Category: code
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T-mobile G1 (v1)
my G1 phone arrived today but it wont connect to Google to be set up, so it can’t be used at all, they say i need to exchange it on Tuesday.
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WordPress 2.5
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 everything went smoothly, plugins updated semi automatically, i just had to click some buttons. i just have to get used to the new admin area now…
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Getting Carbonite to Backup USB Drives
I use Carbonite Online Backup for backup, one problem is that they don’t support backing up external USB drives. However I’ve found that if you mount your USB drives in windows as NTFS folders then you can navigate to the drive, then select and back up the folders on the drive as if they where…
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The Amazon Kindle
The Kindle looked nice in their video but i doubt i’d buy it, well unless they have lonely planet signed up. Plus it’s B&W and we’re used to cheap colour printing, most glossy magazines will not work in B&W. Apparently you have to convert doc and pdf files and you can only do that by…
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WordPress 2.3
I just did the 5 minute upgrade I have a few errors with my template so we are on the default for now. Seems to be google site map generator which is not compatible with 2.3. it’s fixed with Google XML Sitemaps v3.0
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Quality JavaScript from Scratch
???¢?¢?€š?¬?…?€?If you’ve avoided JavaScript, or only knew it in its previous ???¢?¢?€š?¬?…?€?toy language???¢?¢?€š?¬?‚?? incarnations, now’s the time to step up and get to know the newer, smarter JavaScript. This hands-on tour will get you started with JavaScript before illuminating the ways in which the DOM can be utilised via JavaScript, the practicalities of pop-up windows,…
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Picasa Template for Todd Dominey’s Slideshow
I’ve just discovered Todd Dominey’s Flash Slideshow and made a Picasa template to generate the images and the xml file for the show. Download: slideshow_picasa_template.zip [note:] I can’t get this to work in wordpress at the moment, possibly due to the paths in the xml file, something I need to look at.
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FreeSerifSoftware – free software downloads
???¢?¢?€š?¬?…?€?FreeSerifSoftware are giving the people what they want: Software With Imagination… for Free! 100% completely free software. No gimmicks. It’s yours for free.???¢?¢?€š?¬?‚?? Link:???€š?‚? http://www.freeserifsoftware.com
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The right mic for the job
???¢?¢?€š?¬?…?€?Most presenters don’t give their microphone much thought; they just expect it to work, and rarely question how it does its job, or whether it’s the right microphone for the presentation at hand.???¢?¢?€š?¬?‚?? Link: presentations.com
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Firefox beta 2 and images
A post i made in reply to a forum post on dpreview.com Does anyone else have difficulty seeing images embedded in posts (Image Control tool) while browsing dpreview.com with Firefox (I’m using v1.5 beta 2)? Since switching to Firefox from IE, I’ve lost this ability. I see only the links to control the image, but…
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Picasa Web Export
After doing some research on how to edit the templates and get them to appear as new/extra options in the web export window, i now have a clean xhtml export option.
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email posting test
Well I’m now up and running on wordpress, and have set up the modified wp-mail.php email posting hack (http://blade.lansmash.com/?p=156#comments and http://www.economysizegeek.com/?cat=13), so I have every thing blogger gave me but faster. I even got all the old posts transferred over without much hassle. The only fixes I’d like with wp-mail.php are with the conversion of…