For people that work between multiple computers (say a home office and a corporate office) or want the security of leaving less of a footprint on a computer, you can install a variety of software packages on a USB drive. Great list!
Category: Technology
All things geeky.
How to accurately determine your iPod battery life
I could have used this document when troubleshooting Cathy‘s iPod.
Anyone use TinyMCE?
Has anyone implemented TinyMCE to accept cut and paste from MS Word? I’m having an issue where it takes the cut and paste within Firefox correctly but alters the formating when pasted within Internet Explorer
IE: *p**font face="Times New Roman" size="3"* */font*/p**strong*
FF: *p class="MsoNormal"* */p* *p align="center" style="text-align: center" class="MsoNormal"**strong**span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: red"*
Note: To get this example typed in within WordPress (which used TinyMCE btw) I had to replace my greater than and less than signs with astericks. Has anyone worked through this? I’m so frustrated I’ve switched to trying to get Xinha working but am running into a whole different set of issues.
UPDATE: Xinha works great!
ColdFusion Programmers on Skype
For you ColdFusion programmers out there looking for community and have Skype, try <cfSkypeCommunity option=”true” />
Get Free Cable
I’m looking for the small print. XOrbit puts a piece of equipment in your house to monitor cable signal strength. In return, they pay you $75/mth. Considering I want to monitor the signal strength anyway, sounds like a good deal!
Job Trends
Ah, my job sector! A graph of PHP, Java, JSP, ASP, and Coldfusion jobs. Explains a lot.
White House: DOJ Request For Google Data Is ‘Narrow’
Today’s headline regarding Bush’s realization of Orwell’s world:
“White House: DOJ Request For Google Data Is ‘Narrow’”
You know… “Narrow” like a wedge is narrow on one end. Remember, the goal here is to censor the Internet on the premise that we are fighting child pornography. So far the government’s approach online has been to scare people in the pornography industry (or anything that might have to do with nudity) into self-policing but that would be like scaring Borders into not selling any books that show a baby’s butt (most parenting books and magazines) for fear of prosecution.
Thought you’d heard it all?
So I was thinking I was the master of all knowledge and then someone showed me the nasal douche!
Programming question
Anyone have any experience implementing TinyMCE with the intent of cutting and pasting from MS Word and retaining formating? (Like WordPress does!) Have a few minutes for a tech chat?
Bonehead
The next time a client asks for something and your response is “uh, you really shouldn’t do that. A browser isn’t supposed to do that.” don’t agree to do it anyway.
Get creative with that digital camera!
This 4 minute film by Patryk Rebisz is shot entire with still pictures using the Canon 20D in burst mode which produces about 5 frames per second. The details were published in the magazine FilmMaker under an article called Still Life. Very creative! As such, it has won awards.
Was Windows latest security hole deliberate?
This person feels that the WMF security flaw was designed into the code intentionally but has no conjecture on Microsoft’s purpose in doing so.
Bellsouth’s Privacy Director
Good information on Bellsouth’s Privacy Director I love the service but for about 2 months now I’ve had a recorded message trying to get me to talk to someone. Their poor system thinks someone is answering the phone but Privacy Director cuts them off before the recording identifies itself. No human ever calls. It’s laughable but they call everyday.
Privacy Director gives a recorded messages to callers that are anonymous asking that the caller identify themselves (much like you would with a collect call). The phone rings at the house and after listening to the brief recording I have 3 options: take the call, reject sales call (gives the caller a no solicitation message), or reject the call. It drastically cut down on phone solicitations!
Protect your member only area
Programmers need to review this tech tip explaining how to use the FireFox User Agent Switcher extension to access member only areas of some websites. Effectively you simply add “Googlebot 2.1” to the description and user agent.
ColdFusion on the rise!
Yes! ColdFusion jumps to position 16 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2006! In January 2005 it was position 25 which isn’t too shabby in my book.
see also these alternative CF servers: Railo, IgniteFusion and BlueDragon
