I tried ADBWeatherPlus for a few minutes in my T-Mobile Wing, and I couldn’t get it set up. Maybe I’m not following the directions correctly, but the screen says ‘Add a location’, but when I try and a
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I’ve had this problem sporadically with iTerm on my Mac, and I seem to remember this happening recently on my Linux machines as well. If you have this problem, try this: $ export TERM=linux If this wo
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I came across this post and this Maven plugin today. Call me cynical, but I was shocked when it worked out of the box, building our application as a Mac friendly .app which can be run with a double cl
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I’ve been evaluating Zenfolio and Smugmug, as more professional alternatives to Flickr. I don’t have the money to waste on two subscriptions, so I got trial accounts for both (you don’t need a credit
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While waiting in a clothing department, I was able to ssh to my Dreamhost account and then use lynx to download (and install) the wordpress mobile edition and mobileadmin plugins. Now I can easily pos
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I’ve switched offTheHill from “Typo”:http://typosphere.org/ to “Wordpress”:http://wordpress.org/. Typo has some great features; its simple, easy to set up, the pages are elegant and nicely AJAX enable
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I saw a link to “Mail.appetizer”:http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer/beta/ on LifeHacker, and decided to give it a shot. I have been using GrowlMail, but it tends to lock up Mail for a log time a
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I uninstalled “M2Eclipse”:http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ and installed “q4e”:http://code.google.com/p/q4e/ and gave it a shot. All the core functionality seems to be there (dependancy management is th
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A “while back”:http://www.offthehill.org/articles/2007/01/23/mdnsresponder-and-gcc-4-1-compiling-issuesI reported on an obscure problem when compiling applications against the dnssd library that comes
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We recently returned our rented cable modem and cable box (neither of which we wanted anyway, we have our own cable modem) and downgraded out TV service to ‘basic’, which is pretty much the old 2 thro
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