Spam checker

Despite the relatively hard sell for their product, the ability to see what Spam Assassin will do to your email before you send it off to 30 people is very useful. I guess they might harvest your email address; only time will tell.

Import CSV posts file to WordPress

Useful if you are trying to get information out of Drupal and in to WordPress. The import plugin just worked, although my upload directory permissions weren’t correct and needed changing.

Windows MP3 tagging

If MusicBrainz Picard doesn’t do it for you, try MP3tag and its freedb.org option. Neat.

.ape and .cue

.ape and .cue. The xAct route worked perfectly in getting a CD image (ape) back to individual files as described in the cue file.

Turn off Autoplay

Windows Technet article on how to turn off Autoplay. a) it is annoying and you don’t need it and b) worms galore. So just do it.

Getting Audio tracks from DVDs

I was given a marvellous DVD of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for Christmas, and wanted to get the audio tracks off on to my iPod, along with the superb Glyndebourne Theodora (which I recently bought on DVD). Neither has a CD version, and I though that given...