Link Apple Remote With Computer
8 March 2006 1:34 pm
You can pair a specific remote to a specific computer to prevent interferance.
Click and hold the Menu and Next/Fast-forward buttons for 5 seconds. To unpair the computer, open the Security pane in System Preferences and Click Unpair.
Other abilities of the Apple remote:
* Hold the Play button to put your Mac to sleep.
* Press the Menu button to wake a sleeping Mac.
Category Order
5 May 2005 10:03 am
With the blessing of Pericat, I modified her perisort.php plugin to give it a user-interface within the WordPress menus.
To download, right click and select ‘Save As’: Explicit Category Order
Quick Usage:
# Drop categoryOrder.php in WordPress 1.5+ Plugin directory, and activate it
# Navigate to ‘Manage’ -> ‘Category Order’
# Enter comma and space seperated order of category slugs (available in drop down menu) with Keywords for formatting.
# If your top level categories are empty, you might need to change the function call in your sidebar.php file to: wp_list_cats('hide_empty=0');
# I call my categories with wp_list_cats('sort_column=name'); so that my list defaults to alphabetical when I haven’t set an explicit category order.
Example: by-course, CHILD, appetizers, salad-and-side-dishes, breakfast, BREAK, by-cuisine, CHILD, asian, cuban, indian
This plugin is in use at Cara Dow’s Recipes
Keywords:
* CHILD - flags the next category (and any subsequent categories) as sub-categories.
* TOP - flags the next category (and any subsequent categories) as top-level. Immediately rewinds to original starting level. Remains in effect until the next keyword.
* BACKUP - rewinds one level of nesting. Multiple BACKUPs are okay, though if you rewind your list beyond its original starting level, the extra calls will be ignored.
* BREAK - Similar to TOP as immediately rewinds to original starting level, but also inserts a gap before the next category.
To revert to original list, update your category order with just a space, or deactivate the plugin.
Known issues: This plugin only works if you are using permalinks.
Unlocking GSM Cell Phones
29 March 2005 2:01 pm
While in Australia earlier this month we bought a Nokia 1100 cell phone from Telstra. It was only a hundred dollars, included prepaid minutes, and was very helpful to change dinner reservations and to order pizza at 2am. The only downside of this GSM phone was that Telstra had locked it so that SIM cards from other companies wouldn’t work. Telstra did provide a ’service’ to unlock my phone for $50AUS within the first 6 months, or $25AUS afterwards. That sounded fair, but as usual what you can pay for in the real world, you can get on the web for free.
trycktill is a swedish website that calculates the unlock code for your cell phone. The site also has english and danish translations available. To get to the unlocking page, and avoid being redirected to fbi.gov, first click on the Var det nagon som sa gratis? link, and then change to your preferred language.
After entering my phone’s information I entered the first code. It failed. The directions say the second most likely code is the seventh code. That one worked and my phone is now free to use any SIM card in any country. I’m looking forward to using it in upcoming trips to France and Denmark.
Stop Bandwidth Theft with .htaccess
20 March 2005 12:43 pm
.htaccess files are a very powerful tool of the Apache web server, but complicated to get working. They are used on this site to rewrite the urls into reader friendly names instead of the php=5&….that lies underneath. They also control access to your files. In this case I’m using the .htaccess file to stop people from linking to my images, movies, audio, and flash to use on their site. This doesn’t stop people from linking to my pages, which I’d like them to do early and often.
A lovely thing about .htaccess files: if you place them in a directory, the conditions and permissions you set up affect all subfolders of that folder. So, if you want to protect all your images, just drop a single .htaccess file in your main images directory, and all subfolders are taken care of.
Here’s the code that I’m using for my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.buzolich.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://buzolich.com [NC]
RewriteRule [^/]+.(jpe?g|gif|png|mov|swf|avi|mpe?g|mp3|wav|wmv)$ - [F]
Note: The file is four lines, and each line starts with Rewrite…
Spy-ware Removers
24 January 2005 3:51 pm
The two best (and free) spy-ware removal programs I use are the Yahoo Toolbar (IE plugin) or Lavasoft’s Adaware SE for Opera or Firefox users.
Both work well and which one you use is mostly a matter of preference.
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Make 7-Zip Yours
20 July 2004 4:00 pm
7-Zip is the only compression / decompression program you need for a Windows computer and it’s free.
That wasn’t clear enough? 7-Zip handles all the archive formats you’ll encounter on the net. It also integrates nicely into your right-click menu allowing you to “Extract Here” on any compressed file.
Disable MSN Messenger
19 July 2004 2:34 pm
I’m a Trillian user so I have no use for the MSN Messenger program that runs by default in Windows XP. Here’s how to stop it from starting, saving memory, and more importantly to me clearing my system tray.
# Start -> Run -> regedit
# Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Policies -> Microsoft
# Create a new key by selecting Edit -> New -> Key, starting from the top bar, and naming it Messenger
# Below Messenger, create another key named Client
# Now you’re done making keys, almost there… Next we have to make a DWORD by right clicking on the newly created Client -> New -> DWORD, naming it PreventRun
# Finally, double click on PreventRun and Value data entry of 0 to 1.
Close up regedit and after you restart, MSN Messenger should be out of your life.
Virtual CD/DVD Drive
9 February 2004 12:04 pm
There is a lot of software “available” on the internet in the form of ISO images. Although these copies of the discs can easily be burned onto a CDR disc, I wanted a way to use the ISO images without first having to burn them.
DAEMON Tools is a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator. It is able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today. After installation and a restart, Daemon tools allowed me to mount an image and have it show up as a drive.
If you have the extra hard drive space, this seems like a really good way to play computer games without having to switch discs. Check their Games Database to see if you favorite game’s copy protection is supported.
WARNING: I tried this at home and my computer almost died. The forums have many comments about problems with this software, especially when installed next to Easy CD Creator. If you have XP, set a system restore point first.
Radmin
22 December 2003 6:17 pm
Radmin is an award-winning multifunction remote control program. Radmin enables you to remotely monitor or work on one or more network computers right from your own workstation. It is a complete remote control solution with such features as File Transfer, NT security, Telnet and Multilanguage Support built-in.
If you don’t have Windows XP Professional, Radmin is better than VNC to control a remote PC. It only works with Windows PCs, but the increased speed and encryption is nice.
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