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LifeType 1.2

Paul Westbrook | 20 March, 2007 21:35

LifeType 1.2 has been released.  This adds some new features like:

I have installed this on several installations, and it works seamlessly.

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MySpace and hot linking

Paul Westbrook | 20 March, 2007 21:26

I have noticed that some MySpace pages have been hotlinking to some images on my server.  Here are some links that describe how to prevent hotlinking:

Now, I am looking into porting the Hotlink prevention plugin to the 1.2 version of LifeType.

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Twitterific

Paul Westbrook | 19 March, 2007 23:59

For someone who is not that excited about Twitter, I sure seem to be spending a lot of time on it.  Twitterific is an application that lets you post tweets from Mac OS X.

There are some pretty cool features in Twitterific:

  • audio notification when new tweets arive
  • Automatically shortens urls with tinyurl.com

I do wonder if it would be better to be a Dashboard Widget.  The UI is pretty similar to a widget.

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Ideas for Twitter

Paul Westbrook | 19 March, 2007 23:25

I am still not sure that I will really use Twitter in the end.  The problem that I have is it is not really part of my daily routine.  I hardly have time to respond to emails, so spending time on something this trivial.

Automated systems are perfect candidates for using Twitter.  This post describes using Twitter for notifications from a home automation system. I think that this is a pefect use of Twitter.  Here are some other ideas:

  • Auto telematics systems to send notifications of car diagnostic status
  • Navigation systems, to send position information (Including urls on Google Maps)
  • Public transit systems to sent status notifications

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Gallery 2.2

Paul Westbrook | 19 March, 2007 21:45

Gallery 2.2 has been released.  The upgrade from our 2.1.2 install went smoothly.  In addition to some security improvements, there are some interesting features:

  • Downloadable plugins, from within the admin interface.
  • Watermark changes - watermarks can be added to entire albums, instead of only applying to newly added images.
  • WebDAV module - you can mount your gallery as a file system
  • Photo auto-rotation based on EXIF data from camera

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Fixed bug in Post Trackback script

Paul Westbrook | 17 March, 2007 22:36

I just fixed a bug in the Post Trackback script.  There was a bug where if your post had a link to an image, the script was attempting to find a trackback url from the image.

I have update the disk image here.

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Hawking HNC210

Paul Westbrook | 17 March, 2007 22:12

Hawking Hnc210I have been interested in getting a network camera for a while.  I like the concept of having devices connected directly to the network, without needing a computer to be running.  A while ago, I saw that woot was selling the Hawking HNC210 network camera, so I decided to get one.

The setup was pretty easy.  Even though, officially, it only supports Windows PCs for configuration, I was able to set it up on my mac.  All the windows config tool does is looks for any cameras on the network, and presents them in the UI.  Then the tool will set you set the ip address.  You can do the same thing without the PC app, as the web server is always running on the camera.  All you need to do is determine the ip address that the dhcp server sent to the camera.  You can either do network map, or look at the dhcp status page on most broadband routers.

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Twitter

Paul Westbrook | 17 March, 2007 21:26

I just don't get it.  I understand that Twitter allows you to keep a "micro-blog", where each entry can only be 140 characters.  I also understand that you can see what your friends are doing, when they enter their "tweets"

If I wanted to post everything, the entries would be "home", "at work", "fixing bugs", "reading email", "working on documentation", "in a meeting".  These are all things can can be communicated though IM status messages.  Also, I am sure that most of my friends would have similar status messages.

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IM/work etiquette

Paul Westbrook | 16 March, 2007 21:51

This post has some pretty relevant tips on using IM in work environments.

[via Sad Salvation]

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Parsing HTML links

Paul Westbrook | 16 March, 2007 21:13

Here is a page that describes parsing links from html in php

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Controlling your data

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 17:08

Yesterday, one of the the Spanning Sync service had a configuration issue.  This caused a few errors during synchronization for users.  This makes me think that there is a problem with this solution for synchronizing your data.

Here is a diagram of how I think that Spanning Sync works:

Spanning Sync Diagram

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Small problem in Mac OS X 10.4.9

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 03:01

I just realized that our iMac was having a small problem with the the new version of Mac OS X.  10.4.9 now includes improved checking for damaged disk images.  All of the disk images that I had created so our kids could play their games, without using the CD, now are being reported as being corrupt.  (I doubt that they actually are all corrupt, unless the previous version of Disk Utility created corrupt images.)

Unfortunately, recreating the disk images from the original CDs does not solve the problem.  The error message still appears.

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Secure Mac OS X

Paul Westbrook | 15 March, 2007 01:26

This two part (1, 2) article has some great tips for securing Mac OS X.

[via TUAW]

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Managing memory in php

Paul Westbrook | 14 March, 2007 23:37

WebReference.com has a good document that covers memory management in php

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.Mac sync with Mac OS X 10.4.9

Paul Westbrook | 14 March, 2007 22:31

Last night, I updated to Mac OS X 10.4.9.  After installing, I noticed that .Mac syncing was working a lot better than it had been.  After updating, I was able to see my Mail.app settings and Keychains on our iMac. 

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