Links from 2013 (601 links)

Doof. Bit hidden away.

Turn Disk Utility's Debug menu on, mount the recovery partition, run firmware password tool from the recovery image. Useful when display is fried, sorting via VNC.

Tea killed screen.

I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web. Google is committed to making money and knowing everything I do. Firefox greets me with a page explaining my rights as a user of open source software. Chrome greets me with… sigh… Chrome greets me with a fucking advertisement for a Chromebook.

Possibly the world's only cardboard office furniture manufacturer, but still.

Via jamesholloway.

Anyone who thinks social media is a valid replacement for an RSS-reader, leave the room now.

[A] command-line tool that will help you automate your paperless workflow from your scanner to your e-filing cabinet. Paperless analyzes your scanned documents and processes them through a set of user defined rules. These rules determine how and where to file the document.

[A] tool for organizing and renaming your movies, tv shows or anime, and music well as downloading subtitles and artwork.

For government services, we believe the costs of developing and maintaining apps will very rarely justify their benefits, especially if the underlying service design is sub-optimal.

Departments should focus on improving the quality of the core web service.

‘I am finding it increasingly plausible that existential risk is the biggest moral issue in the world,’ he told me. ‘Even if it hasn’t gone mainstream yet.’

A boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.

Bugger.

Burning random stuff for parents.

SmallDVD is a simple DVD authoring utility for MacOSX that will take video files and create a DVD image from them that can be burnt using Disk Utility.

My short piece for the Smithsonian Magazine has made it online: http://t.co/KNvQ5EIxvr

Via monospaced.

Including handy cross-platform "Aspyr Games With Multiplayer" status

Via monospaced.