This is a Web app designed to let you track the precise distance of your workouts, and track and log your activity. It started life as a little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout, and has grown since then.

I inherited this pasta machine from a neighbor this week. Judging from the instructional booklet – I believe it dates back to the Truman administration. I always wanted a pasta machine, but a lack of storage space in my kitchen prevented me from purchasing one. So when this little gem dropped in my lap, I suddenly had dreams of hand cut fettuccine and glistening pans of meaty lasagna!

*The uses and tips described on this Web site were drawn from a variety of sources, including consumer suggestions, articles and other published sources. These uses and tips have not been tested or documented by, and are not endorsed by, the Institute or its members.

Some of you may have come out of the womb hacking shell scripts to disable that Internet-enabled baby video surveilliance monitor that your parents used to watch what you're doing on their iPad in the kitchen (visualize eTrade baby hacking away on a terminal app on his Android phone). But, I suspect most of us started more modestly than that and moved up the learning curve (some faster than others). The following is a somewhat fictional, somewhat true recollection.

iRedMail is:

A fully fledged, free email server solution, an open source project (GPL v2).
Use official binary packages from Linux/BSD distributions, with both i386 and x86_64 support.
Easy, fast deployment in LESS THAN 1 MINUTE. View YouTube Video to check how easy it is.
Works on Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, FreeBSD.
Works on both non-virtualized and virtualized boxes, e.g. VMware, OpenVZ, Xen.

So you’ve been asked to put together an email marketing blaster cannon thing. Maybe your CEO is trying to save some bucks. Maybe the marketing team is trying to get better tracking (to ask the CEO for more money). Or maybe you’re a big nerd and like setting up servers. Whatever the case, you’re the poor guy or girl who has to figure out how to get the email marketing machine built. My name is Brandon, and I’m the deliverability engineer at MailChimp. We send a few hundred million emails a month, and I’m here to help you understand how to set up your deliverability infrastructure (or you could just sign up free for MailChimp, and we’ll send out your email for you). Either way, if you’re an IT person in charge of deliverability for email marketing, then you’ve come to the right place.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

— Banksy, from Cut It Out

Wait. I lied. I didn’t make eight books. I made n books. Or rather: I wrote a piece of software to ingest an XML file of all my Pinboard links (easily available from the Pinboard API by anyone – you just need to know your username and password). That software then generates a web page for each book, which is passed into the incredible PrinceXML to create a book. Prince handles all the indexing, page numbering, contents-creation, and header-creation. It’s a remarkable piece of software, given the quality of its output – with nothing more than some extended CSS, you end up with control over page-breaks, widows and orphans, and much more.

curl https://[pinboardusername]:[pinboardpassword]@api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?format=json -o "[/path/to/backup/directory/on/Webserver/][filename].json"

This is a FAQ for the Fitness subreddit. It is a collective effort from all the people you're likely to encounter there and is required reading if you wish to post a self.fitness post, as a lot of issues have been questioned and answered previously in depth.

You're also welcome to check out the /fit/ FAQ, which is just as good as this one

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Now what does it have to offer...

Free and open source software under GPLv3
Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
Full EPUB spec support
WYSIWYG editing
Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
Table Of Contents editor
Multi-level TOC support
Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
SVG support
Basic XPGT support
Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode
Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time
Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually)
An actually usable user interface
Native C++ application
Bugs :)
And a lot more...

Don't forget to read the online manual!

Sport drinks, dietary supplements and amino acids are safe and acceptable chemicals used by athletes and fitness enthusiasts every day with no ill effects or moral hazard. They improve health and physique, if simply because humans are animals of a chemical origin with chemistry at the heart of our basic functions. In the above I've covered everything that I've personally used myself, and all but cigarettes and Desmo should be considered on the same level as what you'll find in a GNC or Vitamin World store on any street in America.

Some substances that are otherwise safe are banned in sports competition because they confer an unfair advantage. Modafinil happens to be one of them because it can improve endurance. In competition we certainly should ban these substances if the point is to discover the natural excellence of man. But nootropics are different. If you are dying of a disease and the cure was invented by a surgeon under the influence of any of the above substances, then it would be quite absurd to bring up fairness of competition. Life isn't a competition, and it isn't a zero-sum game.

