Hacks

This is kind of a meta hack, since it’s one I use for every post to this blog, but it also serves as a quick and easy way to resize images for a number of other purposes. Like many blogs, this one has a posting width of 500 pixels, which we try to fill with […]

MacFUSE is a framework for loading filesystem modules in userspace. This means that you need to install one kernel extension for all the supported filesystems (and there are a lot: sshfs, ftpfs, read/write NTFS, and more) and then load the modules for each filesystem as needed. This is a lot cleaner than having to load […]

When riding in the car, my toddler is always dropping his toys (sometimes by accident and other times, I’m convinced, on purpose) and saying, “Uh oh!,” which isn’t quite as cute as it is frustrating after having to reach back dangerously or stop the car safely to return his toys to him several times in […]

A popular hack for Intel Macs involves creating a third FAT32 partition to hold your data, while using an NTFS partition to hold your Vista or XP installation. Problem is, if you want to undo this arrangement, Boot Camp won’t cooperate. If you’ve got good backups, and you’re brave enough to mess around with a […]

Over at Diary of a Mobile Addict, Mordy has a great write up of the various ways you can trick a Pocket PC app into running on a Windows Mobile Smartphone. It starts out with the first thing you should do: just try installing it because it might work. From there, the article moves on […]

Anyone who’s had to share a link to a podcast in the iTunes Store knows the painfully long URLs you’re forced to deal with (in this case, for the Make Magazine Podcast): http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=74069835 Well, over at the O’Reilly Network, Digital Media blogger David Battino uncovers a quick hack to chop it down to its essentials, […]