Sync Safari Bookmarks and History with Dropbox

After setting up dropbox to sync 1password I thought “why not bookmarks?”. Well, OS X makes it easy.

What I’ve done is sym link the bookmark.plist and histroy.plist to drop box. Symbolic links work like this in the terminal,

ln -s [TARGET DIRECTORY OR FILE] [SHORTCUT]

Here are…

Sync 1Password with Dropbox in 5 Easy Steps

If you’re looking to sync your 1Password across Dropbox here are the basic instructions behind syncing Safari/Webkit/Firefox passwords on OSX (so you don’t have to read a novel or watch a video).

1. Create a 1Password dropbox folder (optional).
2. Open 1Password preferences
3. Select “move”
4. Select the newly…

New Years Resolutions 2009

Here’s my list of new years resolutions. It’s late but I have a good reason (#3).

1. Build my business - create a client list, raise my rates, work 30-40 billable hours a week. I’d like to go to some conferences (write…

The Perfect Nintendo Wii Travel Case

I found the perfect Wii travel case is a plastic box found at any target or similar store.

Mine stores the console, four remotes, four nunchucks, power cable, av cable, sensor bar and enough room for the classic controller.

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Leaving AOL - Updated for AOL 9.1 and gmail ~ Export Favorites, Address Book and Email

The holiday vacation brought me the family computer problems. One of the main issues was getting my father in-law out of the black hole known as AOL. I can rant for hours about how difficult they make it, it’s obvious…

Major WP issues - Options table exceeding 2+ gigabytes

Woke up this morning to a bunch of pingdom emails stating my site has been down. Turns out there’s either a security vulnerability with WP 2.7 or one of my plugins since my options table went from a few megs…

Problems installing Redmine on (mt) DV

I was having some major problems installing the latest stable release of redmine and I had been getting the error “rake aborted! undefined method `register_template_handler’ for ActionView::Base:Class” after running $rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=”production”.

I was able to resolve the issue and I wish…

Scheduling Rake for Redmine to Receive Email (rake redmine:email:receive_imap)

#Crontab runs this every ten minutes (root)
*/10 * * * * /root/scripts/redmine-rake.sh > /tmp/redmine-email.log 2>&1

#this is the script
One of the recent projects I gave myself was setting up redmine for project management. I’ve found it to be a great project…

Server Changes

I just moved all of my sites off my (mt) dedicated virtual in order to get things straightened out. If you notice any performance issues, which you probably wont since you’re reading this in Google Reader, please tell me. I’m…

Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins Inherit the GPL license

The issue had come up again when over 200 themes were kicked out of the WP theme repository recently, most likely the plugins repo will see the same fait. In a recent meeting Matt’s perspective was clear: If a plugin or theme…