Hangovers also have an emotional component. Kingsley Amis, who was, in his own words, one of the foremost drunks of his time, and who wrote three books on drinking, described this phenomenon as “the metaphysical hangover”: “When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. . . . You have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a shit you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is.”

I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email.

So what's Bandcamp then? We're a publishing platform for bands, or, anthropomorphically/arthropodically-speaking, your fifth, fully geeked-out Beatle -- the one who keeps your very own website humming and lets you get back to making great music and building your fan base. If this all sounds as highly satisfactory to you as we hope, we invite you to check out the screencast, or cut straight to the chase and sign up for a free account. Welcome!

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code.

Whited00r is the biggest community about Apple ARM6 devices family. It means that here you will find full support for iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 1G and iPod Touch 2G.

We provide custom (modded) firmware for your device, that includes the best tweaks available. Installing whited00r firmware you will get a fully optimized device, just in a few minutes, with a simple restore of your iPhone or iPod Touch. You will have all features enabled but your device will run really fast anyway. Whited00r firmwares are the best solution for your Apple device.

Apple discontinued software updates for ARM6 device family. We are here to provide you the best upgrading solution. If you also need general support your your “old” device, you can use the forum!
Whited00r is free and doesn’t use cracked software. If you want to say thanks, please support the project with donations.

Wakerupper is the web's easiest telephone reminder tool.
Schedule reminder calls on the web. It couldn't be simpler.

DocumentCloud is both a repository of primary source documents and a tool for document-based investigative reporting. Think of the repository as a card catalog for primary source documents. We're building tools that accelerate the work of reporters who need to make sense of large sets of documents. (You can use it on small sets, too.)

Scripto is a light-weight, open source, tool that will allow users to contribute transcriptions to online documentary projects. The tool will include a versioning history and full set of editorial controls, so that project staff and manage public contributions. The design and development of the tool is being supported by grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office Digital Humanities, and the National Historical Publication and Records Commission.

With the book creator you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy.

Toool is the The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers, a growing group of enthusiasts interested in locks, keys and ways of opening locks without keys. On this site you will find information about us getting together to practice our skills, about the conventions and championships we organize and lots and lots of information about our hobby. Toool presently has chapters in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.

This website is in English because most of the information on it is in English and because we found that the majority of our visitors is not from the Netherlands.

Earthquake

What the city would do: Dig survivors out of crumbled tenements and town houses and race to extinguish blazes fueled by broken gas lines. A minimum 5 on the Richter scale would level homes all over the five boroughs, and more deaths would result later as destabilized buildings are toppled by aftershocks and pedestrians are pummeled by falling air conditioners and other debris. Though two major fault patterns run under Manhattan, experts say a big quake is unlikely.

Worst-case scenario: A high-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter within the five boroughs. Aboveground subway lines and bridges crack, and airports are disabled.

What you can do: Live in a steel-framed high-rise built after seismic codes were adopted in 1996. At the first tremor, grab a cell phone and take cover in a doorway or under a solid piece of furniture. Protect your head. If you can, turn off natural gas, water, and electricity, but beware of aftershocks. Cover your nose and mouth with clothing to avoid breathing toxic dust.

There are six basics you should stock for your home in the case of an emergency: water, food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and special items for medical conditions. Keep the items that you would most likely need during an evacuation in an easy-to carry container.

Below is a comprehensive list of what should be included in your kit – recommended items are marked with an asterisk(*). Possible containers include a large, covered trash container, a camping backpack or a duffle bag.

This page is a bit of an update on our 17 foot wind turbine design. The old page is HERE and explains in some detail how we built our first 17 foot turbine. This version contains several updates. We built the first one over 3 years ago. While the first one has been a pretty good machine, we have suffered a couple of stator burnouts. The new version features larger rotors, slightly stronger magnets, slightly bigger coils wound with thicker wire and lower resistance (less heat in the stator). The new arrangement really seems to make for quite an honest 3kW machine and we've seen peaks of nearly twice that.

