Impulsive Geekery

I’ve finally used Yahoo’s Pipes to do something useful: I created a customizable RSS feed for FriendFeed that filters out your own activity, leaving only the activity of your friends.

Continue reading "FriendFeed without the introspection"

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Handy tools , Web at 01:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

An unsolved problem is catnip to an engineer. Dangle a technical difficulty in front of one and the engineer will compulsively bat at it, soon becoming obsessed and delerious in their junkie-like need for a solution. (you thought it was called “fix” because the problem was solved…) I was once an engineer and a few nights ago, encountered a problem.

Continue reading "Uncompressing audio for editing using dbpoweramp"

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Handy tools , How to at 09:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here’s an Ext2/3 Installable Filesystem Service for Windows. It lets you mount linux’s ext2 and ext3 filesystems read/write under windows. Very handy if you have a multiboot machine or a pile of virtual machines as I do.

Posted by Rob McKaughan in Handy tools at 01:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)