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Logan Leger is currently a computer engineering junior at LSU and an alumnus of LSMSA. He is a cofounder of NewAperio — the makers of Twoschedule, GreenKonnect, Supportbreeze and Newstwit. He often tweets at @lleger and you can find him on facebook and forrst. He's also the curator of LYDH with Brandy Ryan.Search
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Backup iTunes Purchased to an External Hard drive
In an attempt to decrease unnecessary files on my computer, I have begun perusing my iTunes library and deleting songs I haven’t listened to in a while. I found that (unfortunately) some of these were purchased songs. I didn’t want to just delete them, so here’s the solution I found.
Continue readingHow to: Be an effective Gatekeeper
Information overload. It’s a scary term for us in the Age of Information and it’s a lot closer than you think. Without proper caution, it’s incredibly easy to lose yourself in the torrent of constant information. The good news is that it’s very preventable. With the adequate gatekeeping, you can keep your mind out of the swift currents leading to meltdown and into perpetual sanity.
Continue readingHow to: Create an automatic News and Events Page with Google News
I was recently asked to code a News and Events page for an upcoming site release. I decided to use PHP and Google News to dynamically aggregate articles instead of manually updating the static HTML. I make a few remarks about the code and then present the files for your downloading pleasure.
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Tagged automatic, google, google news, how to, News, news and events, php, Tutorial
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Organizing for School, Part 2: Traditional Note taking
This is the second installment of my three part series on how to get and stay organized for school. These tips apply for high school and college. I’m going to present how I take notes in class. I’ll discuss my methodologies and present examples for the different methods.
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Tagged college, high school, how to, note taking, notes, organizing, productivity
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Organizing for School, Part 1: Computer Organization
Today is the inaugural post (since it’s the season) of my three part series to be premiered over the next two weeks on how to get and stay organized for school. These tips apply for high school and college. I’m going to present how I use my computer to stay organized, including taking notes and using applications to organize my life outside of school. Read on to see how I stay productive and tasked.
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Tagged applications, college, computer, how to, note taking, notes, organizing, pages, productivity, school, to do
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How to: Build and Extend a WordPress Lifestream
I recently used the wp-Lifestream plugin to add a lifestream to my blog. A lifestream is essentially an amalgamation of all the information one generates across the various social networks—a stream of your life, if you will. This plugin is great and works fantastically. It even has a framework for extending it to sites that aren’t already programmed into it. I used this framework to extend it to two additional sites I use: Readernaut and ScrnShots. This is the article on how to extend wp-Lifestream.
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Tagged extension, how to, iBegin, introduction, lifestream, php, plugin, readernaut, scrnshots, Tutorial, wordpress, wp-Lifestream
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How to: Introduction to Splunk Indexing
Recently, I was tasked with sending a log to Splunk—a web application that indexes syslogs for easy searching. This log was coming from a custom web application we run to do null routing and other network tasks. I didn’t find much meaningful documentation so I decided to write an introduction for people who find themselves in the same situation.
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How to Respond to Controversial Blog Posts
This week I posted an article entitled “I am Extraordinary,” which turned out to be more controversial than I thought it would be. Most people who know me would understand that this is the exact sort of thing that would … Continue reading →