The Message of the Day (MOTD) is the first thing you see when you log in to a Linux machine on the command prompt. If you see it every time you log in, why not make some changes to actually make it useful? I find it useful to have my MOTD display some system information (like uptime, disk usage, etc.) when I first log-in to my server. Here is some info about the MOTD and how to make it a little more dynamic.
Last night, I linked my FeedBurner account with my Google Account. After doing so and follwing the instructions to update my CNAME records for MyBrand, I was getting 404 errors on all of the feeds. This post describes how I got them working again.
Tags: error, feedburner, fix, Google
Clicking through the Start or Applications menu looking for the application you want to launch is so old school. There are some great tools out there that let you find the application you want to launch in seconds all without even having to take your hands off the keyboard.
A few days ago, I stumbled across a video on YouTube that was an amazing photo slide show. ANIMOTO is a service that allows you to upload your own photos, add some music, and it will “analyze” the music to create a photo video that moves to the music. Take a look at the video I created in a few minutes with some pictures of mine and friend’s pets.
Del.icio.us is currently the best way to keep track of your bookmarks between computers, on the Internet, and share them with friends. Del.icio.us has a small learning curve associated with using it because it changes the way that you think about and use your bookmarks.
Tags: bookmarks, del.icio.us, firefox, IE, Web
Better Gmail 2 is a Firefox add-on by Lifehacker that adds several bells and whistles to the way Gmail looks to make it a little bit more powerful. Better Gmail 2 is actually a compilation of several famous grease monkey scripts that change the way that a web page looks. Lets take a look at some of my favorite features in Better Gmail 2.
This month, redbox is offering free movie rental codes to those who sign up for their SMS alert network. They have offered the free rental code for Monday nights for quite a while, but for the month of May, they are adding Wednesday nights. That means you can get 6 more free rentals this month at no charge from redbox!
Those not familiar with redbox, it is an automated movie rental kiosk that is popping up around the nation. They require you to use your credit card to rent movies and it costs $1 per night that you have the movie. It works great for people (like me) who generally rent movies for one night anyways and don’t watch it again after seeing it that one time.
redbox is also convenient if you have multiple of them around you because you can return them to any redbox, nation wide. I have once rented one from Kansas City and returned it the next day in Oklahoma without any snags.
Sign up here to get the free rental codes by joining the SMS alert network. You can even see what movies are available at the redbox locations and if it is on stock on their web site as well.
redbox SMS Alerts Signup (lower part of page)
redbox Home
Tags: free, movie, redbox, Steals and Deals
Last week, I was talking about Facebook chat and saying that I probably wouldn’t use it because it is just on Facebook’s web site and there is not a desktop client. My favorite desktop chat client, Digsby, has come to the rescue and added support for Facebook chat. The chat seems to work well enough in Digsby and works just like any of the other supported IM services in Digsby.
With this addition, I think that this should get a few people interested in using Facebook chat. With such a large user base on Facebook, I think that it is a welcomed feature by the users, but Digsby supporting it makes just one less application or web site I have to have open to communicate with friends.
Check out my previous write up of how I liked Digsby here. I highly recommend Digsby as your ultimate desktop chat app and you will enjoy it after you give it a shot!
Drop.io is a service that lets users make a temporary “drop” to share files with other people. Drop.io is a flexible service that allows you to upload files to the drops in several different ways. The conventional way to get files to drop.io is to upload them through the web, but you can also e-mail files, call and leave a voice recording/memo, fax a document in, or put a widget on your web site to let people “drop” files to you. This can all be done without any registration required on their web site
To get a drop setup, you just specify a URL that will be at drop.io/something where something is the name you can specify for your drop. Then you just start uploading files to the drop, password protect it (if you so choose), set how long the drop will be there (1 day up to 1 year), and set permissions on the drop. Permissions are customizable and allow you to make it read only or make it where users can add or delete files as well. After that is all setup, you can share the URL (drop.io/something) and people can start getting files from the drop in the smooth interface.
The largest use I have for drop.io is when I want to send something to more than one person or send something that is too large to send via e-mail. It is also handy if you want to share something that you don’t need to keep hosted forever. Right now, drop.io has a limit of 100 MB of space, but you can upgrade the size of a drop to 1GB for $10.
Last week, Microsoft introduced a new “web connected” framework known as Live Mesh. The technology is just a tech preview, but I, like others, was sort of confused when I read the article announcing Live Mesh and talking about it. I got a chance over the weekend to play around with Live Mesh and see what it does, right now. So, just what is Live Mesh?
Tags: FolderShare, mesh, Microsoft, Software, sync, Web, windows, windows live
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