links for 2008-01-31

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  jkOnTheRun: Google fixes IMAP issue with HTML mail for Windows Mobile
  
  
  (tags: Google imap gmail windowsmobile)
  
  

links for 2008-01-29

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  Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does Flash - Engadget
  
  
  (tags: browser cell internet mobile windows windowsmobile skyfire flash flashlite)
  
  

Google Maps video

This is a pretty funny video about Google Maps.

http://www.youtube.com/v/fPgV6-gnQaE

[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:

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   Your password will appear in the clear in the terminal window when entering it for the sudo command


2. sudo has to be configured to work on a non-tty terminal, which could be a security hole.
   

links for 2008-01-13

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  Automatic blog posts from your Google Reader Shared items « Tzetze Fly
  
  
  (tags: googlereader atom)