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WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version)

WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version). WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version) with added cooler features and internationalization. For those uninitiated, The Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon's catalogue to your wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you've added, too, so you can choose what to display, how [...]

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide

If I ever get around to it, this might be useful Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting. A “must-have” guide for sys-admins, web-developers and programmers working on Unix-like systems. This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction [...]

SendToAny – send any file to any app

SendToAny – send any file to any app. Here’s a cool little hack that extends the utility of the “Send To…” command on context menus in Windows. SendToAny synchronizes your Start Menu to the Send To… menu so you can send any file to any application, regardless of the file association you might have set [...]

Setup a Local Mirror of your WordPress Blog

Although some of this is highly Mac specific, it looks like it will still be helpful in configuring a similar setup on my Windows LAMP configuration as well. Setup a Local Mirror of your Blog – Mac OSX. girtby.net has detailed instructions on how to setup a local mirror of your WordPress blog on a [...]

Favicons from Pics

I might choose to use this in the next iteration of my blog 256 pixels worth of frustration. Looking for a decent favicon for a tool I'm building I came across Favicons from Pics which does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Now all I need is a decent picture to work [...]

Blogs as personal knowledge management tool

I'm in the midst of a similar project as a way to learn WordPress as a step toward converting McGee's Musings to WordPress in the not too distant future. In the opening post, John Hesch quotes an observation from Paul Allen that struck home forcefully: But like some other good habits I have developed over [...]

DSL connections troubleshooting in put

Looks like some good info/input on getting DSL connnections at home and at BI streamlined and set up as correctly as possible. The Slow Route to FastAccess. Six hours I'll never get back: Hooking up a LinkSys WRT54G broadband router to my Windows XP box. The router, which I bought for around $50 after a [...]

Celestia: Real-Time Space Simulation

The wonderful thing about the net is all the neat stuff you can find to play with instead of doing something productive. Celestia: Real-Time Space Simulation. A coworker tipped me off to this cool space simulation that allows for three-dimensional travel of the universe. From the website: Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you [...]

Eric Meyer’s CSS Presentation Tool – S5

Something else I need to get around to sooner rather than later. One more opportunity to piggyback on the work of people smarter than I am. S5 1.1a4. Hooray, we’re up to 1.1a4! The only real change here is that I’ve added a “what do you want to hide, the controls or just the popup [...]

New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal

Something to add to the list of tools to check out. I’m slowly working through an evaluation of new blogging tools and may even get around to making a transition to a new tool. New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal – Scott on Feedster. New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal – Written in RUBY [Weblog [...]