Archive for April, 2008

April 10th

Office 2007, Save Image As...

One feature that I have always wanted when working with clients is the ability to simply save clip art they sent me as an image, since they always seem to attach important pictures to a word...
April 3rd

Duel Booting with Shared Itunes Library

Today I started to play around with my iTunes, because I have a Windows Vista x64 & Windows XP on the same machine. For the longest time I had been having issues with keeping the two iTunes...

Archive for March, 2008

March 23rd

A new Openness

I'm opening up Flash Exploit to third party developers, but currently I'm only going to open up the Block Editor portion of the project. To make it a bit easier for developers I made the interface...
March 12th

PayPal Express Payments Processing

Today I learned a valuable lesson when I was working on http://www.LiteeCases.com . When using PayPal Express Payments the Payment Type Should be set to "Sale", not "Order". Payment Types set...

Archive for February, 2008

February 24th

iPhones Other Function

This is going to sound wrong and a bit off taste, but the iPhone has a hidden function, and it is removing dead skin cells. It sounds weird, but all of my fingers have patches of dead skin pealing...
February 18th

iPhone 1.1.3

I'm loving my iPhone with Firmware version 1.1.3. I'm mostly loving how ZiPhone is the easiest way to unlock & activate any iPhone with version 1.1.3, which saved my butt after the 1.1.3 soft...
February 14th

USPS Quirks

I've been quietly(really not) waiting for my iPhone in the mail and I have a new insight into the USPS tracking system. It seems like it will only list MAJOR sorting facilities, not the local...
February 11th

A Killer Application

Cellphones up until now have pretty much been a manual device, meaning that you have to tell it to do everything, like change ring mode. I request that cellphones add in automated ring mode...
February 3rd

Time to buy an iPhone

I've been doing some more research into iPhones, after seeing my sisters new phone from t-mobile, and I can't let her beat me in the war to have the nicest phone. So heres why I changed my mind...

Archive for January, 2008

January 21st

Wires Everywhere

I've been watching old sci-fi movies, like Dune & BladeRunner in HD and now I'm seeing thing you were not supposed to. One little flaw that is easy to see is the Wires used to hold actors in the...
January 14th

HD-DVD, The cheapest HD available

I've been doing some research into HD-DVD vs Blueray and I have determined that HD-DVD is for me. And heres why... Price Point The Microsoft HD-DVD player for the X-Box 360 is only about...

Archive for December, 2007

December 27th

No iPhone or iTouch for me.

I've been researching whether to purchase a iPhone or iTouch and here are my results. Pros: for iTouch & iPhone Web Browsing Music for iPhone Phone Cons for iTouch &...
December 12th

Crysis - Don't Quicksave

I have been playing through Crysis lately and have learned that the quick save feature is broken, sure it will save your game, but your objectives will not update, which is fine for levels one &...

Archive for November, 2007

November 25th

GoDaddy Shared Hosting (Quirks)

Today after doing some searching I learned that GoDaddy will "Crop" ftp passwords down to 14 characters, since my password was originally 17 characters long.
November 11th

SVGE Updates

So I've been doing some work on improving SVGE and have a new version ready for release, but It still needs a bit more work to get it Vista Ready. Improvements -Better SVG Import -Open...
November 10th

Linux File Permissions

Today I did something really stupid, but I did get a funny phone conversation out of GoDaddy tech support. So I was performing some file maintenance for a web demo I was setting up and somehow...
November 8th

Linux Administration, Dump & Restore

Today I'm going to talk about two Linux administration tools. "dump" for backing up and "restore" for restoring. A simple dump script would resemble this... # Set the Connection Protocol...