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SendToAny - send any file to any app

SendToAny - send any file to any app.

Here’s a cool little hack that extends the utility of the “Send To…” command on context menus in Windows.
SendToAny synchronizes your Start Menu to the Send
To… menu so you can send any file to any application, regardless of the file association you might have set up on [...]

Setup a Local Mirror of your WordPress Blog

Although some of this is highly Mac specific, it looks like it will
still be helpful in configuring a similar setup on my Windows LAMP
configuration as well.
Setup a Local Mirror of your Blog - Mac OSX. girtby.net has detailed instructions on how to setup a local mirror of your WordPress blog on a local Mac Os [...]

Favicons from Pics

I might choose to use this in the next iteration of my blog
256 pixels worth of frustration. Looking for a decent favicon for a tool I'm building I came across Favicons from Pics which does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Now all I need is a decent picture to work [...]

Blogs as personal knowledge management tool

I'm in the midst of a similar project as a way to learn WordPress as a step toward converting McGee's Musings to WordPress in the not too distant future.
In the opening post, John Hesch quotes an observation from Paul Allen that struck home forcefully:
But like some other good habits I have developed over the [...]

DSL connections troubleshooting in put

Looks like some good info/input on getting DSL connnections at home and at BI streamlined and set up as correctly as possible.
The Slow Route to FastAccess. Six hours I'll never get back: Hooking up a LinkSys WRT54G broadband router to my Windows XP box.

The router, which I bought for around $50
after a rebate, is an [...]

Celestia: Real-Time Space Simulation

The wonderful thing about the net is all the neat stuff you can find to play with instead of doing something productive.
Celestia: Real-Time Space Simulation.
A coworker tipped me off to this cool space simulation that allows for three-dimensional travel of the universe. From the website:
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface [...]

Eric Meyer’s CSS Presentation Tool - S5

Something else I need to get around to sooner rather than later. One more opportunity to piggyback on the work of people smarter than I am.
S5 1.1a4. Hooray, we’re up to 1.1a4! The only real change here is that I’ve added a “what do you want to hide, the controls or just the popup menu?” [...]

New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal

Something to add to the list of tools to check out. I’m slowly working
through an evaluation of new blogging tools and may even get around to
making a transition to a new tool.
New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal - Scott on Feedster. New Blogging Tool : Elite Journal - Written in RUBY [Weblog Tools Collection]

Odd problem with Typepad RSS feeds

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Typepad hosted blogs appear to be remarkably profligate in the way they regenerate their RSS feeds? Last weekend, in what has become typical, I opened up my news aggregator, which is Radio, to discover approximately 1,000 items eagerly awaiting my attention. Of those 1,000 items, [...]

Giving HitMaps a try

Thought I would give this a try, although all it may reveal is how few people hit this site. We’ll see what the data looks like tomorrow when it updates. You’ll find more information at the project page for HitMaps.
HitMaps comes out of the closet. KMi’s Jiri Komzak has extended the nifty little blog-gutter-tool that [...]