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Windows 8 Mail Woes
I have been using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview since the launch at the end of February. To test more than just the regular Windows desktop, I’ve wanted to attempt using the built in applications like Mail and Calendar. Those two applications are of prime importance on my Android phone, so on Windows, I like [...]
Tabs to Spaces in NotePad++
I frequently use TextWrangler on my MacBook Air to do some quick coding. One of the problems I have encountered is that when I switch back to Notepad++ on Windows, my spaces become tabs. I’ve set TextWrangler to use spaces instead of tabs and I wanted to mirror the same settings in Notepad++. To change [...]
Explorer in Windows 8
The Building Windows 8 blog details the changes to Explorer in Windows 8. Those changes have been met with criticism and much disdain. I’m a power user. I use shortcuts as much as possible because they save time and relatively easy to remember. Actually, I can’t remember what shortcuts I use other than copy, cutting [...]
Jetpack WordPress.com Stats Data Lost
I love analytics. Two days ago on Friday night or Saturday morning, I made a gzipped tarball clone of my blog’s entire directory on my server. I cloned everything, the WordPress files, my themes, my images, uploads – everything. I also cloned the database with mysqldump. I unarchived the tarball and restored the dump into [...]
FTP via Windows 7 Explorer
A couple of days ago I was away from home but I wanted to fetch a bunch of files from my server. I had ssh access so I quickly installed vsftp, a simple FTP server for Ubuntu Lucid. I would’ve used WinSCP and sftp but I wanted to try something new. What’s that, new? I [...]