The Google Guide
Submitted on July 31st, 2005 by admin
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Google is a large company offering tons of great services and tools to make your life just a little easier. They offer so much that you may not even begin to know how to use it all. If you’d like to learn to ins and outs of Google services, check out The Google Guide.
Podcast hosting on the cheap
Submitted on July 31st, 2005 by admin
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So you’ve recorded your podcast and now you need a place to host it. Maybe you’re using a free blogging service like Blogger or Livejournal and don’t want to spend much (or any) money for hosting (it can get expensive after all), what do you do? We’ve rounded up some of the more popular services and given you a rundown of each so you don’t have to. All of this services are either free or very cheap for the money.
Podcasting with Wordpress
Submitted on July 31st, 2005 by admin
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We love Wordpress we decided to run this site with it, and lucky for us, it makes publishing a podcast very easy. Today, we’ll show you how.
Podcasting with Blogger
Submitted on July 31st, 2005 by admin
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If you already have a Blogger account, you may be interested in using it to publish a podcast. Because the service doesn’t offer file hosting services, I don’t quite recommend doing this, unless you find somewhere else to host your podcast free (or really cheap). Let’s get started.
Running Windows XP with no services
Submitted on July 31st, 2005 by admin
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Let me first say, I don’t recommend anyone do this, but if you must, check out this article on how to run Windows with no services. If you want to learn what it takes for Windows to run, or would like to create an install which will run better on older systems, check it out. If you’re impressed but don’t really want to do things yourself, then check out XPLite to help you in the process.
Minimize Outlook to the system tray
Submitted on July 30th, 2005 by admin
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Those of you who keep Outlook open all day and use it for e-mail, tasks, as an address book, and so on, may get tired of having to open and close Outlook constantly to check your information. You may also now want it to take up space in the taskbar. With this quick tip, you can minimize Outlook to the system tray and have access to it with just a click.
Improving the UI of Virtual Earth/Google Maps
Submitted on July 30th, 2005 by admin
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One little known feature of Firefox is it’s ability to use different stylesheets (CSS styles) for each site which can affect the look and feel and may add some different functionality, and all you need is the Wed Developer extension and a good imagination. Zmarties has created a CSS file for Virtual Earth and Google Maps which provides various improvements including:
- Larger map
- Smaller search window
- Semi-transparent banners
- …and more!
Be sure to check out Zmarties for a full list.
Create a CD case out of paper
Submitted on July 30th, 2005 by admin
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I haven’t bought a physical CD in a few months now (go iTunes!), but if you ever want to create your own jewel case cover or paper CD case, check out Paper CD Case. Just input the artist, title, and track listing and your information will be converted into a PDF file which you can print out.
Seeing line numbers in vim
Submitted on July 30th, 2005 by admin
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Here’s a quick CLI tip for Linux users. Some of us use the command line interface in Linux to read text files via an application like vim. If you do any kind of coding in C/C++ or Perl, you may also want to see line numbers as you code. To get our line numbers we make sure we’re in command mode by hitting Esc a few times and then type: :set nu to obtain our line numbers in vim. This is especially useful when debugging code.
Talkr, podcasting your favorite blogs
Submitted on July 30th, 2005 by admin
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Are you too busy to spend time reading all your feeds? You could do what I did and cut down on the number you read, or you could also give Talkr a shot. Talkr uses text-to-speech technology to convert a blog’s RSS feed into speech, in the form of MP3 files for each post. You can sign up for a Talkr account to keep track of them, or you can add a special feed to your favorite podcatcher or RSS aggregator. You can have up to three blogs converted to podcasts free, but if you need more, you’ll have to sign up and pay $4.95 a month for up to 20 hours worth of posts. Pretty neat service for people with little time to read blogs, or those who are visually impaired.
By the way, you can get the TipMonkies feed as a podcast with this link.
