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8 Awesome Uses for DropBox
Although only a very small part of my backup strategies post dealt with Dropbox, after using it for a second week I’ve fallen for it. Sure, it’s useful for syncing commonly used files between computers, and there’s many more files that it would be useful to have revision history on, but there’s more to it [...]
Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 3: Backup
Describing what I’ve been working on so far as a media center may not be quite sufficient. Now a days term “home server” seems to do it a bit more justice, and if a home computer is on full time you’ll certainly want to get the most out of it. If you’ve ever wanted to [...]
Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 2: Plex
If there’s a killer app out there in the media center world, it’s Plex. Built on the long running XBMC, Plex is a fork of the project optimized to run on the Mac. XBMC has been around since the first Xbox, making one of the most established media center platforms out there. It’s long outgrown [...]
Building the Ultimate Media Center, Part 1: Hardware
If you’re a geek, chances are you’ve dreamed of having an amazing media setup that gives you a movie theater at home feel while providing all the options to extend it with your media. Well, thanks to the recent release of the Apple Mac mini, hardware and software (specifically Plex) are at a great point [...]
Adding a Lifestream to Wordpress
Sometimes a new service comes around that you know is powerful but you have trouble finding an actual use for it. Two of those that I’ve recently been looking into are FriendFeed and Yahoo Pipes. By themselves they’re nothing, but once you have a goal in mind both become powerful allies.
Adding some kind of a [...]
New Languages for a New Year?
As some others have mentioned, it’s that time of year where most people with blogs make their public announcements on what languages they’ll be concentrating on for the upcoming year. Last year I think my top focus was Ruby on Rails and Javascript; so safe to say I’ve gotten a little experience in those. Things [...]
If Quicksilver isn’t working for you, you’re not using it enough
It’s taken me a while to jump on the Quicksilver bandwagon. If you’re a Mac user chances are you’ve run into QS as some point, as it seems to be one of the core apps that most hardcore mac users recommend. There are tons of great links on del.icio.us, posts by Merlin Mann and even [...]
Cloudshout Alpha 2 Released!
Over at IZEA there are a lot of balls up in the air at any given time. Lately Dan and I have been concentrating on a relatively new creation — CloudShout. It fits in nicely with the blog focused atmosphere for IZEA, and we’re both pretty excited about it. It already has a lot going [...]
IzeaFest Wrap Up
Did you make it to IzeaFest last week? It was a fun experience, and a major source of motivation to do better as a blogger. As a general conference attendee, I was even surprised by how well everything turned out. Talks ran smoothly, things went well, they were broadcast live through Ustream, flickr and twitter [...]
Orlando Events for this Week
If you’re in Orlando this week there’s a lot of cool stuff going on. Monday is our monthly Adogo meeting with a very interesting talk on Ajax by Brian LeGros. He’ll be going over some Ajax basics and move onto some “push” Ajax, a topic that’s extremely useful but rarely covered. A majority of ajax [...]
