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Vogon Poetry is now available in the App Store!
I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of our Vogon Poetry application for iPhone and iPod Touch. You can get it in the App Store for $2.99. Click here to check it out! Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2009/04/11/vogon-poetry-is-now-available-in-the-app-store/
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How to file a DBA (Doing Business As / Registration of Fictitious Name) in Missouri for $7.00
Now we’re cookin! 🙂 It’s surprisingly simple to get a Fictitious Name registered in Missouri, and it only happens to cost $7.00. Simply click here: Missouri Registration of Fictitious Name and then fill out two simple online forms (takes about 1 minute), submit your credit card info for $7.00 and you’ll get an immediate confirmation…
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Mac OS X voices for using with the ‘say’ command
A neat trick if you have a Mac OS X machine is to do this (make sure your speakers are turned on): Open Terminal.app Type in at the command line: say hello world This will make your computer say “hello world” in the default voice (Victoria). Here is a list of the other voices you…
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How to connect to a VNC machine that is behind a firewall using SSH tunneling, OS X and Chicken of the VNC
VNC is a very useful program for accessing a computer remotely. These are instructions for accessing a remote machine using OS X, Chicken of the VNC, and Vine Server when there is a firewall in the way. Normally it is a fairly straightforward process to connect from a VNC client to a VNC server running…
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150 open documents in Photoshop – long day of work
This is after a long day of work building out a new website: TeamMercy.com. Lots and lots of graphics there. Good times. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/05/14/150-open-documents-in-photoshop-long-day-of-work/
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Selling 12″ Powerbook G4 keyboard for parts [SOLD!]
We just replaced Kristin’s laptop’s keyboard since the up, down, right shift and enter keys don’t work anymore. I listed the keyboard on eBay, so go there and bid on it if you’re interested in it for the parts. Thanks! Check out the eBay Listing: Apple 12″ PowerBook G4 Keyboard Keys (Full Set) NR! Link…
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How to sync audio and video for DVD playback using your remote speakers, AirPort Express, Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil and VLC
I’ve been enjoying using my Apple AirPort Express to stream music from my laptop to our living room speakers using iTunes. The other evening I wanted to watch a DVD and use the good speakers to get the best sound, but you can’t do that without using a helper program. I found a program that…
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Google Gears (BETA)
Interesting… Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness Check it out: Google Gears (BETA) Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/05/31/google-gears-beta/
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How I got networking working on my Powerbook using Single User Mode in OS X
Update: It turns out that the reason my laptop had this problem in the first place was one of my 1GB sticks of RAM that had gone bad after running with zero problems for over a year. The kernel panics happening on a totally clean install of OS X was a clue, and then using…
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How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files
Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…