Now that I seem to be back on the Scout wagon, I decided I’d use Yahoo Pipes to build an RSS scraper for Craigslist to keep an eye on spare parts for sale. I’m impressed with Pipes-it was easy to set up, and I’m going to keep fooling with it to refine my searches further. Not that I can afford anything right now, anyway.
I’ve been looking for an iPhone weblog client, and it looks like I may have found one called iBlogger, which seems to get some lukewarm reviews and costs $10. Hmmm.
Versions is a Mac Subversion client, which is supposed to make using source control easier. We’ll see how that works.
Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation. He is the director of two of my favorite movies, and a former alumnus of both Disney and the Simpsons.
Create better PDFs by understanding the formats, a primer on the various types of PDF format used for printing. Yeesh, what a mess.
A page about the The TTL Flash System, something I need to become intimately familiar with in the next couple of months.
I didn’t see this back on the 5th, but the Maryland tech tax was repealed. Halleleujah, amen.
8 quick Photoshop tips to improve productivity. Some of these I’ve known, but some are very helpful.
Now that I have a fancy-fangled iPhone, I may need this info: Five email addresses for converting documents. Say you have a Visio doc not readable on a phone: email it to one of these addresses and it will be returned as a readable PDF file. Sweet!
Genius: Yo, Should I Dump This Asshole?.
I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I at least keep an eye on the home teams. This article describes perfectly why I haven't given a shit about the Baltimore Orioles for, oh, 15 years.
I read about this on a WWII message board a couple of weeks ago, and couldn't believe it then: British WWII fighter found in Egyptian desert. Hopefully they can get it out and into a museum before people start scavenging bits from it.
Hmm. SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Interesting choices.
19 Regional Words All Americans Should Adopt Immediately.
jasm (n.), Connecticut
Meaning “intense energy or vitality,” the sentence provided in the dictionary was so good, I wanted to share it with you all, too: “If you’ll take thunder and lightening, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ‘em up, and out ‘em into a woman, that’s jasm.”
Handy tip, via Sean Carton on Facebook: Find and Download PDF Manuals of Electronic Products using Amazon.
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