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This is just too cool. Visor is from the people who brought you the wonderous app that is Quicksilver and, while I’ve only been using it for less than a day, It’s made my life that little bit brighter.

Visor basically impliments a “Quake” style terminal dropdown. ^F1 by default toggles the slidie-outie terminal goodness, but it can be assigned any key combo that you desire.

I use the terminal a lot in my day to day work and have a Quicksilver trigger set up for it, but having the window so easily hideable without losing the window’s state is so very handy. I do of course still have a few other terminal windows open, but for the quick’n'dirty commands that need to be run, Visor is indispensible.

Unfortunately, it’s only available for OSX 10.4 and upwards. Those of you still on Panther are missing out.

It seems Google is beta testing a version of GMail which will allow you to have your domain’s email handled exclusively by GMail. Unfortunately, although I applied, I’ve heard nothing back after applying for the Beta.

This is something that I’ve wanted for a long time but the ability to register your email addresses with GMail and then send using that email address was never up to par, mainly because Microsoft Outlook puts all of that “on behalf of” crap in the “From” line and still shows your gmail address.

I’m hopeful that I’ll either be accepted for the beta or, when it’s released, it’s just as costly as standard GMail.

Due to an odd dream-like state early this morning, which convinced me that someone was roaming my house and made me get out of bed way too early, I’ve fixed my tag archives. You can now browse any tag’s archive and get a feed for any tag. This functionality was brought to you by coffee, lighttpd rewrite rules and the number 42.

It seems my tag links are broken. I recently upgraded to the newest release of Ultimate Tag Warrior and I have a feeling that’s the root of the problem. I hope to have it fixed soon.

As a little aside, check this out. Someone has far, far, far too much time on their hands. Simply awesome. :)

Around the end of June I switched my server to lighttpd but, due to some unknown issue, all my wordpress pages using rewrites were giving back 404’s - even though the page was being displayed correctly. This basically broke my feeds as most feed readers discard 404’s even if the server passes content back too.

I’ve decided to take the plunge again since both Wordpress and lighttpd have come along a revision or two. I simply want to reduce the amount of memory being used on my Linode and, with a bit of luck and assuming the 404 issue has dissapeared, I’ll have oodles of RAM to spare for other bits and pieces like TurboGears.

Last week, for no apparent reason, my VDS with Lycos was removed from their system and reallocated to another user.

I still haven’t got down to the nitty gritty of exactly why the server was cancelled, but given Lycos’ previous track record in the way of support that wasn’t the biggest surprise in the world. Most importantly all my emails and the emails of one of my clients, which were being viewed through a webmail app, also dissapeared along with the server.

Given the afore-mentioned support issues I didn’t hold out much hope. Enter Chand, aka Mark, a System Engineer at Lycos who went above and beyond the call of duty to retrieve my data for me. All the emails, mysql data and web files were all retrieved and returned to me by way of SCP.

Chand; Kudos. And, as I’ve already said many, many times during IM conversations with you, Thank You.

For anyone using the Lycos VDS, I would say this to you: Jump ship if you can. The support that the Lycos VDS Team gives is not going to get any better. Quite the opposite IMHO.