Just before the Christmas holiday the Telegraph.co.uk published an article titled: Apple to turn down the volume on iPod. The article caught my eye and had a “Big Brother” flavor to it. I wondered, “Is Apple’s patent application one of those situations where big business is attempting to protect me from myself?”

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First, I must admit that I am a member of the Snapfish affiliate program, and if you click on the ad banner at the bottom of this post and sign up, I will get something from Snapfish. That being said, I decided to make this offer from Snapfish a Friday Find because it does seem […]

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Dealing with comment spam, overt and on the fringe, is a daily nuisance that nearly every blogger has to deal with. Recently, however, fellow blogger David Airey was the victim of something much worse than comment spam: David was the victim of a domain name thief.

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Christmas brings gifts and some of those gifts just might be a new iPod for someone. That’s great for the person getting the new iPod but what happens if that person lives in a house where there is a single “family PC” and someone else in the house already has an iPod? Can two iPods happily co-exist on the same computer? According to this support document from Apple, the answer is yes.

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If you haven’t already noticed, I’ve finally installed a new theme for TechTraction. I know that I’ve talked about making a custom theme for this site, but I simply don’t have the time at the moment and don’t see that changing anytime soon. Therefore rather than build from scratch I opted to modify an existing theme that was close to what I wanted.

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Look at any free WordPress themes and you’ll notice that most of them have a “Meta” section in the sidebar. Options to login, logout, or jump to the WordPress Dashboard are often found in this section. And while the links are convenient for the owner of the site, they are only useful to that individual. Wouldn’t it be great to dynamically display standard meta links to only those people that could use them? Fortunately, with a little theme modification you can do just that, and here is how.

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Found an interesting post at MicroTechXP calling attention to a recent report from ARS Technica that detailed some of the latest nonsense from the RIAA.
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If you haven’t heard, the latest release of WordPress (2.3.x) comes with built-in tag support. Now, instead of using a plug-in like SimpleTags or Ultimate Tag Warrior to insert tags, WordPress 2.3.x allows you to enter a list of comma separated tag words in a dedicated field at the bottom of the post. This new […]

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I admit I rarely pay attention to the blog links that appear on the WordPress admin dashboard. The links seem to always come from the same small handful of blogs — most of which don’t interest me. This week, however, a link recommending WordPress Digest caught my eye.
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Been dragging my feet on this task for while but I finally got around to upgrading my current 2.2.x WordPress installation to 2.3.1. Overall not a bad experience but there are a few things to watch out for during the process.
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