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When my HOD/IT asked about the possibility of teachers having their own pages in Mambo (the CMS that the school is planning to move the school website too), I was intrigued. So I did some searching at Mambers and came across two component projects by the name of http://pxsystem.sourceforge.net/ MyHomePage and UHP. Without delving into too many details however, I found the two unsuitable: the former was too unnerving (required installation of several separate parts) and would give teachers too…

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iPhoto has the ability to assign keywords to photos, but even in the latest version 5, it is so tedious that people never get around to using it. Yes, iPhoto 5 makes it easy for one to assign keywords when importing new batches of photos, but what about those already in iPhoto? Luckily, Keyword Assistant for iPhoto makes this a much less painful process.

A few days ago I wrote about hosting a website from your home but in Singapore, if you have a residential broadband connection, you can’t legally host a website from your computer. Which means that the only reason anyone would want to have all the web serving software installed in their computer would be to “check out” or develop content locally, on the computer, before uploading to the webserver. That being the case, I can understand why most people wouldn’t…

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I can’t do this because it violates my ISP Starhub’s Terms of Service (TOS), but those who don’t face such restrictions might want to check out this easy-to-follow guide to serving a web site with Apache on Mac OS X (and yes, it’ll work even if your ISP doesn’t give you a fixed IP address!)

These are some interesting results of how a Mac mini fares as a web server. I’m not sure how its laptop-class hard drive would hold up to 24/7 use though. One a related note here are actual (and rather detailed) instructions on just how exactly to go about making a web server of a Mac mini.