Turning webpages into applications on a mac

There are some web applications out there, that you wish were actually applications instead of firing up a web browser and navigating to the web application. Well you can if you have a mac, with a program called Fluid. It’s simple and easy. I recently converted a weather web app into a full blown application. If you live in Houston, you know the weather changes drastically from one day to...

Evernote, sync your notes across all your devices

Notes we all have them, and need them. We use them to put our serials numbers, grocery items, reminders, and etc. However the biggest problem I’ve always had was how to keep them all in sync, and do it cheap (and by cheap I mean free). I needed a way to access my notes from my mac, windows machine, iphone, and the web. Well low and behold I found Evernote. This software is probably one of...

Convert Youtube videos to mp3

Have you ever wanted to convert a youtube video into an mp3 file? Well you can now, there is a firefox plugin that lets you do this easily. It adds a link below the youtube video you are watching, which you click on the link it bascially converts the video into an mp3. It works like this, it take the URL of the video you are watching, and sends it to a webservice which converts the file into a...

Rename a file with a date/time stamp

The following code will allow you to rename a file to the date and time. Save this code in a batch file (in this example we’ll call it rename_it.cmd), then call it with the file that needs to be renamed. You can also download it here, rename_it.cmd. Example: rename_it FILENAME.txt @Echo OFF TITLE DateName REM DateName.CMD REM takes a filename as %1 and renames as %1_YYMMDDHHMM REM REM...

Send your events log to sql

Recently I had to turning on auditing on a file server. However turning on auditing was fine but what to do with the logs. The max recommended size for logs are 65Mb. However within 4 hours I was hitting that 65MB limit, and my oldest logs would start erasing. There are some tools out there that can help you, but nothing beats building your own. While I was researching how to archive my logs in a...