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Entries from June 2008

macosxhints.com – 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes – Great tip on how to reassociate a Time Machine backup with a new machine, so that it continues backing up on the same time line, without creating a new backup set. TM backups are keyed by the machine's Ethernet MAC address, so it needs to be changed for i (tags: backup hack howto leopard macosx timemachine tips )
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Password Assistant | codepoetry – For some time I've thought it would be nice to be able to invoke the Password Assistant from the OSX Accounts preference pane on its own, since it is very nice to generate pronounceable passwords. Alas, it seems I was not the only one, someone did it alre (tags: cocoa cool hack macosx password security tools )
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XML Alternatives – Interesting list of data formats that can be used instead of XML (tags: markup programming tools xml )
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Penny Arcade! – Lego-shaped snacks? – As a parent, I agree that this product is a baaad idea. I love the commentary: "I can only assume that their next product is fruit flavored thumbtacks" (tags: baby funny lego )
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Sending SMS through the Cablecom (hispeed.ch) web interface (howto)

June 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I wanted to be able to send SMS from the command line to my phone automatically (e.g. to get notified of certain emails). I use Cablecom, which offer the service of sending SMS through a web interface to subscribers. I found smssend (a seemingly dead package, but still available in some distributions), which has a [...]

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How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word – This really makes Word less painful to use. (tags: emacs howto keyboard macosx tips word )
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Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop – Incredible modification of a Mac mini, including keyboard and monitor (tags: apple cool design mac mod )
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Classics in Lego – a set on Flickr – Classic photos done with Lego figures (tags: art flickr lego photography )
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Open source on Mac – Relatively complete list of Mac-native open source applications (tags: mac opensource reference software )
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YouTube – JCJC – Very cool – I hadn't heard about "contact juggling" until I saw this video, it's very impressive (tags: Juggling cool tricks video )
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