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latest 15 posts
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1.0“Follow Your Passion: Probably the Worst Advice”
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1.0The Yellow Line
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5.050% off for all Facebook Fans
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1.0Yoshimoto Cube
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1.0ExpanDrive v1.3.3!
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3.6Why Do You Always Have to Reboot Wireless Routers?
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4.7Ponzi Crawl
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5.8on C++
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5.0iPhone: Double Tap for iPod Controls
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5.0Mac Retrogaming on your iPhone with minivMac.app
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1.0Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds
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7.2Streaming your iTunes Music the Easy Way
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3.9Redmine/Rails email through Gmail SMTP
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1.0Banging screws with a wrench
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1.0JetBlue
Thursday January 8th, 2009
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“Follow Your Passion: Probably the Worst Advice”
From Magnetk Blog, 1 day ago,
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I’m lucky to have a job I’m passionate about. (Maybe some day I’ll tell the story about how I ended up here at ExpanDrive.) But I haven’t been passionate about all my jobs: taxi driving, retail, food service, construction, and grad student. In this video, Mike Rowe, the host of Discover Channel’s Dirty Jobs), argues [...]
Tuesday January 6th, 2009
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The Yellow Line
From Magnetk Blog, 3 days ago,
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50% off for all Facebook Fans
From Magnetk Blog, 3 days ago,
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Become a fan of ExpanDrive on Facebook and get access to a $20 off coupon. This is a limited time deal that will change regularly, so get it while it’s hot.
Wednesday December 31st, 2008
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Yoshimoto Cube
From Magnetk Blog, 9 days ago,
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At first I thought this video was just going to be about a flexicube, and I almost quit watching before it got good.
Tuesday December 30th, 2008
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ExpanDrive v1.3.3!
From Magnetk Blog, 10 days ago,
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I’m happy to announce that we’ve just gone live with ExpanDrive 1.3.3, and it’s got some awesome new stuff. Get it downloading now, so you can play with it by the time you’re done reading this post.
MacFUSE 2.0
A few weeks ago the crew at Google release MacFUSE 2.0. ExpanDrive is built on top of MacFUSE, [...]
3.6
Why Do You Always Have to Reboot Wireless Routers?
From Magnetk Blog, 10 days ago,
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You know how some consumer routers and switches need to be rebooted reularly? Every week or so they crash, and all you’ve got to do is reboot them to bring them back. If you’re like me, then your parents have one of these routers.
Anyway, Jeff and I have spent a few evenings at the office [...]
Thursday December 18th, 2008
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Ponzi Crawl
From Magnetk Blog, 22 days ago,
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From Urban Dictionary:
A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each new person is promised that they will get free drinks at all the future bars if they buy this round. Obviously, whoever joins the ponzi crawl last gets screwed!
Let’s get some [...]
5.8
on C++
From Magnetk Blog, 22 days ago,
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Linus Torvalds in an old thread on C++:
I’ve come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really *would* prefer to piss off, so that he doesn’t come and screw up any project I’m involved with.
While he does go on [...]
Wednesday December 17th, 2008
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iPhone: Double Tap for iPod Controls
From Magnetk Blog, 23 days ago,
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I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet: in Settings -> General -> Home Button there’s a choice labeled “iPod Controls”. If you turn this on then you’ll get a little iPod pop up if you double click the home button while a song is playing. It shows rewind, play/pause, fast forward, and the volume slider, [...]
Monday December 15th, 2008
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Mac Retrogaming on your iPhone with minivMac.app
From Magnetk Blog, 25 days ago,
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iPhone developers, it seems, have been coming after Mac users of a certain vintage, retrofitting classic Mac games for the glitzy new portable platform. But after dropping a fat $5 on the iPhone/iPod Touch remake of Crystal Quest, I’ve gotta say I’m disappointed.
Among my beefs were the chincy techno score, the few missing sounds (the [...]
Friday December 12th, 2008
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Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds
From Magnetk Blog, 28 days ago,
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via Wired
Aspiring scientists from the Zurich School of Applied Sciences have built a video simulation that displays the flight path of every commercial flight in the world over a 24-hour period. There isn’t much of an application for it, but it sure is cool to look at.
Sure is.
Thursday December 11th, 2008
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Streaming your iTunes Music the Easy Way
From Magnetk Blog, 29 days ago,
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You may have seen a post on TUAW today, explaining how to stream your music collection across the Internet. It’s useful, but—as it seems to me—needlessly laborious. Mac OS X and Expandrive make this functionality a snap.
One: Set up a computer at home with all your music on it. Best bet is an old G3 [...]
Thursday December 4th, 2008
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Redmine/Rails email through Gmail SMTP
From Magnetk Blog, 1 month ago,
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Here is a bit of help getting Redmine, or any Rails app, to send email over SMTP through an existing Gmail account.
It’s quite easy to set up and you gain the usual perks of having everything centralized in a Gmail account. Note: this works with Google Apps for your domain, too.
First you’ll need to install [...]
Wednesday December 3rd, 2008
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Banging screws with a wrench
From Magnetk Blog, 1 month ago,
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Michael, our brilliant FTPFS lead programmer, hits the nail on the head. Or something.
Implementing a filesystem over FTP is like using a wrench to pound in screws.
It’s hard to get both correctness and speed when you’re building a filesystem abstraction on top of a horribly old insecure protocol that was in no way designed for [...]
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JetBlue
From Magnetk Blog, 1 month ago,
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I just tried to sign up for a JetBlue online account, and I accidently fat-fingered the return key after entering only my first name. Bizarrely, JetBlue accepted the nearly blank form, and created an account using my previously entered username and password. If I try to make a new account it tells me that my [...]