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View all →June 7, 2007
What HighTechDad wants for Father’s Day
I'm taking a side-step here away from my usual software and hardware posts to talk about something dear to my heart...selfishly enough, Father's Day! I already have the best 3 gifts I could ever want, three wonderful daughters! Who could ask for more than that? Not me! So why this post then? Well, the other things that Dads want are…
Read more →June 5, 2007
LogMeIn.com makes me happy with NEW macintosh remote control
Looks like LogMeIn.com has finally won my heart. For several months, I have been looking for a cross-platform solution to manage both PC's and Mac's. Until now, all of my PC work has been with LogMeIn and all of my Mac work has been in a state of trial (but swinging towards YuuGuu.com which I still really like). I tried…
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June 4, 2007
Concept: Spreading critical news viral-ly
Last week I had one of the "best" traffic days on my blog. Google Analytics shows a nice little blip: First, my blog is not one of those places where I get huge amounts of visitors (maybe someday but these things take time). I try to post things that are relevant and timely, interestingly, it seems like some of my…
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May 30, 2007
Scam/Virus Alert – emails from IRS with Subject “Complaint Case Number…”
Scam, Virus, Phishing alert! Looks like there is a variant of the Better Business Bureau scam is circulating now but seemingly from the Internal Revenue Service, and I was a recipient of one of the emails. It came in with a title of: "Complaint Case Number ###### against User Name" from, supposedly "[email protected]". The body itself looked somewhat legit and…
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May 26, 2007
reCaptcha – post comments and help digitize old text
I'm sure that a lot of people have heard about Captcha...if you have downloaded files from RapidShare or tried to post comments on a blog (like mine) or register for a new site service or something like that, you have probably come across Captcha. Captcha stands for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is design…
Read more →May 25, 2007
Pheedo to Feedburner Synergy, at last!
I'm not sure what happened but after a few phone calls with the Director of Publisher Relations at Pheedo (thanks Jeff), deleting and recreating feeds and possible DNS issues at my hosting provider, it seems that my feeds are now working again, and feeding each other. To refresh on the concept, unfortunately I was unable to "qualify" yet for Feedburner…
Read more →May 23, 2007
Working with Pheedo, Feedburner and Wordpress
I have been playing around with Feedburner, Pheedo and my blog's feeds and somewhere in the process, something got confused (or maybe I did, who knows). My old feed started showing rows and rows of the "email this * save to del.icio.us * add to del.icio.us..." etc. (See the image below) My intention was to see how I could get…
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May 17, 2007
Bluetooth Internet Sharing from Windows Mobile 6 to Mac OS 10.4.9
In the past, there were ways to share your cell phone's internet connection via Bluetooth on a Mac using the DUN profile on Windows Mobile 5 (sorry for the geek-speak). With the recent introduction of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft removed that profile, thus alienating many Mac users who used to enjoy the Bluetooth tethering/internet sharing (however it sounds like they…
Read more →May 16, 2007
WordPress updates code to 2.2…and I follow
First post under WordPress 2.2. Did some rookie moves when I did the upgrade (thought I remember what I needed to do) and forgot to push the wp-includes directory. Here are highlights of what changed (aside from the 200+ bug fixes/feature upgrades). Widgets - you can get rid of your Sidebar Widgets plug-in by Automattic, Inc., it's now included. Widgets…
Read more →May 10, 2007
What Web 2.0 would have looked like 10 years ago
Microsoft has been including IE7 in all of the latest Critical Updates. It's getting harder and harder to avoid installing. At my work, we recently had to roll back some of our users' machines to remove IE7 so that an automated testing software could run properly on IE6. So that got me thinking (and searching) and I found this great…
Read more →May 7, 2007
HTD Roundup: Snippets of Tech that I have been playing with
It's been a while since my last post so I figured I would do yet another laundry list of things that I have been doing and technology I have been reviewing: Updated my Blog Theme to Redoable 1.2 - still a work in progress as there are some issues preventing me from showing what I had previously MAMP 1.6 -…
Read more →April 20, 2007
Issues installing Mac Security Update 2007-004
I guess I got lazy and did not follow my normal routine of backing up and repairing permissions PRIOR to installing software updates from Apple's auto updates. So, last night, I simply installed the update from the Software Update program. Well, after rebooting (which took abnormally long - but has been duplicated by others so is expected behavior), I was…
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