I wanted my iTunes to synch (or 'sync' if you prefer) with my iPhone at 7:20 each morning.  NPR updates its A.M. news podcast at 7:15, and I leave for work at 7:30.  Since I take the subway, I can't listen to the news via radio, so I wanted to get my news via podcast.

I couldn't find a way to do this without programming, so I wrote a little Windows program to start iTunes, and tell iTunes to start synchronizing.

I've been pondering the merits of the iPad, and I've had a tough time coming up with a compelling use for it. Until now...

I (and several hundred thousand others) work for a large corporation, that has a highly restrictive firewall and "locks down" the software on its laptops and PCs. Fair enough. The LAN and the computers belong to it.

I want to use Remote Desktop to control a PC which is running Windows 7 Home Basic (we'll call this PC 'the host').  Officially, this isn't possible.  Here's my unofficial idea.

1. First, go to the host and enable the Telnet service on the host.  (Yes, it is included with Win 7 HB.)
2. Also at the host, enable Remote Assistance.
3. Still at the host, enable file sharing of C:\temp. (Create it, if the folder doesn't exist.)
   

I wanted Windows to send output to two devices.  Same content.  Just send it to my amplifier (via HDMI) and to a wireless audio transmitter.  Both the HDMI and the analog audio devices are on the Acer Revo motherboard.

Windows 7 insisted that it could send output to one or the other, but not to both at once.  I Googled and Googled, and I found others who wanted to do the same thing, but no one succeeding.

Weather.com stopped showing the live Radar map today.  After tinkering with exception rules, I found that adding a whitelist entry for:

@@|http://www.weather.com/common/a2/OASAdFrame.html?position=PointSpon*

brought back the radar weather map.

From time to time I run into a situation where a Windows program reacts poorly to certain drive classes.  For example:

• A backup program that only backs up fixed, local drives, and I want it to back-up a removable drive or a network drive.
• A program that does something to all fixed, local drives, and I want to prevent it from accessing one of the drives by marking the drive as removable.

I need a way to tell Windows that it should say that the drive is different than it really is. 

I'm running

• Windows 7 Media Center on an

• Acer Revo with

• nVidia ION graphics, hooked to a

• Panasonic 720p TVr via a

• Pioneer VSX-819 A/V amplifier, using
  

From quickonlinetips.com:

What is the best way to stop Google indexing your pages?

1. Add meta tags

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

2. Use the Google remove url tool, a webmaster tool to remove urls from Google’s index forever.

I do not have iTunes configured to copy music files to my iTunes library.  (I don't need another copy of my files, which are on a network drive.)

I found stories on the net, saying to delete the content of "iTunes Library.itl" and to edit "iTunes Music Library.xml" to reflect the new location.  The story is that iTunes would detect the corrupt .itl file and rebuild from the xml file.  I tried it.  It didn't.

I tend to wander from one toolkit for Getting Things Done (GTD) to another. (See http://www.kleinfelter.com/node/50 )

Here is a partial set of my current axioms: