Something cool I saw today: Make your own word clouds. I entered in my feed URL and it spit this out:

I have to say - it has been a long time since I was excited about a game or a gaming console…probably since SoCom II, but lately I have been super excited about the Nintendo Wii. We got Wii Fit and MarioKart over the last week and have been loving both. I am also now on the hard level of Guitar Hero 3. I am super excited to show my sister both of those! I look forward to playing MarioKart online with some friends. If any readers have it - let me know your friend ID and I will add you to my list so we can play together!

We all need them. We all use them. We all realize the power - but with the exception of Ben - we all run into road blocks and frustration when we try and put something together. What are they? Regular Expressions. Take a look at the cool RegEx testing tool where you can easily test your regular expressions.

Apple saves the day for me:

Hello Jennifer, I’m sorry to hear the titles you purchased from the iTunes Store with account “xxx@xxx.com” were lost. I can certainly see how this would be upsetting and I would like to help. iTunes Store Customer Support has decided to let you download (at no charge) all the titles you purchased on this account that are still available.

Thank you Apple!

Recently I had my backup drive die which doubled as my music drive (dumb). I also in the past few weeks - cleaned out my off site backups which included my music (dumb). After not being very excited with what happened - I decided to do some research on some of my options to get my music back. With my fingers crossed - I submitted a form to Apple asking them if I could get my purchased music back: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/lostmusic/. Let’s hope this works!

Ever need to find and replace something in your WordPress database? (perhaps you changed domain names and have the old domain name or folder structure hard coded into some of your posts) You can easily update your database by using phpMyAdmin or by using the following code in any SQL interface:

The first part of the command says "update the database table wp_posts" (where your content is stored). The later part of the command says "use the field "post_content" (where all your actual post content is stored" and then find "http://olddomain.com/blog" and replace it with "http://newdomain.com". You can find anything (not limited to domain name) and replace it with anything as well. This is a great time saver!

I am generally a Safari user to do my web browsing unless I am debugging a web site - then I use Firefox because of the great web developer extensions. I cannot believe I did not know this before, but if you want to quickly view the source of anything (I just used it to debug a RSS feed issue) you just need to type in: "view-source:url" (ex: view-source:http://www.jappler.com). This is extremely helpful and pretty darn cool - and saves me a page load. Nice work!