Yesterday, I upgraded my two Macbooks, a mid 2008 White MacBook and a late 2010 MacBook Pro, to Lion 7.2. Because I had read so many horror stories about upgrading from Leopard to Lion, I had almost decided to wait until I bought a new machine. I was thrilled when both machines upgraded perfectly. Continue reading
It’s a sad day in the technology world: Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, the heart and SOUL of Apple, arguably the greatest idea man of my lifetime, died yesterday. He was the Bob Dylan of technology. Whereas Bob Dylan was the mirror that reflected our thoughts and ideas in his songs, Steve Jobs was a mirror that reflected our dreams in the devices he created. Continue reading
As with many software updates, Mozilla fixed something that wasn’t broken: They made the URL text gray except for the domain name. To me, this makes reading the URL more difficult.
If you want to change the URL text to all black, perform the following procedure:
That’s it. You’re done; you have fixed what wasn’t broken.
Apache Web Server. If you move a web page, it’s important to create a 301 Redirect in the .htaccess file to tell search engines the location to which the page has moved. Otherwise, you’ll get a Page Not Found error.
Unfortunately, if the filename in the path has spaces in it, creating a redirect for a URL will create an error that prevents your whole website from displaying. For example, the following is a URL with spaces in the file name:
http://mysite.com/about/about me.html
Here’s how to create a 301 redirect for a URL with spaces in the file name:
redirect 301 “/about/about me.html” http://mysite.com/about/about-me.html
It goes without saying: For website files, don’t use spaces in the file name; if you need to separate words, use the dash ( – ); for example, this-file-name.html
A client asked me to install a module that would show X number of his Tweets on his Joomla site. After trying several Joomla Twitter modules and finding all were lacking in some way, I decided to go straight to the source: Twitter Widgets. Within 5 minutes, I had my perfect Twitter module.
How to add your Tweets to your Joomla Website.
Joomla 1.6 was released in the dead of winter and now it’s almost summer. Is it time to upgrade to Joomla 1.6? Not quite, unless you are willing to use Joomla without some MAJOR Joomla extensions. As of 06-01-2011, the following Joomla extensions have no stable release for Joomla 1.6. You can decide for yourself if you can live without these extensions. I know I can’t:
Almost a year ago, I reviewed MotionX – GPS for iPhone. After using MotionX for over a year now and after upgrading to iPhone 4, it’s time for an update. First and most important is battery life. With iPhone 3G, my battery would barely make it on a 3-4 hour ride. Now, with iPhone 4, I can easily ride or ski 4 hours and still have 60% battery left. Also, after a year of using the MotionX GPS for tracking ski tours and mountain bike rides, I have found it to be VERY accurate. And finally, since MotionX can export or import .gpx files ( the standard XML format for sharing track data between GPS devices), it’s easy to share trip data. Thanks to MotionX, I no longer carry a GSP: I only carry my iPhone.
I don’t consider myself a bird watcher, but I do pay attention to birds. I recently bought iBird pro for the iPhone ($9.99). If you’re a bird watcher with an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or an Android phone, I highly recommend this app. Or, if you’re like me, it just might turn you into a bird watcher. Continue reading
When the Mac Archive utility unzips a zip file, it creates a new folder and then unzips the files into that folder. Unfortunately, it leaves the zip file where you downloaded it. If you prefer to have the Archive utility delete zip files after you expand them, you can easily do this in the preferences pane of the Mac Archive utility. Continue reading
Adding a Facebook Like button to your Joomla website is easy…if you can find the right information.