Monthly Archives: November 2006

Picasa as Host For Blog Pictures

When I started working on the Thunderbird Mail posting I figured I’d have a lot of screen shots. So I decided to try using a Picasa web album to host them. I’d already installed the Picasa plug-in for iPhoto. I took the screen shots as I was doing the install and I put placeholders [...]

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Thunderbird (E-Mail Client)

With my recent mail fiasco and the continued increase in the number of e-mail addresses I have, I’ve decided it’s time to organize things. Apple Mail is my primary e-mail client but it runs only on my Mac.
One of the things I like about the e-mail provided by .Mac is that it supports IMAP (Internet [...]

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Yahoo ISP + Yahoo Web Hosting = Mail Nightmare

I thought I had researched Yahoo Web Hosting thoroughly and hadn’t come across any potential pitfalls. But things went downhill as soon as my domain was set up. Part of the problem was probably self-inflicted as I was using the Yahoo Mail beta software.
What I didn’t know, and what wasn’t documented, was that the Yahoo [...]

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FileZilla FTP Client and FileZilla FTP Server

FileZilla is a open source (GPL License) FTP program. It supports FTP and SFTP. It’s a Windows only program (Windows 2000 and Windows XP). There’s a FileZilla client and a FileZilla server. I’ll be installing both on my Windows XP SP2 box. The client will mainly be used for accessing my website. The server will [...]

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Why an External Editor For Wordpress

As I’ve been looking at the various Wordpress editor options I’ve also considered editing posts outside of Wordpress. When I used Blogger, my longer posts (which isn’t very many) where done in Google Docs and then pasted into Blogger. That’s certainly an option here and going into this I had planned to keep doing that. [...]

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Why Not The Internal Wordpress Editor

I’ve done a couple postings about alternatives to the built-in editor in Wordpress. I figured I should summarize why I won’t be using it.
Can’t paste external documents into a post.
Button to quickly add the more tag
The inability to cut/paste drove me away from it early, and there hasn’t been a reason to come back.
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