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January 29th, 2007
A new option for bloggers who don’t want to be indexed. One of the new features of WordPress 2.1 is the Privacy Options administration panel. This panel offers two options that control whether your blog is visible to search engines and archivers: I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including Continue reading Upgrading WordPress to 2.1: The New Privacy Options January 28th, 2007
When will I ever learn? Miraz has told me again and again — validate your pages after making changes to your WordPress theme templates. She even advised readers in our book, WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide. And every time I validate, I find errors, proving that it’s a step I really do need to Continue reading The Importance of XHTML Validation January 26th, 2007
Problem found and resolved. I use ecto to post to all of my blog-based Web sites. It’s a great offline post composition/editing tool that gives me all of the tools I need to get the job done. Yesterday, I updated our WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide companion Web site to WordPress 2.1 Today, I Continue reading Upgrading WordPress to 2.1: Fixing the ecto Category Problem January 26th, 2007
An unexpected side effect to upgrading. This afternoon, I did my first WordPress 2.0.4 to WordPress 2.1 upgrade. The site I chose for the upgrade was the companion Web site for the WordPress book I co-authored with Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide. I followed the official WordPress Upgrading Instructions. (I am Continue reading Upgrading WordPress to 2.1: Fixing Link Lists January 25th, 2007
Sample Files from the Book. Continue reading Excel 2007 Visual QuickStart Guide Sample Files January 25th, 2007
A good tip for anyone with access to multiple printers…especially when they always seem to be busy. From “Apple – Pro – Tips – Need the First Available Printer?” on Apple.com: If you’ve got a print job on your hands and you need it as soon as possible, but all the printers on Continue reading Creating a Printer Pool January 25th, 2007
One of the first steps to upgrading. WordPress 2.1 is out and its a major upgrade to what I believe is the best blogging platform. But your decision to upgrade should be based, in part, on whether you can make good use of the new features. (You can learn more about what’s new on Continue reading Upgrading WordPress to 2.1: Dealing with Plugin Compatibility January 24th, 2007
The latest update now available for download. WordPress 2.1 is now available for download on the WordPress.org Web site. You can learn more about the new features on the Version 2.1 Announcement page. The WordPress.org site also has detailed instructions for upgrading from previous versions and installing a fresh copy of WordPress. Miraz and Continue reading WordPress 2.1 Released January 24th, 2007
Information from Software Update. Security Update 2007-001 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components: QuickTime For detailed information on this update, please visit: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 January 17th, 2007
Or why different browsers show the same thing differently. Miraz Jordan has written an informative article in her Browsers series. From “Browser notes 04: rendering engines — – Technology, Macs, the Internet and other matters.” on Tikouka: Each web browser uses its own rendering engine. Some browsers share engines and differentiate themselves from Continue reading Browser Rendering Engines January 15th, 2007
A Firefox (and perhaps other tabbed browser?) quick tip. I’m pretty sold on Firefox and absolutely dependent on its tabbed browsing feature. For those of you who don’t know what tabbed browsing is, it’s a feature that enables you to open multiple Web pages in the same Web browser window. Each window is opened Continue reading Opening Web Pages in the Background While You Browse January 15th, 2007
Make pocket-sized books. I stumbled upon PagePacker from the Big Nerd Ranch while trying to catch up on my Web browsing. It’s a nice little Mac OS X (universal binary app) that enables you to create tiny 8-page booklets. You can either add pages from a library of predefined GTD-inspired planning pages or drag Continue reading PagePacker January 15th, 2007
More reference information for Mac OS users. A week or so ago, I published a quick blog entry with a link to an Apple Tech Note document about Mac OS X builds. Here’s another article with the same kind of information for Intel-based Macs: Mac OS: Versions, builds included with Intel-based Macs. The article Continue reading Mac OS Versions, builds included with Intel-based Macs January 15th, 2007
Getting back some screen real estate. One of the things that you might find bothersome about Excel 2007′s Ribbon is the amount of space it takes up at the top of the workbook window. Fortunately, you can get it out of the way and recover that space. Here’s how. Right click on any button Continue reading Minimize the Ribbon January 14th, 2007
A quick How-To from MacOSXHints. Do you use the multiple library feature of iTunes? If so, you might be interested in this how-to piece, Copy iTunes tracks between libraries on macosxhints: iTunes users who use the Multiple Library feature may be interested in batch-adding tracks from one library to another. Here’s one way Continue reading How to Copy iTunes tracks Between Libraries January 14th, 2007
Learn five easy tricks to help pull readers into your blog posts. Okay, so you’ve written an article for your blog and you’re all ready to publish it online. You’re confident that the article’s content is well-written. And you’re sure it will appeal to your blog’s regular readers. But wait! Before you put it Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts More Readable January 13th, 2007
And how they can make your blog succeed. Every blogger has his own style of blogging which combines writing style, voice, and entry type. While writing style and voice are primarily dependent on the blogger and his writing skills, entry type is something that can be easily changed. The way I see it, there Continue reading Three Types of Blog Entries January 12th, 2007
Information from the Microsoft Office Web Site This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates. System Continue reading Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update Now Available January 12th, 2007
Another very minor correction to my Excel 2003 VQS for Windows book. As I continue to revise the book for Excel 2007 on Windows Vista, I continue to find tiny errors in the existing book. Today’s error is on page 118, in the caption for Figure 38. The caption states that gridlines have been Continue reading Excel 2003 VQS Correction of the Day January 11th, 2007
There’s a lot of information there. Word 2004 (and other versions of Word, for that matter) packs a lot of information into the status bar at the bottom of the document window. Here’s an example of what it looks like: What appears depends on the view of the document, its contents, and the Continue reading A Closer Look at Word 2004’s Status Bar January 7th, 2007
Formatting can help draw readers in and keep them reading. Amit Agarwal has written a nice little article that provides a few quick and easy-to-use HTML coding tricks that you can use in your blog posts to make them more visually appealing. After all, no one wants to big, fat, unbroken paragraphs of text. Continue reading Useful HTML Tricks for Bloggers January 6th, 2007
From lifehack.org Interested in a few basic blog improvements? Chris Brogan’s article should give you some ideas. From Six Improvements to Your Blog on lifehack.org: I’ve done a lot of blog surfing lately, in search of new (best) blogs. What I found often, however, was that there are things people could do to Continue reading Six Improvements For Your Blog January 6th, 2007
Another technical note from Apple Support. Over the past 18 years I’ve been using a Mac — is it that long already? — I’ve had more than one experience when my Mac just wouldn’t start. On two occasions, it was due to a hard disk gone bad — every computer user’s nightmare (are you Continue reading How to Resolve Startup Issues and Perform Disk Maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck January 5th, 2007
Article on Informit.com My latest article for Informit.com has finally been published there. From the introduction to “Publish a Video Podcast with WordPress“: Maria Langer’s helicopter jaunts are too spectacular to be described with mere words; adding video podcasts to her web site would give visitors a taste of the thrill they’d be Continue reading How to Publish a Video Podcast with WordPress |
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Full Text vs. Summary Feeds
What the hoopla is all about.
I’m encouraging subscribers now and it’s a full text feed, so I invite you to subscribe.
It’s a hot topic among bloggers. Full feeds or Summary feeds? I’ve exchanged some words with a reader here about it, but I’ve always been sitting on the fence.
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