To anticipate and prevent
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I’ve been using Mozilla Weave. It is a really cool idea, and really critical in this day and age of most tech savvy users having at least 2 computers (if not more). Weave, for those that don’t know, basically takes everything in your browser and backs it up…
I figured it was about time that I try plugging my blog into Twitterfeed. Basically, it will take the RSS feed of the blog posts, and post them to my Twitter account. I had done this previously with my “Snowulf” account, but I was posting everything by hand. So… we’ll see how things go. I…
I was called in tonight to fix an iTunes installation problem. When the user tried to uninstall iTunes, they got a popup box asking for a network location to iTune.MSI. When they pressed cancel (because the MSI file didn’t exist) it threw the error: “The installation source for this product is not available”. I checked…
I finally got around to setting up a proper web based viewer for SVN, ViewVC. It really isn’t difficult to setup (if you follow the directions). The main problem (to me) is that it uses Python (which I don’t). When I first tried to get it up and running I got a ‘An Exception Has…
On slashdot this morning there was an article about a new website called TinEye. They’ve got a fairly simple but cool concept. Do for images what google does for web pages. You give TinEye an image and their magical search engine goes and finds similar images to what you give it — based solely on…
I’ve been wanting a new iPod for a long time. Well, it didn’t _have_ to be an iPod because most of my music these days comes from Amazon (thank god for 256kbit MP3s). Though it is fair to say that iPods are still the best portable music player on the market. Plus if you go…