CLI Magic: A new tool for Formula 1 fans June 20, 2006
User level: Intermediate Many feel that the the command line offers only archaic system tools crafted by gnarly old Unix geeks who cut their coding teeth before there was an Internet, let alone a blogosphere. They are sadly mistaken. The focus of this week’s CLI Magic column is an example of a new CLI tool designed exclusively for Formula 1 — sorry, NASCAR — fans. It’s called Live-F1, and it brings realtime race and practice data from Formula 1 events around the globe to your Linux terminal window.
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Flock is a "social browser" built on the Firefox code base, which integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features. Last November I took a look at an early Flock release, and found it to be interesting, if a little bit rough. The Flock folks have been hard at work, and the new Flock beta release looks solid enough to be a must for users who spend a great deal of time blogging, sharing pictures, or using services like del.icio.us.
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To many commentators, the newly released Limited Test version of Google Spreadsheets is the first move by a major company to challenge Microsoft’s domination of the office suite. The functional reality, however, is less dramatic. From a user’s perspective, Google Spreadsheets suffers the same limitations as Writely, Ajax13, ThinkFree Online, and half a dozen other online applications. Its lack of printing options and narrow selection of format, sorting, and formula tools makes it such a lightweight application that using it for anything except the simplest of projects is impossible. In fact, now that online applications are no longer a novelty, …
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