The light version of Cadsoft Eagle Cad is a free tool to draw electronic circuits. This tool is available for Windows, OSX and Linux. It allows you to draw electronic schematics and design PCB boards.

The Arduino Mega schematics in Eagle CAD Light
Arduino
arduino, electronics, Software
It took some time but I manged to create a DMG image file for OpenTTD 1.0.5. Just extract the zip, open the DMG file and drag the OpenTTD application to the application folder. You can download the DMG file here.

general
free, openttd, OSX, Software
Open Transport Tycoon is a game which supports Windows and Linux native. Since I use a mac I tried to compile it for OSX, which worked out pretty well. If you have a Mac and want to play OpenTTD you can download the compiled version here. Just unzip the file by double clicking. The only thing missing is the graphics and sound files.
The graphics can be downloaded here. Just extract the zip file into the data directory of my compiled version.
The sound files can be downloaded here. Just extract the zip file into the data directory of my compiled version.
If you run into trouble feel free to leave a comment. This version of OpenTTD has been compiled on Mac OS 10.6.4.

OpenTTD running under Mac OSX 10.6.4
Software
free, openttd, OSX, Software
I recently do quite some work in SPSS, which is a program used for statistical analysis. A license for SPSS is quite expensive but there is a cheap solution as well…

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Software
gnu, open source, oss, pspp, Software, spss, statistics
Angry IP scanner is a free network scanner which supports Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. It has an intuitive GUI which makes it easy to use. You can download Angry IP scanner here, more screenshots are available here.

Software
Linux, OSX, Software, Ubuntu, windows
Synthesia is a very cool game for beginner, novice and expert piano players. At first sight it looks a little bit like Guitar Hero, but now it is used for piano. Here are some more screenshots. Nice about synthesia is that it is free. The free version can load all the midi files you want, but does not show any sheet music. If you want to see the sheet music you have to buy Synthesia for $18.

Synthesia screenshot
Software
free, music, piano, Software
Next week I will get my very first appartment
Now I need to draw a map with all the measurements of all the rooms. A friend showed me this pretty neat tool: sweet home 3d. Ik can not only draw maps but gives you a 3d impression as well! Since it is programmed in Java it can run on Windows, OSX and Linux. Happy drawing!

screenshot
Software
Software
When I started this blog I wanted to have nice looking permalinks for all articles. This means all articles have links like:
http://www.basvandijk.eu/2009/01/01/happy-new-year/
instead of
http://www.basvandijk.eu/?id=3458
I almost got this working except the fact that my URLs contained “index.php” like:
http://www.basvandijk.eu/index.php/2009/01/01/happy-new-year/
After searching through lots of websites I found a solution for this issue.
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Software
Software, web, wordpress