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Continue reading →: Apple iTunes 7
After the release of iTunes 7 many users complained of bugs and crashes. So far I haven’t had any major problems and while I haven’t spent much time exploring it I haven’t noticed anything especially cool about the update. There are a few annoyances such as the forced organization of…
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Continue reading →: Bookmark Roundup 2
I really need to organize my bookmarks. I have a habit of bookmarking things when I find them and then going back later to read the pages more carefully. As usually, many of these were found on Digg, Download Squad, etc. though often I find something by accident. Death by…
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Continue reading →: NSLU2 Update
Today I finally attached a hard drive to the Slingbox. It’s been sitting around doing nothing on the network for several months. After work I grabbed my USB drive enclosure and installed a new 160 GB IDE drive. I knew I wouldn’t be able to format the drive as NTFS…
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Continue reading →: Uneditable Regions Inside Editable Regions
I was running through Adobe’s Dreamweaver support documentation and stumbled across the following gem. Dreamweaver TechNote: How to make an inherited editable region uneditable
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Continue reading →: Don't worry…
I was working away in Dreamweaver 8 yesterday and I received the following error: [Photo Missing] It’s one of the strangest prompts I’ve ever seen on a computer. To reproduce the error simply right-click in the CSS Styles panel on a style sheet that is linked to, but not included…
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Continue reading →: Have programmers gone insane?
I tend to frequent downloadsquad.com in the search for quality software. Generally, I’ll hit the site once or twice a day to see if there is anything I would find useful. Frequently, I’ll see an article and screenshot of a program that is just what I’m looking for. Then it…
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Continue reading →: Virtual PC 2004 for Windows is Now Free!
Virtualization is a useful tool, especially if you need to test Web browsers for other operating systems, such as IE 5.5 in Windows 98 and IE 7 in Windows XP. Microsoft recently released Virtual PC 2004 for free! If you’re interested, download the Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1,…
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Continue reading →: NSLU2 – a.k.a. the Slingbox
I went up to Walmart to pickup a few items and noticed the Linksys NSLU2 on the shelf had been marked down from $88 to $25. I have been pondering the purchase of such a device for some time. This particular device connects to any USB hard drive to provide…
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Continue reading →: This Project is Dead
I was tired of pouring money into the computer. To add one piece of useful functionallity costed $80 on average. It was a good project to attempt and may be worth revisting when I’m willing to spend more money on a high-end system. For now, I think it would be…
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Continue reading →: yWriter on Download Squad
Yesterday I posted an entry about yWriter, a free tool for creating and organizing a novel. After I blogged about it I surfed on over to Download Squad and submitted a tip about yWriter. I didn’t really expect to see yWriter mentioned on their homepage since I figured the site…
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I’m Mike
Welcome to my blog, which I have maintained for several years, off and on, to share things that I’ve learned from numerous projects and various problem solving escapades. This is my way of giving something back to the online communities that have helped me learn more about a wide variety of topics.
