Easier Apartment Hunting on Craigslist With Ken's Craigslist Greasemonkey Script

Ken Go put together an excellent Craigslist Greasemonkey script for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to search Craigslist for items such as apartments far more easily than you otherwise would. Let’s face it, Craigslist is free and fast but looking at 100s of listings for locations on Google maps, etc pretty much sucks. You have… Continue reading Easier Apartment Hunting on Craigslist With Ken's Craigslist Greasemonkey Script

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How to Switch Your Cell Phone Number From Verizon Wireless to AT&T Cingular

I hope to blog a bunch about my new Blackberry Curve (8300) phone, but before I do that I want to explain the process for moving your cell phone number from Verizon to AT&T. I ordered my phone off Amazon, and there weren’t great instructions on how to handle this, so here goes: Download Rock… Continue reading How to Switch Your Cell Phone Number From Verizon Wireless to AT&T Cingular

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New EP: Joanna Newsom And The YS Street Band, Features New Song "Colleen"

A new Joanna Newsom EP is coming out soon titled Joanna Newsom And The YS Street Band. But hold on a minute, what is an EP? I’ve seen them issued but didn’t really know what they’re about. Here’s some background: EP stands for “Extended Play,” and there’s a ton of info on wikipedia’s EP page.… Continue reading New EP: Joanna Newsom And The YS Street Band, Features New Song "Colleen"

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Manually Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox in Windows Vista

Surprise, a complete install of Windows Media Player in Windows Vista does not provide the necessary .dll files needed to play WMA or ASX files in Firefox. This means that if you do a fresh install of Windows Vista and Firefox 2.x and try to listen to an archived program on kexp.org you’re going to… Continue reading Manually Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox in Windows Vista

Add "Open With Notepad" to Your Vista Right-Click Context Menu

I’m a big fan of right-click context menu choices. I use Enqueue/Play In Winamp, Send To -> Compressed File, and Copy This Path almost every day. This little registry hack adds an Open With Notepad option to your right click context menu. As Zeus attests, you don’t know blankity-blank about computers unless you open notepad… Continue reading Add "Open With Notepad" to Your Vista Right-Click Context Menu

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Common Errors When Installing postgres SQL and Ruby on Rails

I was setting up my local development environment for Podcastinople on my new Vista install and ran into some problems that I was able to find hidden deep in Ruby and Postgres forums and list archives. One problem I had was that when I was creating some of my local postgres databases using a normal… Continue reading Common Errors When Installing postgres SQL and Ruby on Rails