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View all →December 27, 2007
Fix It: HemingwayEX without UltimateTagWarrior in WordPress 2.3
As mentioned in my previous post, in order to speed things up on my blog, I have removed the UTW (UltimateTagWarrior) plugins. Unfortunately, the theme that I use (and subsequently modified) relies on UTW for a lot of things. One of these was causing issues for users coming from a Google search related to Tags. For example, if you Google…
Read more →December 27, 2007
Blog Optimization…it’s WAY too SLOW!
I use a couple of 3rd party monitoring sites including site24x7.com and mon.itor.us to check to ensure my blog is up and running. Over the past few days, I have only had a 94% uptime on my blog (according to site24x7.com) and this concerns me. I had personally experienced issues (e.g., not being able to connect to the mySQL db,…
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December 11, 2007
New Job: Technology Evangelist for ServePath
It has been a few weeks since my last post and quite a lot has happened with my professional career. First through, apologies to my regular readers for not having posted anything as of late. Hopefully I can return to this soon. However, for those interested, the company that I have joined, ServePath, has chosen me to help them navigate…
Read more →November 20, 2007
Tracking: PowerBook 15″ Recalled Battery Replacements Defective?
I have been researching and starting to track an issue that has come to my attention regarding the replacement batteries that Powerbook G4 15" users received after the Replacement Program went into effect. I have recently acquired a 2.5 year old Powerbook G4 15" that has a replacement battery. The battery, received earlier this year through the Replacement Program, is…
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November 16, 2007
iPhone: New, easier release of 1.1.2 jailbreak application released
Conceited Software has released an updated version of their 1.1.2 Jailbreak application. I have not personally tested this nor do I have an iPhone or iPhone Touch that I can test it on since my iPhone is already jailbroken using my instructions here, but I'm assuming from some commentary that I have read that it supposedly fixes a lot of…
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November 14, 2007
iPhone: Netflix queue management meets iPhone with iFlix
It has been a while since I found a really useful iPhone 3rd party application that I really liked. Today I was really pleasantly surprised when I discovered a new release called "iFlix" in my 3rd party application installer. Created by Brent Jensen, iFlix does (almost) everything that I would want a Netflix queue manager to do. From the Google…
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November 12, 2007
iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 – This time it WORKED!
My previous post showed how I failed miserably with the Jailbreak process on 1.1.2. Now I have done some research and have tried it again...and it WORKED!!! UPDATE on 11.13.07 @ 3:45pm - added some screenshots of the iNdependence MobileFramework stuff at the end of the post. UPDATE #2 on 11.15.07 @ 10:30am - added instructions on how to put the…
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November 12, 2007
iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 iPhone firmware DID NOT WORK FOR ME!
What started out as what I had hoped to be a relatively pain-free process has made me wince with TONS of pain. Listed below is what I TRIED to do to get my iPhone jailbroken on 1.1.2. IT DID NOT WORK FOR ME! Others may have had success, I did not. It could have been that I'm on Leopard and…
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November 7, 2007
ALERT: LogMeIn Phishing Scam claims New Encryption
I just received an email supposedly from "[email protected]" claiming that LogMeIn.com is moving to 1024 bit encryption from 128 bit. I am an avid user of LogMeIn and love their service. This seemed a bit odd to me so I decided to investigate this a bit further. As it turns out, it is a Phishing Scam that is now trying…
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November 2, 2007
Anniversary: 2 years of Blogging!
I can't believe that I have been blogging for (only) two years. Tomorrow will be the 2 year anniversary of this incredibly information-filled post. I think that I have progressed a lot with the quality of my posts. Blogging has really become a passion for me, as I tried to quickly articulate on Blog Action Day but it goes further…
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November 1, 2007
Update: Plaxo for Mac Updated with Leopard compatability…somewhat
I have received an advanced copy of the release notes coming from Plaxo's next build (build 479) slotted to be release any moment now. My previous post discussed some issues that Plaxo was having with Leopard and a timeline for a fix to be released. As indicated, the first round of bug fixes is coming out the door (today?) with…
Read more →October 31, 2007
Mac: Plaxo working on Leopard issues, Fixes due soon
The dust is still settling with recent Leopard upgrades on the Mac and some issues and incompatibilities are starting to surface. As I recommended in a previous post, you should try to update all of your Applications prior to installing Leopard, however, this practice is also good AFTER you do the upgrade. One program that I can't really live without…
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