Archive > June 2011

Using iFolder as an open source Dropbox alternative

I’ve had a few posting here in my blog over the years about trying to keep data synced over various computers. Nowadays it has gotten easier since it seems everyone is chruning out their own online storage. Classics like Dropbox or SugarSync, and then we have the big companies  Google, Microsoft and Ubuntu trying their [...]

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St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis

Monday we headed over to St. Anthony Falls here in Minneapolis (Mississippi river). There is a Heritage Trail around the falls that gives you a nice view of the falls and surroundings.

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Where to find real bread in Twin Cities

Anyone from Europe will tell you that what Americans generally consider “bread” is more like a loaf of bland nothingness with the consistency of a sponge that can be mushed together into something resembling playdough. To be fair, it is okay if you get some multigrain bread and toast it to give it some firmness and [...]

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How to easily add colored text output in bash scripts

Here is small snippet that can give your shell scripts some nice output: colortext.sh As with the debug.sh script, just download it to the same directory as your own script and add it with

Select All Code:. colortext.sh

It contains one simple function called text with the syntax text <color> “text to be output”. Color can be red, [...]

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