On line log of technical adventures
A few weeks ago I upgraded my iPhone 3G to iOS4. The only feature I was interested in was the folder feature for stacking applet icons. I don’t like all the side scrolling you need to do once you have more than 16 applets. While I was very happy with the folder feature – especially […]
I’m not a heavy user of Subversion, so forgive me for not being part of the prevailing “use the command line” crowd recommendations in OS X (and probably most Unix/Linux users as well). I was using SmartSVN for a while – so long that the open source version I was using seems to have been […]
I’m using iReports a lot for general business reporting, which is an open source reporting tool in the spirit of Crystal Reports. It merges SQL and Java, creating report “documents” which are an XML file which tells how to attach to the database, run the query, and then format the results into a pretty document […]
I’ve been using RSS readers for quite a while. Anyone that does a lot of web site reading really should, it saves a ton of time previewing what’s new material. It used to be that many sites didn’t support RSS, or didn’t support it well, but at this point any blog or news site that […]
Came across QR Codes, which are a bar-code variant (2 dimensional) that convert to text. I’m seeing them on web pages, and the interest in them comes from a low end camera (think cell phone) being able to see the code and decode it. I used Kaywa software to generate the code, and am using […]
This post on the WordPress support forums seems to have helped me resolve the bad Dashboard display, although I can’t point to a specific issue. I changed the name of my plug-ins folder (renamed from “plugins” to “plugins_old”), logged out and logged into the dashboard and forced a reload of the pages. Dashboard looked normal. […]
Having trouble posting. All the dashboards failed even though the sites are running fine. A couple of posts on support forums indicate I’m not the only having problems, but no answers being reported. Messed up dashboard and the way its supposed to work shown below: Screwed Up Screen from WordPress Update: http://lschofield.net/technical/2010/04/wordpress-dashboard-resolved-maybe/
My Mac Book Pro is coming up on three years old, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was not holding as long a charge as it used to. This is not foreign territory for laptop users; battery chemistry degrades over time and you don’t notice it until it drops to 80% or […]
From Yahoo news we hear that there is a “Rickrolling” worm hitting iPhones: iPhone fear as ‘Rick Astley’ worm spreads – Yahoo! News. This is a ittle misleading on two counts. First, the worm can only stick to the phone if it has its operating system modified to allow unauthorized software to be installed (commonly […]
Recent disasters and recovery of a failed video chip on a Mac Book Pro restore my faith in regular backups and leave me impressed with Apple Care. This is a quick accounting of events and resolution.