Pinboard: bookmarks for amdavidson tagged 'howto'

A Guide to Backing Up Pinboard - Behind Companies

A quick guide on how to back up your pinboard account to a server using curl and crontab.

It also uses ifttt and dropbox to pull the file locally, but I'm just planning on leaving it on the server and using logrotate to cycle a few copies.

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december 2011 by amdavidson

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Make An OS X Lion Boot Disc - MacRumors.com

How to make a Lion boot disc from the App Store download so that clean installs can be done.

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july 2011 by amdavidson

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How To Really Enable Dvd Drive Sharing on a Non-Air Macbook

Instructions to enable Remote Disc sharing on a non-MacBook Air.

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may 2011 by amdavidson

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Share Folders Between a Linux Host and Linux Virtual Machine on VirtualBox | Tux Tweaks
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september 2010 by amdavidson

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La Guillotine Camera, A.K.A The Adidas Camera | DIYPhotography.net

Awesome how to for creating a custom wide anyle, three exposure, action sequence, 120 film camera from cardboard, meniscus lenses from disposable cameras, paint, and patience.

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september 2010 by amdavidson

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How a watch works

A classic 1943 video of how a wind up mechanical watch works.

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september 2010 by amdavidson

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Noise and textures

noise and textures for buttons and other interface elements

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august 2010 by amdavidson

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The medium format camera project

Incredible build log of a man making a medium format (120 film) camera out of largely legos and cardboard.

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november 2009 by amdavidson

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Top 15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Snow Leopard | Mac OS X Tips

Some cool settings that you can enable with the terminal that REALLY should be the default.

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october 2009 by amdavidson

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iSteadii 2.0 - Image Stabilizing Unit
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october 2009 by amdavidson

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Photo Utopia: Colour Images from B&W Film

Very cool way to create a color image using black and white film and a set of red green and blue filters.

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october 2009 by amdavidson

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Backup your last 3200 tweets using cURL » For Wil Wheaton

Instructions for how to use cURL to back up your last 3200 tweets from twitter... vastly more tweets than I have twittered at this point.

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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Setting up a Movable Type Website - Linode Library

guide to installing Movable Type on a Debian server

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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building passenger with macports in os x leopard – 9thport

good information if you're using macports apache and trying to install passenger.

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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Extracting Icons from Mac OS X Applications at keith-knipling.com

How to extract icons from applications and folders and save them to image files using OS X standard utilities

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6 | Greg Benedict

Install all the requires stuff for snow leopard.

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september 2009 by amdavidson

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captin nod: Plungercam 2: cheaper and more predictable :)

DIY tilt-shift lens instructions... Must do this.

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august 2009 by amdavidson

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Jordan Running » Blog Archive » Instapaper “Send To” button for Google Reader

How to use Google Reader's now "Send To" button to send an article from Reader to Instapaper to read later.

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august 2009 by amdavidson

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Self-Portrait Friday :: Photocritic photography blog

An amusing blog post that has some decent (if not a bit obvious) guidelines for self portrait taking.

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august 2009 by amdavidson

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Tips You Are Looking For Studio Lighting Techniques

Interesting article about the various ways studio lighting is setup for photo shoots

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july 2009 by amdavidson

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Web-kreation - Add File Type Icons next to your links with CSS

Add icons to the end of links to indicate external links or file type. Uses CSS expressions which may be bad for page load times.

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june 2009 by amdavidson

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HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume [Update6] › Blog › kremalicious.com » Matthias Kretschmann | Photography & Design

Use your ubuntu machine as an AFP server. Also has instructions for setting up Time Machine on your Mac to support it.

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june 2009 by amdavidson

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Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial | Miniature Faking | TiltShiftPhotography.net

Easy to do faux-tilt-shift tutorial in Photoshop... Might be neat to try... Tried it before one time, with similar steps, but it certainly did not come out as good.

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may 2009 by amdavidson

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Maximize the Use of Hover

Cool uses of :hover to do some interesting and convenient things.

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may 2009 by amdavidson

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Disabling Extension Compatibility Checking in Firefox 3.0 | GMG

How do disable the check for add-on compatibility when running a firefox beta... might cause instability, but if that was a big issue, you wouldn't be using a beta, right?

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april 2009 by amdavidson

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blah, and other stuff: Disable "Front Row" keyboard shortcut

how to disable the STUPID front row keyboard shortcut in mac os x.

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april 2009 by amdavidson

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Clearing Floats: The FnE Method // Ordered List // We Make The Web Beautifully Simple

A nice little tutorial on how to manage floats and overflow better... I often have a problem with this, but should look into Float Nearly Everything (FnE)