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Slack Zero 2024
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Slack Zero 2024

An update to my 2021 post on getting the most out of your Slack application in the least amount of time.

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A productivity lightning talk on getting the most out of Slack.

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Google Moderator

Let your audience decide

Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.

Everyone's voice is heard

The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.

Be creative

Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

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Google PowerMeter

Studies show that being able to see your electricity usage in near real time, throughout the day, makes it easier to reduce it and save money. This sort…

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maatkit - Google Code

Maatkit (formerly MySQL Toolkit) contains essential command-line tools for MySQL, such as table checksums, a query profiler, and a visual EXPLAIN tool. It…

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How Digg works - New Digg Technology Blog

| We often get asked how Digg works from a technology perspective, so wanted to shed some insight on this with our first post from the newly-launched technology blog. We | ’ll be posting regularly to give you a peek at what’s under the hood from the Digg development teams.

read more | digg story

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What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB

Announced today, Amazon SimpleDB is an amazingly simple, highly available, fast, massively scalable, on-demand, schema-free database cluster built in the…

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Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange

private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it. Create multiple drops, add any type of media, and share or subscribe as you want.

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Google App Engine - Google Code

| Google App Engine - Google Code | Run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. | Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ztr-HhWX1c]

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Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices…

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The Yahoo User Interface Library YUI

| The Yahoo User Interface Library YUI | The Yahoo User Interface YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

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Working with PHP 5 in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Professional PHP

| Working with PHP 5 in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Professional PHP | Mac OS X is a great development platform for working with PHP. Leopard comes with Apache, PHP and many other development tools, such as subversion already installed. Leopard brings a much needed upgrade from Tigers tired PHP 4 to a very modern version of PHP 5.2.4. This is a guide for setting up a PHP development environment under 10.5 using the version of PHP that ships with leopard.

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Apache, mod_jk not serving tomcat

I was trying to set up Apache mod_jk to serve up my jboss traffic without loadbalancing and I was running into the errors below. My machine is running Red…

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One Background Image, Many Applications

| One Background Image, Many Applications | Gradients are a popular choice for background images and they help out page weight in another significant way: they are repeatable. Take a look at the gradient below. To the left you can see how the gradient looks. To the right you can see that you can squish it down to only a single pixel in width and it will repeat horizontally just the same.

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Making OpenID your -only- online profile

OpenID is the only sign-up you’ll need in the future, but what about your profile? Sites you own or visit, people you know, etc. Alpha Dash is an idea…

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10 Free, Innovative Web Analytics Tools

| 10 Free, Innovative Web Analytics Tools | When most people think of free web analytics, they immediately think of Google Analytics. But there are many other free, innovative statistic tools available on the web. These tools measure everything from user behavior, to search engine traffic, to real-time visitor tracking, and more. The following ten products may provide valuable data when analyzing your website traffic.

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Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheets

So your sitting there on Saturday morning, sipping on a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, smell the freshness of the morning, and whipping up some html, CSS…

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ShouldDoThis.com launches

Coming from the same creators of 43 Things 43 Places, 43 People, Lists Of Bests, All Consuming.net, The Petri Project, The Robot Co-op has launched a new…

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Screencasts of uncommon browser features [dive into mark]

| Let’s not and say we did [dive into mark] | # Introduction to tabbed browsing | # Opening links in a new tab | # Bookmarking a group of tabs | # Using a group of tabs as the home page | # Rearranging tabs | # Introduction to live bookmarks | # Introduction to spell checking | # Introduction to search engines | # Adding a search engine | # Removing a search engine | # Installing an add-on | # Changing add-on options | # Enabling and disabling add-ons | # Uninstalling add-ons | # Installing a new theme | # Switching between installed themes | # Uninstalling a theme | # Adding a Print button to the toolbar | # Rearranging buttons on the toolbar | # Removing buttons from the toolbar | # Changing the size of toolbar buttons

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Happy SysAdmin Day!

In honor of all the underpaid, overworked, answering your pager in the middle of the night guys and girls working hard to keep things running this one…

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Rolling Your Own Online Office

I’ve done a lot of telecommuting in my life. My first real writing gig came when I was 16 as a freelancer for a computer magazine whose offices were 3,000…

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Apple Introduces Final Cut Server

Apple today introduced Final Cut Server, a powerful new server application that works seamlessly with Final Cut Studio 2 to provide media asset management…

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Intel Mac Mini Beats the XServe G5

Apple’s latest Mac mini system with an Intel Core Duo processor and gigabit Ethernet outperformed an older Xserve G5 server system, according to one user…

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20 Things you do not know about Windows XP

  1. You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run... and type ‘gpedit.msc’; then…

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Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

| Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders | The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster PDA fits into your hip pocket and costs practically nothing to purchase and maintain. Let’s make one together.

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MacNN | Google releases MacFUSE

| MacNN | Google releases MacFUSE | Google today released MacFUSE, an open-source port of the FUSE "Filesystem in Userspace" mechanism previously only available on Linux and FreeBSD systems. MacFUSE offers Mac OS X developers the ability to organize nearly any data into a file system, offering support for most existing Linux-based FUSE file systems on the Mac platform.

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The Five Best and Worst Things About Vista

After five years, Windows Vista is finally here. With a Mac-like interface, improved security, and far better networking, it’s a great improvement over…

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash :: the How-To Geek

Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on

Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on

Ctrl + L Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command

Ctrl + U Clears the line before the cursor position.

       If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.

Ctrl + H Same as backspace

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Default Password List

Here is a handy list of default passwords to use for a reference.

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CSS-Based Forms, Modern Solutions

Good examples of beautiful functional Web 2.0 forms. I know I’ll be including some variation of these in my next website.

