Author Archives: drye

I hate writing envelope addresses by hand

Posted on December 21, 2011 by drye

Luckily so do @rifeljm, @dgurnick and @morphix, the authors of envelopa.com.

I just used their fine (free!) service to print 24 envelopes for season greeting cards I helped craft, together with my son and wife.

The service lets you import addresses with no …

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Sync your passwords between your phone and computers using Dropbox and KeePass

Posted on August 10, 2011 by drye

If you use passwords like 12345 for anything else than maybe your luggage, you probably don’t need to read this post. If you’re smarter than that and you use proper passwords, you might be interested to learn how to …

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Run IE9 in Virtualbox for free

Posted on June 17, 2011 by drye

Like many, I ditched Windows for other operating systems a long time ago and never looked back. But being a web developer I need to be able to test web sites in Internet Explorer. I had briefly considered buying …

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Logwatch: once a week is enough

Posted on May 29, 2011 by drye

If you administer Linux systems, it’s a pretty good idea to keep an eye on the logs. A handy tool that parses your system’s logs and sends you an email report is well known logwatch. By default it sends …

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Razor-sharp coat hooks

Posted on April 14, 2011 by drye

Alexander Kmetec wrote an interesting story, about how a noisy workplace brings productivity down, and how this makes some developers desperate enough to look for cover in light-forsaken places, worthy of Office Space’s Milton Waddams himself. I agree with …

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Transcoding video is… easy?

Posted on January 7, 2011 by drye

Not so long ago I complained how dreadful video transcoding is. Turns out I was just using the wrong software. Thanks to a simple Ubuntu Software Center* search I stumbled upon this gem: Arista Transcoder. I’ve only been using …

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A WikiLeaks inspired tune – Is That What You Want?

Posted on December 3, 2010 by drye

Like many of you, I’ve been closely following the story of WikiLeaks. As it struggles to stay online after their domain-name provider had withdrawn service to the site yesterday – only one day after Amazon.com booted the site …

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Noise reduction

Posted on October 17, 2010 by drye

Ever since Google introduced Priority Inbox, the important emails have been more successful than ever in getting my full attention on time (or at all). But that doesn’t mean that emails marked as less important don’t have to …

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Hello universe!

Posted on September 23, 2010 by drye

So here it finally is – my own place to vent and share, but hopefully there will be more of the latter than the former. Since I spent all of my inspiration for the night on designing* and …

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