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Importing AVCHD movies to iMovie

By Jonathan On September 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

At first, it appears that the AVCHD movie files that certain cameras use are difficult to import into iMovie without some sort of conversion software.

Ignore all that, you can do it all with Disk Utility and your Mac without spending a dime/penny/whatever your local unit of currency is.

Start Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility up. Click ‘New [...]

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Invoking remote executables with Powershell

By Jonathan On September 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Powershell Invoke-Command  script is very powerful for automating the deployment of software built in a Continuous Integration process. However, I just ran into a bit of new syntax when trying to invoke an executable on the remote box when specifying arguments.

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How to be one step ahead of UK Roadworks

By Jonathan On September 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Elgin is a UK government website that lists any roadworks currently underway or planned for the near-future. It’s custom-search option allows you to hand-draw an area and create an email or RSS notification; allowing you to be one step ahead on your commute!

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XAuth

By Jonathan On April 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Meebo, the web-based IM service, have proposed a new standard called XAuth. Using a new feature of HTML5, similar to cookies, an authentication token is stored in ‘LocalStorage’ within the browser. Therefore this will only work with modern browsers (IE8+, Safari4+, Chrome3+, FF3+).

You can see a demo of Meebo’s proposal at [...]

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Would Twitter’s user model help combat email spam?

By Jonathan On April 12, 2010 · 2 Comments

As Twitter grows, so the number of potential spammers to my daily tweet stream increases. Twitter’s user model is the saving factor in all of this ‘noise’. It prevents me from being overwhelmed and could have important advantages over existing legacy internet services like email. In this blog post I’ll look at whether other internet [...]

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Debugging iPhone application unit tests

By Jonathan On February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been learning a whole raft of new things lately as I get back into developing for the iPhone in earnest. There is a series of blog posts I’ve been planning on setting up Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development for iPhone applications. However, this post is more of a “where I’ve got to so [...]

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When did you last ask an Aardvark a question?

By Jonathan On September 29, 2009 · 1 Comment

Not too long ago, companies chased the illusive ‘Web 2.0′ buzz-phrase which seemed to only consist of glossy icons and sticking ‘BETA’ somewhere on your new site design. These days it’s ‘social networks’ that is the ‘must-have’ feature for the success of any new online service.

Social networks have their uses in finding out what your [...]

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Plesk 9.2.1 Greylisting

By Jonathan On July 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In case, like me, you’re having trouble enabling the newly supported ‘Greylisting’ feature after upgrading Plesk to 9.2.1, I managed to find the solution.
Every time I tried to enable Greylisting I got
Failed to exec glmng cli. file does not exist or is not executable: / usr / local / psa / [...]

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Speedy MIME Image decoding using HTML

By Jonathan On January 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been working with our Esendex Email MMS service which forwards any inbound MMS picture messages to an email address. As the picture is MIME encoded I needed a quick way to check the image included.

Thanks to a post by Zmeeagain I found the very handy trick [...]

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Avoid Google keyword detection picking up Firefox ‘aq=’

By Jonathan On December 15, 2008 · 2 Comments

For those of you who are monitoring or stripping keywords from referrer strings from Google you may be seeking out the query string parameter ‘q=’.
Beware that a simple string match on ‘q=’ could lead you to match on the additional Firefox parameter ‘aq=’. This appears in a Google referrer string if the search [...]

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