Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
A while back I created an Entourage script to create tasks from email messages in Remember the Milk. Well, I finally got around to improving it.
You don’t have to be a geek (or nerd, or goober) to use the new features (see Enhancements below). Anyone with Entourage and an iDisk will be able [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
You know, since I got my MacBook Pro last year, I’ve become a total Mac convert. I bought Neela a MacBook Pro. I bought a Mac Mini as my desktop, replacing a huge custom built PC tower. I even bought another Mac Mini for my entertainment center, to watch digital media.
And I’ve [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
If you have off-site/hosted storage needs and haven’t looked at Amazon S3, you really should.
What is it?
Amazon S3 (Super Simple Storage) is basically a pretty cheap ($0.15/GB at the time of this writing) storage cloud that anyone can use. Well, anyone with an Amazon account. So, basically everyone.
How do I work with S3?
You [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
You may remember that I said I was going to try out Remember the Milk last week. If not, catch up now.
All caught up? Good. I played with RTM a bit more and decided I’m going to give it a try. It seems to work really well and lots of people [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
Will the quest ever end? Will my life ever be simple? Probably not. But in the meantime I can keep accumulating tools and options to make life better.
The latest in my quest simplify my life is Remember The Milk. I just signed up today. Anyone tried it out? Have [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
Found this on Lifehacker. Send any of these document types (click on the flag for an english translation) to the email pdf {at} koolwire(.)com
var mailNode = document.getElementById(’emob-cqs {at} xbbyjver(.)pbz-42′);
var linkNode = document.createElement(’a');
linkNode.setAttribute(’href’, “mailto:%70%64%66%40%6B%6F%6F%6C%77%69%72%65%2E%63%6F%6D”);
tNode = document.createTextNode(”pdf {at} koolwire(.)com”);
[...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
I signed up with PayTrust about two months ago. I like their overall idea and process:
You change your mailing address for your bills to PayTrust’s secure processing address
You can add your expected bills to PayTrust, or just wait for them to start telling you they received bills.
If you haven’t pre-configured your bill to arrive [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Roopesh Sheth
I’ve tried a lot of different uPnP servers in the pursuit of using my XBox 360 to be a media hub. Now that I have a PS3, I figured one of the two ought to be able to fill the huge gap in my technology requirements.
As I was out there looking once again for [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Roopesh Sheth
I was just browsing the Apple Dashboard Widgets site this morning and came across a Callwave widget. I had heard of Callwave, but wasn’t familiar with the service. I installed the widget out of curiosity, went through the sign up service, and am absolutely amazed at how awesome the service really is.
Here’s what [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Roopesh Sheth
I don’t know how, but somehow this weekend I got some horrible adware/spyware/virus on my Windows XP running in Parallels on my Macbook Pro. It removed my company issued and maintained Trend Micro virus client. It would not allow me to install my Norton AntiVirus client. And it wouldn’t let me install/run [...]
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