Category: Programming
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How to stream your ripped DVDs to TiVo with metadata and commentaries
pyTivo is a tool that allows you to stream video files from your computer to your TiVo. It has served me well for watching home movies, but when I decided to rip my DVD collection and watch movies via TiVo instead of using the physical discs, I found two problems: No metadata. All I see…
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New WordPress Theme: Clean and Sober
All the good theme names are taken.
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anyMail
Any place, any time, anyMail.
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An API for Browser Screenshots
A proposal to reduce the number of out-of-date screenshots on the Web.
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What do people type in the address bar?
An analysis of 7.5MM location bar inputs.
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Using Google Chrome locale files in Firefox extensions, updated
A generalized method that works in recent all versions of Firefox.
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How to use Google Chrome extension locales in Firefox 4 extensions
An updated implementation of my API for using JSON locale files in Firefox extensions.
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Announcing Typo.js: Client-side JavaScript Spellchecking
In which I spend lots of time on something that will eventually be made obsolete by a Chrome extension API.
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YouTube Comment Snob is now Comment Snob
In which I write a Brita filter for the Web.
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Improving the browser extension localization process
In which I launch Interpr.it, a new localization tool for developers and translators.
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Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices
In which I develop an alternative password input method for touchscreens.
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Using Google Chrome-style locales in Firefox extensions
In which I simplify cross-browser extension translation.
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What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?
In which I register BeardGuru.com.
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My experience with developing a freemium browser add-on
In which I discover that selling something that used to be free is hard.
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Blast from the past: The Humor Archive
In which I reminisce about my first experience in innocently stealing content online.
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Uploading form data and files with JavaScript (Mozilla)
A code snippet that will be of great value to very few people.
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Wolfram Alpha
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Retweeting in Python
My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind…