Hacking Sale Prices 02/28/2007 The Consumerist had an interesting article last month about certain retailers using a price coding scheme to indicate different discount...
Gmail Spam Trap 02/27/2007 Gmail has an intersting feature that allows you to append a keyword to your email address with the plus (+)...
Translate SQL Syntax Between Databases 02/26/2007 SQL::Translator is an interesting Perl module that, among other things, can convert database table definitions to and from several DB...
Linux Commands You’ve Never Used 02/25/2007 # lsof | grep TCP portmap 2587 rpc 4u IPv4 5544 TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN) rpc.statd 2606 root 6u IPv4 5585...
Intelligent Snooze Button Agent 02/24/2007 Have you ever gotten to work early due to light traffic and wished you’d slept in a bit later? Or...
Unclutter Your Desk 02/23/2007 Here’s a great way to rid your desk of device clutter. Take everything but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse and...
Bootstrap Education 02/22/2007 I received an email today from an electrical engineering student who is looking for resources that could help expedite a...
Track Down Runaway Mac Apps 02/19/2007 Recently, there’s been a lot of feedback and internal discussion around the topic of Powerbook Fever. Phil’s post about using...
Howto: Remove Eyeglasses Coating With Sunscreen 02/17/2007 The lenses in my favorite pair of glasses are getting to be about a year or two old, and it’s...
Open Source Javascript Mapping 02/16/2007 If you’re building any sort of web interface for geospatial data, take a peek at OpenLayers. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing)...
