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Make your PrintScreen (and alt-print screen) button work the way it ought. Save to file (bmp, png, jpg), print to printer, or copy to dumb ol’ clipboard. Works in any version of windows since Win95, and it’s only 114k

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Planet Psi (http://planet.psi-im.org) is a way for you to see inside the minds of the Psi developers. However, unlike vivisection, this is more of a blog. This blog is the place where you’ll find detailed developer-focused info on the creations, challenges, and other things our team thinks about, some of which do begin with the letter “C”. All Psi, all the time… (discuss this)

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Opera for Windows Mobile Pocket PC

Hmm. Not sure if I should be impressed or what.

Let me tell you the backstory. I use Pocket IE for browsing because, well, because it’s about the only thing out there. It does an OK job of rendering large pages on the small screen, but its tabless and otherwise featureless.

First thing I did on Opera 5 was to go to Google. Duh. On PIE, presumably because of the user agent string it sends, Google switches me straight over to their mobile page, which is google.com/xhtml. Weird URL, but anyway. On Opera instead I got the big page. So I type this URL in manually and splat.

Now to try Minimo again…maybe its gotten better since December.

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Geez, thanks for telling me guys!

Stupid IE.

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While I’m glad that with Windows XP, you can finally burn CDs natively, your options are few. Sometimes you need a little more. Well, I went on a quick freeware search and came up with SilentNight Micro CD Burner.

The interface is pretty straightforward, if a little odd with the little 3D-style buttons in the status bar. But what is so cool is what you get for so little. Not only is it free, it’s tiny–1.16 MB to be precise.

Features:

• Burn data CDs
• Burn data DVDs
• Burn audio CDs
• Build and burn ISO images
• Backup mode to archive files and burn them directly to disc

So check it out. I had a need this morning and SilentNight filled it very quickly and easily.

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As formally announced on our forums, Psi 0.10 has been released after a long development cycle. Significant changes include tabbed chat windows, transparent chat & roster windows, and several other nifty GUI features like Growl support in OSX and an auto-resizing input box.

Next up to the plate is a port to QT4 for 0.11, which is already well on the way. Aside from the obvious benefits to QT/KDE developers, a big bonus is we’ll finally be able to compile Psi “for free” on Windows as Trolltech open-sourced the toolkit for that platform in the latter part of last year.

Then for 0.12 and forward we’ll be back to adding new features like:

* “Jingle” Google Talk-compatible VOIP
* MUC (Multi-user Chat) support
* Full XMPP compliance
* Ad-Hoc Commands

This year should see much improvement for us.

Download for all platforms at http://psi-im.org/download

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Ok, blog spam. It’s like regular spam, but dumber. The theory is if you post a comment to a popular blog that gets high google rankings, then when google spiders the popular blog, it’ll find the link back to the poster’s website, and increase their search engine ranking. The dumb part is that blog spam is pretty easily thwarted in a way. You can:

1. disable comments
2. moderate all comments
3. moderate (or block outright) unregistered posters, and don’t allow people to register new accounts

Obviously, to varying degrees, these will turn off posters and reduce the appeal of having your say on whatever the topic at hand may be. Then there are other, more complex ways of dealing with the problem. This part is actually interesting to me. Ok, spam is effective–why? Because it’s so cheap to produce, it doesn’t take many responses to turn a profit. But its only cheap when it is automated. Over the past few years, spammers have gotten more devious about their livelihood. Some apparently come up with tools to automatically spider the web and post comments wherever they find a blog. You look at the HTML, parse the titles of fields in a form and it’s fairly straightforward programmatically to then fill it in.

So how do you let real people in, but keep spam bots out?
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Just real quick, no time to write this up properly:

PSP Sony PlayStation Portable - News and Homebrew Updated 24/7: iRiver to Rain on PSP’s Parade?

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