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Live SkyDrive — Multiple File Uploading
24.Feb.08 | 4 Comments
This past week I saw quite a few tech and blog articles getting giddy about the new Windows Live SkyDrive changes –especially about the 5GB of free storage included. Sounds great doesn’t it?
A free 5GB to store stuff is pretty compelling and, as you might expect, SkyDrive also offers sharing and notifications and all sorts [...]
More Dabbling with File Compression Types
15.Dec.07 | Leave a Comment
Continuing my research into a fast and effective compression option for large files (see part 1), I’ve stumbled over some surprising numbers. My hope is this stuff will help me at a later date when I revisit this topic — and hopefully it’ll help someone else too. Since I’m a sharer, here is [...]
7-Zip: Compression vs. Speed
14.Dec.07 | 5 Comments
Earlier this year I had discovered the joys of running 7-Zip with the multi threaded support. At the time, I saw some incredible time savings. Since then, however, the files being compressed have gotten much larger and I’m back to some inordinately long compression runs.
As a quick refresher, 7-Zip is an open source file [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 2: Data
17.Sep.07 | 3 Comments
This is Part 2 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . This step will tackle copying the database from our live site to our local test site. Subsequent articles will discuss [...]
Using StumbleUpon Firefox Extension with Navigator 9 beta
08.Jun.07 | 2 Comments
Since I’m using the Netscape Navigator 9 beta, I decided I’d have to install some extensions. StumbleUpon’s Firefox extension was among the first.
Alas, upon installation it assured me that it wasn’t valid for my version of Navigator and would only work for 8.x versions. Nuts.
So, I opted to download the extension to my [...]
