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TAASC: MySQL Basics — A Tutorial. The MySQL installation now can’t connect to apache, so the search goes on. Here is an installation manual.

Web installer. OK, this is very strange, why it didn’t work, but I installed mysql, iis, perl, php and then used the e-php installer and now pear seems to be there. This installation helps me to install a “package” for us.

Parsing email Well, it occurs to me that there must be quite of few people who have written code like this, so a search reveals: PHP: mailparse functions – Manual. These are some routines from the main PHP server itself that let’s you parse the entire stream. Pretty useful like mailparse_rfc822_parse_addresses. Not super well documented,…

PHP: Documentation. I’m learning how to parse an email, grab the email address in the From line and then look it up in a MySQL database. To do that, I’ve printed the source and now I need to learn PHP finally. Usually, Iearn just by reading code, but this is a little harder, so it’s…

wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Wow, how cool, you can post to a blog via your cell phone. Sign me up. You just have to navigate to http://wap.ubique.ch/wapblogger/ from your phone and I’m off and to the races!

Geeklog – Documentation 1.3x. Hmm. Yet another blog tool. Nice thing about this one is the automatic theming. Wow, there are an amazing number of tools like this developed in the last year. This like cafelog and movabletype is about a year old.

SiteWorks Professional – The Complete PHP/MySQL Driven Site Administration Suite. Here’s a tool that just uses PHP and MySQL. Wow, just what the doctor ordered. I love the Internet!

PHP Builder. I’m probably going to settle on PHP or Perl as my scripting language. PHP is tempting because it is pretty easy to integrate into Windows servers which I need in this transition period. Here is a great site of tips on it.

PHP Builder. I’m going to convert tongfamily.com from a FrontPage plus IIS specific site with blogger on top to a pure blog over the next could of months. This is going to be a big project given how many dependencies there are on Microsoft technology right now. Here’s a short list of things to do:…

Telling the world about a new web site Well, now that we have Geek Fishing up and running, it’s time to do another review of web tools to get things published and into search enginers. I did this a few years ago, but the world is always changing. Here’s Jim Tools. Last time around, I…

Home Networking and Broadband Argggghhhh! I’m going to be so glad when Dynacenter has a product! I’ve been down for two days at home and Connie has been telling me about it. First of all, the only error diagnostic is that you can’t browse or connect. The modem is completely unhelpful. Just a bunch of…

Wireless Media Server. A great point by John Ludwig about a wireless media server that uses FM to broadcast rather than something fancy. Of course, who wants 16KHz limited FM. He makes a point of the FM range compression. I didn’t think that was true normally. Also, most 128Kbps Mpeg3’s are limited to 16Khz anyway.

Post to many blogs. I just love this tool from Brazil. Now, I can post to multiple blogs at the same time. In this case, you’ll find this message on Tong Family and Geek Fishing at the same time. Useful for sending to multiple places at once I think.

Geek Fishing. This is our new shared web page for Ignition affiliated folks who are interested in learning how to use Blogs. It is amazing how much interesting information is over there. It uses b2 cafelog as the tool. Longer term, I’m going to put Movable Type onto that server and then move www.tongfamily.com over.

Tom’s Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Reader How Tos: Build a PC for TV – How To Build a PC for TV, Continued. Martin is thinking about building one of the home theater PCs. Here’s a good guide using a piece of hardware I have. The main problem is that the SS-51G is a great…

cornerhost: low priced, reliable hosting with a human touch. Another boutique to consider. $10/month is the basic plan plus $3 for mysql.

Teen Open Diary. A teen oriented blog system. Claims there are 20,000 blogs on it. Wow.

Antville. Another example of the blog economy. This is a special tool for highly scalable blog hosting. They currently have 2700 plus blogs on a server of which 1300 are accessible. That is amazing!

Weblogs Compendium – Hosting. this seems like the definitive list of blog oriented hosters. No ratings though. Will troll through and see what is there. Interesting to see Tranquil is tops in a google search for blog hosting

BlogOmania :: There’s always room for one more!. It had to happen, here is a hoster that specializes in blogs. More food for John Ludwig and I to think about. Anyway, I’m going to sign up for either their $30/quarter plan which is 200MB, 4 MySQL databases, 2 mailing list. Of if Tranquil Hosting supports…

Radio Free Blogistan Blog Tool Comparisons. These I find more useful than just the checklist that Blogcomp has. Here is one about Radio vs. MovableType vs. Blogger. Basically concludes that Radio is the best of the bunch. Amazing what a year of development can yield though. These products aren’t that old at all. Bottom line…

DVD Playback on your PC Now that I’ve got DVD backup working, the next question is playback. There are two issues, how to get great DVD playback and how to get great DiVX playback. Here’s what I’ve learned DVDs on Your PC. OK now that the DiVX works, the questions are how to get a…

DVD to DiVX backup guides In the quest to backup my DVDs to a highly compressed DiVX file, I found lots of really great sites that explain what to do. I ended up picking the method that is more complicated but hopefully gets really great high quality DiVX with Dolby Digital (also called AC3), so…

Nokia Launches 9 New MMS Wireless Phones. Well the other shoe had to drop on the new Nokia line for this fall. Here it is. The new Nokia 6800 sure looks cool. The way the flip opens to make it a console is pretty neat. Not available until next year though. See it below Here’s…

a day late and a :: dollarshort.org. Mena is the author of Moveable Type along with Ben her husband. Here is here award winning blog.

JavaScript: need Scrolling side navigation bar. The one thing that is missing when I start the conversion over to a non-FrontPage web site is creating the navigation bars. A quick search shows there are bars aplenty. Here is quick list… http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/smith_menu/smith_menu.html http://www.treemenu.com/ http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/instructions/noframes/step1.html http://webreference.com/dhtml/dynomat/hiermenus3/ie/index.html http://www.bratta.com/dhtml/scripts.asp?url=scripts/scripts.asp?id=28&ac=7&order=created http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/navigate1.htm http://www.ivanpeters.com/

NetMagazines.com: Lowest Price Guaranteed with 1353 Titles!. I ordered a few magazines from them. They seem to have the lowest prices. Just make sure to use their various coupons and things. Their rack rates are the same as say Amazon, but not if you take advantage of their sales.

Google Rank back to 4. Hooray, my Google PageRank is back to 4. I’m so happy!

Freeware website software search continues OK, now that I’ve got b2 running on my machine along with PHP, I thought I’d try some other content management systems. This next one is a challenge since it requires an apache server PHP-Nuke. Another content management system to look at. Makes things look like a big bulletin board.…