// Internet Duct Tape

Every month I publish a digest post collecting the best of Internet Duct Tape. Here you go! You can also see the digest for July 2007.

One Year Ago

Here are some articles that are still timeless.

• 5 Habits for Writing for the Web
  Technical tips you need to know when writing online
• Stupid Windows Features: Disabling Filter Keys
  Filter keys is useful if you have a disability, not so useful if you don’t
• Stupid Windows Features: Monitor Turns Sideways
• 9 Tips for Buying Glasses
  I had a bad experience buying glasses, here’s how you can avoid the same thing happening to you.
• Web 2.0 Time Tracking in a Nutshell
  Quick list of websites you can use for time tracking
• Holy Grail of Synchronization
  This is my first post that “won the Internet”
• Why Can’t I use Last.FM on my cellphone?
  … and someone sends me a solution on how to do it
• How to read web pages offline on your cellphone
  My cell provider charges too much, but I found a quick way to convert/sync web pages on to my cellphone.
• Signs of the Blogamageddon
  Humorous post about how blogs are going to die and what we can do to prevent it.

Monthly Digest

LifeHacks

• Do Anything: 3 Steps for Success
  I’ve been all touchy-feeling and self-discovery lately. I ponder what are the key qualities to be successful at anything.
  
• What is Your Opportunity Cost?
  We’re taught to stay productive and keep busy, but busyness for busyness’ own sake will make you miss out on what could be great opportunities.

Web Browsers

• Revolutionizing the Web with Firefox and Greasemonkey (with screenshots)
  Using Greasemonkey to enhance web sites and make them easier to use.
  
• How to Install a Firefox Extension (with screenshots)
  Beginners’ guide on how to install your first Firefox extension and why you’d want to.
  
• How Do People Use Google Reader with Internet Explorer?
  Ranting about an incredibly frustrating time try to subscribe to feeds in Google Reader.

Online Identity and Anonymity

• Universal identity and single sign on using openID? No thanks
  OpenID and single sign on is an interesting idea, but it means having a single point of failure.
• Tip: Send Amazon or iTunes Gift Certificates Anonymously
  Use a proxy to hide your identity when sending gift cerficates online.
  
• The Solution to Social Network Site Fatigue
  The social graph problem — how do we bring out friends list with use anywhere?

Blogging and RSS

• Canadian Marketing, Media, and Digital Blogs Tournament
  Help me choose some of my best posts for a Canadian blog tournament.
• Greasemonkey Script: Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
  Make it easier to cut-and-paste from Yahoo Pipes output.
  
• Facebook Tip: Broadcast your Facebook status as RSS
  Import your Facebook status into other websites using RSS.

Best of Feeds

• Best of Feeds - 37 links - lifehacks, tips, productivity, programming, blogging
• Best of Feeds - 30 links - blogging, humor, geek, problogger, design
• Best of Feeds - 26 links - video, blogging, web2.0, google, css
• Best of Feeds - 34 links - blogging, greasemonkey, facebook, programming, wordpress

Popular Posts

What’s hot this month.

• Revolutionizing the Web with Firefox and Greasemonkey (with screenshots)
  Very popular on StumbleUpon! Why don’t you give it a Stumble?
• Facebook Applications and Privacy
• How to Install a Firefox Extension (with screenshots)
• Do Anything: 3 Steps for Success
• Community Starts with Communication

IDT Labs Software Updates

IDT Labs is where I track free software I create.

• [WORDPRESS.COM] Open 5 Blogs at Random
  I’ve created a short little script that will open five WordPress.com blogs at random when you press ALT+SHIFT+W .
• [RSS PIPE] Stupid Feed Rewriter
  • Here’s another weird one that I might be the only person interested in. It republishes a title/description/link whenever there is a new post in the original feed. I have two twitter accounts at http://twitter.com/engtech and http://twitter.com/et By using Stupid Feed Rewriter I can advertise that I have two accounts.
• [WORDPRESS] Akismet Auntie Spam v2
  • This is a complete re-write of my Firefox add-on that makes the Akismet Admin Panel about 1 million times more useful. Expect a full post on Internet Duct Tape with all the features some time next week. Rewrote from scratch using IP filtering idea from Donncha.
• [WORDPRESS.COM] Find Blogs to Comment On
  • This is a dumb little Greasemonkey script that displays a banner message when a WordPress.com blog has the Recent Comments widget installed. The idea is to spend a few minutes a day commenting on lesser known blogs and meeting new bloggers.
• [GREASEMONKEY] Show popular scripts on Userscripts.org
  • Userscripts.org is a website for hosting Greasemonkey scripts. This script makes it easier to see how popular scripts are when looking at search results.
• [RSS] Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
  • I’ve create a Greasemonkey script to make cutting-and-pasting from Yahoo Pipes into a WordPress blog look nicer.
• [RSS] Recent Blog Mentions
  • I’ve created a new Yahoo Pipe that filters your Technorati recent mentions. It removes all the ones with low authority (most likely spam) changes the title and link to go to the root of the domain name IE: if I linked to you from http://internetducttape.com/2007/08/12/hello-world it would show internetducttape.com
• [RSS] Facebook Status Feed Filter
  • I’ve created a new Yahoo Pipe that that will take the RSS feed URL for your Facebook status, filter out your name, and add (from Facebook status) to the end. This makes it easy to repost your status in Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, whatever.
• [WORDPRESS] Search the WordPress.com Blog
  I’ve created a small script for Firefox that adds a search form to the WordPress.com Official blog.

Digest for July 2007