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Continue reading →: WordPress Automatic Upgrade
Wow, this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/ is just so cool. Upgrades WordPress automatically. I had 2.3 and wanted to get to 2.5 and it just did it! It also upgrades automatically the plug ins that I have. WordPress does use lots and lots of plugins so this is really convenient. Should really be…
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Continue reading →: Twitter is cool…
I don’t quite get where you are, but “http://twitter.com/richtong”:http://twitter.com/richtong is something I’ve started to use. It is great for two things, in case someone really wants to know where you are and doesn’t want to call I guess, but the really great thing is that with twitter IM and twitter…
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Continue reading →: Fotki vs. Zenphoto vs. Nextgen Gallery
I’ve been trying to figure out for quite a while what the best photo gallery is. Started with Picasa and some of the other ones, but they don’t allow original photos to be uploaded and have size limits. Last year, found “fotki.com”:http://fotki.com which is $30 per year and allows unlimited…
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Continue reading →: Canon Rebel XT 350D will not sync with MacBook
I’ve had lots of problems with getting my Canon Rebel to work with my MacBook Air. First, the Compact Flash reader that I have works fine with Windows, but it was a cheap one from Targus and just refused to work with the MacBook Air. Then, after installing Canon’s software…
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Continue reading →: Time Machine as a Windows file server
Well, if you buy a Time Capsule, it works easily as an Apple network disk, but what about as a file server for Windows machines. This is a bit tricky, because of mapping, but basically, if you set it up to. By the way a *big limitation is that the…
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Continue reading →: MacBook Air SuperDrive jam
Hey watch out, I haven’t used the superdrive much, but when I left a DVD in there and on the airplane tried to play it, the DVD just grinded and stuck. I shook it like crazy, but it wasn’t till I got home that the drive seemed to actually start.…
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Continue reading →: Designing WiFi networks
Well, you don’t need a PhD to do this well, but it sure is easy to cause problems with Wifi. “Apple”:http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Designing_AirPort_Networks_10.5-Windows.pdf has a good guide to the obvious pitfalls. The most important is that if you want several access points to work properly, you have to put them all on…
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Continue reading →: Blocking Port 25 Prevents Sending Email
Well, here in Dallas, this happened again, another ISP (like Rogers two months ago) is blocking port 25 it looks like and also the SSL SMTP ports too. What a pain! Others have had like “blogd.com”:http://www.blogd.com/archives/002253.html have had this problem around it is one of the top 10 most read…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry 8300 for Laptop Internet Connection
While it took me four days to get the iPhone working, getting the Blackberry to be an internet modem took just about 30 minutes. The instructions are superarcane and it is technically illegal as you need a data plan above the Blackberry plan. So either don’t surf too much or…
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