OneSwarm: Privacy preserving peer-to-peer

This is an interesting new technology for privacy preserved p2p sharing. It is being created at the University of Washington

OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing. OneSwarm is:

• Privacy preserving: OneSwarm uses source address rewriting to protect user privacy. Instead of always transmitting data directly from sender to receiver (immediately identifying both), OneSwarm may forward data through multiple intermedaries, obscuring the identity of both sender and receiver. For more details, check out the OneSwarm overview screencast or our papers.
• User friendly: OneSwarm’s interface is web-based and supports real-time transcoding of many audio and video formats for in-browser playback, eliminating the need for casual users to master a new application’s interface or search for custom media codecs.
• Open: OneSwarm is freely available and built on existing standards. OneSwarm can operate as a fully backwards compatible BitTorrent client, and its friend-to-friend data sharing features are built on cryptographic standards, e.g., X.509 certificates and SSL encryption.

Download @:

www.oneswarm.com

Easy iTunes download link

Tired of clocking through page after page to get to the download page of apple itunes?

Download newest iTunes here: getitunes.tk.

Remember: Just type getitunes.tk in the browser and it gets you right where you should be. And it will work with all new versions forever! No ads, no funny business.

Cool huh?

Shameless self-promotion of my band IrisMae

I’m plugging my band’s website here, just to let you know that we exist.

Check us out at www.irismae.com ! Leave feedback here or at some of our community sites. (you’ll be able to get to them from there)

I just made  a facebook page for us so come be friends with us on facebook if you like our music.

The songs featured in the web player on www.irismae.com are songs from our demo single. We are currently about to release a full length album. Which, for those of you who follow us on twitter is held up by a complaining studio computer. But we’ll fix that!

Give us your ears for a while, and let’s be friends

Graphology: Analyze your handwriting online!

“Graphology is the study of handwriting, especially when employed as a means of analyzing character.

We all write differently from the model taught to us at school. How we form and combine characters and position them on the page creates a unique writing pattern. All the variations we put on these characters symbolize different yet interrelated aspects of ourselves.”

I tried this, it was fun

Start by writing something on a piece of paper, try to get all the letters.

go to

http://www.ofesite.com/graphology/hand.htm

And follow the steps.

You will get an e-mail that explains the different characters of your handwriting and how they supposedly relate to your personality.

It was quite accurate for me

Identify a Font | Typeface Identification – How to Find the Name of an Unknown Font

Want to know what font is used in a logo, A nice looking magazine or a good book?

Snap a picture,  upload and find out what it is:

About Type & Fonts Forum
Post a sample GIF or point to an URL with an example of the font you need to identify. Members help members identify and locate fonts. Sometimes you’ll get a perfect match, sometimes not, but it’s a great starting point.

Identifont – Identify a font from a logo
Use this option when you only have a few letters to work with. It only asks questions about those characters. Not as accurate but still good to use.

Identifont – Identify a font
Answer a series of questions about the letter shapes to help narrow down the choices. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not as well. But definitely worth trying when you have a fairly good sample of characters to work with.

Identifont – Find a picture/symbol font
Type in keywords to locate dingbat fonts that contain the kind of images you need such as ‘cats’ or ‘leaves’.

What Font is This?
Kathleen Tinkel helps you become a font detective and identify and locate specific fonts.

WhatTheFont
Upload a GIF or submit the URL of the unknown font and get back top 10 guesses of what it is. Easy to use. Fair to Great results depending on the image you supply.