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Your iTunes is probably set to download 3 files at a time from the iTunes store. So if you sign up for say a podcast that has 25 items and you queue all 25 to download at a time it will immediately start downloading three of the files and when one finishes it will immediately…
This took me awhile to figure out for some reason but once I did I felt pretty on top of my game, not. So after playing around with some of the Google Labs additions to Gmail I figured that it might be cool to check out the Google Labs Custom Keyboard Shortcuts addition to Gmail…
I was having trouble view Google Toolbar local search history past the most recent 15 entries. I have auto complete turned on so if I started typing a couple letters it would show older entries so I knew they existed. I figured the easiest way to get the entire list was to just go to…
Finding out what application is running on a specific port in Windows XP is easy by using two command line utilities. By using netstat with the proper switches you can list out all of the ports that are being used and then use Tasklist to list all of the applications that are running. The combination…
First off you can add multiple IP’s to each SliceHost VPS. Adding the secondary IP address to a SliceHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) is easy. Open the SliceManager control panel and click the Help tab to open a support ticket. In the ticket state that you want a secondary IP, the justification for it, and…
Follow the below instructions to have your Redmine application send email using TLS through Gmail. As long as you have a Gmail account you will be able to send mail through smtp.gmail.com. Install TLS: First install TLS for the Redmine project. Login to the server with the user that runs Redmine and issue the below…
If you want to dynamically add a member to a Ruby object, use the hash/array brackets and symbol (:user_id) as shown in the iRb session below. As you can see the dot notation will not work. bash >> d = AccessMode.find(1) => #<AccessMode id: 1, device_id: 31218, mode: "dialup", timestamp: "2007-12-25 15:52:55"> >> d[:user_id] =…
The power of the Unix command vi never ceases to amaze me. I have known how to search and replace easily using vi for a long time however I didn’t know how to find and replace plus insert a line break during the replace. After toying around with vi for awhile I was able to…
Previously I created an article about listing all WordPress tags on a single page however some things have changed since that time. When going back and looking at the article it looks like some of the tags have changed since that time. I do have a WordPress plugin installed called Simple Tags so take that…