August 07, 2006
How to process AOL's search logs with PHP
AOL, for some reason, released 2,000,000 search records taken from the last 3 months. With a tiny bit of programming, you can use PHP to search through these records. This post describes how. But first, let's cut to the...Posted by adm at 06:04 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 01, 2006
How to Make Google Your Default Search Provider in Internet Explorer 7, Beta 2
Google is complaining to the Department of Justice and the EU that Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 improperly encourages users to use MSN Search instead of a search engine of the user's choice. Google claims "research it has sponsored shows...Posted by adm at 06:43 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 10, 2006
How to use iTunes "currently playing" info as your email signature in Outlook
Ok, here's one for the masses. This post describes how to add info about the song currently playing in iTunes to emails you compose in Outlook. Anyone can do it! First, create the macro. To do so: Open Outlook....Posted by adm at 12:00 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
April 02, 2006
How to make a mobile wifi hotspot using your Bluetooth-enabled Sprint PCS phone and your Mac
Let's say Sprint happened to to send you a free phone with a free service plan as part of their Ambassador program. Wouldn't you want to share the benefit of that service with as many people as possible? Especially...Posted by adm at 09:36 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 27, 2006
How to break a combination lock with a screwdriver
Last year, there was some coverage of a slow, but effective, technique to open a Master combination lock. If you don't need to save the lock and don't have time to go through the algorithm, you might want to...Posted by adm at 11:38 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
January 07, 2006
How to control iTunes from any Microsoft Office application
Summary This post describes how to interact with and control iTunes from any Microsoft Office application in Windows. Specifically, it shows how to: Create an Excel spreadsheet that lists all the tracks in your iTunes library, organized by playlist...Posted by adm at 07:54 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 24, 2005
How to control one Mac with another Mac, via a secure internet connection, for free
This is fairly basic stuff and has probably been explained elsewhere, but I thought I'd quickly summarize for anyone who might be wondering how to do this. I was inspired by DiveIntoMark's tutorial on using a Windows PC to...Posted by adm at 08:16 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 30, 2005
Parse iTunes XML with a couple lines of PHP
You may recall I half-wrote a script to do this a couple years ago, but I was mostly cribbing from some guy at Apple and really had no idea what i was doing. Anyway, I'm taking another shot at...Posted by adm at 05:38 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
February 06, 2005
Use PHP5's DOM support to create a valid RSS 2.0 feed
I was interested in using PHP5's DOM extension to create RSS feeds, but I couldn't find a decent tutorial on the web about how to do that. Most of the things out there involve PHP4's DOM-XML, which is different in...Posted by adm at 03:37 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 20, 2004
Install PHP 5 in a shared server environment, such as Dreamhost.com +
My webhost, Dreamhost, whom I recommend, allows you pretty comprehensive control over your server space and shell account, even on shared servers. They even let you compile and customize your own installation of PHP. Since PHP5 offers a bunch of...Posted by adm at 12:27 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
August 12, 2004
Migrate from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird
I've prepared detailed instructions on migrating your mail messages from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird. I am not an expert on Mozilla software or mail clients, but I do have a lot of experience with software, and went through this...Posted by adm at 01:52 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack