MetaFilter posts tagged with application

pinboard.in is like del.icio.us

chunking express — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:53:54 -0800

Maciej Ceglowski of Idlewords has made a new bookmarking service called pinboard. The goal seems to be to recreate and improve on del.icio.us, which is kind of crazy now. The site has a membership fee which grows as the userbase grows (number of users * $0.001). Maciej Ceglowski calls this a financial CAPTCHA.

A review site for various freeware apps and games

scrutiny — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:36:16 -0800

Freeware Genius is a large review site for various freeware apps, from desktop organizing tools to philosophical flash games . There are literally hundreds of applications reviewed, as well as a few compilations to get you started. Sick of iTunes? Check out these free options. Got a video on youtube that you think will be taken down? Copy it with this app! Really, there's tons of interesting stuff here, so check it out.

Text Utilities

grumblebee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:23 -0800

"Text Utilities" is a useful browser-based tool for geeks. It's a web page that does all sorts of operations on text, e.g. escape/ unescape, hashing, regexp testing.

Susan Hires A Boss

ShawnStruck — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:51 -0800

Susan is currently looking for work. But in this case, instead of asking someone to hire her, Susan is looking to hire a boss. If you're a boss interested in this opportunity, you can apply here.

Readernaut

chunking express — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:58:12 -0800

Readernaut. Share your reading experience by writing notes, tracking progress, and engaging in meaningful discussions with friends.

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Maverick?

cobra_high_tigers — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:19:56 -0800

Want one of the roughly 7,000 jobs in Obama's administration? Hope you've got a pencil and some time to spare. Obama wants any internet "handles" you've used, too, presumably for vetting past snark. But lengthly questionnaires aren't anything new... Google has had a few [login/bugmenot required] in their day.
Being an astronaut also requires a little bit of paperwork.
And of course, Scientology. ("Have you ever eaten a human body?")

A Shed By Any Other Name...

amyms — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:55:41 -0800

"As a great architect once said, 'Buildings should look like what they are'." John Jessop became so frustrated with the red tape required for his company to get permission to build a farm shed, he submitted a sarcastic application . Read his full "Planning Application for Erection of Agricultural Implement Shed" here [pdf, 3 pages]. No word yet on whether the shed was approved. Via.

Interfacing as humanly as possible

lonemantis — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:25:24 -0800

I'm not a computer programmer, but I love the thought and artistry that go into [computer] application design. Just browsing through Apple's latest HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) leaves me awestruck as to how much experience has been amassed and is used in order to design and execute a streamlined operating system. Abstract concepts like metaphors, user's mental model, perceived stability, and modelessness are transparently integrated into our everyday actions. It is often the little things which make all the difference. And sometimes the simplest actions we perform seem really complex when explained. Who knew there were this many buttons? On a related note: David Pogue at TED sings and talks about human interface inconsistency. Finally, I hope Apple will take to heart many of John Siracusa's thoughts regarding improvements to OS X. The inconsistent Finder and the horrid behavior of the Dock, to name only two... I love my Mac.

Introducing Jikto

scalefree — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:40:05 -0800

Klaatu barada...Jikto? First there was Nikto. Then along came Wikto. Last Saturday at Shmoocon Billy Hoffman introduced the world to Jitko, a client-side vulnerability scanner that exploits your browser & turns your PC into a platform for finding holes in computers across the Internet (or behind your firewall). Reactions were mixed. Does Jikto go too far?

Free online photo editor: Picnik.com

loquacious — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:53:40 -0800

Picnik. Free, online photo editing tools.

Dapper: an API for any website

MetaMonkey — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:59:03 -0800

Dapper: The Data Mapper
A recently launched service that allows users to extract data from any website into XML, and transform or build applications and mashups with that data. Described by it's creators as a way to, "easily build an API for any website... through a visual and intuitive process". Plagiarism Today, meanwhile, has cause for concern, "Dapper is a scraper. Nothing more... now the technologically impaired can scrape content from any site... the potential danger [is] very, very real".

You should probably buy a shredder today.

Joey Michaels — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:38:06 -0800

The Torn-Up Credit Card Application. Can you get a credit card with a torn-up application? One citizen puts in the minimal effort to find out.

Ning!

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:16:28 -0800

Ning is a very cool thing. 'Sign up. Build new social apps. Use new social apps.' [via Torrez]

Buy milk on the way home

riffola — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:49:57 -0800

Ta-Da List is 37 Signals' latest offering is free sharable to-do lists. You can keep them to yourself, share them with only specific people, or share them with the world. So now you have no excuse for forgetting to buy milk on the way home.

Whizzkid develops Linux application for Windows

Postroad — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:42:25 -0800

Whizzkid develops Linux application for Windows [...]The significance of the development is that Linux and Windows are able to work in parallel on the same computer or server. To[sic] now, the computer world is divided into systems that operate either with Windows or with Linux. [...]

Furl: A web page filing cabinet

ajr — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:51:39 -0800

Furl is an elegant application that acts as your web filing cabinet. Store, rate and categorize web clippings with the click of a bookmarklet. Once collected, search, share or publish your links via email or RSS. (via Inter-Alia.)

3d17.org

y6y6y6 — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:07:28 -0800

3d17.org - Ian Clarke of Freenet fame has created a distributed, collaborative document editing web application. Much like a wiki, but geared more purely towards polishing and editing documents. Rather than the "build fast" model of the wiki, 3D17 doc modifications are subject a voting process before being applied. [more inside]

Compare your MP3-listening habits

oissubke — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:33:33 -0800

Learn and compare your MP3 listening habits (via Waxy)

Dan Brilliant — Tue, 14 May 2002 08:48:01 -0800

"Motty is fast, simple and free." Football is quite rubbish, but this is great for us office prisoners.

eyeballkid — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:57:13 -0800

For the last year or so, I've been messing around with a little app called Blender. Blender is a piece of 3d rendering and animation software that does quite a bit of what high priced renderers like 3D Studio Max and Ray Dream do [samples]. The difference is that Blender is free.[more...]

o2b — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:27:24 -0800

AirSnort. The dangerous app with the unlikely name allows users to snatch data being passed over wireless networks, eventually capturing passwords to the network.

Irontom — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:50:28 -0800

SynchIt is a bookmark manager that allows you to access your favorites list from multiple machines. However, their server does not seem to be responding.

Since I was out of town (and away from my machine) for all of last week, can anyone tell me what the deal is?

mathowie — Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:02:49 -0800

This is pretty damn cool: your bookmarks, napsterized. A new app (windows only, sorry) to let you share your favorite sites with everyone and allow others to search for them. If they add a hotlist, ala napster, this could be one killer app.

owillis — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:41:36 -0800

Anyone tried Flyswat? Reads web pages with you and makes hyperlinks for words it recognizes. Very cool hypertext tool...

baylink — Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:07:09 -0800

So, how big did you say that app needed to be? Radsoft Labs knocks a Windows DNS client down from 3.5MB to 7*KB*. [Via RISKS Digest.]