Google has released a new feature for GMail called Priority Inbox Beta. It works by analyzing your email and filtering it out what it thinks are the important messages and giving you easier and quicker access to those. It does this by seeing which emails you read, and which ones it applies to. So, it’s customized for each individual user. …
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I happen to be a user of both WPTouch (a plugin that makes my blog mobile friendly) and Webcomic (a plugin and theme that allows you to organize comic series). The problem lies in that webcomic uses a custom post type for displaying the images associated with each comic and WPTouch has no idea how to display a webcomic. Thus, …
I’m going to try and nip this one in the bud. For those of you who don’t know what Facebook Places is you can read about it here. It is a new service by Facebook that allows you to “check in” at a location to let other people know where you’re at and who you’re with. I saw someone with …
I’ve been on Facebook for a long time. I have seen people do some pretty dumb things when it comes to protecting themselves, their identity, and the identities of their friends and loved ones. One of the biggest threats on Facebook is to give strangers access to your personal information. A lot of people I know play Facebook games which …
This blog is a chronicle of my adventure with Adobe in trying to get support for Flash Builder 4. You see, I purchased the premium version of the product 5 days ago, and one of the key features for the premium version is a “profiler”. Now, I got the application installed fine, and everything works EXCEPT for the “profiler”, the …
In order to set a parameter on a Doctrine object that doesn’t exist from your database, use the mapValue() method: $record->mapValue(‘name’, $value);
Strongmail is a mail delivery company that we began using about a month ago. They’ve got an amazing delivery platform and are a very world class company, except when it comes to their API. With a lot of the stuff that we do, we needed to have a mail auto-responder, and unfortunatly that’s one feature that Strongmail doesn’t provide. The …
I got a couple of speakers from a friend on mine to put into my Corolla. It’s a 2005 S model, and this is only my second time replacing speakers in a car. I tried to look up some info online about how to do it, but there wasn’t a whole lot of info and there certainly weren’t any pictures …
If you have a computer that has a damaged CD-ROM or no CD-ROM at all, then you’ll need a DOS bootable USB Flash Drive. I recently had to make one for myself and while there were a lot of articles about it on the internet, they were either out-of-date or very confusing. Here is what you need before you get …
Microsoft has released a tool that will let you compare different versions of IE side-by-side. It’s super nice being able to test how a website looks in IE 6 without hunting down an old Windows XP machine or setting up a local virtual machine. Download