Monthly Archives: October 2008

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How I Organize My Digital Photos

If you are like me you probably have taken thousands of pictures with your digital camera. Digital cameras make it very easy to take photos, since you can view the photos immediately, and only keep the photos you like. Once you are done taking pictures, it is usually very easy to transfer them to a [...]

Changing Your Blog Posts’ Permalinks

When I visit a blog that has been created by a new blogger, I immediately notice that the permalinks to their blog posts haven’t been changed. By default, WordPress uses a confusing permalink structure for each post, which most new bloggers don’t realize. It is important for those setting up a blog to ensure they [...]

Increase Your Web Site Speed With .htaccess

Web site and blog owners are usually trying to increase the speed of their sites. Visitors won’t wait for a web site that loads in 30 seconds, so making a site load very fast is crucial. With many sites containing many additional files that are downloaded, such as Javascript, CSS, images, and flash, web sites [...]

What are Batch Files?

I recently was in charge of creating a silent install for an application. While many installations include a silent option, this one was a bit different. I had to also run other installs, as well as import registry settings, and also copy files. To help me with this task I used a batch file that [...]

How To Display Post Excerpts in Blogger

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Update: On September 9, 2009 Blogger introduced “Jump Links” that incorporates the <-- more --> tag, much like WordPress. This allows Blogger users to display posts excerpts easily in their blog. For more information, please read the help article on creating Creating ‘After the jump’ summaries. Many blogs may display only a few paragraphs of [...]

How To Easily Display a Blogroll on Blogger

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It has been a while since I have written a post about Blogger. While I have since switched to WordPress, I still think Blogger is a good platform for those just starting out in blogs. Many people like to create and display a list of blogs on their blog called a blogroll. The list is [...]

The PNG Image Format

I have written posts about the JPEG and TIFF file format, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Digital cameras use the JPEG format because of it’s small size, so you can store more photos on a memory card. The downside to the JPEG is that is is lossy compression, so you lose some data [...]

Four Months of Using Mozy

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I have written several posts regarding backing up your data. I have mentioned many different forms of media that you can use to keep your data safe. Over the past four months I have been using an online backup solution called Mozy. While I have written about Mozy in the past, I will sum up [...]