Open Source Anti-Theft Software
Prey is open source software that will try to phone home if your computer (or smart phone) gets stolen.
Qt Teaching Material
Qt has put together a set of lectures and exercises for teachers. I hope they do one on Qt Designer for the UI folks.
Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Linux is a customizable micro distro. Could be quite useful for installations or embedded-ish stuff.
Dynamic Web Uploader
The same guys who came up with the TinyMCE javascript editor have now cooked up a multi-browser compatible dynamic uploader with a somewhat dirty sounding name: Pluploader.
V-USB MIDI
Martin Homuth-Rosemann has a super simple, cheap AVR MIDI board based on the V-USB code from ObDev.
Google Sharing
Google Sharing is a Firefox plugin that uses encrypted, proxied connections to make search queries a bit more anonymous. It's not serious cloak and dagger level security but it does give one a bit more privacy and refuge from marketing drones. It's Open Source and you can run your own proxy if you want.
Visual Markov Chains
Markov Chains applied to 2D graphics for "texture synthesis".
Antiqua vs. Fraktur
While many people might think of Fraktur typefaces as "Nazi Fonts", Hitler actually tried to have them banned. Wikipedia covers the whole controversy, which started back in the 1800s.
Elixir Python ORM
Elixir is a nice little wrapper that makes SQLAlchemy a bit more pleasant to use.
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