We get a lot of email from people who are on the power grid who have great interest in building something like this to 'save on utility bills'. We have had a couple of these machines grid tied with good results, but... keep in mind the payback period is likely to be quite a while, or, possibly never depending on how well you take care of your batteries. Batteries are expensive! This machine is specifically designed for battery charging and it's probably quite useful and cost effective for people who already have 24, or 48V renewable energy systems in place. For more information about wind power basics check out this page: http://otherpower.com/bottom_line.shtml.

Film Addict is brought to you by Plutor Labs, 2008. If the list looks familiar, that's because it's the IMDB Top 250.

Do you know of tools that are useful to opendata folks? Add them here...

We love a good media center almost as much as we love automation, so self-confessed media geek Alex Ward's fully automated media center caught our eye. It's all the benefits of an awesome media center without all the hassle.

We've previously covered a couple of these as part of our feature of top 10 apps that boost your media center, but we thought that Windows Media Center (WMC from here on) deserved its own special loving list. It also fills out the capabilities and powers of WMC, as many commenters felt our media center comparison chart didn't give the big picture when it came to their Windows boxes. Fair enough—here's an extended list of powers that the little blue-green app can pull off.

Painting a room is one of the easiest things you can do to enhance your surroundings. Its mostly fun, fairly inexpensive, and can be a very satisfying accomplishment if done well.

Why go with Boxee? A few reasons, really: it's free to download, it's got a ton of great applications and add-ins, and it was, like XMBC, built with a big-screen interface in mind. When I was done installing it on top of a basic Ubuntu desktop, I had a system that could easily handle 720p and even (with some very easy overclocking) 1080p video files, run Hulu streams in full screen with very little glitching, and let me show off Flickr streams, Facebook photos, Pandora or Last.fm music, to name just a few of many content streams.

Plus, with Ubuntu installed and set up, you can easily run any other Linux app on your TV—like Hulu Desktop, a huge-screen Firefox, or whatever you can imagine.

Create Acronis Bootable Media on USB flash drive

1. Download the latest version of the SYSLINUX package (e.g. syslinux-3.72.zip) from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

2. Extract the syslinux.exe file located in the Win32 folder in the downloaded ZIP archive;

3. Go to Start -> Run, type cmd and press Enter;

4. At the Windows Command Line prompt run the following command in the folder where the syslinux.exe file was placed:

syslinux.exe [drive letter]

where [drive letter] is the drive letter of the FAT32-formatted USB Flash Drive/Card you wish to place Acronis Bootable Rescue Media to.

You won't find a better media center than the open-source XBMC, but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here's how. In the spirit of our Winter Upgrades theme this week, this guide details how to turn a cheapo nettop (think netbook for the desktop) into a killer settop box running XBMC. It handles virtually any video file I throw at it with ease (including streaming Blu-Ray rips from my desktop), it looks tiny next to my Xbox 360, it's low energy, and it's whisper quiet.

Adjust web interface for root-squash

The file ‘rootfs’ is a squashfs. You can unsquash it by using:

sudo unsquashfs rootfs

You will have to do this as root (or sudo). Now a directory squashfs-root is made containing all files.

Change the folowing files:

squasfs-root/www/html/nfs.inc: download this file here.
squasfs-root/www/html/resources.inc: download this file here.

Some readers have emailed asking me for more specifics about how to run WordPress offline, like I suggested in my last post. So I spent a couple of hours struggling with it last night to get a sense of what it would take.

This is an almost useless and jargon-packed summary, but my hope is that some intrepid WP user may try following these steps and use them as a starting point for a proper HOWTO.

Another approach would be to whip up one casserole for every night you serve a protein, veggie and starch combo meal. Bag up the extras individually for faster meal prep later on. Taking on too much in the beginning and ending up in tears at hour thirteen is no way to feel warm and fuzzy about assembly cooking. Believe me, I’ve tried it. Develop a system that works for you in order to be consistent.

Tradesmen.ie is a free Irish online service based in Ireland. Tradesmen.ie helps you to find tradesmen and to help you get a number of quotes for your job.

All you need to do is to fill in the simple form which asks you to describe the type of job you need to do and what type of tradesman you are looking for. We then locate and inform the tradesmen in your area who are available and who are willing to quote for the job.

The tradesmen are asked to contact you and organise to give you a quote.

