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  • No lookupd? No problem!

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for…

  • Microformats Plugin for Safari

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    Though there exists a CSS solution to do the same thing, this particular SIMBL plugin for Safari adds a configurable and intuitive microformats utility. One thing which may get annoying is the constant popping up of the “warning” window once a lot of websites start embracing microformats on every post or page. read more |…

  • Creating blog posts from the iPhone

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    Glenn Batuyong
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    One of the great features of the WordPress blogging platform is the ability to create new posts directly from an email message. In this particular example I’m creating this new article using my iPhone while sitting in a restaurant. Instead of using the web front-end to write the article, I’m using the phone’s built-in mail…