Hard Drives

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror has put up a post on his experience with his latest SSD.

Intel was the only game in town for about a year, but fortunately for us consumers, the competition finally caught up. The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they're cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!

I picked this model up for $325 plus tax and shipping. And, frankly, I was blown away by the performance difference compared to the 300 GB Velociraptor I had in my system before. That drive is not exactly chopped liver; it's incredibly fast by magnetic platter drive standards. But it's beyond slow next to the latest SSDs.

Friday, October 9, 2009

The Printliminator

The Printliminator is a bookmarklet that allows you to remove elements from a web page in your browser and format it for printing.

The Printliminator is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling.