Running a Website on a Minimal Server Currently my website is being hosted on a tiny account on A Small Orange servers. It includes 150mb of disk space and 4.5gb of bandwidth.This might not seem like a lot of resources to most people but it is more than enough for many websites. I run many …
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My Notetaking System
Recently I have begun on the noble quest to try to organize my notes. I had never thought about archiving important information in a centralized place until recently. It took me quite awhile to figure out which software did and did not work for me in my pursuit of note taking nirvana. For the last …
Chess
It has been around for hundreds of years. It is a truly universal game. Chine, Britain, Russia, and even we ”uncivilized” people from America play it. No I am not talking about Soccer and the current World Cup happenings. Well let me start off first with asking you a simple question. What do you think is the …
How To Get Out of WordPress Maitenance Mode
It is a very bad problem if your wordpress update fails if you have wordpress 3.0 installed. Because WordPress automatically puts you blog into “maintenance mode” when you update plugins or your core install and redirects all traffic to a maintenance page you can be easily locked out of your own blog. Luckily if you …
How to Install CS4 Onto a Computer Without a DVD Drive
Now that CS5 is officially out, it is impossible to get a hold of the free trials of the Adobe CS4 software. You used to be able to just download the trial software and then input your serial number and you would be set. Making it a trvial task to get CS4 onto your netbook …
How to Stop the iTunes Login Prompt from Repeatedly Popping Up on an iPhone
Wow, that title was a mouth full. Lately I was plagued by the dreaded itunes login prompt on my Ipod Touch. A couple of days ago I updated some apps and the problem started immediately after I unlocked my Ipod Touch after that. Every time I unlocked my Ipod the login prompt would show up …
Does W3-Cache Really Affect Page Load Times?
WordPress w3 total cache is one of the most downloaded plugins in the official wordpress plugin repository. W3 Total Cache supposedly compresses your wordpress pages into html so that the page is smaller and loads faster. I wanted to verify the claims that wp-supercache makes about how it improves the page load time in wordpress. …
Caffeine Can Help Headaches
Did you know that one of the active ingredients in Excedrin is caffeine? Well it is, and it is there for a reason. One of the main causes of headaches is the swelling of blood vessels in the head. When caffeine is ingested, it constricts blood vessels. So it helps reduce swollen blood vessels back …
How To Improve Your Productivity on A Laptop
I currently do almost all of my computing on a laptop nowadays. There are some things that laptops are better at than desktops, and vice-versa. One thing they do badly is, allowing you to work uninhibited. There are three things that you can do that to improve your productivity on a laptop. The first thing …