From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Bit.ly URL shortening with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Services and Applescript

October 26, 2009

If you’ve seen the nifty browser shortcuts and extensions from Bit.ly then you’re familiar with the service, and how convenient it is. But there’s a catch… they only work in your browser.
Read on to see how you, too, can have the same convenience from any application on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
For those with no [...]

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Google Wave and a Fluid SSB — Geek Heaven

October 16, 2009

I finally got my Google Wave invite today, and the very first thing I did was make a Site Specific Browser (SSB) with Fluid.app.
Here’s what it looks like:
And here’s a detailed view:
As you can see, even the menu icon uses the Google Wave icon… just a default choice you can make when creating the SSB.
Now [...]

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Best Buy running over 1,000 store blogs on Wordpress MU

October 16, 2009

According to a message sent to the WP-Pro list, Best Buy is looking for some pro WordPress developers.
The representative stated that they use WordPress MU to host over 1,000 individual store blogs, and because of the explosion in popularity, they need some expert help asap.

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Snow Leopard: Fix Incorrect Unread Message Count in Mail.app Dock

October 16, 2009

For the past few days I’ve had absolutely the most annoying bug in my Snow Leopard system. Despite having every message read, in every mail box, the dock icon still shows that damned red alert batch.
Here’s how to fix that…

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The kid who cried “help, I’m in a balloon”

October 15, 2009

The web went crazy today. Some 6 year old boy was reported as floating high in a home-made hot air balloon.
Technology did not disappoint either. We had live reports, streaming video, tweets, blog posts (like this one), pictures, live news coverage, the whole shebang ( #! ).
As it turns out, the kid was never [...]

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Three Wolf Moon is Taking Over

October 15, 2009

I was just alerted that we have an internet meme creeping out into the real world. Courtesy of Martin J. Wagner, Project Manager for all podcasting initiative at IU (such as the fabulous IU Podcast Portal). Previously a sort of internet joke, these T’s are all over the place now.

Amazingly, someone even painted it on [...]

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Counter Terrorism Simulation at IU

October 12, 2009

On Friday October 23rd, I’ll be participating in IU’s Counter Terrorism Simulation at the IUPUI campus Law school.
If you attend, you may see me providing IT Support, operating cameras, and performing other “back of the house” operations.

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The world doesn’t need bigger optical storage

October 11, 2009

PCWorld reports that a “next new thing” optical disc outsizing even Blu-Ray is on its way:
TDK has developed a prototype optical disc that can hold up to 320GB of information — that’s more than six times the current highest-capacity media available. The 12-centimeter disc has 10 recording layers, each of which can store 32 Gigabytes. [...]

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Kuali Rice 1.0 Middleware Core released

October 5, 2009

Kuali Rice is an enterprise class, open source middleware suite of tools for institutions seeking cost effective solutions for financial systems, identity management, and more.
Indiana University is a partner with Kuali Rice, Kuali Financial System, and Kuali Coeus. The release marks a major milestone in advancing agile development for the project.

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IU Lands Massive NSF Contract for Future Grid

October 2, 2009

The National Science Foundation has awarded $10.1 million to Indiana University to establish FutureGrid – one of two experimental systems to fund the most powerful supercomputers in the nation.

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