1: Overhand Knot
2: Figure-eight Knot
3: Reef (Square) Knot
4: Sheet (Becket) Bend
5: Carrick Bend
6: Bowline
7: Clove Hitch
8: Timber Hitch
9: Taut-line Hitch
10: Sheepshank

I recently moved into my own apartment in Dublin, and after a lot of painting and hard work, it needed decorating. If you like taking photos, it’s a great opportunity to put in the extra effort and take some shots that are worthy of enlargement and putting up on a wall. Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten 6 prints done up on canvas, and am getting a feel for what makes amazing prints and what doesn’t.

Reads on Nassau Street in Dublin have a great canvas printing service. but there are some caveats to doing it right and avoiding some extra charges.

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• Small — only 1L
• Easy to mount on any LCD monitor*
• Save up to 90% in energy consumption
• 7 seconds boot time** with Express Gate
• High speed connectivity
• Barely audible — only 26 decibels

tinytags is for generating a little tag graphic with text on it. After you make your tag, you can download it to your computer or save it to Flickr or ImageShack with a single click.

There are many ways to keep your knives sharp. We believe regular maintenance with a honing steel, as well as intermittent sharpening on a stone to be the best. A few strokes on a steel, applied each time you use a knife, will keep the knife's edge proper

We've compiled our best expert advice, surprising tricks, and maintenance and fix-it tips to prolong the life of your car!

It’s not uncommon for me to take the kids to the park and come home with 150-300 images. I find that I can usually edit down 350 images to around 50 in 40-60 minutes and I thought I would share how I go about this.

With plans this weekend to make Big Pancake, and knowing our good friend Serene didn't have the proper equipment in her new kitchen, I bought a new 12" cast iron skillet from Broadway Panhandler and hauled it out to the country, and seasoned it myself. He

Ground beef is one of those things that people either love or fear like no other meat, except maybe bone marrow, I can think of. I've heard at least 10 people tell me about some relation of theirs, usually a dad or uncle, who eats or ate raw hamburger right out of the foam tray. Of course we all know people who would never think of eating a hamburger that was anything but well-done.

So what IS the deal with commercially produced ground beef anyway? Should you fear it? Should you eat it raw? What are "best practices" for making it? Let me tell you.

Place 1 liter of vodka and your infusion ingredients in a large bottle and seal shut; let rest in a cool, dark place for 2 to 5 days, depending on your desired strength.

Fun toys for your digital photographs

Easy way to get started on FOIA requests; "... because if you don't ask, you'll never know ..."

Lots of links and info for building your own windmill/wind power...

Cables, computer schtuff, etc. - Irish shopfront for German-based company

It's not like fresh water comes falling out of the sky, you know.

Unfortunately, similar to SEO work, technical consulting can be very expensive - often too expensive for the startup or small business. This article aims to help you benefit from this gap and provide affordable technical consulting aid to small businesses

Made from thousands of welded stainless-steel rings, this glove is flexible and readily molds to the hand, making it also ideal for wood carvers who hold their work by hand.

The Viewtainer is an inexpensive, flexible plastic tube with a rubbery cap at both ends. On one end the rubber cap has a slash in it, so when you squeeze the tube, you can dump the parts out.

What do you do with a 10 year old, leather couch that is starting to look wrinkly and cracking? Is there any product we should be using on our couch? Leather conditioner?

Most people are likely to have hundreds of gall stones. They are soft and don't show up on an x-ray unless they calcify. However, they cause problems such as gall bladder attack by blocking the bile ducts even when they are not calcified. Many people have experienced the non-surgical removal of gall stones. One gall stone cleanse is detailed in Hulda Clark's book "The Cure for all Diseases". I did her gall bladder flush, and sure enough - next morning the toilet was filled with gall stones. However, her program required the ingestion of a lot of Epsom salts which I found very difficult (I vomited when I had my third lot the next morning, and so I took only half of what she recommended). I figured that there had to be an easier and healthier way.

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the highest possible concentration of alcohol attainable in a Jell-O shot, while still maintaining the structural integrity (i.e., the gelling properties) of the gelatin. For the purposes of our study, structural integrity was defined as the ability of the gelatin to hold its shape when removed from its container. Recipes for Jell-O shots are often accompanied by the explanation that only a certain amount of liquor can be added to Jell-O shots, the reason being that a minimum amount of water is necessary to enable the gelatin to gel, and too much alcohol will prevent this. How much water is enough? Or more to the point, how much alcohol is too much? As you will see, too much is much, much more than we would have guessed.

