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Vista’s Snipper
12.Feb.08 | 3 Comments
Tip of the day for the Vista users: Have you found the snipper yet?
Start -> Control Panel -> Programs
Click on “Turn Windows Features on or off”
Scroll down to “Table PC Optional Components” and check it if unchecked.
Now, hit the start menu and type in “snip” to find and run the snipping tool.
You can use Snipping [...]
Performance Tip of the Day
05.Feb.08 | 3 Comments
My home machine is ailing. Spontaneous reboots, odd errors, blue screens, etc. After some tests I believe I either have a bad SATA card (likely) or the 400 GB SATA drive hanging from that card is going south (less likely considering the symptoms). As I don’t have spares of either — and I want stability [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 4: Upgrade!
22.Sep.07 | 1 Comment
This is Part 4 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 . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the copying of the current WP [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 3: The Files
18.Sep.07 | 6 Comments
This is Part 3 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 . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. This step will tackle copying the actual blog files and [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 2: Data
17.Sep.07 | 5 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 [...]
