Its always annoyed me that double albums showed up as two cds in iTunes. The only reason most double cds are two discs is because there is more content than one cd can hold (ie 74 mins), but as mp3 files this limit doesn’t exist. Fortunately …
TaskPaper is a clean, text based to-do list manager from the maker of WriteRoom. It’s still early in development, but is already looking like a really useful tool. Since TaskPaper uses plain text files your lists are not locked in to the software - you can read and …
Came across this screenshot while clearing out some files. It’s from a version of Connoisseur I played around with a while ago. I was wondering if any of the various recipe apps around would make a good cocktail database. I was poking around the preferences …
This is a quick and dirty php script I wrote up to convert an RSS feed into ics format so I could display it in iCal. It uses MagpieRSS to parse the RSS, then creates an event for each item. There is plenty of room for …
Last week drunkenbatman popped up in my feeds again after almost a year offline. The last few comments on the previous post had led me to suspect the worst, though he is fairly prone to slipping off the radar for extended …
Last night I opened iTunes to find that all my genres had disappeared.
After the initial shock wore off it occurred to me that since the genre info was stored in the id3 tags of each file it was unlikely that they were …
A little over a year after I first started this blog I’ve decided it’s time for an upgrade. Behind the scenes Blogtender now runs the shiny new Wordpress 2.1, aka ‘Ella’, but more importantly I’ve made several fundamental changes to the design of the pages.
I …
Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.
First, the problem. While …
Network traffic shaping in Mac OS X using ipfw.
Metsker Maps of Seattle. Huge collection of world maps and globes.
A few steps to improve the display of websires on iPhone / iPod Touch.
Great article about good Tequila.
Automated hack for apple TV. Adds compatibility for most video formats, web access etc.
Arduino is a USB i/o board compatible with OSX, Windows and Linux.
Detailed set of tutorials for programing the Arduino, a USB I/O board.
