StreamFREE.TV

A site that ranks some of the Roku channels and channels that are not in the Channel Store:

http://streamfree.tv/

Between the Roku, iTunes and Podcasts, I am overloaded on things I really want to watch, but don’t have time.

MarsEdit – New Favorite Blog Tool

MarsEdit works well for what I want to do with it.

http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/

My old favorite Blogo, appears to now be a dead product. It doesn’t work with Mac OS X Lion, and there doesn’t seem to be any activity to fix it.

I also give MarsEdit extra points for being available in the Mac App store.

 

Manually Deleting Applications on the Mac

My quick list of things to look for when deleting Mac applications manually. Most mac applications seem well behaved and only populate things in /Applications and maybe a couple things in ~/Library. Other applications seems to try to put things in all sort of directories and even their own uninstaller doesn’t clean up after them. Today’s problem child is Mark/Space’s Missing Sync. I ran the uninstaller, but it left behind a lot of stuff. So this is just my list of places to go look to uninstall the remaining pieces of applications.

• First look to see if they have an uninstaller in /Applications
• Re-download the package and see if the package comes with an uninstaller.
• Applications, look for Applications and Folders named for what you want to uninstall.
• Run AppZapper if there is no uninstaller
• /Library/Application Support
• /Library/Frameworks
• /Library/Preferences
• /Library/LaunchAgents
• /Library/LaunchDaemons
• /System/Library/Extensions
• ~/Library/Application Support
• ~/Library/Preferences

 

links for 2010-12-20

• Using OpenSSL to securely connect to your IMAP account | Jaharmi’s Irreality
  A good quick article on how to manually connect to an IMAP SSL server.
  (tags: email ssl mail imap telnet)

Manually Connecting to an SSL IMAP Server

A good quick article on how to manually log into an IMAP Server using SSL is at:

http://www.jaharmi.com/2007/09/26/using_openssl_securely_connect_your_imap_account

The important part is:

As an example, here’s how you could log into an Exchange account, select the “Inbox” folder, and log out:

$ openssl s_client -connect server:port -crlf
? LOGIN username password
? SELECT Inbox
? LOGOUT

links for 2010-12-10

• Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper
  A good concise list of vim tips.
  (tags: vim tips reference editor cheatsheet)

links for 2010-11-20

• ProxyCommand to the rescue ! « Arrfab’s Blog
  Indirectly access a host through ssh.
  (tags: firewall howto proxy ssh tips tunnel)

links for 2010-11-19

• Planet CentOS
  The official Centos Blog
  (tags: blog centos distro linux redhat sysadmin)

links for 2010-11-13

• Mersenne Twister: A random number generator (since 1997/10)
  A fast, good, random number generator with a link to C source.
  (tags: algorithm c mathematics random rng mersenne)

links for 2010-10-28

• SparkFun Electronics – News
  A place to buy interesting hardware toys.
  (tags: diy electronics hardware fun embedded store shopping robotics sensors)
• I2C Tutorial
  This is a good quick description of the I2C bus. The website also sells a bunch of good electronic toys for making robots.
  (tags: i2c hardware tutorial work)