links for 2008-01-31
links for 2008-01-29
Google Maps video
This is a pretty funny video about Google Maps.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
WebMynd
WebMynd is a site that is supposed to save the content of all of the pages that you view. Their claim is that you will not need to bookmark any site, but you will be able to search for any of the site that you have seen.
WebMynd is a Firefox add-on that stores the web pages to your local computer.
I am not going to install this. I already have this functionality with Google Desktop.
[via TechCrunch]
Connect 360
Connect 360 is a Mac OS X preference pane that lets your play/view content from your Mac OS X computer on your Xbox 360. It uses iTunes to get the list of tracks and playlist, and iPhoto for photos. You specify a directory to indicate what videos should be shared.
The demo worked for me, though I only used it to view videos. The demo will let you view a good number of files.
I would love to use this to view all of my content on my TV. This would allow me to remove the Mac mini from the AV rack and keep it in the closet. Unfortunately, the Xbox doesn’t support all of the video formats that the Mac mini can, so I would have to transcode many of my videos.
Tail remote logs
In this post, I mentioned that I was looking for a way to tail log files on a remote computer. Stig commented with a suggestion. You can specify the sudo and tail command to ssh
ssh user@hostname 'sudo tail -f /var/log/messages'
I am using this solution, but there are two problems:
- Your password will appear in the clear in the terminal window when entering it for the sudo command
- sudo has to be configured to work on a non-tty terminal, which could be a security hole.
links for 2008-01-13
links for 2008-01-11
Recovering print job
Tonight, I needed to print something on our MacBook Pro. The computer wasn’t able to connect to the printer upstairs, so I decided to print it to the downstairs printer. Unfortunately, Microsoft Word crashed when I attempted to print the file, and I had not saved the files.
I didn’t really want to retype the document so I went looking for the printer spool files from the They pdf files, so I just dragged them to the desktop and printed the files.
Jungle Disk 1.50a
Jungle Disk version 1.50a has been released. This release includes some pretty cool features.
- File upload resume
- Block-level file updates
- Native linux integration using FUSE
Some of the features require a Jungle Disk Plus subscription. They are currently giving away a free year subscription, if you sign up before the 15th. After that, the subscription is $1 a month.
