Need to send email from your web app? Don’t want to use Gmail because of limits? Okay I’m not about to break into a marketing campaign, because I just found the website, but it looks like AuthSMTP solves the problem. I literally just discovered this place, but you can send up to 1000 emails a month (100MB data), for $24USD a year. Not too bad. You can send with your own from address, etc, etc, and all the things you’d expect (at first glance a...
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So I signed up at identi.ca a while ago, but never really did anything with it. I also found Yahoo Pipes a while ago, and put it on my Todo List to look at, but that was about it. I don’t know why I didn’t think to look at it to do this. Anyway. Pipes lets you manipulate pretty much anything, RSS feeds being one of them. You can feed things around, or pipe them, and alter contents, do whatever. After a little Google work, I found this pipe tha...
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Drastically speed up web browsing
Uninstall Firefox Install Chrome There is no step 3 I’m seriously getting sick and tired of Firefox. Chrome for Linux can’t come any faster. When even with only 5 tabs open, it eats over 600 MB, and frequently fades out to the standard “application not responding” state. It can’t even switch tabs without lagging. If I have a video playing in one tab, it frequently hangs when I switch tab, or open a new tab. Pain. Chrome is just better, and o...
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Get Chromium running on Linux (specifically Ubuntu)
So what I have here is nothing fancy. It’s basically cut and paste from the Chromium site, but if you don’t want to think, just download and run, and have Chromium on your Ubuntu setup. So, on with the script: The comments speak for themselves. Basically, get prerequisites, get tools, get source, build away. This process will take awhile, so once it starts go flirt with your significant other for a bit :) The first thing you see when you start...
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LaTex and fonts
I found this page when trying to figure out how to get LaTeX to use Helvetica. Proved quite useful and insightful. One of the most interesting bits was this note: The dirty little secret here is that when you do this, you might not be getting the true Helvetica but rather it’s very close cousin Nimbus Sans. That might depend on your system, and LaTex setup though. Nevertheless, Nimbus is still far better font type than Arial. My question is ...
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ufw and xen - Make them play nice
I was setting up ufw on my server and noticed my xen instances couldn’t do anything. Simple fix, and if you Google that, you’ll find this link at the top. Solves the problem straight up. Xen and UFW on Ubuntu
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Supercharge Wordpress
Wordpress is pretty much the blogging engine of choice. It’s used by so many people, and has so many plugins and an amazing following, you’d wonder why anybody would use anything else (well there are a number of reasons, but we can talk about that later). Some problems that come with Wordpress, with all that power, is sometimes it’s slow. Combine php, lots of plugins, and everything else, and your blog can come to a crawl, especially if you wr...
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Self Signed SSL Certificates
I don’t really care, I just want a certificate. Gimme! For my stuff, I just want the SSL for my own personal use. It’s not for a variety of random people I don’t know, just me, so I don’t care. How? openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out out.pem -keyout out.pem
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Secure Password Generator
If you need a secure password, look no further. Security Guide for Windows – Random Password Generator
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Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer (EIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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