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It turns out one of the most popular things to do with a Nintendo Wii isn’t playing video games. It’s creating little avatars that you can use in various games that are designed to look like you. They’re called Miis, and the fun isn’t confined to the Wii.(tags: wii)
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Tutorial for making your own lolcats catpions
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VMware Converter quickly converts Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms.
Mike Cohen
Panic's Coda
There has been a lot of buzz about Panic’s new web development app, Coda. I’ve been trying it out but I’m still undecided whether I’ll buy it. I already own both BBEdit and TextMate. Both have features I like and neither of them does everything I want.
I do more than just web development. I usually write articles for MacMegasite and WorldBeatPlanet offline in a text editor. I need to be able to reformat the text and remove linebreaks. I really like using TextMate’s BBCode plugin to markup the text. I also like TextMate’s auto-completion features. However, TextMate lacks some basic features of BBEdit, like being able to easily switch line endings between Unix & DOS, which is essential for me, since my company uses Windows-based VSTS for source control. I also like BBEdit’s FTP browser and file compare feature, which TextMate lacks.
For web development, I really like Coda’s integration and workflow, but the editor itself isn’t as nice as either BBEdit or TextMate. I also prefer using multiple windows.
links for 2007-04-24
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The jigsaw method is a group learning process that requires each member’s effort to work on a project; each student is a piece to the finished puzzle. The teacher divides a classroom into diverse groups of five to six students.
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Anil Dash overanalyzes lolcats.
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Naomi Wolf wrote an essay about the ten steps a corrupt government takes to create a fascist state, and provides examples of what the Bush administration is doing to fulfill the requirements of each step.
links for 2007-04-23
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Work out with your wii
links for 2007-04-22
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$499 bounty for the first person to boot Linux on the Nintendo Wii without voiding the warranty.
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Impi Linux is a commercial Ubuntu representative in the region, and the ImpiLinux distribution is based on Ubuntu.
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Much too cute!
IntelliTXT Decision
I’ve decided on a compromise for IntelliTXT at MacMegasite. I’m keeping it, but using the Userpoints module to disable it for users with more than 50 points, which means users who have submitted 5 or more articles.
links for 2007-04-21
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Txt2regex is a Regular Expression Wizard that converts human sentences to regexes. In a simple interactive console interface, the user answer questions and the program build the regexes for more than 20 programs
links for 2007-04-20
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Fixes, extras, and eye candy: Here are seven steps to take just after installing Feisty Fawn.
It boggles the mind
PhotoShop CS3 finally arrived. Adobe shipped two separate packages, the user guide (which DHL delivered with no problem at 1PM today) and the software, which DHL had trouble delivering. Both were shipped to exactly the same address, yet DHL had no problem delivering one of them, but on the other couldn’t locate the apartment number.
DHL is still incompetent
Once again DHL failed to make a delivery to my home, in this case my PhotoShop CS3 upgrade. I got a call from them that they weren’t able to find my address, even though what they read was correct, including the apartment number. The guy said they’ll attempt to deliver it again this afternoon.
I’ve never had that problem with FedEx or UPS. They’re always able to find my apartment with no problems.