Yea, I know I am a bad boy. I use a Blackberry rather than a SmartPhone. SmartPhone is real intriguing but the Blackberry works for me. The big reason I got the Blackberry was to synchonize my address book with Outlook. It is hard to call someone when the updated phone number is not on [...]
Entries from May 2006
Blackberry versus the SmartPhones
May 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Blackberry
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SOS Online Backup 1.3 (beta) review by PC Magazine
May 27th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
SOS Online Backup 1.3 (beta) review by PC Magazine
With SOS Online Backup, you can start small, protecting a handful of really important files, and scale all the way up to 100GB. It keeps previous versions of files forever. And continuous backup means your files are always backed up.
I finally signed up for this today using [...]
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RE: about your URL
May 24th, 2006 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
Providers all sorts of information like loading time, uptime, Cacheability, Readability etc. Its a Keeper…
[Via digg]
The site’s address is abouturl.com.
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NewsForge | Portable open source software
May 17th, 2006 · Comments Off · OpenSource, Security
NewsForge | Portable open source software
Since I use several of the open source packages on this list, I have to say that I approve of the selections and will take a look at the ones I do not presently use. For the ultimate in portability I have Firefox and Open Office installed on a USB [...]
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Windows Defender Beta 2 and WSUS
May 14th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I guess it was last week that Windows Spyware told me I should upgrade to Windows Defender Beta 2. I upgraded but it did not seem to be able to get current spyware definitions. That was an annoyance but since I was running it on my server I put off finding the problem. I rarely [...]
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More phpWebsite theme changes and hacks
May 11th, 2006 · No Comments · phpWebSite
Well it took me a long time but I finally got around to researching and fixing some annoyances. This all started with some text in the right column that flowed over into the center/left column. In this case it was a calendar event. So I went looking for the likely suspect, an unnecessary table, and [...]
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My version of CSS Reboot
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign
I recently saw that another CSS Reboot was going to happen on May 1st so I was inspired to try a new 3 column, hacked WordPress theme from Andreas Viklund. My hacking was minor. I inserted my photo in the header.
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RE: Opera Mini 2.0 released
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments · Blackberry
Opera Software today announced a new version of its awesome micro HTML-browser for non-smartphones, Opera Mini 2.0.
Lots of new features like: change browser’s visual skin, search engine improvements, speed dial for bookmarks, and quick horizontal and vertical panning when browsing backwards or forwards.
[Via digg]
I tried using several previous versions of Opera Mini on my Blackberry [...]
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More Hacking widget.php for WordPress
May 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · WordPress
I finally to extract most of my hacks from widget.php that I mentioned in Hacking widget.php for WordPress. I created a widget plug-in called Verse of the Day with the changes since they are for the most unique to the Verse of the Day feed. Despite removing most of my hacks I did leave in [...]
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Hacking widget.php for WordPress
May 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · WordPress
I started playing with widgets a little more seriously since I found a fix for my XAMPP installation. On a lark I decided to try and use the builtin RSS widget. I didn’t get the results I expected. The feed I was planning on using is a single item RSS feed that does not have [...]
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