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iTunes Catalog

Paul Westbrook | 30 November, 2006 23:03

iTunes Catalog is an application that will let you manage your iTunes library.  You can get album art for tracks, and have them added to iTunes.  You can also search for lyrics, or purchase tracks from various stores.

The main feature that is really interesting is the ability to publish your library to the web.  iTunes Catalog generates some php that will generate a representation of your library.  iTunes Catalog supports publishing though Mac OS X's built-in web server, or an external host.  Here is my published catalog.

I didn't try it myself, but I think that if you host the published site on your mac, you might be able to play your whole library from anywhere you have network access to your computer.

[via The Apple Blog]

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Keeping gmail and Apple Mail sent folders in sync

Paul Westbrook | 30 November, 2006 22:24

This page has an neat tip on how to keep the sent mailbox in sync in Gmail and in Apple mail.

With this tip, if you send a mail through the Gmail web interface, it will appear in your sent folder in Apple Mail, when you next check mail.  Built into the POP/SMTP interface, it already works the other way around.  When you send a message through Gmail's SMTP server, the message is automatically added to your sent folder.

The only addition to the script was to add the condition:

  • Account <gmail account name>

[via atmaspheric bookmarks]

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Top Ten Reasons To Be Thankful For Your Spouse!

Paul Westbrook | 30 November, 2006 22:08

This post has 10 reasons to be thank for your spouse.  I am so grateful for my wife.  Thank you sweetheart, for everything that you do.  I love you.

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Democracy 0.9.2

Paul Westbrook | 28 November, 2006 23:24

Version 0.9.2 of the Democracy has been released.  I have been using iTunes to download my video podcasts, but I decided try Democracy.

This application makes if very easy to subscribed to video podcasts.  There is an integrated guide of video podcasts, in a easy to navigate way . (Very similar to the iTunes podcast directory.)  Downloads can happen at a higher speed, as th video player has built-in bottorrent support.

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Goombah

Paul Westbrook | 28 November, 2006 23:04

I saw this post that mentioned Goombah.  This is application is a "social networking" application for your music.  This app will you let you network with people with similar tates in music.

Goombah looks at the contents of your iTunes library, and generates a list of similar music, and a list of other people who use Goombah with similar tastes.  From these lists, you have the ability do purchase the tracks from iTunes.

Goobah also displays "Goobah's Free Music".  This this is a collection of free music.  Goombah uses bittorrent for the downloads, so they should be pretty fast.

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Updated Google Reader

Paul Westbrook | 28 November, 2006 22:19

Google has released some updates to Google Reader.  The main thing that this update includes is some new options when subscribing to new feeds.  Also you can now create folders directly from "Feed actions..." menu.

Unfortunately, the two problems, that I have had aren't fixed:

  1. There are still problems unsubscribing to feeds generated by Google Reader.
  2. Emailing posts from within Google Reader loose all formatting.

[via Download Squad]

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Technorati Link Count Widget

Paul Westbrook | 26 November, 2006 20:39

Technorati has released a widget to show the number of incoming links to a post, on the blog post.  This is essentially  just just a link to the Technorati search page, for the post, but it also has some javascript which will dynamically update the number of incoming links.

The instructions that Technorati has to install this involve manually modifying blog templates.  To make this easier for LifeType, I created a plugin.

[via Sifry's Alerts]

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Googlepedia

Paul Westbrook | 23 November, 2006 19:39

I just saw this post that describes a bunch of Firefox extensions.  It mentions, and I installed Googlepedia. This is a pretty cool extension.  When you do a search in Google, it will load a relevant Wikipedia article in the background, and it will appear on the right side of the search results page.

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WidgetStation

Paul Westbrook | 22 November, 2006 21:35

WidgetstationThis is a cool looking alarm clock.  The WidgetStation is an alarm clock that has two lcd screens.  It can display calendars and rss feeds.  For audio, it will play internet radio stations but not AM and FM stations.

I think that this could be a great product if it had an iPod dock, where the iPod can be used as an audio or video source, where the video could be played through on the lcd screen.

[via Engadget]

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Updated sitemaps plugin

Paul Westbrook | 19 November, 2006 22:24

I just checked in a change to the sitemaps plugin to now create version 0.9 of the sitemaps protocol file.  Now the generated file will be compatible with Yahoo and MSN.

Unfortunately, only Google has a mechanism to send notifications of sitemap updates.  Yahoo and MSN don't have similar mechanisms.  Once I see those other search engines add similar mechanism, I will update the plugin.

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OpenDNS for dynamic ip addresses

Paul Westbrook | 18 November, 2006 21:00

Last week, when OpenDNS introduced OpenDNS Accounts, they added support for preferences for users with dynamic ip addresses.  This is accomplished by a dynamic dns client, that is configured with your account credentials.  When the client notices an ip address change, it will notify OpenDNS the your dns preferences will apply to the new ip address.

Now OpenDNS is looking for developers to create new dynamic dns clients that are compatible with their service.  There are two requirements:

  • SSL support for https updates
  • Allows the user to change the update url.

The other thing that I would love to see in this client is the ability to update multiple dynamic dns services.  I want to send updates to OpenDNS and DynDNS at the same time.

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Tried switching to DSL

Paul Westbrook | 18 November, 2006 20:08

I got a call from AT&T offering a pretty good deal for 6 mbs DSL, so I decided to try them out.  We got the package a few days ago, and I installed it last night.

After I installed it, I tested the speed, and dslreports.com, and I only got about 1.4 mbs of download speed.  I then tried moving the dsl modem to the closet where the cable mode is.  I couldn't get dsl signal there at all, even though there is dial tone.

I got frustrated, and just reinstalled the cable modem.  Then out of curiosity, I ran the speed test, and these are the results that I got:

I saw these result on my laptop connected to the cable modem through 802.11g.  It is possible, that I was directly connected the results could have been better

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Google Mail suggestion

Paul Westbrook | 15 November, 2006 22:21

It has been over two weeks since I switched our mail to Google Apps, and things have been working pretty well.  The only problem that we have encountered, is that more spam has been getting through.  Previously, I had SpamAssassin with bayesian filter configured to scan our mail.  With enough training, we got it working well.

One thing that I would love to see in Google Apps for your Domain, is the ability to import a SpamAssassin bayesian tokens database.  This would allow the spam filter to be tuned for a particular domain, as soon as it is switched to Google Apps.

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Google Groups suggestion

Paul Westbrook | 14 November, 2006 19:20

just moved a mailing list that I was running on mailman over to
Google Groups.  There is one feature that I would love to see:

I would love the ability to import the archives of the mailman
mailing list, so that the members of the group only has to search in
one location to find an old post.

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Cool iSight trick

Paul Westbrook | 12 November, 2006 14:07

This page has a pretty cool iSight hack.  It displays a little window with video from your iSight camera (essentially video of you.) 

This is not really a security hole, as the video is local, and doesn't leave your computer.

[via digg]

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