With Wordpress 2.7 hitting the market for self-hosted Wordpress.org blogs, I've finally decided to make the jump. After reading some helpful tips regarding the 2.7 upgrade over at the Lorelle on Wordpress blog, I began making my own preparations for the upgrade and ran into a little more technical issue. Step 1 of the extended Upgrading Wordpress instructions states to … [Read more...]
Save Icon Position on your Desktop
I have my icons spread around my desktop to make the most of the space. I like to clump icons together in related themes: computer, Internet, scripting, and applications. I catch a lot of criticism for this way of organizing my desktop, but it makes sense to me. If I want to open a browser, I immediately go the Internet section (top-right corner) and only have to choose from … [Read more...]
Ammyy Admin – The Easiest Remote Control Program Ever
There have been plenty of tools to work on a remote computer over the network, like LogMeIn, VNC, and others, but I have never seen one that has been as easy as Ammyy Admin. If you're trying to help somebody with a computer problem, you might just decide it's easier to fix the problem yourself instead of telling the person what to do. However, sometimes working remotely and … [Read more...]
Simple tip: Flatten a Folder Structure Easily
I was recently looking into re-organizing a collection of files I had. They were broken into a lot of sub-folders that I didn't really need. The files were automatically split up and given a file path with attributes from the CD when they were ripped. The folder structure looked like this: I was looking at moving all of the MP3 files up at least three folders. Given the … [Read more...]
Size Explorer Free – Find hard drive space hogs
Windows has a handy little pie graph in the Properties window of a hard drive that tells you how much free space is left. That seems to be relatively useless information. It tells you the percent of the drive that is free but that's it. It doesn't tell you what is really chomping away at your free space. Alternatively, there are a handful of software utilities out there that … [Read more...]