Another great find! Check out this plugin for WordPress to manage categories with Ajax. I have a few hundred uncategorized posts from before I knew to manage them. I have always been hesitant to deal with them. Now, with this plugin, it’s finally fast enough to deal with! Hooray! I am having a good technology…
Just what I wanted for the holidays! As previously blogged, I had been having trouble with the latest versions of WordPress because they switched from Latin to UTF-8 character set. I found a fix, which basically said, “Leave it as Latin”. But finally, I found a 1-step UTF-8 Converter Plugin. GENIUS!! It didn’t just work…
I recently received a comment that said my sprites were breaking in Opera and Safari 2. I don’t have a mac, so I can’t test Safari 2, only 3. Safari 3 works fine. I checked my Google Analytics to see how many people used Opera and it turns out to be around 3%. So I…
I recently have been working on a new API Browser for jQuery. It’s been a pet project in the back of my mind for some time. I thought I could create a better mousetrap, if only I could get over the programming hump. So finally, last week, I took a few tentative steps forward. First,…
jQuery just recently released their 1.2 version. This spurred me to get some of my mini-projects done and clean up my cookbook area. I also FINALLY figured out how to Gzip my JavaScript files. There might be an easier way, but here is how I did it. Rename the JavaScript files from .js to .php. …
At first, I thought, “Yeah, that would be nice. Digg for people. Like a digital “Thank You”. I did a quick Google and saw that a company is doing that for some people. The comments at the bottom are incredibly pessimistic. They are screaming Ego! Bad! Lame! So I thought about it a little deeper.…
The technology is getting better and better. Google is announcing a version of PowerPoint and Wiki software in the next few weeks/months. I think this is a turning point for the industry. I have already started using Google Spreadsheets and have been a paying customer of Picasa. We just switched our entire family calendar to…
I finally got invited to the Trillian Astra alpha. I have been waiting for a long time for this. It’s a beautiful looking application and actually improves upon the reliable Trillian 3.1 that I have been using for years. It adds GTalk support and a slick new interface using tons of alpha transparency. Apparently, it…
Articles like this make me sick. It’s saying, the only reason people by hybrids is to say to their neighbor, “See, I am saving the world!”. While this may be true, it still is ugly and it shows the worst in us. And worse still, it shows how corporate America thinks of us. We are…
For about a decade now, I have used TrayColor as a must-have utility to pick colors off the screen and get their HEX for html and css. It’s tiny, works perfectly, sits in the tray. It’s few quirks seemed to be minor enough and it was free. I don’t know who made it. I used…
Katie is the master of our domain. She maintains the family finances and schedules. She is the COO, CFO and CEO of the house. (I am the CTO) Recently, we have had the need to share our family calendar in a distributed way. She had been using Outlook Calendars on her laptop, but that didn’t…
I got this error in Vista yesterday. I closed the error, closed my other programs and rebooted. Was it really Catastrophic? Come on. Whoever writes these errors is not thinking. A user doesn’t want to see that. They want to see something friendly. I would have rewritten this error to say, “Something bad happened and…
The last few days I have been using Microsoft Media Player to listen to music while I work. Specifically, I have been trying their iTunes competitor called Urge. I signed up, but went for the “free” plan. I don’t want to buy music, I just want to listen to the radio for free. Two channels…
I really have come to enjoy and appreciate the service SiteUptime. They will ping a site and keep track of whether it displays in a browser. The first site is free with 15 minute checks. For 5 bucks a month you get 3 sites at 5 minute intervals plus other checks. That is an AWESOME…