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Applescript to automate process of recording Real Player .ram to .mp3 on Mac OS X and putting into iTunes (for Christian Science Bible Lesson podcast)
You may recall that I had shared instructions before about how to record the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson using Real Player, Audio Recorder and Soundflower. Well, after one more time of forgetting to hit the Audio Recorder Stop button after the Real Player was finished streaming the file, ending up with a 37 minute…
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coffee2code.com – Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
This handy plugin is powering the sidebar fitness stats. I’ve been adding a weight_lb custom field to weigh-in posts. This plugin allows me to easily retrieve the latest values (currently pulling the data from the last two weigh-ins to display last weight and difference with the previous weight. Once I get the new plugin written…
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Subversion for OS X – prebuilt binary
This came in very handy tonight when I was doing a svn update and got the message: subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/marshal.c:434: failed assertion `opt || cstr’ No dice for fixing. Some research suggested that my version (1.0.0) might be out of date, and that upgrading would probably fix it. So I went to Fink, trusty ol’ Fink. To…
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IT Conversations: Scott Ambler – Are You Agile or Are You Fragile?
Good podcast on agile development practices, found during random play on the iPod. 🙂 IT Conversations: Scott Ambler – Are You Agile or Are You Fragile? The software industry is shifting from large-scale, prescriptive processes that mandate rigorous procedures and policies to lighter, more agile methodologies. Are these agile processes appropriate for your organization? If…
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Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0
Looks like a good validating Flash-embedding solution for your XHTML pages. bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 UFO is a DOM script that detects and embeds Flash objects. It contains several features and best practice techniques that other scripts currently don’t have. UFO is inspired by Geoff Stearns’ FlashObject.…
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html2ps and html2pdf – Convert HTML to PostScript or PDF. Supports over 500 HTML and CSS tags and properties.
html2ps and html2pdf – Convert HTML to PostScript or PDF. Supports over 500 HTML and CSS tags and properties. Features Supports nested tables, advanced CSS properties, floating DHTML elements, non-Latin character sets, XHTML and non-XHTML tags and properties, and much more. Nearly any website, even very complex ones like Yahoo.com, can be accurately converted to…
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Really good Firefox extension: Copy Image to Clipboard
Yay, no more needing to go into Safari to copy images from the web to the clipboard. Extension Room :: Copy Image Copy Image by Jordan Callicoat Adds “Copy Image to Clipboard” to the context menu, below “Copy Image Location”. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2005/07/27/really-good-firefox-extension-copy-image-to-clipboard/
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Tidy Service – Great Mac OS X Service to clean your HTML
Tidy Service Tidy Service Tidy Service is a simple OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by Dave Raggett. Screenshot of Menu Items Tidy Service can be used to clean up HTML markup in any application that supports services by selecting the markup in question and choosing…
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First illustration of one of the brothers from Cory Doctorow’s latest book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Damon Wallace is one of the best artists I know. He’s living in China right now with his wife, wanting to come back to the Bay Area. I grew up with Damon, he was my best friend in middle school at Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, CA. I’ve been encouraging Damon to do some…
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JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier
JSMIN, The JavaScript Minifier JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cost of clean, literate self-documentation. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2005/06/30/jsmin-the-javascript-minifier/