by steve | Dec 29, 2011 | Technology
Hey kids! From the official WordPress site: The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. If you go...
by steve | Dec 5, 2011 | Technology
So, you are ready to run WordPress on your laptop so you can work on a web site without having to either be connected to the Internet, or if you are connected, having to wait for that site to load. There’s lots of different ways to do this, for this article...
by steve | Nov 29, 2011 | Technology
So, you’d like to use Samba (a.k.a. SMB – windows file sharing. More than you wanted to know here.) to connect to your Ubuntu Linux machine and edit files. Of course you do, it’s a great idea. This is the place to start:...
by steve | Nov 4, 2011 | Technology
So, you’ve probably heard of Google Chrome. Chrome is a fine web browser produced at Google. What you probably haven’t heard about is the open source version known as Chromium. You probably wouldn’t care, unless you’re like me and you want to...
by steve | Nov 3, 2011 | Technology
Let’s say you’ve got an old laptop that still works, but can’t run a modern web browser. Well, there’s this nifty old-school technology called X11 which allows the clever nerd to run a program on one machine and have it display on another. ...
by steve | Nov 3, 2011 | Technology
The smartphone war is over and Android won? Well, maybe it’s not that simple. Apple provides much more than a device. There’s quite a bit of service they provide along with that device which hasn’t been happening for the Android market. In any...
