Archive for September 2006
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 00:55
Please don’t take this as an insult, but I can’t fix your computer! (Well, probably I could but maybe I don’t want to. Do you want to mow my lawn for free?)
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 00:50
Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve posted something on your WordPress blog in the appropriate category just to notice several days later you forgot to uncheck Uncategorized near your category list’s bottom? Fear no more: Use deUncategorize and prevent accidental already categorized Uncategorized posts. The whole purpose of this plugin is to [...]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 21:13
For some time now I’ve been using a custom version of Did You Pass Math together with Bad Behavior and ever since my WordPress blog has been spared from comment and trackback spam. Now the comment spammers strike back! Did You Pass Math is a WordPress plugin that asks the poster of a comment to [...]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:40
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date says NASA and provides us with very high quality pictures of our planet (up to blazing 21600*10800 pixels); also night shots are available. If you hadn’t enough download an — also high quality — eight second video of [...]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 18:56
As you may know iTunes 7 introduced the so-called Cover Flow view which lets you flip through your album covers as you would do with your CD collection. If you find this familiar you are right: Apple bought the rights from the Author of CoverFlow (notice the missing blank in the name). So what’s wrong [...]
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 14:48
I’ve noticed many visitors coming from Google are searching for “itunes 7 ogg“. If you want to listen to your Ogg Vorbis files in iTunes you may want to take a look at the Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) project. Previous versions of iTunes had an iTunes-ogg.icns and iTunes-wma.icns file inside the program’s package containing iTunes [...]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:14
A few things you would never know without the movies. Very true. (Thanks Anne-Marie)
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 by Daniel Gattermann at 19:18
onAirNow 1.5 is a WordPress plugin for displaying a lot of information about your currently playing song (in your music player of choice) on your blog. onAirNow 1.5 (September 3rd, 2006): changes since version 1.4 Added a new <image> tag that takes the URL of an image and displays it above the song info. Also [...]
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