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Digg Labs

digg labs

| Digg Labs: A broader (and deeper) view of Digg | Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it. These interactive visualizations look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities.

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serveradmin - man page

serveradmin -- command-line interface to Mac OS X Server administrative daemon…

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Access control lists

Access control lists, or ACLs, are a finer-grained, more flexible way to control file permissions: who can do what to which files. In Tiger, ACLs are a…

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MODx CMS

MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as…

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Introducing the Dell De-Crapifier

This is an article about a script that was created to remove unwanted software from a Dell PC. It can be run on a new PC to get rid of all the trialware…

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A Windows users journey to Mac

This blog is written by a Windows veteran, a Mac newbie, describing his switch to Mac from Windows. It’s both slightly technical and very technical…

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Cryptic Apple Serial Numbers: SOLVED

Apple Serial Numbers have always been cryptic to the untrained eye, but this guy has figured it out. Just enter in the serial number and it will return…

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Ipod Diagnostic Mode

A list and description of ways to further run diagnostics on your ipod. All the way from testing your scroll wheel to Scanning your ipods hard drive…

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Enable XP Pro features on xp home

This hack allows xp home (oem or upgrade) to have all features of xp pro. This includes remote desktop. Finally making xp home worth something.

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How-To Install Apple’s Front Row

Thanks to an update from Apple, Front Row can now be easily installed on any Mac running 10.4.4 Tiger. While you previous had to rely on quirky hacks…

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nUbuntu Stable is OUT!!!

nUbuntu is a collection of network and server security testing tools, piled on top of the existing Ubuntu system. While aimed to be mainly a security…

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Software - Bwana

Bwana is a manual page viewer for your browser. It parses man pages in real time to provide the most up to date pages in an easy to read format. The pages…

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Take Back the OS X Services Menu

One advertised feature of Mac OS X was the services menu, that allows other applications to perform tasks globally. Unfortunately, nobody I know of…

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Cross-Platform GUI Remote Login Roundup

Graphical remote login sessions can be valuable tools for cross-platform server administration. This article is an overview of the best applications for…

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HOW TO: Install Linux on an iPod Nano

It was recently anounced that linux could be run on an iPod Nano. This is a very simple guide on doing this throgh windows xp. Be sure to back up your…

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Fix your mom's computer with UltraVNC

If your mom is on Windows XP and having a computer problem, UltraVNC is an amazingly simple way to remotely administer her PC and fix problems while she…

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How to Nail a Sexy Layout

Step-by-step guide on how to code a sexy, CSS and XHTML compliant, and tableless layout.

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Spyware & Adware Removal Tips

| shacknews.com | So you have spyware huh? Well I’m here to tell you how to get rid of it. Now as time goes on and newer spyware comes out this guide may become obsolete. However I clean spyware daily and these tips below have never failed me.

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Linux Newbie Administrator Guide

The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide is "A complete reference for new Linux users who wish to set up and administer their own Linux home computer…

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OSx86 Project Guides hidden from Apple

A while back, Apple issued an order to have all the guides removed. The OSx86 Project team did removed the links and the Guides section on the…

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Microsoft Word How-Tos

| Using Word for Mac | Here are a bunch of useful how-to articles for different things you can do with Microsoft Word. From creating booklets to form letters and labels. No more trying to explain it to people yourself... just point them to this link.

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Setting Up Linux Server

| HarrySufehmi.com - Setting Up Linux Server | This tutorial really should be titled "How to get your Debian server off the ground as quickly as possible", since it's based on minimal Debian Linux (stable) install. | Here you'll be able to get your box secured very quickly, and then get the services running with minimum hassle and pain.

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Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4

Another feature is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited…

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Google's New Personalized Homepage

| From slashdot.org | jgaynor writes "Citing user requests to coalesce it's disparate services, Google today released its new personalized homepage service. It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support. Clearly a shot at existing services like My Yahoo."

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A Survey of DVD Recording Formats

A Survey of DVD Recording Formats by Wei-Meng Lee -- Wei-Meng Lee writes of his quest for the right DVD writer to buy. After surveying the various DVD…

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Photoshop Tips to optimize performance

Lifted from adobe.com

Photoshops limitations: Photoshop CS supports a maximum image dimension of 300,000 x 300,000 pixels, which allows for images with a maximum size of 4 GB for TIFF files, and almost unlimited file sizes for images saved in the new native Large Document Format (.psb). Photoshop CS can access only 2 GB RAM, so large files will need to use considerable scratch disk space. Large Document Format files cannot be read by Photoshop 7.0.x or earlier. To optimize performance in Photoshop, apply the following recommendations.

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Processor Speeds and Memory explained

Confused by some of them fancy processor names and memory specs when shopping for a new computer? Me too, so here is a comprehensive and quick guide from…

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Advanced Typography with Mac OSX - All you need to know about fonts

| Advanced Typography with Mac OSX - pdf | Here is the official Apple document for Font management including a section just for production machines. This includes removing and deactivating nonessential font, managing multiple versions of the same font, and dealing with font caches. | Yeeouch... happy reading.

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Basics Mac OSX Tutorials

In the Pro section of Apples website there are plenty of interesting and useful articles for the designer, musician and artist.

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Many Systems on a PowerBook

This page contains brief descriptions of almost all systems resident on my PowerBook. Note that these are not installation instructions: for each system…

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A new way to search with Safari

Grokker is designed to offer search capabilities beyond a Web browser-search engine combination, which were designed mainly to display a page of…

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Setting Up a OS X System From Scratch

This is not for the faint of heart. Step by step instructions for setting up your OS X System from scratch with-- special partitions, moving the swap…