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Spanning Sync Public Beta

Paul Westbrook | 30 January, 2007 20:16

Spanning Sync has now entered Public Beta (Unfortunately, their servers are being overwhelmed, so they have closed additions to the public beta program temporarily.) 

[via TUAW]

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Comment spam in gallery2

Paul Westbrook | 28 January, 2007 20:35

I just logged into my account in our installation of gallery2, and I noticed a bunch of comment spam messages.  It took me a while, but I deleted them all (They need to add a way to delete multiple comments at once), and I installed the captcha module.

Now I want to look into installing Bad Behavior for Gallery 2.

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Source Trust Prediction

Paul Westbrook | 27 January, 2007 12:06

Source Trust Prediction looks like an interesting way to fight spam.  Instead of looking at the contents of the messages, it looks at the ip address of the server sending the mail, and predicts the likelihood that the message is spam.

This should be a faster way to determine that a message is spam, especially since now content filtering really requires OCR to handle the messages where the text is rendered as a graphic.

[via Slashdot]

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Transfer Google calendar ownership

Paul Westbrook | 27 January, 2007 11:46

I just enabled Calendar for our Google Apps account.  I have been using a Google Calendar account, tied to my gmail address.  Since I only check mail though the Google Apps interface, I wanted to move all of my calendars to the Google Apps domain.

I found a pretty easy way to do this:

  1. In the gmail account, share each calendar with the email address that you want to use, with "Make changes AND manage sharing" permission.
  2. Now in the account in Google Apps, delete the share with the gmail account.  (This is not strictly necessary, but I didn't want to leave these calendars in the gmail account.)

Unfortunately, you have to manually subscribe to all of the "Other Calendars" that are in the gmail account.

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SpotlightFS

Paul Westbrook | 27 January, 2007 00:06

Now this is another cool use of MacFUSE.  SpotlightFS is a filesystem that creates smart folders.  You can create a folder with the name of a Spotlight query, and all of the matching files will appear in the folder.  Also, you can use the SmarterFolder to create arbitrary results.

The main difference about SpotlightFS and the Finder's Smart folders, is that the Finder's Smart Folders aren't directories. With SpotlightFS, you can look in these directories through the command line.

[via Unixjunkie Blog]

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sshfs

Paul Westbrook | 26 January, 2007 23:34

I finally got around to installing MacFUSE and sshfs.  I tried several times to get this to work, but I wasn't able to until I tried this sshfs for Darwin, which is a downloadable binary.  Now I am able to mount remote file systems very easily.

[via TUAW, Download Squad]

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UnPlug

Paul Westbrook | 24 January, 2007 20:51

UnPlug is a Firefox extension that generates links to download links for embedded video in a web page.

[via macosxhints]

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PwdHash

Paul Westbrook | 24 January, 2007 20:23

PwdHash is a Firefox extension that will automatically generate a per-site password for web forms.  This is similar to the bookmarklet that I mentioned before, but it returns the same password for sub-domains.

[via BigFatGeek::rants()]

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Unit Converter widget

Paul Westbrook | 24 January, 2007 19:47

I hardly have an occasion to convert units of area or temperature, but I often need to convert between Hex, Decimal, Octal, Binary and ascii.

This post links to an AppleScript that patches Apple's Unit Converter Widget to do these conversions.

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SNL/Steve Jobs on the iPhone

Paul Westbrook | 14 January, 2007 13:01

This is pretty funny:

[via TUAW]

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JVC KD-NX5000

Paul Westbrook | 13 January, 2007 15:41

Jvx-Nx5000One of the problems with after market navigation systems, is that they require an external, often flip out, monitor.  There have been several headunits only available in Europe that integrate a navigation unit into a single-DIN headunit.  For example, the Blaupunkt Travelpilot, and the Harman/Kardon Traffic Pro are mainly available in Europe.

The JVC ND-NX5000 is a single-DIN headunit with navigation.  It has a 40GB drive, where 15 GB is reserved for navigation maps, and the rest is available for audio or video content.  The built-in 3.5" screen can also be used for watching DVDs or other video content on the hard drive.

[via Engadget]

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Alpine KCE-300BT

Paul Westbrook | 13 January, 2007 15:10

Kce-300BtI have mentioned that several car headunits that allow hands-free talking on your cell phone over bluetooth.  These usually were missing some feature that I wanted like, iPod controls, or satellite radio controls.

Now Alpine has announced the KCE-300BT.  This is an Ai-NET component that will connect to any of the newer Ai-NET compatible stereos, and allow you to have hands-free conversations on your Bluetooth cell phone.  The caller id information will appear on the headunit display.

Since most of Alpine's headunits are Ai-NET compatible, this will allow the hands-free functionality, with all of the other extra features that I want.

[via Engadget]

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OmniGrowl

Paul Westbrook | 13 January, 2007 14:15

Omnigrowl-128OmniGrowl is an framework that allows notifications to be sent for applications that don't natively support Growl.  It also comes with some pretty useful plugins:

  • various notifications of iCal appointments
  • track changes in iTunes

Some of these are available as separate scripts, but it is nice to have a single place to enable/disable them.

[via TUAW]

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My Visited States

Paul Westbrook | 11 January, 2007 10:27

I guess I have been to 58% of the states.


create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

[via Ramblewords]

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iPhone Alternative?

Paul Westbrook | 11 January, 2007 08:50

Neo1973 Open Moko DialerA new line of Linux-based phones is scheduled to be available soon.  The Neo1973 is the first phone from this family of phones.  The GSM phone has a 640x480 touchscreen, and an A-GPS receiver. In addition to the standard applications, you can install new applications using an "application manager" interface.

They are expecting a follow-up model that includes both WiFi and Bluetooth.

I think that something like this has the potential to be a challenger to Apple's iPhone.

[via Razvan Antonescu's link blog]

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