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05
Oct

Cleaning Up Wordpress Titles

If you want to clean up your Wordpress titles, check out this excellent post by Megan McDermott.  I finally removed the unnecessary “Blog Archive” that was included in every post’s title on the title bar.

Default title format
The default wordpress titles look like this:
Home page: Blog Name (and that’s it)
Category Pages: Blog Name » Category
Archive Pages [...]

05
Oct

Top 10 Free Windows Apps I Use

Below is  a top 10 list of Windows Applications I use daily or weekly.  I would like to know some that you recommend.

gVim – Graphical Vi.  Vi is a great text editor in unix.  It has lots of commands to do things quickly.  Most people either love it or hate it, but I am certainly [...]

29
Sep

New Mobile View

For those of you using mobile phones to access my blog, I have enabled a mobile interface.  I am using Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin.  Let me know what you think.  There should be a link at the bottom if you prefer to see the full version of the site.

29
Sep

Good Windows Mobile Apps

With the news that the 2 billionth iPhone app has been downloaded, I thought I would take this time to detail a few apps for Windows Mobile that I highly recommend and use.  Please note, I am using these on Windows Mobile 6.1 on a Samsung Omnia (i910, Verizon, touchscreen).  Your experience may vary.  Hopefully [...]

01
Sep

Invisible Hand

I found a cool Firefox add-on this morning called Invisible Hand.  If you are viewing an item for purchase on a site, it will show you a notification of the price on other sites and how much you can save if you purchase it on the other site.  I have used it for a few [...]

02
Jun

New Search Engines

There have been a couple new search engines in the news lately.  I have used both of them, and I am impressed.  The first is Wolfram Alpha.  This is certainly not your traditional search engine.  It is more of a computational search engine.  For instance, you can search for the International Space Station.  It will [...]

18
Sep

Tech Tip: Puppy Linux

If you are looking for a small, straightforward Linux distribution – especially for old hardware – check out Puppy Linux.  There are several small distributions, but this one seems to be very good.  I am using it on an old IBM T22 Thinkpad, which has a 900 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM.  The [...]

05
Sep

Google Chrome

Okay, so I downloaded Google Chrome beta a few days ago, and I have been trying it out. I have used it almost exclusively, except for the few pages that it gave me problems on (which have been just a few). I have been pretty happy with it. Most of the big [...]

29
Aug

Tech Tip: How to securely erase a drive

For those that want to know the best way to erase a drive, there are several options.  However, I am going to discuss a couple.
WARNING:  These steps will erase ALL data on the drive(s) selected.  Make sure you really want to do this!
The first thing you can do is download Darik’s Boot And Nuke.  Here [...]

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