Month: June 2010
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FIFA worldcup on my Google Calendar
I just wanted to add the games to my calendar, now there are so many game events in my calendar, that I don’t really see anything any more. And as there is one calender per team (and I only selected a couple of teams), it’s not even easy to see the calendar wi/o FIFA worldcup.…
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correcting red eyes on pictures
Looks like Picasa 3 for Windows seems to be the appropriate tool for doing that. Free and easy to use — these reasons are good enough for me. Update / 2010-06-22: Alright, alright, I can simply use iPhoto on OS X for that. Silly me! Did quite a few snapshots, uploaded them to the relevant…
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to proselytize
For those, that don’t trust me (again), that there is no such word: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proselytize . For some reason I prefer this word over the similar http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evangelize . Right, they don’t actually show the some progress of the process (ROTFL!!!), but they go to the same direction. @szabgab: I had to think of you and p-e-r-l,…
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a new wonderful book on DocBook by Norman Walsh: “DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide”
Norman is an excellent writer, and it’s good fun reading his books. If you are interested in DocBook, then get this book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389604 = DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide – O’Reilly Media I purchased the PDF recently from O’Reilly, and I just printed a single page for a friend, who looks like being my newest DocBook proselyte.
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duplicating a tab in Firefox
Came across this recently whilst browsing one of those magazines. What would you need this for? Well, if I have my Google Mail Contacts open and I want to write a message to one of my contacts, but I also still want to keep … Contacts open – you never know, how long it takes…
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keyboard shortcuts on all the major operating systems
For the last couple of months I have been struggling with the keyboard of my beloved MacBook Pro. How often did I click on “Show Keyboard Viewer“? And it still didn’t really help on the long run. Today I did some respective “research”, and here are the links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts / comparison of keyboard shortcuts – that’s…
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using curl for “streaming” Flash movies into a file on your hard disk
<!– www.bibleserver.com | 521: Web server is down body{margin:0;padding:0} <!–[if lte IE 9]>/cdn-cgi/scripts/jquery.min.js<![endif]–> /cdn-cgi/scripts/zepto.min.js<!– /cdn-cgi/scripts/cf.common.js Error 521 Ray ID: 3a8c60d04b412342 • 2017-10-05 00:48:56 UTC Web server is down You Browser Working Frankfurt Cloudflare Working www.bibleserver.com Host Error What happened? The web server is not returning a connection. As a result, the web page is not…
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activating the Meta key for the Terminal app under Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working. So I thought, I would let you know, how it really works with Snow Leopard. Here you see the window, that pops up for Terminal’s Preferences menue entry: You can see the Use option as meta…
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“rake”, the ruby DSL, improved
Well, I started using rake instead of make in 2007, when I got ruby infected. I noticed then, that rake’s output is a little “dis-arranged” (the entire “command” came printed in one single line). That changed in the meantime, at least now with 0.8.7 it is just the way I like it. Thank you to…