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Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3

jvallery — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:46:16 +0000

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 is that the data isn’t remotely stored. A [...]

Extracting emails from Gmail and Google Apps for Domains

jvallery — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:09:52 +0000

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 many of acquaintances that I have had [...]

Debug your outbound POST and GET requests

jvallery — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:27:13 +0000

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 request that I am sending, and therefore [...]

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

jvallery — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:30:51 +0000

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. Everything is in its place and easily searchable. It [...]

Optimizing WordPress and LAMP to survive the Digg effect

jvallery — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:40:34 +0000

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 peak time right after an article hits the [...]

Scalable story promotion

jvallery — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:14:14 +0000

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 I wanted to share with [...]

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

jvallery — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:45:13 +0000

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 have a lot of files, and no [...]