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HTD Tech Briefs
View all →September 19, 2007
Tech: I need a DOOVDE Player!
More humor based on an actual phone call:
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iPhone: New “Pirate” app for TLAPD
Just in time for "Talk Like a Pirate Day," a new application was released for the iPhone that lets you snap a picture of a person/thing and let you "piratize" it. It's at version 0.2 as of this writing...pretty fun! Just press the START button and your phone snaps a picture. Then drag the 3 other images around and voila!…
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September 19, 2007
Pirate Humor for Official “Talk like a Pirate Day”
What fun would it be without some Pirate Humor on official "Talk like a Pirate Day" (TLAPD). Some (if not most) of these are true groaners but what the heck. It will also be interesting to see how my WordPress plugin for TLAPD translates these jokes! On with some jokes (don't make me walk the plank on these, I didn't…
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Ahoy me hearty! Happy “Talk Like a Pirate” Day!
Well, today is official "talk like a pirate" day. So put that patch over your eye, grab your peg-leg, get the parrot and go bury your treasure! Speaking of treasures, if you click through my posts to the individual ones, you will see a piratized version of them (for some reason, my home page does not "translate"). Reference is here.…
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iPhone: TechDadBlog now optimized for iPhone with automatic theme!
For all of you new iPhone and iTouch users out there, this blog has been updated with a new theme (yes ANOTHER theme) that is specifically optimized for viewing on an iPhone or iTouch. Those people who are viewing through a computer browser will continue to see my black/red theme but readers who have one of those great new Apple…
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WordPress: People can view your Plugin Folder unless you fix!
As I was working on the update to my blog theme, I found a security hole that I think has existed for a long time in WordPress. While not incredibly devastating, nor directly tied to "code" within WordPress, it is a hole that is very easy to fix. The concern is more with KNOWING the types of plugins that a…
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Blog: New theme, new functionality, new bugs
I have just recently applied a new theme to my blog, trying to keep many of the color schemes from before but also trying to help readability. However, it is still a work in progress as I test out many new plugins and style changes. I ask that if there are any readers out there of my writing, that you…
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New Theme for TechDadBlog
Finally launched it, my new theme. There are still some features and bugs I am working out.
Read more →September 13, 2007
Fix-it: Outlook 2007 Emails not showing in Preview Pane, constant crashes, and Windows Desktop Search not returning results
I recently helped a friend work through and some issues he was having with Outlook 2007. They were some strange, yet common problems, namely: Not being able to view emails within the Preview Pane Constant crashing of Outlook A slower than normal refresh of things My understanding is that this is actually a fairly common issue just from viewing a…
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September 12, 2007
iPhone: Brief Reviews of ApolloIM, MobileChat, Summerboard, MobileTwitterific, Mines, iBlackjack, and MobileToDoList
It's nice that, for now, Apple seems to be "okay" with allowing third-party applications to be installed on the iPhone (although now there seems to be some backtracking by Apple with a new statement that "software updates will most likely break" native apps). Despite this, the movement is growing, especially with the combined forces of Nullriver Software and PXL Package…
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September 11, 2007
Family: HTD’s Commentary on “Guy Kawasaki on Parenting” Interview
I read an interesting interview on Parent Wonder with Guy Kawasaki about fathering/parenting four children. This interview, while short, was intriguing to me as I have three children and frequently get wrapped up in technology and seeing how it can be used to better parenting (hence my quote "...where technology and fatherhood collide..."). But really, the answers below (mine and…
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WordPress update: Version 2.2.3 released with Security Fix
Just updated my blog with WordPress version 2.2.3 (haven't taken the plunge with the beta version 2.3 yet but I am working on a new theme). The 2.2.3 version is just a security release that they recommend people upgrade to, especially regarding two high-priority bugs. The following bugs were closed: 3002 - On Windows machines register_activation_hook() does not work if…
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