johnaugust.com » Kindle formatting for web geeks
may 2009 by Remy
"When I was preparing my short story The Variant for the Kindle, I found a lot of confusing and contradictory information about how to do the formatting — much of it on the official help site. So I’m writing up this quick guide aimed at somebody with roughly my level of coding or design experience."
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formatting
html
amazon
tutorial
howto
useful
may 2009 by Remy
How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data
february 2008 by Remy
How to get out of the .mac sync loop.
howto
mac
osx
tools
tutorial
useful
february 2008 by Remy
Serious Eats: Videos: Mario Unclogged: How to Sauce Pasta
december 2007 by Remy
"Americans overdress their pasta 99.9 percent of the time. It should never be a bowl of soup. It should be noodles, with a little stuff."
food
howto
recipes
blogpost
mariobatali
video
december 2007 by Remy
Rock Band: My strummer broke... AND I FIXED IT - Quarter To Three Forums
november 2007 by Remy
Preemptively bookmarking in case my Gibson goes.
rockband
howto
games
hardware
hack
november 2007 by Remy
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
october 2007 by Remy
Very poignant, very useful.
awesome
books
free
howto
programming
reference
rubyonrails
software
toread
work
october 2007 by Remy
Tagamac - Tagging best practices
august 2007 by Remy
Was just having a talk with someone about tagging best practices - this is well timed.
tagging
howto
work
reference
august 2007 by Remy
Food photography: Lighting is everything - Aperture Users Professional Network
july 2007 by Remy
Food photography is designed to get the mouth watering and the pocketbook opening, but all the tastiest ingredients and the efforts of food stylists, chefs and photographers won't mean a thing if they're not lit properly. And after all, isn't photography
photography
food
howto
july 2007 by Remy
Phonemic Representation of Speech (IM: S)
april 2007 by Remy
Old Speech Manager document on how to get it to say exactly what you mean.
apple
geek
howto
reference
language
april 2007 by Remy
Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog: Quicksilver Trick: Strip Clipboard Formatting
april 2007 by Remy
New post of mine for the QS crowd.
quicksilver
osx
howto
blogpost
selflink
april 2007 by Remy
Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
march 2007 by Remy
Community of MAKE-like projects.
design
experiment
gadget
geek
hack
howto
reference
useful
toys
march 2007 by Remy
How To: Build a Badass Snow Fort
february 2007 by Remy
If the title doesn't sell you on this, nothing will.
howto
snow
weather
awesome
february 2007 by Remy
Apple's Shell Scripting Primer
january 2007 by Remy
"This document is not intended to be a complete reference for shell scripting, as such a subject could fill entire libraries. However, it is intended to provide enough information to get you started writing and comprehending shell scripts. Along the way,
apple
howto
reference
programming
scripts
toread
tutorial
work
january 2007 by Remy
Breaking Windows 2.0: Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker Toolbar in Office
october 2006 by Remy
"If you use Office v. X or Office 2004 for Mac OS X, you are familiar with the Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker Toolbar. And as a Mac OS X user you are well aware that you can PDF in any application without the help of a stupid toolbar."
adobe
microsoft
howto
hack
useful
work
osx
october 2006 by Remy
Pizza Recipe
september 2006 by Remy
Man works on replicating Patsy's recipe for *six years*. Success ensues.
cool
food
geek
howto
nyc
pizza
research
recipe
via:dansays
september 2006 by Remy
YouTube - Ghetto Big Mac
september 2006 by Remy
Creating the most futuristic sandwich ever.
food
funny
video
howto
september 2006 by Remy
The Blue Rose Bouquet: How to Write Good by Michael O'Donoghue
august 2006 by Remy
Hilarity about how to write from a comedy legend.
essays
words
howto
writing
comedy
via:whines
august 2006 by Remy
Photographic Sniper | Ask MetaFilter
august 2006 by Remy
Tips on shooting candids, particularly in foreign countries.
photography
askmefi
howto
august 2006 by Remy
A List Apart: Articles: Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful
august 2006 by Remy
Amber Simmons on writing for an audience.
blog
web
toread
howto
august 2006 by Remy
Macworld: Editors' Notes: The best deal no one's talking about
august 2006 by Remy
Peter waxes about Apple's ProCare plan, which apparently is a fantastic deal if you need Mac training.
apple
friends
howto
august 2006 by Remy
Brad Choate: Tunneling SubEthaEdit
june 2006 by Remy
Even though I just switched off of SEE for TextMate, this is a good howto and very useful.
howto
osx
subethaedit
june 2006 by Remy
A No-Frills Guide to Doing Standup, by Eugene Mirman
march 2006 by Remy
"People often ask me how does someone become a comedian? How do you write a joke, and in general how comics come up with their persona, material and so on. I'm not sure" Must read.
eugenemirman
comedy
howto
funny
blogpost
march 2006 by Remy
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
february 2006 by Remy
"It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored platform for Rails development."
osx
howto
reference
rubyonrails
programming
tutorial
february 2006 by Remy
AFP548 - WebDAV and Access Control Lists (ACL's)
february 2006 by Remy
So crazy, it just might work.
howto
osx
reference
web
work
february 2006 by Remy
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Use the Kodak Wi-Fi Camera with Flickr
december 2005 by Remy
PT rocks the Automator.
flickr
hack
howto
automator
photography
december 2005 by Remy
Flickr: Help: Photos - How can I add tags to photos I upload by email?
november 2005 by Remy
Glad to have this feature at least.
flickr
howto
reference
tagging
november 2005 by Remy
Dive Into Greasemonkey
may 2005 by Remy
"Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages." I love markp.
books
greasemonkey
howto
reference
scripts
web
may 2005 by Remy
annogen - setting up BLAST on OS X tutorial
march 2005 by Remy
This step by step might be useful for getting rid of my Xgrid issues.
work
blast
xgrid
howto
march 2005 by Remy
Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog: Quicksilver: From A Better OS X To Even More
february 2005 by Remy
My intermediate-level QS tutorial thing.
quicksilver
mac
howto
selflink
february 2005 by Remy
MacDevCenter.com: Start Me Up: Writing and Understanding OS X StartupItems
february 2005 by Remy
I've been hacking these by hand, but this is a good reference.
howto
osx
work
geek
february 2005 by Remy
Google SMS
october 2004 by Remy
Get your non-web search results via text message.
google
howto
mobile
sms
useful
october 2004 by Remy
Ask MetaFilter | Suppose you killed somebody...
june 2004 by Remy
Single best thread on Metafilter in months.
howto
june 2004 by Remy
Jay Allen on How To Write a Successful Bug Report
april 2004 by Remy
Note to self: Pass along to beta testers
howto
april 2004 by Remy
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