Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3

Friday, February 1st, 2008

With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline. The one downside to the Time Machine approach ...

Extracting emails from Gmail and Google Apps for Domains

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

First off, I'll get the link out of the way. If you go to http://vallery.net/gmail/ you can see this application in action. Now a little bit more about it. I discovered that over the years I haven't exactly been great about maintaining my addressbook. I've lost touch of ...

Debug your outbound POST and GET requests

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

I work a lot with different types of web services. I find when I'm building an application that has to post data off to a remote service that it can be difficult to debug where the problems are. I can't always see an exact copy of the HTTP ...

10 steps to organize your digital life on OS X and Windows

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

In meat space my wife and I are far from organized. It's a real problem because we are always losing important things like our car keys. Unfortunately, this how-to won't help me solve that problem. In the digital world however, I'm extremely anal retentive and organized. ...

Optimizing Wordpress and LAMP to survive the Digg effect

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Anyone who has used digg for any amount of time has certainly come across a dead link. Invariably you click on the comment link hoping someone has posted a mirror of the content. You head over to duggmirror or coral cache to view the content. During the ...

Scalable story promotion

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I had some thoughts on the idea of scalable story promotion for the open source Pligg system. I thought I would share them here I've been thinking about the best way to handle promoting a story/article from a queued status onto the main page and I've had a few thoughts ...

Setting up an automated workflow to convert files for Apple TV on OS X

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

With the arrival of my Apple TV yesterday I needed a solution to get my Xvix/WMV/Divx files converted and imported into iTunes so that I can watch them. I already have Quicktime Pro, which with the recent release added the ability to "Export to Apple TV". Since I ...

Updates

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Amy has started a new weight loss blog again. Check it out at http://blogginglight.com/. Also, my project is moving forward, slowly. I've updated the domain name and you can now find it over at http://minefeed.com/.

Sneak peak of my new project

Friday, October 13th, 2006

I've been spending my free time recently working on a new site to aggregate news and provide innovative ways to stay up with current events. It's still under development, but I thought I would post a link. The sites temporary home is http://www.newspicker.net/. Enjoy and let me know what ...