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Combo address / search bar in Firefox

By cburyta | Published: August 2, 2010
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

By cburyta | Published: July 28, 2010
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

By cburyta | Published: July 25, 2010
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)

By cburyta | Published: July 22, 2010
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

By cburyta | Published: August 25, 2008
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)

By cburyta | Published: July 10, 2008
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

By cburyta | Published: June 13, 2008
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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