Yesterday, I noticed that none of the YouTube videos on my site would play. For example, when I clicked on one of these videos, nothing happended, but there was a message at the bottom of Firefox that said Waiting for gdata.youtube.com…. (more…)

I just installed the NextGEN Gallery photo gallery for WordPress. I think the gallery is very good, but somewhat difficult to implement. (more…)

I just spent several hours trying to figure out why the JCal Pro Latest Events Module would not display events, even though there were events to be displayed. (more…)

I finally tried the Joomla file management / FTP component, eXtplorer: it’s awesome and I intend on making it part of my default list of Joomla extensions I install when I build a new Joomla site. (more…)

I just upgraded my WordPress installation from 2.9 to 2.9.2. I was feeling lucky today, so I used the automatic update option. It worked perfectly, and I completed the update in less than a minute. Kudos to WordPress developers. Warning: If you use the automatic update feature, make sure you back up your WordPress database and all WordPress files first.

If you use GMail IMAP with Apple Mail, you might have experienced the dreaded garbled emails. This problem occurs when you move email messages to different folders. How do you know you have this problem? When you click on an email to view it, attached images and the mail headers are garbled; eg, you see all kinds of strange characters and the attached images are not viewable. This is a bug; not sure if it’s Apple Mail or Gmail, or both. You can read more the Gmail / Apple Mail garbled message issues here. The fix is simple: restart Apple Mail. But that is pretty clumsy. A better workaround is this: In Apple Mail, go to Mailbox > Rebuild. This is a workaround, not a fix. Let’s hope Apple and Google  can put aside their feud in order to help their users

The Google Toolbar breaks the autofill function in Firefox Browser. I use Firefox to autofill form items and passwords and recently noticed it would stop working after 10-30 minutes. To fix the problem, disable Google Toolbar. For more information on this issue, see the following url: www.google.pl/support/forum/p/Toolbar/thread?tid=143ee6c2dfa45a94&hl=en