Month: July 2007

Use Adsense on password protected sites

Use Adsense on password protected sites

In order to display relevant advertisements, Adsense has its own web crawler which scans Adsense enabled URLs for page content. This helps Adsense get a clue of what the particular page is all about, and enables it to display ads with purchased keywords that match your content. For forums and other password protected sites, however, […]

Craft PDX Block Party on Sunday

Susan writes: If you’re in Portland on Sunday, be sure to come by the Craft PDX Block Party! The Museum of Contemporary Craft is celebrating their grand re-opening with an afternoon full of craft, music, and workshops, all free to the public. Glass, metal, and wood artists will be demonstrating their work, and there will […]

Hand-Crank Ice Cream for cranks

Hand-Crank Ice Cream for cranks

Seedlingproject writes – I like hand-cranked ice cream, not the kind that runs electrically (or even worse the kind that comes from the store). I read lots of books about pioneers when I was growing up and I loved the stories about sitting on the front porch in the summer and taking turns cranking the […]

Customize iPhone ringtones and system sounds

Customize iPhone ringtones and system sounds

It’s a laborious process, but here’s a pretty thorough walkthrough for using Jailbreak and iPhoneInterface to upload ringtones and custom system sounds to your iPhone. What jailbreak does is (at a very high level) perform the first half of the restore operation that iTunes would, getting the phone into the powerful restore mode. It then […]