Todd Boss

What a great concept: artists from around the world submit their designs for each frame of the video, and fans on the Internet rate each one to create a music video composed of the best individual frames.  This is a must-see.

If every app did this, I wouldn’t need a scroll wheel…

Using a few free tools, you can create your own Dropbox-esque system on your own network.  Due to its sheer simplicity and cross-platform awesomeness, I think I’ll stick with Dropbox for the time being.  However, this article turned me on to inotify, which you can use to automatically monitor a file tree in Linux.

Inotify will watch the specified folders for changes and notify you when they happen.  I’m actually pretty excited about this since I’ve got a need to do just that in my master’s project, and I was dreading the idea of writing a polling algorithm to repeatedly walk the whole tree (to say nothing of the performance implications).

If you’d like to try inotify (it’s included in Linux kernels since mid-2005) check out the fileschanged command here.  With one quick command, you can set it up to watch a folder and report changes any way you want.

Next, I’ll be checking out inotify-java and JNotify for potential use in my Groovy/Java project.

The new Skype app has been released for Android (2.1 and higher).  The only bummer here is that in the US you still need two apps.  The new app allows you to make Skype calls over WiFi, but it does NOT let you use your 3G connection.  At least for now, you’ll have to keep the old “Skype Mobile” app around to make calls on the cellular network.

I want.

Calls to the US and Canada are free (for the rest of this year, at least)!

Chrome to Phone sends webpages, text, driving directions, and phone numbers from your PC to your Android device with one click.  Nice!

I installed LauncherPro as my new home screen and WOW…it’s like a brand new phone.  The UI is more responsive, and you can choose the number of home screens (1-7).  Google should acquire this product and make it the Android default.