Archive for May, 2007

• 05.14.07 VirtualBox: Open Source Virtualization posted in Geekery

  VirtualBox is an Open Source x86 virtualization product available for OS X. Functioning along the lines of Parallels, but free, I’ve recently gotten XP up and running on my Intel based MacBook Pro and have Internet Explorer versions 5-7 open for testing my websites without having to boot up my old PC. In fact, now I can sell my PC ;). VirtualBox is simple, powerful and easy on the eyes. I had XP up and running in 30 minutes, and 27 of that was the actual XP install. I especially recommend this product if you’re a web developer who needs to test websites cross-platform. I’m currently working on figuring out how to approach a localhost test server in a way that will let me access it from both platforms while I’m working. Once I get that down, I’ll let you know how I did it ;).

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• 05.14.07 iGTD Review: 1.4 posted in Geekery

  Here’s the greatest thing about the new release of iGTD: Way fewer “hacks” are necessary to make it conform to a more GTD-like workflow. It’s got a revamped interface with much more fluid ways of handling things like “maybe” tasks and “wait for” tasks, plus it adds handling for next actions and start dates. And you thought it was great to start with! Check out the list of new features and go ahead and download it to try out. It’s still donationware, and according to the author, always will be. I went ahead and made a second donation on account of this being such an extensive upgrade that if it were a commercial application, I would have charged my users for it ;).

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• 05.12.07 30Cal Upgrade posted in Geekery

  Yep, a major upgrade already. And I still got some work done today. My server got hacked, so that took up part of the day, but anyway… The new version (1.5) is now an application and has improved support for recurring events and skipped dates in recurring events. The API Key and User Token are now requested by the script and stored externally so you can upgrade without copying and pasting. And thanks to that innovation, the file is now an app so that it’s easier to run. Check the download page for the latest version.

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• 05.12.07 30cal: 30 Boxes and iCal posted in Geekery

  And here we go again, off on another Applescript adventure. This one is a doozy, I think. It’s going straight to it’s own download page because there WILL be updates. What it does is let you send any event or entire calendar from iCal to your 30 Boxes calendar with support for notes, urls, locations, repeating events, tags, start time/date, end time/date, and more. You can use it to make the switch from iCal to 30 Boxes, or just send important events to a shared calendar. You can even use it to edit your events locally with the comfort of iCal and then send them to 30 Boxes without opening a web browser. Your choice! Download here.

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• 05.11.07 onebox 2.1 Adds Todo Tags posted in Geekery

  See the download page for a new version of onebox with tagging ability for todo items added to your 30 Boxes account via quicksilver.

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• 05.10.07 onebox Updated: Todo Items posted in Geekery

  I’ve updated “onebox”, the 30 Boxes, Quicksilver and Growl integration script, with a new feature: todo items. See the download page for download link and instructions…

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• 05.10.07 Jasmine: Headbanger posted in Movies
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• 05.09.07 FlickrMate 1.7 posted in Geekery

  An update to TextMate brings UI changes to the FlickrMate bundle. I’ve also added a fix for a bug discovered by Mike McClenaghan that prevents uploading photos with spaces in their names. If you have the latest version of TextMate (if you use SVN be sure to update your Support folder), then head for the download page for the latest version.

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• 05.07.07 Nagios: Sysadmin’s Best Friend posted in Geekery

  Nagios is one of those “I can’t believe it’s not butter” discoveries of mine. Except replace butter with commercial and add “and that I didn’t find it sooner”. It’s opensource server\service monitoring software with notification features and plugins and it’s flippin’ awesome. I slept better last night than I have in a long time…

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• 05.06.07 MAMP Universal Binary posted in Web Design, Geekery

  MAMP 1.6 is out as a universal binary (Mac Apache MySql PHP). Version 1.4.1 is available as both Intel and Power PC only downloads from the same page. I still haven’t tried MAMP Pro, but the combination of MAMP, Headdress and a good Subversion workflow have kept me plenty happy.

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