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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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Tags: Global Geek Podcast · Mac Lab Rat · Podcasting

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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Tags: Admin Tools · Blogging · Open Source · Tech Tips

Wordpress Plugin: Admin Links Widget

August 14th, 2007 · 24 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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Tags: Blogging · Development · Downloads · Open Source · Web 2.0 · Wordpress Plugins

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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Tags: Geeky · Internet · Miscellany · Tech News · Utilities · Web 2.0

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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Tags: Global Geek Podcast · Mac Lab Rat · Podcasting

Jing - Screencasting your world

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

A few weeks ago on the GGP, Dave and Tim did a review of a project called Jing which is a image and video screen capture and screencasting tool for both Mac and Windows.
A couple of days ago I was asked to create a tutorial at work for a new project we’re working on instead [...]

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Tags: Downloads · Utilities

Mac Lab Rat #3 - Global Geek Podcast

August 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Another week has come, and with it episode #58 of the Global Geek Podcast was released this morning. Here’s a recap of this week’s Mac Lab Rat segment.
First up this week is another fix for the somewhat troublesome 10.4.10 update for OS X. Users of MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac Minis may be [...]

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Tags: Global Geek Podcast · Mac Lab Rat · Podcasting

Visual Studio ‘Rosario’ — CTP

August 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I just read on Jeff Beehler’s blog that Microsoft has released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the next version of Visual studio… and I don’t mean VS 2008 “Orcas”.
Virtual PC images of the new VS install were made available from the Microsoft Downloads website on August 3rd.  I’ve included a direct link to the [...]

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Tags: Development · Downloads · Microsoft · Programming · Tech News

BC Launches Technology Recycling

August 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Beginning August 1st, 2007 the Province of BC has started a technology recylcing program.  Titled the “E-Waste Stewardship Program” it will allow BC residents to take their old electronics including:
This marks a great step forward in helping to curb the amount of tech-trash entering BC landfills.  For more informatio on the initiative, visit electronicsrecycling.ca.

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Tags: Community · Environment · News · Tech News

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