Archive for 2007
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Yesterday I made an automatic backup script for external drives on the Mac. A few of my friends have wanted a Windows version, so here it is:
Step 1: Create a file called backup.bat in the root of your flash drive. Use Notepad, or any other editor. Copy and paste this ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
OS X.5 came with a cool new feature called Timemachine which automatically backs-up your internal Mac harddrive. People like me live off their flash drive, and losing it would mean disaster, and you can never remember to manually back it up. When I learned that Time Machine didn't backup external ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
A while ago I posted about MPlayer, the Mac media player that plays DVR-MS files. There were a few problems with it:First of all, it's skip feature was not so great. Another problem was that it didnt play many file types. Every once and a while I would get a ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Its called Adium, and its only for Mac (Haha!) After getting some skins and tweaking it a bit I got this:
Thats just a friken awesome looking IM client. Beats the heck out of anything Trillion has ever offered, and lets not even speak of AOL's default client.
Download
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
http://code.fiyocom.com
Its a place to upload small, simple java programs made using Rails (the irony!). I made it for an end of the year computer science projects titled "Passing on the torch." The idea was to make learning easier for incoming CS students, and what better way to learn than by ...
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Today at 8 pm EST (6 pm CST) Beyond the Beltway will have their first nationally broadcasted AP review program. The “2Regular Guys” will have their review on Chicago-based WLS-AM 890. Students can also listen to the review streamed form online.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
The European Southern Observatory has just discovered a planet that resebles Earth more closesly than any ever found before. Here are the basic details:
The planet has a diameter of 1.5 that of Earth's
The planet has a mass 5 times that of Earth's
The planet orbits a Red Dwarf (These produce less ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
NASA has just released tones of 3-D images of the Sun takes by its new STEREO telescopes. STEREO was launched in in October 2006. the way it works is that there are two telescopes each orbiting at diffrent places around the Earth (one ahead and one behind). They're kind of ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Everything is great. You have a nice little computer set up to record your shows, and an Xbox to watch them on your TV. But what happens when you want to watch them on your Mac? Microsoft has discontinued WMP support for the Mac so your pretty much screwed right?
Wrong!
Where ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
The Qur’an belongs to us all, not just to scholars. What does this mean? This means that you can now search Allah’s words yourself. But I don’t understand Arabic…? That’s okay, because communityquran.com gives 5 different translations for each verse of the Qur’an, so you can ...
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