July, 2009

  1. Google Finally Adds Creative Commons Image Search Option

    Google finally added the ability to restrict image searches to only images that are tagged with a Creative Commons license. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share,…

  2. My Kind of Long Term Data Storage

    Via the Long Now blog, I ran across this article describing researchers’ efforts to create a data storage system to last a thousand years or more. Rather than rely on optical or magnetic media, both of which can be corrupted fairly easily over decades — much less hundreds of years — of storage, Japanese researchers…

  3. Jakob Nielsen Argues for Abandoning Password Masking on Websites

    Jakob Nielsen makes the case against password masking — the convention of displaying asterisks or some other symbol instead of the actual characters typed in password entry boxes. Nielsen notes that password masking was originally implemented as a security measure, but questions just how much security it adds under the conditions most of us use…

  4. Gallery 3 – Beta 2 Released

    The developers of the open source photo gallery software Gallery have released the second beta version of the forthcoming Gallery 3. Among other things it looks like they’ve taken a cue from WordPress and baked in a one-click auto-upgrader.  Can’t wait for the release version of this to finally hit.

  5. Drafts Dropdown Plugin for WordPress

    Drafts Dropdown is a plugin for WordPress that adds a dropdown menu to every page in the admin section which when clicked lists links to all draft posts and pages. A much better way to manage draft posts than having to constantly go to Posts/Pages and clicking on Edit or going back to the Dashboard.

  6. Clothes That Could Take Photos – I So Need That

    The BBC reports on a new fiber created at MIT that can “detect the wavelength and direction of light falling on it.” The real point of the research was to coordinate the activities of different nano-scale devices. In this case, they were able to reconstruct a crude image sent by a small patch of these…