Archive for 2007
Automatically restart crashed applications
Sunday, October 14th, 2007I love Quicksilver. If I ever sit on a machine without it, I feel handicapped, like something extremely important is missing. My major gripe with Quicksilver (and, this might just be my setup, I’m not sure), is that it likes to crash a lot. At least 2-3 times a week. And when it crashes, it’s [...]
Searching Google the way you want
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Google is awesome. I don’t even know where to start with all the features they’ve got packed in that tiny little searchbox of theirs. There’s a lot of sites that explain some of these advanced features [google.com], but I’m more interested in the ones I use regularly, or ones that make my search experience easier. First, [...]
iTunes scripts I can’t live without
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007I have few obsessions in my life, and one of those happens to be keeping my iTunes library in some form (and definition) of ‘order’, without having me go completely insane. This involves keeping the ID3 data as accurate as I can make it (very tedious process as I had about 100 songs named Track [...]
Share Windows XP license between Parallels and Boot Camp
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Since my first installation of Boot Camp and Parallels, I’ve kept two separate Windows XP installations on my drive. One on Boot Camp, used for gaming and other resource-intensive tasks, and the other exclusively on Parallels, used for running some random software I come across and also to test the websites I build in IE. [...]
Rare Risk and Overreactions – Schneier on Security
Friday, May 18th, 2007I do not believe this article can ever get enough press. Problem is it never will get much (despite being published on Wired and Bruce Schneier’s blog, as well as many other places). Link I won’t talk about personal liberties, tax dollars being wasted, or even people being (un)reasonable. No matter what’s going on around us, [...]
LiveSearch 1.3
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007I’ve finished work on LiveSearch 1.3 some time ago, just never got around to creating a tarball and uploading it to this site. The major change was that it no longer requires that the searchform.php and livesearch.css files be manually copied to your themes directory. If you want to make theme-specific changes to it you [...]
Pretty CAPTCHA
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007I know, I know… CAPTCHA is outdated. But there are still cases where it might be useful, and it’s hard to make one that’s good looking, easy to read by humans and has a certain level of complexity for machines. This is what led me to create my own PHP version, that can be pretty [...]
Automating backup of Flash drives
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007I have a lot of my critical work on a few flash drives which I carry around with me constantly, mainly because I work on a number of machines and would like to have a central repository of my work. After losing one of the drives recently though (bound to happen sooner or later), I [...]
Motorola Motofone F3 Review
Monday, February 19th, 2007I bought the Motorola Motofone after being introduced to it by this post on my friend Nick Baum’s blog. For as long as I remember, I’ve been reading about how phones keep getting more and more complicated. Yet many people want their phone to do only one thing: make calls. The trick was getting a [...]