Monthly Archives: August 2005

Google Maps Plugin for Mac Address Book

Here’s a use case for happiness: download and install the “Google Maps Plugin for the Mac Address Book”:http://www.briantoth.com/addressbook/.^*^ Then, right-click on someplace you want to find directions to. Click Google Directions and watch as the plugin figures out that you … Continue reading

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Free Web Gadgets

If you’ve got clock cycles and, perhaps, screen real estate to burn, you may want to check out “Konfabulator”:http://www.konfabulator.com and “Google Desktop 2.0″:http://desktop.google.com/ (which might be subtitled _Google does RSS now_). Both are free (Konfabulator was bought up by Yahoo, … Continue reading

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Advanced iTunes Playlists

“Use Smart Playlists to filter other playlists.”:http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/08/itunes_smart_playlists/index.php Clever.

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Woah vs. Whoa

“Apparently, I always spell it wrong.”:http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=woah&q2=whoa&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us (“yup, definitely”:http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=whoa).

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Observations on Making a DVD

I spent part of my vacation last week on recording the big event on video and digital camera. Last year, I compiled everyone’s digital photos on to a CD and printed a few group shots — one for each family. … Continue reading

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iPhoto Diet

“iPhoto Diet”:http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~fuhrer/personal/freestuff/iphotodiet/. Weeds out duplicate photos in your iPhoto database. This saved me countless hours having to sort through photos by hand looking for duplicates. When it was finished there was over 2.7 GB of photos I had already at … Continue reading

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Nerd Alert

You know you’re a total dork when “this kind of thing”:http://devboi.mozdev.org/ makes you drool.

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Anyone Want to Video iChat?

I totally just realized the other day that I can use our DV camcorder as a webcam.

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WordPress Enhanced View Plugin

“WordPress Enhanced View Plugin”:http://www.coldforged.org/the-enhanced-view-plugin/. Been looking for this for a little while. This plugin lets you view your posts by category, month, or author in the Administration screen. Interestingly, it was updated four weeks ago. I’m finding that a lot … Continue reading

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Creative Process

What is it about the creative process that requires apart-ness from the day-to-day hum-drum reality of existence? This morning at 10 AM, coffee in hand, I was pounding my head against the keyboard trying to “reproduce this”:http://www.villagechurchnyc.com/events/ in WordPress. Many … Continue reading

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