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Combo address / search bar in Firefox

Google Chrome nailed it in my opinion with the address bar. It’s a typical address bar, but if you type something there that is not an URL, it guesses that you want to search it. Perfect! I find myself frustrated with Firefox, Safari and other browsers when I get errors after typing my search in [...]
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Siteurl and home settings durring WordPress developemnt

When I develop sites I start on my local machine, and edit my /etc/hosts file to point to my local system. E.g. website.dev is the dev domain I might use to work on website.com locally. (This would be opposed to pointing all sites to localhost/folder/someotherfolder/website_dev or something. I just find it eaiser.) It works great, [...]
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Set up a Linksys e3000 with DD-WRT and an old WRT54G

My goals Update my router, and get a network attached hard drive setup allowing me to backup my MacBook Pro over the network via Time Machine (possibly over the internet, but that might be a long-shot?) I’ll write about the backup process later, but here’s some references to get a network setup supporting full G [...]
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Add shortcuts to rate current iTunes track from anywhere (Snow Leopard)

A while back I wrote this post describing my efforts in looking for a way to rate iTunes shortcuts anytime with a quick shortcut on Mac. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I found the steps to enable this site wide was a bit different, thus this post was created. First, use Automator to create the [...]
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Windows sideways scrolling trick

Ok, this is probably something that has been known for some time now… but since when did Windows offer the ability to scroll sidewas by holding Ctrl + Alt while using the mouse scroll wheel? I wish I knew that a while ago. Apple has been doing that for a while, and I was glad [...]
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iTunes rating keyboard shortcut (Updated / deprecated method)

I asked myself the question today, is there a way to rate a song in iTunes with a keyboard shortcut? Yes, there is. I found a walk-through on how to do this at www.macgeekery.com describing how, but it’s a walk through that’s better suited for those looking to learn how to write more scripts. If [...]
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Mobile location based sites

It’s becoming easier and easier to take advantage of a mobile device’s ability to pinpoint your current location. Here’s a list of starting points where you’ll find Firefox add-ons, Blackberry’s, iPhone apps or other items of location based interests. fire eagle: if you have access to it (its in beta stages while i write this) [...]
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