FlickrFan public beta

Posted on April 19, 2008 in General News

FlickrFan public beta

FlickrFan is a new kind of RSS reader for the Macintosh. You subscribe to feeds of cool pictures and show them on the screen of your laptop, desktop or best of all, a big screen high-def TV in your den, office or living room!

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Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step) - remysharp.com

Posted on April 09, 2008 in How-to

Linked is a working example of loading twitters after the page has completed, thus preventing the whole page from locking up.

Google App Engine - Google Code

Posted on April 08, 2008 in General News

Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure.
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
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AutoRuns for Windows - technet.microsoft.com

Posted on April 08, 2008 in Fix-it

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder …

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Nicecast: Broadcast any audio anywhere - Rogue Amoeba

Posted on April 07, 2008 in General News

Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library …

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perl.com: Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core

Posted on April 03, 2008 in Experience, How-to

an old article but very handy...

The Perl Core comes with a lot of little modules to help you get thejob done. Many of these modules are not well-known. Even some of the well-known modules have some nice features that are often …

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5 Ways to Test If Your ISP Throttles P2P « NewTeeVee

Posted on April 03, 2008 in How-to

Do your torrent downloads seem to be taking longer than usual? Are you trying to transfer, say, a home video to a friend via Pando and the upload keeps getting stuck? Or maybe you’re having problems with BitTorrent’s …

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How to Change the Timezone in Linux - wikiHow

Posted on April 02, 2008 in How-to

Most modern Linux distributions have user-friendly programs to set the timezone, often accesible through the program menus or right-clicking the clock in a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. Failing that it's possible to manually change the system timezone in Linux …

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Creating a HOSTS Editor in Windows XP - mvps.org

Posted on April 01, 2008 in How-to

This is by far the easiest way to edit the HOSTS file in XP that I've found. I also like the serving up a HOSTS file from a server (see the link).

Lifted from: myps.org 

To edit your HOSTS file you can create a custom Desktop or Quick Launch …

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How to unzip very large files

Posted on March 18, 2008 in How-to

Some windows programs use a compression for larger files that is not compatible with the linux unzip command. Resulting in the following error:

need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

There is a special program for handling these large files: p7zip

Run these commands to install and run …


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