2026-07-07 Theocacao Ridiculously Useful Shortcuts Easily Forgotten: Scott Stevenson's Theocacao covers Mac OS X and Cocoa/Objective-C development tips, including this page highlighting lesser-known but highly useful keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps and the Finder. The site also promotes his O'Reilly book on Cocoa and Objective-C, making it a valuable resource for Mac developers and power users alike.
2026-07-07 Thunderbird 3.0 - New Features and Changes - MozillaZine Knowledge Base The MozillaZine Knowledge Base hosts a comprehensive reference article documenting every notable new feature and change introduced in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0, written from the end-user perspective. Covering everything from Smart Folders and the Gloda search engine to message composition tweaks and theme changes, it serves as an essential upgrade guide for longtime Thunderbird users.
2026-07-07 tildeverse RFCs | the tildeverse RFC system The Tildeverse RFC system is a formal standards and request-for-comments repository governing how tilde servers in the Tildeverse community should operate and interoperate. Created by Robert Miles (khuxkm), it provides submission guidelines, numbered RFC documents, and standards mandates that define protocols and formats for tilde box communities.
2026-07-07 Time Emil Mikulic's detailed reference page covers everything a developer needs to know about time: UTC, GMT, Unix timestamps, leap seconds, and how databases like MySQL handle time storage. Featured twice on Hacker News, this concise but thorough guide is a go-to resource for programmers wrestling with timezone headaches and timestamp precision.
2026-07-07 tinyapps.org Tinyapps.org is a long-running catalog dedicated to small, well-crafted software utilities primarily for Windows, organized into categories like network, text, graphics, system, and file tools. The site has evolved into a blend of irregular tech blog and document archive, making it a useful reference for anyone seeking lightweight, no-bloat software recommendations.
2026-07-07 tools | suckless.org software that sucks less The suckless.org tools page hosts dmenu, a fast and lightweight dynamic menu for the X window system, originally built to complement the dwm window manager. Part of the suckless philosophy of minimal, efficient software, this page provides downloads, source code access, and mailing list info for developers and Linux power users.
2026-07-07 Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Mac OS X Settings | Terminal, Dock, iTunes, Finder, Safari | Mac OS X Tips Mac OS X Tips, created by Matt Swain, offers a comprehensive collection of terminal commands and tricks for unlocking hidden settings in Mac OS X applications like Safari, Finder, iTunes, and the Dock. The site is organized by application and system component, making it easy for Mac users to find power-user tweaks not accessible through standard preference panels.
2026-07-07 TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux The official home of TrueCrypt, a free and open-source disk encryption utility for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that encrypts entire drives, partitions, or virtual disk files on the fly. Notable for its plausible deniability feature via hidden volumes and hidden operating systems, it became one of the most widely trusted encryption tools before its controversial discontinuation.
2026-07-07 Tunefish Synth | Home Tunefish is a free, open-source virtual analog synthesizer plugin developed by Brain Control, engineered to produce high-quality audio while fitting into an astonishingly tiny 10kb of compressed machine code. Visitors can download VST/AU versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac, explore multiple generations of the synth, and listen to songs created with it.
2026-07-07 twistori Twistori is a real-time social stream visualizer built by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs that displays public Bluesky posts filtered by emotional keywords like love, hate, think, believe, feel, and wish. Inspired by the original wefeelfine project, it offers a hypnotic window into collective human sentiment as expressed on social media.
2026-07-07 Twitter StreamGraphs Created by Jeff Clark of Neoformix, this page hosts a Java-based interactive tool that visualizes the latest 1000 tweets for any search term or Twitter user as a flowing StreamGraph, showing word usage patterns over time. Visitors can click through word series and time periods to explore tweet content, making it a fascinating early example of social media data visualization.
2026-07-07 txt2tags txt2tags is an open-source document converter created by Aurelio Jargas in 2001 that transforms plain text files with minimal markup into dozens of formats including HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, DokuWiki, and Wikipedia markup. The project site offers full documentation, markup demos, feature lists, downloads, and links to the GitHub repository for both the v2 and v3 maintained versions.
2026-07-07 Unlocking Windows NT/2000/2003 Domain Controllers A detailed technical guide by John M. Simpson (KG4ZOW) on recovering access to locked Windows NT/2000/2003 domain controllers when administrator passwords have been lost or compromised. The page walks through real-world scenarios, tools like Petter Nordahl-Hagen's offline password editor, and step-by-step recovery procedures with candid warnings about common security mistakes.
2026-07-07 Use plain text email A comprehensive guide to plain text email, covering recommended clients, configuration instructions for popular mail programs, and etiquette norms favored in technical communities. Brought to you by the sourcehut team, the site offers detailed setup walkthroughs for dozens of email clients alongside a thoughtful argument for why plain text outperforms HTML in email.
2026-07-07 Userbenchmark's world Userbenchmark is an Australian Neocitizen from Sydney who runs a minimalist personal site centered on his passion for technology, operating systems, and the open web. He shares his enthusiasm for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and the old-web ethos of handcrafted sites, positioning himself as a tech fanatic who prefers Neocities over modern Web 2.0 platforms.
