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WordPress Update to 2.3.2

// December 31st, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

WordPress has released an update to patch some critical security vulnerabilities in the code.

Please update your blog installations as soon as possible

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/

Website that will test your website 128 different ways.

// December 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Useful for the web developers, one website pulling in all the website testing tools, ie HTML/CSS Validation, SEO results, etc. The results are pulled from multiple sources as well.

“TEST EVERYTHING”… 100+ ‘Website Check’ Tools in-one!

iPhone and Gmail working together

// December 27th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

Accessing Gmail on the iPhone has been a little sticky – mainly since the suggested interface on the iPhone points you to Gmail in mobile Safari.

How to setup email on the iPhone – Access Gmail on iPhone

LCD Monitor vs Crossbow?

// December 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

An Asus LS201 a TFT monitor with a protective panel made of crystal-sapphire.

YouTube video is in Russian and general translation is in Slashdot comments

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAdku9YhSCI

Translation

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/2125218

Happy Holidays!

// December 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Happy Holidays!

IE 6 crash after December Patch Tuesday

// December 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

After Internet Explorer update 942615, this last patch Tuesday, Internet Explorer will crash unexpectly. Microsoft has released a patch to fix the problem.

My Thoughts:

come on Microsoft – I’m a single Developer and test to make sure my software works. How hard can it be to install XP, the updates (minus IE7) and apply the patch and start surfing?

Anywho, there’s a registry fix for the problem posted on gHacks Technology News that I’m reposting here.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
4. Type FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
6. Type an asterisk (*), and then press ENTER. Note The asterisk (*) represents any process name that uses the Urlmon.dll file. If you want to make this change for an individual application that uses the Urlmon.dll file, use the name of that application instead of the asterisk. For example, use Appname.exe.
7. Right-click the asterisk, and then click Modify.
8. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
9. Exit Registry Editor.

Internet Explorer 6 crashes when loading websites after update

Wired’s Vaporware 2007 list

// December 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Vaporware 2007 : Long Live the King

Help and HowTo Website for the Geeks and nonGeeks

// December 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

A good friend of mine recently redid his website design and it looks awesome. He has been giving people tech advice for a LOOONG time and is really good about boiling it down to “this is what is wrong, these are the thing you are able to do, here’s what I would do”. He reads alot of technology news to try and stay up to date. I also know he is an Leo Laporte junkie and listens to TWiT and Leo’s radio show on KFI (San Francisco) religously.

Any freeware he finds in his experiences, or hears on TWiT/KFI, or learns from a friend – he will usually mirror on his website and explain what the actual software does.

He’s also an amateur photographer (meaning he doesn’t get paid for his work) and has alot of brilliant shots posted on Picasa.

Look him up, I’m sure I’ll probably have him write a few articles here and maybe even contribute regularly.

VicLovan.com

Linux/Unix ‘tail’ on steroids

// December 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

The script/program tail is a staple of life for any sysadmin in a *nix environment, but it has its limitations.

How-To Geek shows us how to use Multitail to Monitor Multiple Logs in a Single Shell with MultiTail for Linux

Sync your MS Office docs and OpenOffice.org Docs to Google Docs

// December 19th, 2007 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Sync your Open Office docs with Google Docs

Sync Microsoft Documents with Google Docs automatically

Now no matter what brand of Office documents you use (except the 15 of you using Corel’s WordPerfect) can be sync’d with Google Docs and stored online for eternity. Granted being able to edit docs on any PC you ever touch is awesome, and you can use your favorite software – Google Docs, MS Word, or OO.org Writer to manipulate it.

FYI OpenOffice.org Sync is a Firefox Extension and MS Office Sync is an actual program installed on your PC.

(update: yes I tagged Microsoft, open source and Google in the same post)