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If you want to read your Twitter timeline from FriendFeed, you can do so utilizing what FriendFeed calls an Imaginary Friend. Simply set your “friend” up with a custom RSS feed that you’ll get from Yahoo! Pipes and you’re set. Here’s the setup for your pipe:
Make sure you add your password into the private string [...]
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Every time I load up Cyberduck, I get flooded with Bonjour Growl notifications. Since I never use Bonjour with Cyberduck, I figured it’s acceptable to disable it. It’s a simple Terminal command, like so many other things are in the Mac world. To disable Bonjour, fire up Terminal and execute this command:
defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck rendezvous.enable [...]
A while back I had a neat idea to build a service that would allow me to select a list of Craigslist feeds for a location (or locations) and aggregate it into a single feed. You could add any of the categories from any of the cities just by going to a website and it’d [...]
Yesterday’s article was written giving instructions on how to back up all your email accounts using some pretty simple techniques. In the end, Thunderbird was the agent that we used to grab all the email from our gateway account. Today, I’d like to show you how we can accomplish the same thing with a different [...]
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With recent horror stories of Google users getting locked out of their accounts floating around the Internet, it makes you reconsider putting so much trust in Google. A lot of people have all their eggs in the Google basket, but they could too be locked out at any given time. Gmail could also go down [...]
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Yesterday Google allowed users to subscribe to their alerts via an RSS feed instead of email. I prefer this option as my RSS reader is open almost all day and I like to know about things as they happen. Sure, that was always available for the email notice too, but RSS is so much easier.
To [...]
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Mac OS X: Last week I showed how to create VirtualBox VMs as applications. This week, I’m trying out VMware Fusion to see if it’s better or worse than VirtualBox. I’m trying to shoot for the same experience as the VirtualBox machines, so I needed to figure out how to create an App using AppleScript [...]
Last Friday I was subject to a barrage of spam on this site – somewhere between 100 and 150 comments came in that were spam (prior to that I’d had 300 spams since May). Akismet caught every single one of those comments, but it was still a pain because I still had to trudge through [...]
After creating my VirtualBox applications and slapping them on the Dock, I decided that I didn’t like the default VirtualBox icon for those apps. The problem was exacerbated when I put them next to each other, making them indistinguishable at a quick glance. I figured out how to change the icons for those virtual machines, [...]
Losing your laptop is an ugly event. I’d like to show you a simple way to improve your chances of getting your beloved laptop back. The idea is simple – create a wallpaper image that shows up when your computer is at the login screen.
All I did was grab a pre-packaged image from the wallpaper [...]
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