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Websites as graph.

Paul Westbrook | 08 June, 2006 23:27

Websites as graphs is a website with a Java applet will generate a graph of a website.  It looks at the tags in the html and creates the graph.

I think that it would be cool if this script actually followed links, to build a graph of the whole site.

Here is the map of this the root page of this site:

Website Graph

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Google Browser Sync

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 22:08

The people at Google have been pretty busy.  The day after they came out with the Google Video Player for Mac, they have come out with Google Browser Sync.  This is very similar to the Foxmarks and Bookmarks Synchronizer extension.  Both of these will allow you to keep your bookmarks on a ftp or WebDAV server.  (Foxmarks also offers to host the bookmarks as well.)

Google Browser Sync stores the bookmarks on their servers.  The setup was a lot easier than either of the other bookmark synchronizers.  In addition, Google Browser Sync allows you to specify which data, if any, you want encrypted before being sent off your machine.

This extension has pushed me over the edge, and I am switching back to Firefox.  The only think that is really lacking is good integration with the Keychain.  If I get motivated enough, I may checkout the Firefox source and modify it to use the Keychain as the password storage mechanism.

[via Google Blog]

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1Passwd

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 02:28

The main reason that I switched from Firefox to Camino was because I didn't like that Firefox uses it's own password database.  This seemed like a waste, since Mac OS X's keychain provides a system wide mechanism to store passwords.  This would allow a stored password to be used by different passwords applications.

Since Firefox gets the security fixes faster then Camino, I really want to switch back to Firefox.  I was actually thinking of writing an extension that would hook into Firefox password code, and store the password in the Keychain.

I saw this post, that describes 1Passwd, a new extension for Firefox and Safari, that will store passwords in the keychain, and will auto fill in forms with this information.  (I don't know why this is necessary for Safari, since Safari already stores in the keychain.)
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FTP/SFTP/FTPS

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 01:03

One of the people who works at Panic has a post that goes into pretty good detail about the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols.

[via TUAW]

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Annoyance in Mail.app Smart Mailboxes

Paul Westbrook | 05 June, 2006 22:42

I wanted to find out how many non-spam messages were marked as spam by DSPAM, before I increase the DSPAM score.  I thought that a Smart Mailbox would be the best way to see the list of the messages.  The problem problem is that it is not possible to create a Smart Mailbox based from an arbitrary header.

It is possible to create a filter to copy the messages to a new mailbox from any header, but that mailbox is not automatically updated when messages are added or deleted from the main mailboxes.

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email spam leaking though

Paul Westbrook | 05 June, 2006 17:19

Recently I have seen a trickle of email spam that have been getting though my spam filters.  These messages are relatively small plain text messages. 

From: 	  lacretes@____.com
Subject: 	Lets keep in touch
Date: 	June 5, 2006 2:31:05 PM PDT
To: 	  mail@paulstimesink.com
Cc: 	  paul@paulstimesink.com
Reply-To: 	  lacretes@____.com

Chance informed me that u were looking for a place to get ur stuff.
http://www.________.org/op/ the place then for sure. is avoid injured
only

willing at work become to what and being
Sandy

The Bayesian filter is the seeing this as 50% likely to be spam, while DSPAM is correctly marking this as spam

X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.963 tagged_above=-99 required=4.9 tests=BAYES_50, DSPAM_SPAM, URIBL_JP_SURBL

Maybe, I will increase the score associated with DSPAM, or find a rule on the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium that will catch these.

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Maxell Digital Ear Buds for iPod

Paul Westbrook | 04 June, 2006 21:49

I lost one of the rubber ear pieces from the he sony ear buds that I mentioned a while ago.  This is the second pair that this happened to.  I was really frustrated, so I decided just to go to Walgreens and pick up a pair of ear bud that were there.

The best ones that I saw there, were the Maxell Digital Ear Buds.  They looked reasonable enough, so I picked up a pair.  The next day when I was going to work on the train, I tried them out.  They sound HORRIBLE!!!  The sound that these earbud make completely is completely muffled.

I thought that I could deal with these, but after two days, I went to Fry's and bought a pair of Sony MDR-EX71SL earbuds.  These sound so much better.

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Problem with Harmony

Paul Westbrook | 04 June, 2006 01:34

Tonight I updated our Harmony remote to change some key configuration.  After the configuration was installed on the remote the screen displayed the following message

Go to Website to update settings

It took awhile, but I finally figured out what was happening.  I had configured the Harmony Remote application to "Watch download folder".  The problem was that the application saw the file as soon as the Firefox created the file, but before the download finished.  So the Harmony application sent a partial file to the remote. 

Once I turned off that setting and updated the settings again, the remote is working fine.

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coComment

Paul Westbrook | 02 June, 2006 02:13

I was looking at the recent checkins that were going into the LifeType tree, and I saw that a coComment plugin was added.  I was curious about what this plugin did, and what coComment is.

coComment is an interesting site.  It's purpose is to be a single place where you can keep track of all of the comments that you have posted to various blogs.  It displays these comments in "Conversations", where you can see the thread of comments.  You can also tag your comments, to help you organize them.
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Fixed comments

Paul Westbrook | 02 June, 2006 01:35

I just realized that comments were not working on this blog, if you had specified an email address.  LifeType has a feature that validates email address specified in comments.  When an email address is specified, it looks up the mx record for the domain, and attempts to connect to that server on port 25, and check if the server will accept mail for that email address.

The problem was that GoDaddy doesn't support outgoing connections on port 25.  This is not a bug deal for me, as I have all of my outgoing mail going through one of my other servers on a different port.  I had to change the LifeType configurations so the comments would work again.

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Backing up purchased music

Paul Westbrook | 01 June, 2006 00:44

I have manually burned CDs of the music that we have purchased on the iTunes Music Store, but I wanted another backup, so I looked to Backup 3 to do this.  Backup has a "QuickPick" that is supposed to allow you to easily backup all purchased music.  This doesn't work for me.

I have moved my iTunes Music library out of my home directory.  I did this originally when I was using FileVault, as encrypting all of my music took too long.  But even though I am not using FileVault, I still like having the music outside of my home directory, as every user on my laptop can access regardless who is logged in.
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Presto Digital Delivery Service

Paul Westbrook | 01 June, 2006 00:27

About a week ago, Presto Services Inc. announced their Digital Delivery Service.  There are two parts to this.

  1. A photo printer that has a phone jack.  The printer will dial a service and download and print pictures that are waiting in a queue.
  2. A online service where photos can be sent to be printed by the device.  Also other device maintence can be performed on the web site.  (i.e. Checking the paper and ink quantity in the printer.)

This is intended to be used when the person who has the device doesn't have broadband access, or where the person doesn't want to manually receive an email containing the photos and print them out.

I personally am not interested in this for myself, but I could see buying one for family members that don't have a computer.  For example, we like sending photos to my Dad, and now we print them out and have them sent to him.  With this device, essentially from my computer, I can "print" the photos directly to his house.

[via Digital Experience Podcast]

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