Fred's Life and Beyond
After finding out my iPhone wouldn’t upgrade while using Windows XP in a VMWare guest OS on my Ubuntu system, I ran across this blog post by Ivan Kuznetsov. It kind of worked for me and you will need a non-usb keyboard and mouse if you’re not using them currently. During the Restore process in iTunes, [...]
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After looking around for a clean and simple theme for my blog I settled on using Thesis. The first time I heard about it was on some blogger site (although I don’t remember which one). After it was installed and I started playing around with I was even more impressed with what I saw. It did take [...]
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After years of using Graffiti CMS from Telligent and waiting for updates to this very cool blogging platform, I decided to move on to WordPress. Graffiti CMS was very SEO centric and I spend a fair amount of time configuring it to do what I wanted. I thought about staying on a .net platform since [...]
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Gmail is great and their keyboard shortcuts help out quite a bit, but it was missing the ability to delete the current message and move to the next message in any folder or list of messages. After discovering AutoHotKey (AHK) to build and customize shortcuts for applications, I decided to solve this problem I’ve been [...]
Every search on Google equals This site may harm your computer I was just trying to find the site url’s for My Toolbox post and everything I searched on was harmful to my computer. Looks like this Google inspired technology has been around for a while according to codinghorror.com Even links to Google support are [...]
Here is my list of cool applications to make my computing life better. AutoHotKey – a free, open-source utility for Windows that can: Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Convert any script into [...]
I started to notice that my computer was running slow, so I decided to look into why this was happening. Some slowness is expected with a windows over time. I have generally had to re-install the OS about every 4-5 years just because of all the stuff that gets installed or if I have a [...]
In case you didn’t know, Google has created a new browser called Chrome. I’ve installed it and it looks great for a beta application. I found this YouTube.com video from Google that shows all of the features in detail.
At work I’m behind a firewall and the WLInstaller.exe could not make a connection to the Live Update server, so I couldn’t install Live Writer. I was using the beta version which worked, but lacked some features. After spending a fair amount of time looking for real installer of Live Writer, I finally found something [...]
