Archive for the 'Service' Category

OSX manage print server from web interface

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

http://127.0.0.1:631
CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), is running by default on OSX systems as the print server. The web interface allows you to easily administer the CUPS server. You can even have it send an RSS feed to a printer when your computer starts.

Post, share, receive, send and download audio files

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Soundcloud is a free audio third-party (a.k.a. “not my problem”) service that allows you to post, share, receive, send and download audio files with anyone, anywhere. Also allows you to manage your audio files efficiently and effectively in “the cloud”.

Google’s gonna school you

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

With the advent of Google Wave looking like it could replace Independent Learning Centre. And Google Docs now being used heavily by students — news article link. It’s not so far fetched to assume that students will have laptops running the Google OS while reading on Google Books.

How to check what is wrong with gmail

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

www.google.com/appsstatus shows the status of popular Google apps, and service information. Gmail has been having a lot of issues as of late, and this page really helps to inform users of the extent of the issue and other details relating to the service disruptions.

ClickTale.net – When Google Analytics just isn’t enough

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

ClickTale.net lets you watch users use the site, and has “heatmaps” that let you see what ares users are drawn to your site.

It has some other basic tracking features, but it’s real value is the recorded visits and heatmaps. It’s really worth checking-out.