Archive for the ‘Things that help me work’ Category

Howto: Text to speech your email before sending with eSpeak or Festival, Evolution and Ubuntu Linux

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

These steps will give you a GUI only way to proof listen to your email from Evolution. Something that I really missed from the Windows world is a little program called ReadPlease.  It allowed me to listen to my emails before I sent them.   I'm terrible at proof reading my own ...

installing Piwik - Open Source Web Analytics

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I just wrapped up a couple of installs of Piwik, the open source web analytics software. I've used my share of web analytics systems from the old school Webalizer to Google Analytics to aggregate web analytics systems designed for specific business purposes. In this case I needed something ...

Automation helps you move forward

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

On Monday I released "Genius Marketing". It's an application services that will automate bidding on Yahoo and Google pay per click ads by adgroup. No, this is not another bid for position program. The Bid Master component of the application performs cost-per-sale based analysis on every ...

Super-Nerdy Parabolic Antennae on a Netgear Router …it works!

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Here's a handy little trick that could help you extend wireless coverage to that pesky back room or porch. In my house, WiFi coverage is really weak in the back bedroom. The Netgear router is upstairs in the office and three walls and one metal staircase away. Bottom line, ...