This week at WWDC Apple announced the replacement for .Mac called MobileMe. With this change comes a new graphical UI on the web page, hooks for Windows and Mac users, and the new domain name(s). Apple has bought mobileme.com and me.com.…
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So you have your new iPhone or iPod Touch and you want to watch a movie. You have to find a way to hold your screen at just the right distance and in the right rotation. You end up holding your phone in your hand in the claw posture.…
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A web site for the re-sale of industrial lift equipment. The challenge on this site was to create an existing site with an existing design and turn it into a dynamic site with a product database. The user can now edit products in the database in real time.…
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I had my first experience making homemade sushi this weekend for my daughter’s school project. I had the rolling mat and directions from a book but I had never made
maki before. I found a kid-friendly recipe and headed off to the store.…
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After a nearly catastrophic experience with a LaCie drive I was once again back in the market to buy a 1TB hard drive. I have about 750GB of stuff that I need to backup on a regular basis. The LaCie was working perfectly until it just stopped.…
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This web site was redesigned to give the owner the ability to edit content directly on the web site and enhance communication with current customers. In addition to the web site the customer now uses their domain for email communication.
Web site for parent teacher student association for Mansfield Legacy High School.
My car is nearly 8 years old and soon I will have to pass it into the waiting hands of its next owner, a teenager. I have a couple of years until that happens and so I’m passively shopping for a new car.…
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I think it is really great that Apple has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft. This means that with the iPhone 2.0 iPhone users will be able to be full citizens on a Microsoft Exchange server with access to email, calendar, and address book.…
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After much research and shopping around, I finally took the advice of a friend and checked out HostGator. I really liked what I found. They offer affordable hosting packages with reasonable bandwidth ceilings. I’m still worried about bandwidth but unless I’m lucky enough to get on Digg, I should not have a problem.…
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The new system update for the iPhone is now out. One of the new features is you can add bookmarks to the front screen, a.k.a the springboard. The graphics that appear on the home screen are 57×57 pixel PNG files. You put the png file somewhere on your your server.…
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I think I finally have gotten my Apache problems settled down. I’m not sure what set it off. I made the mistake of updating the system software with a security patch. That updated PHP. Since I am running a custom PHP, I had to recompile and install PHP again to get libGD loaded.…
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I’m spending the day today updating my server’s software with numerous updates that have come out from certain vendors. For both Drupal and Squirrel, I’m glad I was slow to update because both had two updates in the intervening time. Once I get my updates current I can look at my spam filters.…
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