Spanning Sync Public Beta
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]
Comment spam in gallery2
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.
Source Trust Prediction
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]
Transfer Google calendar ownership
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:
- In the gmail account, share each calendar with the email address that you want to use, with “Make changes AND manage sharing” permission.
- 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.
SpotlightFS
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]
sshfs
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]
UnPlug
UnPlug is a Firefox extension that generates links to download links for embedded video in a web page.
[via macosxhints]
PwdHash
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()]
Unit Converter widget
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.
SNL/Steve Jobs on the iPhone
This is pretty funny:
[via TUAW]
