Ramblings & ephemera
I just published a page on my website about a solution I’ve found to an important issue: how to keep task lists on my Mac & my iPhone that are synced. I used to use The Hit List, but the developer’s failure to come up with an iPhone solution has led me to abandon it. [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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My book, Linux Phrasebook, which is still selling well & still just as useful today as when it came out in 2006 (& will be for another decade or two, given how consistent the Linux command line is), has been translated into Russian. You can find it at this Russian website, where I found out [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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Tired of high SMS charges? Use these SMS gateways, which translate emails & IMs into SMS text messages … for free (well, to the sender, anyway – the recipient still has to pay). And when recipients reply, those replies come back to the sender in the same format; in other words, you email someone, they [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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photo credit: Ti.mo
When using Apple Mail, you should be able to search for a term in From, To, Subject, & Entire Message. However, today I could no longer search Entire Message. It was grayed out & completely unavailable.
I found interesting info on the following pages, with the last being the most helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6653445#6653445
http://www.bronzefinger.com/archives/2006/04/apple_mail_sear.html
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5934412#5934412
http://forums.macworld.com/message/425508
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080201111317585
I closed Mail [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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I’m really proud to announce that my 5th book is now out & available for purchase: Google Apps Deciphered: Compute in the Cloud to Streamline Your Desktop. My other books include:
Don’t Click on the Blue E!: Switching to Firefox
Hacking Knoppix
Linux Phrasebook
Podcasting with Audacity: Creating a Podcast With Free Audio Software
(I’ve also contributed to two [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Scott Granneman
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My blog was at http://www.granneman.com/blog, but I then moved it, after several years of living at its old address, to http://blog.granneman.com. I wanted to preserve all my links, however, so that someone going to http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/ would instead end up at http://blog.granneman.com/2008/04/20/after-a-stroke-he-can-write-but-cant-read/.
To do this, I edited the .htaccess file in http://www.granneman.com/blog to read as follows (For [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Adam Engst’s “Slim down your PDFs” (Macworld: 5 November 2008):
Though few people realize this, you can reduce the size of PDF files using the Leopard version of Preview. To shrink a PDF file, open it in Preview, choose Save As from the File menu, and, in the Save dialog box, choose Reduce File Size [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Ellen Siever’s “What Is the X Window System” (O’Reilly Media: 25 August 2005):
X was intentionally designed to provide the low-level mechanism for managing the graphics display, but not to have any control over what is displayed. This means that X has never been locked into a single way of doing things; instead, it has [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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You can use the watch command, but it unfortunately isn’t available for Mac OS X. At least, from Apple. Sveinbjorn Thordarson (great name!) has a version of watch that you can download and compile on your OS X box. It’s available at http://www.sveinbjorn.org/watch_macosx.
Or, you can use this shell script:
while true ; do foo ; sleep [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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According to this announcement, a Linux client for Dropbox should be coming out in a week or so:
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=2371&replies=1
I’ve been using Dropbox for several months, and it’s really, really great.
What is it? Watch this video:
http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast
It’s backup and auto-syncing done REALLY well. Best of all, you can sync between more than one computer, even if one is [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Jerry wrote this & sent it to a client;
A fat footer is a means of showing secondary navigation, or
showcasing primary navigation, or reinforcing selected pieces of your
navigation. Here are some examples:
On a long-scroll blog page, put some choices at the bottom:
http://bokardo.com/
Put sales and branding at the top and navigation at the bottom:
http://www.dapper.net/
Promote the pages you [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Windows
ipconfig /flushdns
Mac OS X
dscacheutil -fluchcache
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Plaxo
http://www.plaxo.com
(web-based)
OggSync
http://oggsync.com
ScheduleWorld
http://www.scheduleworld.com
iCal4OL
http://ical.gutentag.ch
Google Calendar Sync
https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=89955
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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ImageMagick
mogrify -strip *.jpg
JHead
jhead -de *.jpg
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Holt Sorenson’s “Incident Response Tools For Unix, Part Two: File-System Tools” (SecurityFocus: 17 October 2003):
Various commands change the MAC [modify, access, and change] times in different ways. The table below shows the effects that some common commands have on MAC times. These tables were created on Debian 3.0 using an ext2 file system contained [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Two methods:
about:config
Change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true
browser.tabs.loadInBackground should already be set to true
user.js
// open diverted links in background tabs
user_pref(“browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground”, true);
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Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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I use Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) to back up files, and I also use OmniGraffle, a diagramming program, on my Mac. This is a letter I sent to OmniGraffle recently that explains a problem with the interaction of OmniGraffle and S3.
Start letter:
OmniGraffle (OG) is a great app, but it has a serious, showstopping incompatability with [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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On the CWE-LUG mailing list, someone asked a question about creating a program that can be extended with plugins. I thought the answer was so useful that I wanted to save it and make it available to others.
On 2/17/07, Mark wrote:
I’m a young programmer (just finishing high school) who has done a fair [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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If you want to add a device like an external hard drive to your /etc/fstab file, it helps if you know the hard drive’s UUID. If you use K/Ubuntu, the following command will display the UUID, along with other useful information.
$ sudo vol_id /dev/sdo1
Password:
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=ext3
ID_FS_VERSION=1.0
ID_FS_UUID=4857d4bb-5f6b-4f21-af62-830ebae92cff
ID_FS_LABEL=movies
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=movies
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Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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Start | Settings | Control Panel | System
Under Registered to, you’ll see user name & a 20-digit number. Digits 6 through 15 make up the CD key.
If you’re using an OEM version, the entire number is the CD key.
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Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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