59: Subscribing in the Cloud
2009-12-07
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Pop-Up: Pixus
- A simple application that lets you measure stuff on your screen.
- It runs on Adobe AIR, so it works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
- Completely free and Open Source (hosted on google code)
- Basically an on-screen ruler that acts as a frame you can drag and resize around items on your screen to measure them.
- Also has browser-based skins, so you can do a quick mockup of what a graphic will look like inside of a browser.
- Allows you to darken everything on the screen except the contents of your measuring frame.
- Has Quick-Guides which... well, I don't really know what they do.. but they have 'em
- A great utility for anyone working on screen graphics.
- 4 out of 5 stars because it has a couple of hiccups on my linux box and their website wouldn't even load for me due to JavaScript errors.
Geek-Tweak: How ot subscribe to an RSS feed in Google Reader using Firefox
- This was basically my attempt at making an incredibly long title for something simple.
- I'm also trying to add bullet points since it is a really simple task.
- Did I mention this is simple?
- Sign up for a gmail account if you don't have on.
- Download and install Firefox if you haven't.
- Open a blog in firefox, such as http://stuffchristianslike.net or http://jpowell.blogs.com
- In the address bar (at the top of the browser, where you see the web address) you should notice an RSS icon lit up. (a dot with a few curves coming out of it)
- Click on that, and choose Subscribe
- Firefox brings up a subscription preview window with a drop-down menu letting you choose how you want to subscribe to this RSS feed.
- Choose Google and click Subscribe Now.
- On Google's page, choose Google Reader as the method of subscribing.
- Log into gmail if it asks you to.
- You are done! You just subscribed to a blog in Google Reader!
- Revisit http://google.com/reader regularly to view all of the blogs you have subscribed to, rather than visiting all of the blogs manually each day to see which ones are updated.
View-Source: What is in your crontab?
- In Unix and Linux a crontab is a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. (according to Wikipedia)
- James 1:22 tells us that we need to be doers of the Word, not just hearers.
- What am I doing?
- What am I a doer of?
- If I have a list of to-do's in God's Word, what am I actually doing about them?
- Later in James 2:14-17 we see some specific examples of how fruitless saying nice things without acting on them can be.
- God's Word is full of shell scripts... little commands that can have a huge impact.
- Noting them, writing them down, and even memorizing them are all great practice.
- But if we stop there, it would be like writing a shell script and never executing it.
- What actually matters:
- Writing these commands on a todo list
- Adding them to our crontab
- Regularly executing the commands God has given
- As we act out God's will regularly, it will feel less like the Bourne Again Shell and more like the Born-Again system God designed us to be.
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