Tag: FUSE

Project Emporia, from the very same FUSE lab that brought us Spindex, has a name that no doubt stems from the ancient mercantile 'emporium' of valuable goods. It is, put simply, a Silverlight app which skims the best of the rest from Twitter. Select a lens (or topic), such as 'technology' or 'business', and watch as Twitter is filtered into two delightful columns -- in real time! You get a ...

When we covered Microsoft's announcement of Spindex, the new social aggregator that just came out of MS's FUSE lab, a lot of readers wanted more details. Well, now that some of the private beta invites have come out, some lucky bloggers are posting the details of Spindex. (Yo, Microsoft! Where's my beta invite?) TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid just put up a nice walkthrough of the site's features. ...

Microsoft just made a play to ensure its future in the era of social networks by ... aggregating everybody else's. Spindex, Microsoft's new social product, gathers your Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Bing and even Evernote into one convenient location. We don't really know much about Spindex yet, but it has the feel of a Friendfeed (which was at least successful enough to be acquired by Facebook) or a ...

Ah, Flickr. How we love you. We loved the idyllic pre-Yahoo! days, and held back our tears with the Yahoo! phase of growth. But even when things seem so good, we wonder what the future holds. Microsoft? AOL? An undead uprising? Now couple our fears with our stupidity. All those photos we uploaded over the past year or two? The ones housed safely on our hard drive? Yeah, right... the hard drive we, ...

Thanks to reader Jan for pointing this out. Actually, unless I'm mistaken, thanks to reader Jan for creating this! If you've installed MacFUSE and SSHFS either from source or using the installer, Secure Remote Disks is a little (<500K) Cocoa GUI to help automate mounting remote ssh directories. As you can see from the screencap, SRD will store a list of servers together with mount points, ...

The big splash in the Mac community--and the rest of the world--last week was obviously the iPhone. For Mac users, though, the iPhone announcement may have distracted from the really big news: Amit Singh's release of a MacFUSE beta, his port of the Linux FUSE API to OS X. If you're wondering what, exactly, that means, FUSE stands for Filesystem in USErland, and it provides a generic interface that ...