Tag Archives: life on the road
Yahoo Has New PhotoMail Service
If you are sending a lot of photographs via email, for business or pleasure, you might be interested in this. Yahoo announces it is rolling out a new PhotoMail service. PhotoMail will let users insert “up to 300 digital photographs into the body of an e-mail and store an unlimited numbers of photos on the […]
Debating and Pricing Wireless Cell Phones
We are really unhappy with our TracPhone that we got upon arriving back in the United States. In fact, we are disappointed with everything we learn about using cell phones in the United States. Customers are getting short changed with lousy service, high fees, and pitiful phone choices, but Americans just seem to tollerate and […]
WordPress Codex Cleanup Week
As part of my ongoing efforts to volunteer within the WordPress Community, to give back a little for the fabulous software program I use, I’ve been working for the past few months to create a “Codex Cleanup Week” from June 18 – June 26. During the entire week there will be plenty to do to […]
30 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do on the Internet
My growing dependence on the Internet as a way to stay in touch, get information, check weather reports, and be entertained has grown to an amazing obsession. Actually, it’s more like a desperate dependence. With all the information that is out there, it is overwhelming. And yet, after almost 20 years playing on the Internet […]
Bad Behavior Stats in the WordPress Admin Dashboard
After months with little or no comment spam, I got hit with a bunch. In the newest versions of WordPress, right out of the box, I don’t see the comment spam unless it slides through, and those are very few. I use a plugin by ColdForged called Paged Comments, which allows me to view the […]
Jet Lag Website
Brent and I have dealt with more than our share of jet lag over the past few years. There are all kinds of techniques, pills, diets, sleep re-arranging, and gimmicks for speeding up the process of recovering from jet lag, that nasty bodily response to dramatically changing time zones. The ancient mariners and travelers of […]
Changing the WordPress Quicktag Buttons
I bravely entered the WordPress core programming again and made a few customization changes – nay – improvements. These are for me, but you might learn something from the process of changing your WordPress quicktags javascript file yourself. Quicktags in WordPress are buttons that sit above your editing box in the Write Post panel of […]
WordPress Codex Has a New Look
The WordPress Codex has a new look. Not a complete change, but a good start towards a new and more efficient online manual for WordPress users. Since it’s conception over a year ago, developers wanted to provide a quality documentation site for the anticipated release of WordPress version 1.5. Between the WordPress developers and some […]
Common WordPress Support Questions
In order to learn more about WordPress, I started hanging out in the WordPress Codex and on the WordPress Support Forum. Over time, as I became more familiar with the inner workings of WordPress and read much of the documentation in the WordPress Codex, I started answering a few questions in the Forum. Part of […]
Blogpoly: The New Monopoly for Bloggers
Using blogging software and changing our entire site over to blogging software, I feel like I’ve entered a new world. There are all kinds of words I’m learning like feeds, blog, weblog, RSS, blogrolls, trackbacks, pings, pingbacks….. oh, lots of words. An article on the WordPress Codex called WordPress Semantics helped me learn even more […]
Translation for Your Blog in Eight Languages
This is on my list of things to try soon, but I thought I would give you a heads up anyway. Angsuman of Simple Thoughts has created a new plugin for WordPress that will supposedly translate your WordPress site in Eight Languages. The languages are Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. According […]
Using Javascript In WordPress
Once you enter the world of PHP, it’s really hard to go back to javascripts, but they still serve their purpose. If you can replace a Javascript with PHP code, tags, or script in WordPress, do so. Your life will be much easier. If not, here are a few tips to make your Javascript work […]
An IRC Tutorial
I’ve been talking on the Internet since almost its conception. Oh, that makes me sound so old, and maybe I am finally getting “that old”. Still, when the early days of bulletin boards developed into forums, I was there with them, learning along with everyone else. The forums were a huge improvement since we could […]
WordPress Press It Features
Just when I thought I had a handle on most of the bells and whistles of WordPress, I find a new feature. With every installation of WordPress comes a little gem called Press It. It is a javascript “bookmarklet” found on the Write Post screen in your Admin. It’s at the very bottom. If you […]