Automatically tagging content

Comparison of Automatic Tagging Tools for Drupal.

  • Alchemy
    AlchemyAPI provides content owners and web developers with a rich suite of content analysis and meta-data annotation tools.
  • OpenCalais
    Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
  • tagthe.net

960 Grid System

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The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.

960 Grid System

Tutorials on 960 and Grid-Based Design

Spotlight Indexing

Shell commands to control Spotlight indexing on volumes.

  • To only turn off indexing on a volume:
    sudo mdutil -i off /Volume/drivename/
  • To Turn off indexing and remove indices on a volume:
    sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/drivename/
  • To only turn on indexing on a volume:
    sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/drivename/
  • To turn on indexing and rebuild indices on a volume:
    sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/drivename/
  • To only force rebuilding of indices on a volume:
    sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/drivename

Login Hooks

How to execute scripts when a user logs into, or out of, an OS X workstation.

Apple tech note
Bombich.com article
Scripting Login Tasks in OS X

Create a hook:

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/script

See what the login hook is set to:
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook

Snow Leopard Deployment Issues

Collection of assorted issues that came up deploying some OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" iMacs.

  • Adobe Acrobat Crashes on OS X With Network Account - an alternative way of achieving this solution, since we have OS X Server, was to use MCX to automatically redirect the folders for network users:
    Action - deleteAndCreateSymblink
    Destination Folder Path - /Users/Shared/9.0_x86/
    Folder Path: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0_x86
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