My apologies for the lack of content over the last few weeks. I’ve been hard at work on my first wordpress plug-in called wpCLI and I’m excited to present to you an alpha test release (v0.0.2) with it’s plethora of awesome web-admin features and possibilities.
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Recently, I’ve built the necessity to read and study more text on the go. Until I can afford a kindle or perhaps a decent laptop, I thought I might give the iPhone a shot as a viable e-book reader. Sounded simple enough so I transfered my documents over to my phone only to quickly realize, I had no pdf viewer. Or so I thought. Now I’m not much for the app store and I couldn’t seem to find a decent free app in the trusted repositories from cydia so I did some research and found that safari can actually read pdf documents. However, the problem with this method was that everyone seemed to suggest that one should email the document to themselves and open it from the web with safari. Quite inefficient and will only work if you have some form of Internet access. If you currently have a jailbroken iPhone, There is a much simpler way to access your pdf files in safari and should work with or without Internet access. Read the full article…
Do you ever find yourself in a virtual terminal only to keep switching back and forth between windows for the same information over and over? Why not create a script that will display this information in your bash prompt when needed, and display nothing when not in need. While we’re at it, why not allow it to execute the contents of the clipboard as well. Read the full article…
For many, road conditions can be as crucial as anything else the day might throw your way, especially for those that live in inclement areas. You have undoubtedly seen many scripts for getting the weather in your conky setup so to compliment your already fabulous .conkyrc file, here is an easy way to grab the current road conditions for your city, and display them into conky as well.
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This post was inspired by a friend of mine. A complete weather junkie who is constantly checking the weather online. I once asked him if he would pay for a digital picture frame that only displayed live Doppler all day and he undoubtedly replied, “absolutely”. That project may be a ways off however, I’ve been reading up on how to get more out of your bash prompt so I thought, for a start, why not put the weather in your prompt. Not sure of its practicality but I can honestly say I know folks crazy enough to enjoy this. Read the full tutorial…
