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Re-open Closed Tab

Bren posted about this a good while ago, but I get so much use out of it that I figured I'd spread it around again. If you accidentally close a tab you can bring it back from the netherworld by hitting Shift+Cmd+T (on a Mac) or Shift+Ctrl+T (on Windows). This is so ...

Move Joomla! to a New Server

My dad runs a Joomla! based website that I have been hosting. Just recently we decided to migrate it to a different web host, so I had to figure out how to move it. I was initially puzzled by how to accomplish this move with the least amount of pain. ...

Cycle an Application’s Windows

Mac OS X only -- that I know of, any word to the contrary is welcome. I was doing some Wordpress development this weekend while listening to my team on MLB Gameday Audio. While I attempted to Cmd-Tab to another application I miskeyed and hit Cmd-` (` is right above ...

Mac Screenshots

In the little rant I gave on the baked-in Windows screenshot capabilities the other day I mentioned the simplicity of the baked-in Mac screenshot process. Like Windows there are multiple keystrokes to achieve the various types of screenshots. Cmd-Shift-3 will capture the entire screen. Cmd-Shift-4 then click-n-drag will capture a specific ...

Windows Screenshots

Windows comes with two ways to capture screenshots baked into the software. If you hit PrintScreen it will capture the entire screen to the clipboard. If you hit Alt-PrintScreen it will capture the active application/window to the clipboard. I very rarely use the full screen capture because I'm usually taking ...

Another Good Product From Google

I've recently seen various write-ups about Google Notebook, so I decided to take a look at it. I must say I was pretty happy with what I found. I'll give the caveat that this is in no way a perfect product, nor fully featured...yet. There were, however, ...

Windows Screencasting on the Cheap

I'm the tech/operations person for a branch of our organization that has staff in 3 locations. I work out of the "main office," and do a poor job of making it out to the other two locations on a regular basis. Partially because of the location spread, and ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 2 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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