Yearly Archives: 2008

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How to Capture Action Shots Outdoors

Published on: September 24, 2008 in Cameras, Photos and has 2 Comments

I was recently at the park taking pictures of my oldest son on the swings. As I took the pictures, I noticed another person doing the same with members of his family next to me. I stood and watched for a moment as he became disappointed when his pictures came out blurry, and he eventually [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 4

Published on: September 19, 2008 in Blogger, Blogging, Wordpress and has 12 Comments

Blogging Platforms

This post is the fourth and final post in my series about converting from Blogger to WordPress. I have discussed installing WordPress locally, domain names and hosts, and plugins and themes. In this post I will finish off with moving your blog to WordPress, pointing the two domain names to your WordPress blog, and then [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 3

Published on: September 17, 2008 in Blogger, Blogging, Wordpress and has 4 Comments

Blogging Platforms

In the first part I discussed installing WordPress on your local machine, and importing your Blogger posts into WordPress. From there, I talked about purchasing a domain name, and a host in part 2 of this series. If you have been looking at WordPress on your local machine you have probably come across plugins and [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 2

Published on: September 12, 2008 in Blogger, Blogging, Wordpress and has 3 Comments

Blogging Platforms

This post will continue the steps that I took to convert my Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. In Blogger to WordPress – Part 1 I talked about installing WordPress on your local machine. This was done to help you learn WordPress and practice importing your Blogger data. In this part I will talk about [...]

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Blogger to WordPress – Part 1

Published on: September 10, 2008 in Blogger, Blogging, Wordpress and has 12 Comments

Blogging Platforms

I recently mentioned that I had converted to WordPress from Blogger. I also mentioned that the conversion was easier than I thought it was going to be. While I found it easy, some may still not be comfortable converting to WordPress from Blogger. To ease any fears of converting, I decided to write several posts [...]

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Testing for Bad Sectors

Published on: September 5, 2008 in Hardware and has 4 Comments

In my last post titled Recovering Data from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors, I mentioned that I had recently recovered data from a hard drive that had bad sectors. In that post I also talked about what bad sectors are and what happens when they appear. One thing I didn’t talk about was detecting [...]

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Recovering Data from a Hard Drive with Bad Sectors

Published on: September 3, 2008 in Hardware and has 33 Comments

Hard Drive

I have dealt with many hard drive failures in the past, and most of the time it was the result of bad sectors. Other times it was a complete failure where the hard drive wouldn’t even power up. In the latter instance there isn’t much you can do to retrieve your data. As for bad [...]

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Review: Anything for Free

Published on: September 1, 2008 in Reviews and has No Comments

There are many web sites that offer or provide information about free stuff. Some of the sites are quite useful, while others are just scams. I rarely visit them, but this week I’ll look at a blog focused on this topic. While the author does attempt to keep the blog focused, it appears that at [...]

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