So my buddy Eli told me about his web host, which I’m actually seeing a lot of traffic on various lists about so thought I should mention. His quote: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-panel.html Check out the demo panel, its pretty nifty. Still no better than running webmin/cpanel, but not nearly as obtuse because it allows Dreamhost to split roles onto several servers under one panel. Ie, Mail goes on one server, Web on another, MySQL onto another shared server, all under one set of admin pages. And although you cant mess with the shared host config settings, you are able to SSH in to your own account and run amok with your own files. Still, I like…
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Posting For Me
You may have noticed by now that some of these posts are to job my memory about certain things. I’ll try and mark those as private or something, but in the meantime if you see something that you don’t think warrants a post please don’t email me about it…
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Name that Tune
Upload a tune that you hum and viola, Midomi will name it for you!
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NetFlix Now Online
OK, so NetFlix was always online, but did you know that you can watch movies online too. Not all, but chances are, if you have enough movies in your queue that you’ll have at least one that is able to be watched online. The technology that allows all of this is Microsoft’s Silverlight. Because Silverlight is not yet available for the Mac you can’t watch NetFlix online from a Mac just yet. Rumor has it that Silverlight will be available soon though, so just be patient and it’ll get there… Another aspect of NetFlix that is often overlooked is social networking. You can rate movies and then share your queue…
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2 Years Strong
https://krypted.com/ has been going for two years now. I wasn’t really sure if I would manage to post very often when I started it, and I don’t. But once a month (sometimes way more) isn’t too bad, right…
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Google and N-grams?
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
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Installing Joomla! on Mac OS X Server
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal 1. Enable MySQL. 2. Create a database in MySQL called joomladb. 3. Create a new user called jadmin that has full priviledges to this database (the user does not need to be called jadmin, but that is the username we will be using for this walkthrough). 4. Download the latest stable release of Joomla. 5. Extract the tar files into a new folder (for this example we are going to call it joomla to keep things easy). 6. Make the following folders writeable for Joomla administrator/backups/ administrator/components/ administrator/modules/ administrator/templates/ cache/ components/ images/ images/banners/ images/stories/ language/ mambots/ mambots/content/ mambots/editors/ mambots/editors-xtd/ mambots/search/ media/ modules/ templates/ 7.…
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The Hidden Google
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Google is a key tool for just about every Web user these days, and it remains the most popular web search engine in use today. But many of Google’s coolest features often get overlooked. Here are some of Three18’s favorite Google tools: Google Toolbar (toolbar.google.com): Windows users can save themselves the step of navigating to Google’s homepage by adding the Google Toolbar to their Internet Explorer browser. In addition to fast access to web searches, you also get a history of your most recent searches, bars indicating relevance of your searches, and links to other Google resources. But its most welcome bonus is its…
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Google: Teamwork
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/teamwork-for-problem-solving.html
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Defining Web 2.0
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Chances are, with all of the hubbub surrounding overnight success giants MySpace.com and Flickr, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the second coming of the internet, commonly referred to as “Web 2.0†. Bloggers are frequently commenting on “Wiki†this and “tagging†that. But what is this Web 2.0 phenomenon and how can it improve how we manage our lives and businesses in a digital world? While there may not be a simple answer to these questions, there are a few suppositions that can be made as to what Web 2.0 is shaping up to look like and how its changing the way we exchange information.…