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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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 [...]
Response to “Christian Lobby Welcomes ISP Filtering Moves”
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008The Australian Christian Lobby have issued a press release welcoming the Australian ISP Filtering Moves PDF. Here’s my response
Hi Jim,
I doubt you remember me, but we’ve met twice at Shellharbour COC and you also spoke at a course I was attending , ran by Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation. I’d [...]
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 [...]
Check Website Loading Speed with Site-Perf
Friday, September 19th, 2008Want to quickly find out if your website loads fast enough? Use www.site-perf.com to get an accurate estimation of your website’s loading speed.
Just type in your URL, press go, and Site-Perft will present you with a loading chart for your website. The chart displays the elements of your page and their load times, [...]
How to get removed from the TSA No Fly List
Friday, September 19th, 2008If you’re on the U.S. Government’s “No-Fly” list - or have a name similar to someone who is on that list, you can forget about enjoying a plane ride ever again. You will be questioned, searched, delayed, hassled and bullied. You can formally request that your name be removed, but that process is so cumbersome [...]
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Stanford University has launched a series of 10 free, online computer science (CS) and electrical engineering courses. The courses span an introduction to computer science and an introduction to artificial intelligence and robotics, among other topics.
The free courses are being offered “to students and educators around the world” under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere [...]
Crack Cocaine Cconomics
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Lifted from Dennis Howlett’s excellent article on Crack Cocaine Economics and six ways to get off it.
This talk by economist Steven Levitt, filmed at TED Talks shows what it is like being at different points in the crack cocaine gang hierarchy.
This is the basis of (or comes from) one of the more famous chapters [...]
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 [...]
5 Applications to help reformat Windows
Monday, September 8th, 2008Every so often you have to reinstall XP. it may be exciting the first time, but after that you want to make it as painless as possible. Download Squad has 5 usefull applications for making a Windows reinstall easier.
DriverMax. Running DriverMax before the format lets you back up all the drivers on a [...]
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