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Entries from August 31st, 2007

Mac Lab Rat #5 – Global Geek Podcast

August 31st, 2007 No Comments

I realize that this post is quite late, but it has been difficult to get enough time to find an Internet connection to post this week’s notes.  Here’s all the details for the MLR segment on Global Geek #60.
Our first application this week is from “Fluffalope Factory” software called Miyu.  This program allows you to [...]

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Website Redirect with mod_rewrite

August 16th, 2007 No Comments

Warning: This post is going to get a bit technical…
This afternoon, I was checking out my Google Analytics statistics and realized that I was still getting quite a bit of traffic to the old blog at krell.cellsandbytes.net. I was wishing that these people would be kind enough to click on my new links on [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: Admin Links Widget

August 14th, 2007 41 Comments

I’ve just launched the first version of a new Wordpress widget, the Admin Links Widget.
This very simple widget does as the name suggests. It provides links to administrative functions from the sidebar of your Wordpress installation. The catch is, only administrators will be able to see the links so the general public won’t [...]

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NinjaWords – Quick definitions

August 14th, 2007 No Comments

Zutter Bug tipped me off today to one of the greatest additions to the Web 2.0 space… a new free dictionary service called Ninja Words. Launched in November 2006 by Phil Crosby, it’s an Ajax-based dictionary site which pulls all of it’s information from Wiktionary and the Princeton WordNet.
It is (for the moment [...]

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Mac Lab Rat #4 – Global Geek Podcast

August 14th, 2007 No Comments

This week’s edition of the GGP is up and available, and with it the latest update from the GGP Mac Lab.
First up this week is a quick review of AutoResizer from Optunis. This is a great little image utility which provides an easy method of batch-resizing or re-formatting images. Simply point the tool [...]

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