Archive for the 'Tech' Category

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Create Your Own Web 2.0 Logo

Here’s some simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Web 2.0 logo in Photoshop.

ClearContent is now officially a Web 2.0 company….
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The ABCs of RSS

Here’s a nice video explaining the fundamentals of RSS and its benefits for the average user.

And You Think an eBook Will Have Tech Support Issues?

It appears that the video is sometimes not working at YouTube, so here’s another link that is still active:
http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946/

An Original Signal

Check out OriginalSignal when you have a moment. Pick you signal(s) and go. Pretty cool…

The main purpose of the site is to provide a quick glance on what’s happening without using your desktop/web RSS reader. New headlines (since your last cookied visit) come in pretty orange, visited ones are grey.

Don’t Forget to Calibrate Your Mac Before You Leave Home

Chris MacAskill, President of SmugMug has a great explanation of why web pages you view on your Mac may look strange and he even includes a simple fix for the problem.

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WordPress 2.1 and ecto 2.4.2 Workaround

Since updating to WordPress 2.1, I have been unable to refresh my posts stored in ecto 2.4.2 (a great OS X and Windows blogging client). Each time I press the refresh button, I would end up with the OS X spinning beach ball loop and eventually I would have to quit out of ecto.

Digging around in the ecto support forums, I came across the fix to the problem. It seems with the update to WordPress 2.1 they modified the xmlrpc.php file. Unfortunately, the changes do not conform to the MovableType API specs, which broke communication between ecto and the new version of WordPress.

In order to fix the problem, either wait for WordPress 2.1.1 or make the following string replacement in the xmlrpc.php file. Search and replace the following:

‘categoryId’ => $catid,

change to:

‘categoryId’ => (string) $catid,

I just tried the fix and can confirm it works. If you have not checked out ecto before, give a test run. It is a great blogging client.