links for 2009-10-25

geek.menu is a fork of the portableApps.com menu system. It has many enhanced features (a complete list is available here such as support for:
* truecrypt
* categories
* custom buttons
* multi wallpaper switching
* auto-executing apps on start
* ejection scripts
* special behavior for authorized PCs
* local/www searchbar
via http://lifehacker.com/5389421/five-best-portable-apps-suites

Gorgeous! Fire breathing videos captured in 1000+ fps for viewing in super slow motion. Currently only low res version is present. via http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/25/super-slomo-fire-bre.html

Lupo PenSuite is a completely free suite of portable programs and games. This Suite is designed to simplify the user's life, by collecting the best suites and portable applications available on the Web.
Optimized to be loaded on a USB flash drive and brought always with you, this Suite works perfectly well on any other device. It includes over 200 highly selected portable programs and games (7-Zip, Audacity, CCleaner, eMule, FileZilla, Firefox, Foxit Reader, GIMP, IrfanView, Notepad++, Opera, Pidgin, Thunderbird, µTorrent, VLC and many more).

A handy open source file renaming utility

A handy portable applications suite – includes multimedia, disk management, internet, productivity, security & utility software. Perfect fit for a thumb drive. Comes in 3 flavours ranging from a 56 MB setup to 186 MB.

Crowdsourcing at its best! What happens when you let loose crazy Star Wars fans on a remake project of the movie? You get a ton of 15 second clips that get put together to recreate the original. It's a work in progress though.

What happens when X-men meets peanuts or He-man meets Garfield. A really interesting & innovative take on comics.

A couple of workarounds for the high CPU usage in the Online Armor firewall. The first solution seems to work for me. Hope they fix it some time. Hopefully it's not the second case with the nvidia drivers for me.