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TrueCrypt 5.1

Posted by micele - 11/03/08 at 11:03:15 am

.. is out now! Just 27 days after the 5.0a Release.

Thank god, they brought back the command line interface for Linux and Mac OS X. With the 5.0 release the GUI (so far only known by Windows user) was established on all platforms. This was quite a good improvement but in return the removed the possibility to create and manage volumes on the command line…
It seems they realized this mistake and fixed it
In addition TrueCrypt now supports hibernation on Windows platforms with encrypted system partitions and the bootloader is now compressed so that it takes only 27 KB. This is an advantage especially for systems where the BIOS needs a lot of memory.

For the hole list of improvements and bug-fixes view the changelog.

Get it!

Mr. Macintosh, say hello to Mr. Beolingus

Posted by Nils - 11/03/08 at 08:03:22 am

Many many thanks to Wolfgang Reszel!

He’s the one who packaged the whole Beolingus-Database in one Dictionary for Mac OS. Now one can spotlight search trough the thesaurus, wikipedia and beolingus at the same time, to find the word or phrase you’re looking for.

And: trough this ~100 mb download, you get whole thing on your mac and can search offline, whenever you like!

And and: these’s also a package for Daniel Naber’s openthesaurus.de - an open german thesaurus.

UPDATE: Pretty funny - mainly the same article popped up exactly at the same time at apfelquak.de

ViDock gfx is …

Posted by Nils - 09/03/08 at 07:03:58 pm

… a dockable Graphiccard extension for your Expresscard enabled Notebook.

For everyone out there with a Powerbook or a MacBook Pro: your chances for over 5 megapixels just got a whole lot better!

ViDock gfx

Meet the GIMP

Posted by bene - 09/03/08 at 02:03:53 pm

Rolf Steinort published a very nice series of video podcasts about GIMP – 35 episodes so far!

If you ever wanted to edit pictures on Linux but got stuck at the unusual user interface, you should definitely watch the tutorials.

Episode 001: Preparing an image for the web

Keywurl

Posted by Nils - 06/03/08 at 12:03:42 pm

I’ve always been a fan of Safari, because of the speed and more im important the uncluttered, clean interface. The only thing i always missed, was the ability to punch a search string directly into the addressbar.

Well the waiting is over - thanks to keywurl.

Easily configurable in safari’s prefenrences, it’ll soon become your closest friend when it comes to fast, excessive searching in multiple services.

And yes, I’m aware of the fact that this feature is de-facto standard in all the other browsers - but this one doenst look like §$%&

- Nils