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New Business Venture

Starting January 1st of this year, I’ve started up a computer repair company here in Lancaster, PA. Onsite Mobile Computer Services is now open for business. You can find out more on the website: http://onsitemobile.net  

Picasna Photo Gallery WordPress Plugin

I love the ease of use that Picasa has to offer for uploading images to the web. However, until today I hadn’t found a good solution for posting these images in a nice graphical way on blogs.  Picasna answers that need. To test this out, here’s an album from a day trip I took to [...]

The Internet and the Christian Family

Working in IT and being in conservative Christian circles has allowed me to have some great discussions on how to implement (or not implement in some cases) the use of the internet by Christian families seeking to follow the Biblical mandate to be “in the world,  not of it”. I want to share some thoughts [...]

Verizon FIOS

I got to use Verizon’s business FIOS in Everett today while configuring a networked printer for a business client.  Wow, I’d be willing to pay a pretty penny to get that kind of connectivity.  Here’s a screenshot with the test results.  15Mb/s down and 5.4Mb/s up!  At home I get 2.8 Mb/s down and about [...]

Flash Slideshow Header

After months of putting it off, I finally got around to changing my header graphic to a nice dynamic slideshow of some of my photos utilizing Flash and a little PHP magic.  I went and downloaded the Flashfader Plugin and then had to find the magic spot in my header.php file to place the code.  [...]

Heat Issue Solved

I was having a heat issue with my laptop, so I went to find something that could monitor and control the temperature and fan speed to keep things from melting down.  I discovered a great little utility that fit the need perfectly.  It shows up in my control panel err… System Preferences in mac speak [...]

Open Office 3.0

Open Office 3.0 is officially available today. I wasn’t able to download it from the official site, because their servers were so slammed by traffic, however there is an alternative download at the University of Utah. I was smiling when I read this on the Open Office website which is stripped of its usual graphic-laden [...]

How To Set Up A Blog

Yesterday, I started a new blog, and I thought I would document all the technical details of setting it up, partly for my own future reference and partly to help out others who want to go all out and do this thing properly. This step-by-step is for the WordPress blogging platform: Register a domain name [...]

Google’s Operating System

Looks like the browser wars are far from over with Google jumping into the market with their release of Google Chrome today.  I downloaded it about an hour after they released it.  It’s pretty quick and I love the simple intuitive interface, but I’ll stick with Firefox for now.  Firefox extensions make it the killer [...]

Firefox – Guiness Book of World Records

Firefox is trying to create a world record of the most software downloads in 24hrs with their release of Firefox 3. I’ve been using Firefox almost exclusively (except for testing sites I design, since 2005). Join the crowd by clicking the graphic.