Tech

This is a great cheat sheet for bypassing those obnoxious “phone trees” a lot of businesses have.

It’s been very handy when dealing with Dell Support, whom I have to call daily because their products break a lot.

Here’s quick instructions on how to send email via telnet — very useful for debugging weird SMTP issues.

ITLU allows you to scan a Windows system for mp3s and add them to your iTunes library, regardless of the source. Most importantly, it allows you to update your existing library, which iTunes doesn’t allow. You’ll need this app and a pile of mp3s, whether they’re on your computer’s hard drive or on an external drive [even on an external system]. You can have ITLU scan your whole system for mp3s and add them to iTunes, or point it at a specific place.

For those of you still suffering behind WebSense, you might be able to use Google to proxy around your firewall.

Here’s a del.icio.us plugin for Firefox that integrates del.icio.us bookmarking and tagging with Firefox’s contextual [or right-click] menu.

Ted made a sweet “Expos????-like” Firefox plugin that displays a tab’s contents as a miniaturized window.

Here‘s a nice primer on T1 technology.

For those of you who have Nextel phones, Mologogo lets you track and map your cellphone via Google Maps.

I’m reminding myself to look more at these Power Strip Liberators.

DeCorp makes neat flat wiring for ethernet, video, and audio that you can adhere to a wall, spackle and then paint over.

I need it!