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Archive for 2008

Sync Mac 10.5 iCal and Google Calendar

In the past this was a difficult task on Leopard. It required *gasp* the purchase of software. Typically I am against that, but if the software is good, or performs a task that there is no free alternative for, I’ll buy it. This was the case with Spanning Sync. I want all my calendars synced [...]

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Code Snippets: Edit hosts file in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

I do a lot of development in Leopard. Typically for most projects there is a sandbox set up to mirror the production server. I’ve found the easiest way and best practice to work on the sandbox is to change the IP to forward to the production domain. What you do is open Terminal, which is [...]

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Code Snippets: Add comma’s to a string

Pretty commonly I’ll need to display a string of text that needs to be comma delineated using PHP.  This is the easiest way I have found to accomplish this. <?php $string = “test test2 test3 test4 test5 “; echo substr(str_replace(” “, “, “, $string), 0, -2); //outputs test, test2, test3, test4, test5 ?> Make sure [...]

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Apple picks up some awards and new iPhone to market soon

To begin with someone close to the 3G iPhone project has mentioned that it should be released sometime next month.  3G should finally bring full fledged high speed internet to the phone, which some people have been waiting for.  Also there may be a different color of the iPhone on the horizon, don’t get too [...]

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Ah great: site down for a few days.

UPDATE: As you can see my site is back for the most part.  I just need to add the theme back in, which I’ll do soon.  Thanks for your patience. Seems some hackers exploited my WordPress 2.5 some how.  It’ll be a few days before I get everything back up and running again, since I’m [...]

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Two slick apps worth checking out… forward hotmail to gmail… and keeping your apps fresh.

I’ve been looking for some better ways to do things recently. I found two pretty cool apps that make computer life a little simpler. If I’m anything like you, I’m sure you have one too many email addresses. I recently started looking for a way to consolidate several of them to my gmail address. I’m [...]

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How to get the most out of your Mac laptop battery.

Everywhere I go on campus I see people on their laptops. Their usually hunched over, sitting on the floor, next to an outlet. In fact it is almost a strange sight to see people not charging their laptops. I don’t normally bring my charger with me, I guess I am one of the lucky ones. [...]

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Revisited: Finally Adium for Windows.

At the time of drafting my original Adium for Windows article, I had no idea the level of popularity it would have. Oddly enough, my Windows XP laptop died not too long after writing the article. Let me clarify something. There isn’t Adium for Windows. The developers have made it quite clear that, “Unfortunately, Adium [...]

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Getting things done with RTM and Jott

I’ve always wanted a personal secretary.  Then again who hasn’t?  I am constantly forgetting things, unless I write it down.  My system never worked all that well.  I could never find a pen or a suitable piece of paper when I was scrambling to write a thought down. Recently I have found something pretty cool.  [...]

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