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Useful tidbits

During my day to day work I often stumble upon problems I’ve not encountered before. Usually I find solutions quickly, either by thrawling manual pages (oh ‘man’ how I love thee), StackOverflow or Google. When I discover good solutions I think to myself “must remember to share this with someone”, and then I forget all about it. This post is my attempt at rectifying that.

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Tip Of The Day: Rescan faces in Picasa 3

Some have written complaining that the steps outlined below double-tags the people in their photos. I did not have that problem, but do be careful before you attempt these steps, as Picasa might behave differently between versions.

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Kontact & Google Calendar

Have you ever been annoyed at the fact that there has been no straightforward and easy way of having a two-way synchronization between Kontact and the perhaps biggest online calendaring-service Google Calendar? I certainly have. The good news is that the wait is now over. Kontact now talks to Google Calendar.

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Wordpress and Twitter

At this point my twitter-account and my blog should be nicely tied together using a couple of very nifty plugins. I chose to use separate plugins for displaying latest tweets in the WordPress sidebar and posting on Twitter when I post something new here on the blog. I guess this will be a test of wether or not it is really working.

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Mantis and Subversion-integration

The last couple of years I’ve been using Mantis for issue-tracking and have been really pleased with it. It’s simple, does what it’s supposed to do and is simple enough that my customers can be given access and gain some feeling with what’s happening in the projects I’m running for them.

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Been a while…

To those of you who keep visiting and commenting on my posts; thank you. I really appreciate the feedback. I figure it’s about time I do my part now, and that is responding to what you’ve told me.

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