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Linux: Tar and Zip

Ramin Hossaini — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:20:37 +0000

Compress:

z: Compress using GZIP
c: Create an archive (as opposed to the 'x' parameter to extract)
v: Verbose mode
f: Archive's filename

$ tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz /directory

Extract:

$ tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

Google Calendar SMS notifications available in Namibia

Ramin Hossaini — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:53:43 +0000

It really is the little things in life that matter most.

Namibia is moving up in the World.

Quote from ‘Kafka on the Shore’ – Murakami

Ramin Hossaini — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:11:11 +0000

I love how random Haruki Murakami gets:

"Are you really Colonel Sanders?"
Colonel Sanders cleared his throat. "Not really. I'm just taking on his appearance for a time."
"That's what I thought," Hoshino said. "So what are you really?"
"I don't have a name."
"How do you get along without one?"
"No problem. Basically I don't have a name or a shape"
"So you're kind of like a fart."
"You could say that."

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Flickr adds people-tagging, finally joins the bandwagon

Ramin Hossaini — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:56:01 +0000

A feature that many in the Flickr community have been requesting for years has finally been implemented.

What?! No @ sign in front of the names??

WordPress BlogInfo variables

Ramin Hossaini — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:03 +0000

bloginfo('atom_url');       //ATOM feed for site
bloginfo('charset');        //The character set
bloginfo('description');    //The description of the blog
bloginfo('html_type');      //HTML version of the site
bloginfo('name');           //Title of blog
bloginfo('pingback_url');   //The pingback URL
bloginfo('rss2_url');       //The RSS URL
bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); //The URL for the template's CSS file
bloginfo('template_url');   //The URL of the template
bloginfo('url');            //The address of the blog
bloginfo('version');        //Version of the WordPress installation
bloginfo('wpurl');          //URL for WordPress installation

Google Wave adds online-status indicator

Ramin Hossaini — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:13:15 +0000

This was the biggest lacking feature in Google Wave (for me) for a while. Nice to see it added!

Gmail cleans up navigation

Ramin Hossaini — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:59:05 +0000

Big thanks to Gmail for taking out the annoying 'sites' from the menu:

Awesome.

Twitter tools

Ramin Hossaini — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:06:34 +0000

Tweetdeck

Personally, I think this is the best Twitter client/interface I've used so far - they also have a version available for the iPhone.

Get Tweetdeck

TweetStats

Find out more about your Tweeting-patterns:

TweetStats

Twitalyzer

Find out about your Twitter 'influence', 'signal', 'generosity', 'velocity' and 'clout':

Twitalyzer

TweetPsych

This is interesting - build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets:

TweetPsych

Twitter Karma

Find out who isn't following you back and who you're not following:

Twitter Karma

BackTweets

Lets you search for links on twitter (even through URL shorteners). Useful if you want to see who's been tweeting about your website. They also have a WordPress plugin for it.

BackTweets

Twuffer

Twuffer is a "Twitter Buffer" that allows you to schedule tweets for a later time

Twuffer

Qwitter

Qwitter lets you know when someone has stopped following you

Qwitter

Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments. You can also follow me on twitter

Google Wave: View all public waves

Ramin Hossaini — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:59 +0000

Search for with:public and you'll have enough to keep you busy testing.

Update: To make your wave publicly viewable, add this "public@a.gwave.com"

Note: You have to add it in the contact list on the bottom-left of the screen. It might not accept the email address, but just press enter anyway and it should work.

Note2: Sometimes the address will disappear from your list - in which case, add it again (I know, it's annoying).

Google Wave

Ramin Hossaini — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:50:09 +0000

Got my invitation for Google Wave this morning and I'm already seeing just how useful this can be for collaboration. Especially from a developer's point-of-view: Imagine real-time code-reviews, or dare I say, extreme programming (XP) across continents?.

The editor isn't half-bad at all - it recognizes Tabs (unlike Gmail)

To make it better, pressing Enter at the end of the line goes to the start of the tab, as opposed to the start of the new-line (awesome!):

The other thing I've noticed is there isn't any mention of overall space-limitations.

More to come later...