Random Notes & Bookmarks: 06/01/2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Western Digital Passport: An Excellent Option for Backing Up Your Data to an External Hard Drive « My Tech Talk: "Limitations of the WD Sync software: The software only SYNCS data. If you backup a folder from your hard drive to the Passport device, this doesn’t mean that you can then delete that folder from your hard drive. Why? The next time you sync the WD Sync software will remove that folder from the Passport device. It considers your hard drive the “master copy” of the data." & What See I?: May 2008: "Converting FAT32 to NTFS Without Formatting" & Syncing Hard drives - Pro DJ Forums: "If the encryption could be disabled, WD Sync would be perfect, but SyncToy does what I need it to."

Friday, June 27, 2008

Embedding drupal forms into pages | drupal.org

Friday, June 20, 2008

Offline Phone Call Tracking For Google Analytics & Tool: URL Builder

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Nerd Vittles » The Asterisk Orgasmatron: A $199 Turnkey PBX Install in Under 15 Minutes: Part I & Part II

Nerd Vittles » Asterisk Hell: A Minefield Navigation Guide for Newbies: "a serious look at Asterisk through the eyes of a typical new user today. Our objective is to turn newly built Asterisk servers into stellar performers, IP telephony systems that work reliably without the quirks that are all too familiar to those of us who have tiptoed through the minefield for many years. Whether you've chosen to run PBX in a Flash, or a trixbox system, or Elastix, or rolled your own Asterisk system, that's the least of your problems"

Monday, June 16, 2008

Desktops Tip: Choose your front end when integrating a PC into your home theater - Desktops Tips, Tricks, and How-tos at CNET.

Featured Download: Rip DVDs to Friendlier Formats with HandBrake & Download of the Day: HandBrake (All platforms): "HandBrake definitely makes easier work of copying DVDs to your iPod, though the overall process still takes a few hours." & Handbrake: How to Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod or iPhone Using Free Software - using Handbrake

Sunday, June 15, 2008

New features in Views 2 | Mastering Drupal

Transferring tapes and records to computer or CD - Audacity Wiki

Webcasts and podcasts: Office OneNote 2007 - Microsoft Office Online & OneNote and PowerPoint: Better together! - OneNote - Microsoft Office Online & Chris Pratley's Office Labs and OneNote Blog : Audio transcriptions and annotations with OneNote

BlackHat SEO: Website Promotion (via BlackHat SEO: Is it really pure evil?)

Google Gadgets: Google Desktop Search Plug-in for Firefox & Google Desktop Search Tips and Third Party Tools: "gdSuite provides an interface on top of GDS to make it more user friendly to build the query you need and get the results you want"

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 :: the How-To Geek & Gmail Help > IMAP: Outlook 2007 - Help Center

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Tip: Get the most out of your laptop's battery - Tips, Tricks, and How-tos at CNET.

1-800-GOOG-411: Find and connect with local businesses for free from your phone. (via Google's Free 411 Service Now Open to Toronto)

SMS Framework + Notifications and Messaging Modules = Wicked Simple SMS Notifications in Drupal | Development Seed

Monday, June 09, 2008

Solr: An Alternative to Drupal Search, Now with Group Filtering | Development Seed: "There is a module - apachesolr - that's being actively developed that presently supports using Solr for searching Drupal sites. However, because Solr's search is independent of the usual SQL queries used by Drupal - and immune to the performance ramifications therein - the module doesn't currently support the node access permissions system, and therefore returns blurbs of what could be restricted content"