2026-07-07 Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much) Dan Pollock's well-known hosts file resource offers a regularly updated blocklist that prevents computers from connecting to ad servers, spyware domains, and tracking sites. A practical and long-running community project, it supports multiple formats including IPv6 and legacy Mac systems, with contributions credited from dozens of users worldwide.
2026-07-07 Utilities to customize and tweak Windows | LitePC Technologies LitePC Technologies offers utilities like 98lite and XPlite that let users surgically customize and slim down Windows 98, ME, XP, and 2000 installations for performance, security, and embedded computing. The site showcases tools capable of stripping Windows down to a 9MB embedded image with fast boot times, making it a niche gem for retro Windows tinkerers and embedded systems developers.
2026-07-07 uwauwa's gay bots for homosexuals Created by uwauwa, this Neocities page is dedicated to AI chatbot configurations and jailbreaks designed for generating erotic homosexual fiction, organized into sections for bots, jailbreaks, and gifts. The site has a cozy early-web aesthetic complete with Hatsune Miku banners, decorative gifs, and a guestbook, and is also part of a Chatbots Webring.
2026-07-07 V.H. Belvadi V.H. Belvadi's personal blog explores the intersections of science, technology, and society through carefully crafted essays and reviews. The site features thoughtful long-form writing on topics ranging from television criticism to stationery reviews, with a distinctly reflective, intellectual tone throughout.
2026-07-07 VideoHelp - Forum and Software downloads VideoHelp is a comprehensive resource for video enthusiasts covering DVD and Blu-ray ripping, format conversion, encoding, and video authoring, with guides, software downloads, and an active community forum. Visitors can find tools for converting nearly any video format, hardware player reviews, region code hacks, and step-by-step tutorials for working with everything from VHS to 4K UHD content.
2026-07-07 VILEHOME Vince Lavali's personal site showcasing his collection of 'cunnybots,' which appear to be custom chatbot creations. The site is part of a Chatbots Webring and links out to a companion rentry page where additional content is maintained.
2026-07-07 Vim Cookbook Steve Oualline's Vim Cookbook offers practical, step-by-step recipes for accomplishing common and advanced text-editing tasks in the Vim editor. Each recipe covers a specific task such as swapping characters, sorting sections, copying blocks between files, and using built-in grep, with detailed command explanations suitable for users who already know the basics.
2026-07-07 Vim documentation – help The official HTML documentation for Vim 7.3, the powerful and widely-used text editor, hosted on SourceForge and covering navigation, commands, modes, and help system usage. A comprehensive reference for anyone learning or mastering Vim's extensive keyboard-driven interface, from basic movement keys to advanced command-line editing.
2026-07-07 Vim Kōans | Arabesque A clever and entertaining collection of Zen-style koans centered on the Vim text editor, written in the voice of the fictional 'Master Wq' guiding novices toward enlightenment through command-line wisdom. The parables blend genuine Vim technique with dry humor, and have been popular enough to be translated into both Chinese and Spanish.
2026-07-07 VIM Quick Reference Card Laurent Grégoire's VIM Quick Reference Card is a compact, single-page cheat sheet covering nearly every essential Vim command, from cursor movement and text insertion to macros, registers, and file operations. Converted from a LaTeX source using a Python script, it remains one of the most comprehensive and cleanly organized Vim references available on the old web.
2026-07-07 Vim Regular Expressions Softpanorama's Vim Regular Expressions page is a detailed technical reference comparing Vim and Perl regex syntax, complete with metacharacter tables, examples, and tips for power users. Part of the larger Softpanorama site, this section covers Vimscript, syntax highlighting, line ranges, and practical regex patterns for anyone looking to master text editing in Vim.
2026-07-07 vim tips and tricks – plugins A focused reference guide covering Vim 7 tips and tricks, with detailed notes from a user named Ben on spell checking configuration, personal wordlists, and useful keybindings. Part of a larger multi-page Vim tutorial series hosted at Swarthmore, this page is a practical quick-reference for anyone getting the most out of the Vim text editor.
2026-07-07 Vim – helphelp.txt Vimhelp.org hosts the complete, always up-to-date Vim reference manual in an accessible web format, maintained by Carlo Teubner. This particular page covers help system commands, translated help files, and guidelines for writing Vim help documentation, making it an essential bookmark for Vim users of all levels.
2026-07-07 Vim Seven habits of effective text editing: Written by Vim's own creator Bram Moolenaar, this classic 2000 essay lays out seven practical habits for editing text efficiently using the Vim editor. It covers navigation shortcuts, macros, plugins, and general principles that apply beyond Vim to any serious text editing workflow.
2026-07-07 Virtual Memory in Windows XP Written by Alex Nichol, a Microsoft MVP specializing in Windows Storage Management, this detailed technical guide explains how virtual memory works in Windows XP for general users. It covers paging, page file configuration, troubleshooting, and the differences between XP and earlier Windows memory management systems.
