Because Versions officially released it’s Beta today, I dug out this draft that had been unpublished for a long time (It was intended to be published in addition to the Versions Beta announcement one year ago):

This list represents three very popular graphical user interfaces for the Subversion client svn. The applications help developers to manage their repositories without being a bash or shell champion. Feel free to leave a comment in case I forgot an essential tool.

Read the full entry "Subversion Interfaces on Mac OS X"

Alekc provides a simple but stunningly fast Last.fm wallpaper generator that fetches your favourite album covers and stitches them to an impressive wallpaper.

After choosing a resolution of your choice it could look something like the following image – a collage of my favorite albums for the last 3 months:

During your life with a computer lots of precious data piles up: Digital photos, essays, homework, projects or any kind of computer files. Now I’m telling nothing new when I begin with: Backups are important!

Read the full entry "Open Source Network Backup Solutions"

Mozilla just released Operator, a very promising microformat detection extension for Firefox that demonstrates the usefulness of semantic information on the Web, in real world scenarios.

In creating Operator [...] goals were to create something that was useful to microformat developers as well as users looking to explore microformats. As such, the Operator Toolbar can be displayed in two modes: Microformats mode and Actions mode.

If you’ve not heard of Microformats yet: Those are simple markup structures that allow expression of semantics in an (X)HTML web page, making it easier to read for machines and easier to built for authors because of the adaption to standards.

Two keyboard shortcuts in Firefox 2 on OS X really annoy me — one of them used in the extension LiveHTTP Headers:

Shift + 7

Whenever I want to type an URL with http:// I can’t type a standard slash, because this brings up the Firefox search bar at the bottom of the browser window. When did they build in that one?

Option + L

This key combination is supposed to print the @-character (mostly important to type E-Mail adresses). Unfortunately the extension LiveHTTPHeaders — an extension to visualize the traffic under the hood — uses this shortcut to bring up the Live Headers Sidebar.

There are already many complaints in the suggestions area — the first reporting of this issue even was in March 2005. This plugin is really useful and absolutely cool, no question. But should it be that hard to change the shortcut keys in the code or implement a user-defined one?

These misused shortcuts give an extra bonus on annoyance when filling out web-forms, because that’s where you usually type in an E-Mail or Web adress (using slashes and the at-symbol).

Any suggestions on how to “repair” this?

This new beta version of Skype supports public chats and Skypecasts. Users can participate or start moderated public phone conferences.
Go get the Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows.

Conspicious was the fact that Skype 3.0 Beta also installed a Firefox Extension. Could this be the necessary interface to my idea of the Skype Links Extension?

The 3.0 beta is available for WinXP/2k only. Since the Mac version just learned the video function, it may take some time until these new community functions are implemented in the OS X version of Skype.

Update: Now Skype 2.5 Beta is out for Mac.