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A new version (1.2.2) is available that fixes issues with image URLs This version is a re-release of version 1.2 which had a corrupted archive missing some necessary files. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right…
Update: A new version is available that fixes a corrupted archive in version 1.2. The RiverLevels widget provides an easy way to monitor the amount of water flowing in your favorite streams and rivers right from your Dashboard. The RiverLevels widget is of particular interest to whitewater kayakers and canoeists….
After upgrading my laptop to Apple’s latest operating system, OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’, I ran into a few issues here and there but for the most part I thought everything worked. After about a month using Leopard though, I noticed that my meetings were not syncing properly to my in-phone…
I’ve recently developed a small PHP script, the WPEnclosureAdder (source | try) that goes through each item in an RSS feed, looks for links to YouTube videos or GoogleVideo videos, and then adds an enclosure tags for the videos. If multiple videos are found embedded in a post, then that…
As of a few days ago, I am now able to generate KML versions of Flickr photosets for viewing in Google Earth/Maps. With that taken care of, I also want to easily combine these KML documents of images together with other KML files that show additional information, such as paths…
One of the things I (and others) have found lacking when working with geotagged images on Flickr, is the inability to retrieve a “photo set” (Flickr’s take on a slideshow) as a KML document that can then be displayed in GoogleEarth, GoogleMaps, or other geo-browsers. Flickr provides some KML links…
Quite a few of my friends and relatives make use of Blogger/Blogspot for their weblogs. While Blogger seems to be a great service and very easy to use, what annoys me is that RSS feeds are often disabled on Blogger weblogs. Maybe people are setting this on purpose, maybe they…
A few months ago I was listening to an NPR story that was bemoaning the inability to skip past the Verizon woman’s voice after listening to someone’s own recorded message: “At the tone please record your message, when you finish recording you may hang up, or press one for more…
Introduction With the rapid increase of computer power and the growing software power-requirements that go with them, it is often easy to find old Pentium 100, 133, and 166 (or similar generation) laptops for little if any cost. Machines of this generation generally ran MS Windows 95, which can’t cope…
Well, after about a week of downtime due to my mediocre skills as an admin, the webserver is back up. Thanks go to Gabe Schine for his help compiling Apache. Thanks Gabe! You rock!
