Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Any blogger that's made the move from WordPress 2.3.3 to the new 2.5.x can tell you that the Admin panels have been drastically changed. I've seen a lot of talk about it and there's people landing on two sides of the thing.
One set of people clearly prefer the new ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Say you're a blogger that has enough knowledge to use WordPress, write & edit posts, upload a plugin. You're not a coder so instead of spending a lot of time learning how to write code, you use a widget-ready theme and use widgets for everything you need to put ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Here's something interesting, something on slashdot VM
Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps, we're liable to see Linux native apps that can be run on any machine that has this virtual machine installed. In a way it reminds me a lot of Java Virtual Machines, but in spite ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
I've elected to allow my digg profile to recieve shouts because I'm interested in new things that people are writing. I'm also willing, when I have time, to digg those stories shouted to me that I find interesting. However there is a large number of people that are ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Phishing. The sound of the word brings to mind a lazy sunday afternoon drowning worms and taking it easy with the idea that it's not so much what you catch as it is that you get to relax and unwind while trying to do it. Then you look ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
... Apparently they are. At least according to recent government data they are. (of course, this article didn't give any clear details about what data and who gathered this data and where they got it from.... which pretty much turns the whole thing into unsubstantiated heresay in my ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
This is something I never understood. Why would anyone use a cellphone to look at a website????
No thanks!
New Tools Help Create Cellphone-Friendly Web Sites
David Kesmodel from WSJ writes "New low-cost tools are making it easier for companies to register and build Web sites designed for cellphones, the Wall Street Journal ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
That's right. If you have an inkjet printer, especially if you've had it for a while, then it's got a really dirty secret.
Have you ever wondered how it cleans the print head? Well, it does so by spraying some ink through it to make sure that the holes are ...
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