November 17, 2005

Disposable e-mail address services

TipMonkies -- Disposable e-mail address services has a great list of sites that will allow you to create disposable (or multi-use) email accounts.

I personally have had succes with http://dodgeit.com.

I found that http://www.mailinator.com took too long for mail to show up (if it ever did!)

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November 10, 2005

Getting files from MythTV to the new Video iPod

Like everyone else in the world, I too am caught up in the hype of being able to watch video on an iPod. Being the cheap guy that I am, I don't relish paying $1.99 for episodes of TV shows that I already have recorded digitally (on my MythTV). The solution is Myth 2 iPod, a set of scripts to help MythTV users to automatically transcode shows, and "podcast" them.

As a point of reference, here is the thread about new video iPod that caused the above site to get created.

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November 03, 2005

Just upgraded to movable type 3.2

Well, I finally upgraded to MovableType 3.2 after having a 2.x version for a while. I'm hoping that this newer version will inspire me to blog more frequently.

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November 02, 2005

Learn and Test Regular Expressions the Easy Way

The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has the following features:

* It shows whether a regular expression matches a particular target string.
* It can also show which parts of the target string correspond to captured register groups or to arbitrary parts of the regular expression.
* It can "walk" through the target string one match at a time.
* It can simulate Perl's split and s/// (substitution) operators.
* It tries to describe the regular expression in plain English.
* It can show a graphical representation of the regular expression's parse tree.
* It can single-step through the matching process as performed by the regex engine.
* Everything happens in "real time", i.e. as soon as you make a change somewhere in the application all other parts are instantly updated.

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