Tag Archives: tips and tricks

Del.icio.us plugin for Firefox 3

Posted on May 13, 2008 by steve

I’ve been using Firefox 3 beta for a while now, and it’s a definite improvement in memory usage and speed over Firefox 2. As expected, it’s taking some of the addon developers quite a while to write new versions of … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.3

Posted on September 28, 2007 by steve

It took me a few hours to upgrade to WordPress 2.3 last night. I don’t have the coding prowess of some out there, so it wasn’t exactly unexpected that it would’ve been a painful undertaking. However, upgrading to WP 2.3 … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

Posted on May 29, 2007 by steve

Everything seems to be up and running as usual. I was pleasantly suprised to see that my themes & plugins are all fully functional. The only difference seems to be the inclusion of widget functionality in WP 2.2, which makes … Continue reading →

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Testing thumbnail viewer

Posted on May 11, 2007 by steve

Another miscellaneous test for a WordPress plugin, with a cute picture!

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For Windows user with QuickSilver envy

Posted on April 24, 2007 by steve

For many Mac users, QuickSilver is one application they can’t do without. It’s one of those amazingly simple application that be can extended to be extremely powerful, but still elegant enough to be used for its most basic function as … Continue reading →

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WordPress upgraded! Whee!

Posted on April 10, 2007 by steve

Just updated WordPress to the newest version. I have no idea what security flaw the newest version fixes, but any security flaw fix is better than none. If you have not upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3 yet, download it here.

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Importing from Blogger to WordPress

Posted on April 9, 2007 by steve

I used a plugin to import Blogger into WordPress by processing the RSS feeds that Blogger creates. Consequently, not everything is perfect. There are a few comments which are broken (no longer links back to the author of the comments), … Continue reading →

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Using XBox 360 controller on your Mac

Posted on December 18, 2006 by steve

The XBox 360 controller is really one of the best gamepad ever made for any console out there. The best part is it works on computers as well, where past efforts by various companies to produce a good gamepad has … Continue reading →

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Tab & selection fields on MacOS X

Posted on December 13, 2006 by steve

There was one very, very annoying issue that I’ve found with MacOS X. When you tab through fields, it will by default, always skip over drop-down selection menus. Since so many websites uses this as say, the credit card expiration … Continue reading →

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Trick to get Word out of Word 2007

Posted on December 8, 2006 by steve

As a follow up to my post about Word 2007 file format incompatibilities, there are some very clever people that found out how you can extract the text out of these new file formats. Go to MacOSXHints to read more: … Continue reading →

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