Christopher Craig

Entries for March, 2008

Links for the Week Ending March 30, 2008

Derek Prospero
Great desktop backgrounds

Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific

How Not To Adopt a Child From Africa Video

WordPress › WP-DB-Backup « WordPress Plugins

WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins

ScreenRecycler.com
Use an old iMac as another monitor

Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

Terra Consultants Ltd

SourceForge.net: SynergyKM
OS X wrapper for Synergy

Unix Toolbox

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Twitter in Plain English

I’ve known about Twitter for a long time now, but I haven’t used it too much because very few people I actually know are using it. I think the reason for that is that my friends and family just don’t get Twitter.
Well, there’s a site called Common Craft that has a video [...]

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Change Permissions of Files Only

I recently had need to change the permissions of a large number of files and directories. The directories needed permissions of 755, and the files needed 644. Since there were several nested directories, this was going to be a real chore until I figured out you could use the find command to help.
find [...]

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Unplanned Upgrade

As I wrote in my last post, I got a new 20″ 2.4GHz iMac yesterday.
My old 20″ iMac was starting to get kernel panics, and after days of troubleshooting, I was able to rule out possible software issues. At one point I decided to format and reinstall OS X, and in the middle of that [...]

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Just Picked Up a New iMac

I just picked up a new 20″ iMac at lunch today. The logic board on my old one is causing kernel panics, and I’m told a replacement would be $850 + labour…not happening.
Anyway, I’ll post more detail later.

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Links for the Week Ending March 23, 2008

Skitch.com
Snap, Draw, Share!

10 AJAX Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor

Royale Noir: secret XP theme uncovered (download) - istartedsomething

Systm — Revision3

popSiren — Revision3

Tekzilla — Revision3

Mahalo Daily

Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search

How to Cook a Ham - Mahalo

Realtime Soft UltraMon
Software for multiple monitors

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Change the Primary Display on an iMac

I just got a really nice 21.6″ Samsung SyncMaster 216BW display the other day, and I wanted to use it as the primary display with my iMac. I wanted the menu bar and the dock to be on that display instead of the built-in display.
I had never thought to do this before, so I [...]

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What, No Cables?

I just replaced my secondary 17″ flat panel today with a Samsung SyncMaster 216BW 21.6″ LCD. Next to my Mac that gives me a whopping 3360×1050 resolution. I should be VERY happy about this, except there were no cables in th box. What a disappointment that was. Back to the store…

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Links for the Week Ending March 16, 2008

Tech Patterns :: Firefox UserAgent Switcher list

User Agent Switcher :: Firefox Add-ons

Phrase Finder
The origins of sayings

Instapaper
Read stuff later

The Web Standards Project

MySQL Tutorial: Chapter 10, Using Transactions with InnoDB Tables

Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets, Cheap Airfare & Discount Travel Deals - Kayak.com
Why do research…

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Join 2 AVI Files

Let’s say you have a movie that you downloaded, and it’s split into 2 AVI files. Wouldn’t it be nice to join these two files together into one seamless AVI file? It’s easy.
First, you need to download a copy of MPlayer from here. Then just execute this command from the command line:
/path/to/mencoder [...]

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