1. Sterilize some bottles. We boiled 5 Starbucks bottles (and their caps) for about 10 minutes.
2. Brew 12 oz. of vanilla flavored coffee.
3. In a pot, mix coffee with 6 cups of whole milk, 1 cup of sugar, and a little less than 1 tsp of powdered cocoa mix (might work fine with Hershey syrup, but we used Nestle’s Carlos V mix).
4. Stir it up and ladle it into the bottles. Done in less than 20 minutes!

This completely filled 5 bottles and would have mostly filled a 6th if we’d had that many. It tastes really good! Not exactly like a frap, but it’s our first batch, and it’s got its own personality.

As I was mixing it, I was amazed at how much milk there was. When you buy a frappuccino, you’re basically buying a bottle of milk with tiny amounts of other flavorings in it.

The next time we try this, we’ll cut back on the sugar a little (maybe 3/4 cup) and make the coffee a little stronger.

Fill in the field below with a 7-, 8-, 12- or 13-digit number for a barcode, y'know, like the ones you see on food, CDs, and books. If you want to have the server generate a checksum for you, then just replace the last digit with a question mark ("?"). By the way, those digits you sometimes see to the left or the right of the barcodes are typically part of the number encoded in the bars. And, please note, the barcodes that you can generate here must consist only of digits (not letters or punctuation).

Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into an inspirational message that will burn forever in the hearts and minds of dozens.

Then I found a tutorial online which explained how to increase the iTrip's range simply by taking the antenna out of the case. When I did it, I was amazed at the increase in audio quality.

Both the Watts up? and the Watts up? Pro display 16 measurements and values, including the wattage being used by an appliance, as well as the cost in dollars and cents. The PRO is a data-logger and the included software provides a data table and easily ma

The Story of a Cabinet Built in 24 Hours

Okay, so now I've got your attention - it's true - the cabinet construction was completed in 24 hours, but it took about three months to get around to the last few bits (like decorating the unit), so don't complain if after one day you don't get something that looks like the unit on the left!

Please browse through the links at the top and bottom of each page. They will cover the construction diary (in blow-by-blow detail), the finishing of the unit together with a shopping list, prices and then information on the PC inside the unit. Finally you will be able to download some plans we created after building the device, together with some of the graphics that are on the unit.

If you want to get in touch, you can reach me at chris@tochris.com.

Enjoy the site!

This site is a wealth of information to all users of Linksys Products or anyone looking for some small networking help. It has been designed to enable users of Linksys devices to gain information and seek help with their products.

Linksys WRT54GS + OpenWRT + ChillSpot + FreeRadius (with Mysql authentication and accounting ) + PHP/Perl

Great website for modding hardware... if you own a soldering iron, of course.

Simply dip the handles of screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, and other tools for a comfortable insulated non-slip grip. Forms a durable weather-tight seal against moisture, air, chemicals, and corrosion.

With our detailed plans and easy-to-follow instructions you can build one of the sturdiest loft beds in the world in a single weekend!

The St. Claire, Inc. Sign Builder 2.0 includes a number of web-based tools designed to facilitate the creation of custom general and safety signs. Each Sign Builder tool has unique options designed to make the creation of any custom sign quick and easy.

Commercial supplies, available online

Portable static sheets stick to any surface enabling presentations at virtually any business or school location. Whiteboard sheets work with dry-erase, wet-erase or permanent markers. May be reused as needed.

Effectively scrapes any surface you don't want to mar or scratch. It is light, small, inexpensive and almost indestructible.

Soldering Irons, Tools, and Accessories

There are six basics you should stock for your home in the case of an emergency: water, food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and special items for medical conditions.

After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer. Naturally, these are focused on web development, but could just as easily be applied in whole or part to o

Audio, networking and video cabling in a flat, tape-like application format...

Even if your resume has other problems, you'll see significant improvements if you make these 10 easy fixes.

In this section I'll be posting AVIs and Flash files that show step by step how to execute various exploits or use certain tools.