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Monday, November 10th, 2008AlwaysVPN, a free virtual private networking service, is promoted as a way for anyone to browse the web or trading files over a public net connection. And, by the way, it also lets anyone on the outside of a U.S.-only service like Hulu or Pandora get around that often arbitrary restriction.
Hotspot Shield is a [...]
Converting MP4 to MP3
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I know there’s a lot of sites (like vidtomp3) that let you extract music from online videos. But what if you already have the video (in my case, some *.mp4 files) on hand ?
Converting MP4 files to MP3 is quite easy, once you have appropriate software. I used google to find the free [...]
Why does Software Piracy hurt FOSS ?
Monday, October 27th, 2008jason stirk tweeted about an interesting article about the interaction and semantics, I suppose, of Usage and Piracy of Software, and it’s effect on Open Source Software.
The point to draw from it is that software piracy, while not giving cash to the software company, still provides support for them. The example used in the [...]
CSS and Printing
Monday, October 20th, 2008CSS allows you to create multiple styles styles for a single page or document. This is how Wordpress themes are implemented. You can see it at work in the last.fm paint it black or simply red screen formats. Developers are used to styling for the screen. However, using it on other media [...]
RSS Feeds for Yahoo! Search Results
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Listed below are the different feed addresses for Yahoo! - just replace keyword with your own search query or phrase before subscribing to that feed.
Web Search:
http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=keyword
Videos:
http://search.yahooapis.com/VideoSearchService/rss/videoSearch.xml? appid=ysearchblog&format=mpeg&query=keyword
Images:
http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchimagerss&query=keyword
Yahoo! News:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=keyword
The images and video clips are available as media enclosures in the RSS feed so you can directly download them locally via any pod-catcher or your [...]
Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens if you want to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader [...]
what is the firefox about: protocol ?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Many firefox users know that typing about:config in the location bar provides access to user preferences, that can’t be changed any other way.Some fun and useful (occassionally, anyway) Firefox about: links.
about:
about:blank
about:bloat
about:buildconfig
about:cache
about:config
about:crashes (only Firefox 3)
about:credits
about:logo
about:kitchensink
about:license
about:mozilla
about:plugins
about:robots
Either type the links in your firefox location bar or selct the links if you are curious about their purpose.
Save it [...]
Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Via MakeUseOf
Feed Source allows you to display any RSS feed on your blog or website. Feed Source generates widget code that can be easily added anywhere in your website, via copy and paste. The widget is fully customizable and can be quickly styled to match the theme of the website, via customising of text [...]
Google Docs now have templates
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Google Documents now have templates
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