Cloud storage is often used for backup, but finding myself relying more and more on cloud-only documents, I felt a need for backup in the opposite direction: backing up my entire Google Drive to local storage – preserving the folder hierarchy. I was not able to find a script that does this, so I wrote one myself. I chose … Read the rest

For a long time I’ve been looking for a note-taking app that:

1) is available as an iPhone/iPad app ✔

2) synchronizes to either my own server or Google Docs/Drive ✔

3) has a web interface

4) supports organization of notes in hierarchical folders

5) has “todo” functionality (creation and due dates) ✔

6) allows assignment of priorities ✔

This … Read the rest

Since my last post about SqueezeScrobbler on my Squeezebox, I’ve enjoyed 3 years of LastFM listening on Squeezeboxes, Linux and Mac boxes, iPhones and iPads.

Well, this fall, LastFM announced that they would hit my listening pleasure with dual strikes: deprecation of the old API and discontinuation of the radio service in other countries than the US, UK and Germany. … Read the rest

I’m quite happy with my small HTPC running Boxee on Ubuntu. The hardware is a Zotac Ion board with an Atom CPU and an Nvidia graphics card. Both software and hardware have their issues, but after enough hacking I’ve a setup that gets the job done wrt. watching movies off my file server. My main gripe has been the lack … Read the rest

Updated the Collapse plugin to work with IE.

Download:

* collapse-1.2.zip

Just updated the Collapse plugin a bit: when linking to anchors deep inside collapsed sections, the parent are unfolded all the way up, so the anchor is actually shown.

Download:

* collapse-1.1.zip

Issues:

* Positioning on the page after (un)folding can be somewhat imprecise on large pages. If you don’t need persistence, you can turn it off in the script … Read the rest

JQuery based WordPress plugin for collapsing/hiding and expanding/showing sections of posts and pages.

I’m a long-time and happy Sage user, but since I’m more and more starting to use Chrome and Safari, not to mention my iPhone, the lock-in on Firefox is becoming a problem. I’d like to read my feeds in the bus on the way to work or while drinking my morning-cafe-latte.

Until recently I couldn’t find anyone who had solved … Read the rest

I’ve been missing LastFM on my Squeezeboxes for quite a while (see this and related posts), so I was excited to see this post, announcing support for the new LastFM service.

Unfortunately, I had already upgraded my Squeezebox server to the latest server software release (7.4) and the new SqueezeScrobbler-1.2.6 (available from here) did not work for me … Read the rest

Just in case anyone else is pulling their hair over Ubuntu regularly/automatically changing/reverting passwords set with smbpasswd:

ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1065675.html

If you don’t want passwords changed by any other means than smbpasswd, uninstall libpam-smbpass and disable “unix password sync” in /etc/samba/smb.conf.

I usually spend some evenings in the quiet days between Christmas and new year to clean up my personal information stuff and this year is no exception. After many years of increasing amounts of emails per year, this year the number of both received and sent mail seems to have stabilized. Anyway, this year is a bit special, in that … Read the rest

This post is just in case someone else tries to get WP-DownloadManager to work under WPMU with subdirectories (as opposed to subdomains).

I had to follow the advice given here and replace

“%FILE_DOWNLOAD_URL%”

with

“?dl_id=%FILE_ID%”

in the Download Templates.

Moreover I had to choose “Redirect to File” under “Download Options” and of course use a directory that was actually served.

Image rollovers in WordPress posts?

Not the most obvious thing to have in blog posts, but rollovers can be nice to have on static pages – especially if you use WordPress to build full web sites.

I would’ve thought someone had already done a plugin for this, but was not able to find one. So this afternoon I threw one … Read the rest