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December 19th, 2009

Upgrading to WordPress 2.9: Getting Your MySQL Database Up-to-Date

A tiny glitch for those of us with old databases.

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March 25th, 2009

Back it Up or Lose It

What’s your backup strategy?

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March 18th, 2009

My Geotagging Workflow

How I add GPS coordinates to my photos.

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February 12th, 2008

First Real Use of Time Machine a Success!

I finally got to try it in a real-life situation.

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December 19th, 2007

Downgrading from Leopard

Maybe you and your Mac just weren’t ready.

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August 28th, 2007

WordPress 2.3 Beta I Now Available

A rough cut, for serious beta testers.

WordPress 2.3 Beta I is now available for testing. From the announcement post:

Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection….However all of the new functionality is still very rough, so only test the

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August 13th, 2007

Why I Use a Test Mule

One good reason not to load beta operating system software on a computer with real data on it.

Today, while working with a certain beta operating system, I managed to lock myself out of my user account.

Well, I didn’t do the locking. The computer did. An error occurred as I was logging in,

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May 16th, 2007

iSight, G5, Firewire Problem Solved — Well, Sort of

I track down an iSight problem to Firewire.

When I got into a regular back up routine, backing up my hard disk to an external hard drive, I immediately began having problems with my WebCam. My WebCam uses a standalone (i.e., not built-in) iSight camera and EvoCam software. The problem usually manifest itself

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March 16th, 2007

iTunes Update 7.1.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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March 6th, 2007

iTunes 7.1 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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February 19th, 2007

On Geniuses

Why I don’t Genius Bar hop and other comments regarding my recent hard disk problem.

One of my jobs as a blogger is to produce at least one blog entry a week. As you may have noticed if you follow this blog, it looks like I’ve been slacking off lately. Well, I just

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January 6th, 2007

How to Resolve Startup Issues and Perform Disk Maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck

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

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December 15th, 2006

Tubetorial WordPress Video

Get WordPress tips via video tutorial.

Tubetorial has just released a new video series, “7 Essential WordPress Hacks.” The series covers important topics including making money with AdSense, backing up your blog, increasing comments, reducing comment spam, and more.

October 31st, 2006

iTunes 7.0.2 Now Available

Information from Software Update

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

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September 29th, 2006

Automating WordPress Database Backups with WP-Cron

Take all the effort out of backing up.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article explaining how to back up a WordPress database. This is something that all WordPress users should be doing regularly.

But if you’re like me, you just don’t think about manual backups. I went through a spell where I

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September 28th, 2006

iTunes 7.0.1 Update Now Available

Information from Software Update.

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

Continue reading iTunes 7.0.1 Update Now Available

September 25th, 2006

Moving a WordPress Blog to GoDaddy Hosting Account, Part 2

Moving Your Blog Content to Your GoDaddy.com Hosting Directory

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September 15th, 2006

Backing Up a WordPress Blog Database

Back it up — just in case.

It happens more often than you think. Your server’s hard disk dies and takes all of its content to byte heaven.

Of course, it never happens when your files are backed up. So by backing up your files, not only do you have a copy of your

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September 12th, 2006

iTunes 7.0 Now Available

Information from Software Update

With iTunes 7 and the new iTunes Store, preview and purchase high-quality hit movies plus new and classic games designed exclusively for the Fifth Generation iPod. Flip through your collection by album cover with Cover Flow, protect your iTunes library by backing up to CDs or DVDs, and much more.

Continue reading iTunes 7.0 Now Available

August 7th, 2006

Updated WordPress to 2.0.4

Update goes off without a hitch.

I just finished updating my four locally-hosted WordPress-based sites, aneclecticmind.com, wickenburg-az.com, wpvqs.com, and FlyingMAir.com. Now all of these sites are running on the same version of WordPress: 2.0.4.

The updates from versions 2.0.1 and higher were very easy to do. Here’s how I handled it:

Back up your

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April 19th, 2006

QuickBooks 2006 R4 Update Now Available

Information from the Updater Read Me File

Changes in R4:

File operations

You can now use QuickBooks on the same network server as the one your

company file is located on. If another user has accessed the company file,

you will see that the file is locked. An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when

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January 6th, 2006

Save Yourself (And Your Data) with .Mac Backup

Informit.com Article

I learned the value of backups the hard way. Follow my example (the good example, not the bad one) and use .Mac Backup to protect the essential information you’re probably not backing up right now.

Read more here: “Save Yourself (And Your Data) with .Mac Backup”.

January 1st, 2006

Informit.com Publishes Backup Article

Save Yourself (And Your Data) with .Mac Backup

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