Yesterday, I praised the brilliant DAA2ISO program that converts PowerISO’s proprietary DAA files into more usable ISO images. Today, I ask if you have ever had problems trying to open a UIF file (MagicISO’s proprietary format)?

Because if you have, then again look no further than to Luigi Auriemma’s collection of programs. The program you want this time around is called UIF2ISO, and it does a perfect job converting UIF files to ISO.

Now, if only Auriemma could come up with a program that converts dirty dishes into washed-up dishes, and I think I would be ready to marry the guy.

Ever had the problem of finding yourself faced with a big fat DAA disk image and no PowerISO to open it with, nor any intention of installing the program?

I have. Fortunately, there is a handy little tool called DAA2ISO that works marvels. Do take a look at Luigi Auriemma’s collection of programs. I have so far failed to encounter a DAA file that it could not convert to ISO.

Andy Baio has posted an interesting article based on a shared network drive that Infocom used in 1989.

Infocom, of course, is/was the company behind such text adventures — sorry, interactive fiction titles — as the Zork series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and my personal favourite Planetfall. Baio’s article gives us a piece of history that is Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

It is a fairly long article, but well worth reading, as are the comments at the end of it. Doubly interesting is the question that it raises, somewhat unintentionally, about what constitutes (good) journalism and what one should do if one were to find a pot of gold like Baio has here stumbled upon.

I have no answers, as usual. Just observations.