Pandora vs Last.fm
posted February 7th, 2010 at 1:51 PM
They’re both good, but Last.fm wins. How can this be? Last.fm’s amazing powers are put on display after the break.
How To Post Your Dynamic Internal IP To DynDNS From Your Windows Machine
posted October 9th, 2009 at 12:37 PM
I looked around for an easier way to post an internal IP to DynDNS, but I didn’t find one. Scripting to the rescue.
How To Get Your IP and ONLY Your IP in Windows
posted October 9th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Sometimes you need to know your Windows machine’s IP. For example, if you would like to update your dynamic DNS entry from a script file. Here’s a hack that gets the job done.
How To Scan For Viruses in Your Email When Using Apple Mail
posted September 16th, 2009 at 2:10 PM
There’s more than way to go about it, but I prefer using the open source ClamAV and a script that runs to scan each email as it comes in.
How To Use Facebook Open Streams With Facebooker
posted September 15th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I would like my Facebook Connect app to publish stories to my users’ Facebook news stream. I went looking for how do this with Facebooker and figured out an answer.
How To Include a Gem’s Rake Tasks in Your Rails App
posted September 14th, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Rake tasks contained in a gem are not automatically available to a rails app that requires the gem. Whether that’s the right way to do things is under debate, but in the mean time there are a couple workarounds.
How To Permit A Blank Email Field With AuthLogic
posted September 9th, 2009 at 12:32 PM
I too ran into some trouble before discovering that my beloved AuthLogic is validating my email field. The validation is a good thing overall, but I want to support blank email addresses as well as properly formatted ones.
How To Predict The Future Using Excel
posted August 25th, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I’m going to run out of hard drive space at some point. I’ve got 1.5TB drives in my Drobo right now, I wonder when the 3TB drives will come out so I can just upgrade them in place for double the capacity…
How To Monitor Amazon For Price Drops
posted July 26th, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Want to buy a blu-ray movie, but not interested in paying full price? Search on CamelCamelCamel for what you want then subscribe to the associated “3rd party used price” RSS feed (look for the RSS icon: 
). You’ll get an RSS update each time the price changes.
How to Increase Traffic to Your Site By Optimizing For Search Engines
posted July 17th, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Want more traffic from your friendly neighborhood search engine to your site? Here are some of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tricks I’ve picked up along the way.
Best Ribs
posted July 17th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
The meat falls off the bone. They taste like ribs should taste. And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Best Chicken Maharaja
posted July 16th, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Sneha rolls buffet style, all you can eat. All I can eat when I go is the Chicken Maharaja.
Best Grape Juice
posted June 20th, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Why should wine get all the good grapes? I buy this stuff by the case when I’m in Sonoma and it still goes fast.
Best Deep Dish Pizza
posted June 19th, 2009 at 1:12 PM
Try the Chicken Pizza and order a large so you can take some home.
Best Pastrami Sandwich
posted June 14th, 2009 at 1:30 PM
The Refuge in San Carlos, CA makes their pastrami in-house and its amazing. You’ll wonder how you ever put up with the conventional, mass-produced pastrami you get pretty much everywhere else.
How To Keep Your Cables Untangled While You Use Them
posted June 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 PM
The mess of cables behind your computer sure doesn’t look safe. And this probably won’t make it any safer, but it sure makes it easier to see what’s going on. It’s all about taking up the slack.
How To Keep Your Cables Untangled While You Store Them
posted June 1st, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Ziploc freezer bags help keep your cables untangled and easy to sort through. There’s even space for you to write the date when your cable goes bad, in case you are good at predicting that sort of thing.
How To Create a Good Looking Graph (The Easy Way)
posted May 31st, 2009 at 12:05 AM
There comes a time in every professional’s career when they need a graph. Maybe they need to illustrate a usability scale, maybe its something else. Fortunately, the developers at Omni are focused on making it stupid-easy to make graphs—no need to bust open Excel, dust off any math skills, or crack open a book on Photoshop to make the graph you need.
A Usability Scale
posted May 30th, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Many usability professionals focus on, well, usability. But there’s more to usability than an intuitive interface. The best stuff in our lives are pleasant, fun, even habit forming.
How To Protect Your Pockets From Your Keys
posted May 29th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
If you’re tired of your keychain poking holes in your pockets you may want to consider investing in some protection.