It’s time for a quick post with some links which I have discovered this week which interested me and will probably also interest you! Many of these links will be for OS X considering my conversion.

1. Scribbles is a seriously cool drawing application for OS X. It’s extremely simple and is by no means a replacement for software like The GIMP or Photoshop but is rather just a nice doodling application to waste your time with. It has an extremely simple, yet feature packed and attractive, 3D interface. Scribbles has nice textured, natural-looking brushes, support for layers (with transparency) and is shareware costing only $20. If you don’t pay $20, it just becomes nagware asking you to buy it for 10 seconds each time you launch it and adds a non-obtrusive watermark to any images you export.
2. MacHeist have a Mac Giving Tree open until sometime tomorrow. Per person you refer to the Giving Tree, you get one free piece of software on Christmas morning!
3. Some Mac developers are providing Christmas reductions.
4. JDarkRoom is a free, multi-platform piece of software which is a good alternative to WriteRoom.
5. CrypTool is a piece of Windows FOSS with many simple and advanced features. The aim of the software is to educate people regarding cryptography and it is very good (it can do things such as automatically solve many Vigenere ciphers!).
6. On a non-tech note, Tony Blair’s converted to Roman Catholicism. I wonder if it will impact in anyway on the Middle Eastern peace process.
7. A youth failed his driving test. (I didn’t say chav!).
8. Azhar pointed me to these funny quotes on insurance claims.
9. Have a Merry Christmas!