Month: May 2007

  • Facebook Opens Pages to Outside Developers

    “Facebook is now allowing third-party developers to create pages within the site. Developers can use a combination of the Facebook API and a subset of HTML to create interactive pages accessible from within Facebook. Users retain complete control over which applications they want to have installed, and which applications they want to see on other…

  • Flock Rules…..

    This is my first post using a new Browser named Flock. Flock is a OSX native browser based on firefox code, but with lots of neat ideas integrated inside. One thing I really like is the blogging feature right in the browser, Browse, Find, Highlight, Blog…..It’s real easy. Try it for yourself http://www.flock.com

  • Embedding Picasa Web Slideshows

    Installation: 1. Go to the album you want to display in Picasa Web Album. 2. Right-click on the button and “Copy shortcut“ (?). 3. 4. 5. Post to my blog (You have to be logged in to your Blogger account) 6. Not at Blogger.com? Get the code Credit: Blogger Templates

  • Email post with picture attatchment

    Ok, here is test1 for email posting using N800 as the device

  • Resizing Mac Partitions on-the-fly

    As of OSX 10.4.6 you get a extra bonus if you use the terminal and run diskutil. The new addition is the function resizeVolume. Note that this command works only on Intel Macs with hard disks formatted using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) format with a journaled Hierarchical File System Plus (HFS+) file system. This…

  • Streaming Quicktime from Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

    Let me start by saying that I found the recipe for this on Josh Lifton’s website. So most of the credit really goes to him. I’ve just simplified (and expanded) his method to cover generic quicktime streaming. So basically what we want to do is to connect the N800 to a network, setup a quicktime…

  • Set/Change the default Umask…

    Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key: defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences NSUmask # defaults write -g NSUmask -int # The first sets the system default, the second sets the per-user default. The NSUmask may not be honored by software that has not been adapted for OS X. # is the umask…

  • Speed up Sheets…

    Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime time where time is a time in seconds from, say, .001 to 2.

  • Disable Guest login in AFS…

    Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer guestAccess -bool false

  • Turn off Dashboard…

    Open Terminal, and then type this command, followed by the Return key: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES This tells the system that you no longer wish to have Dashboard available. However, the Dashboard task is actually “owned” by the Dock, so to make your changes take effect, you need to restart the Dock. The…