From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Customizing K2: Part 2

December 31, 2005 · 83 comments

Today we continue our journey to help you find your very own unique design for your K2 and WordPress powered blog. If you haven’t read the first part, please go do that now; I’ll still be here when you come back. For the rest of you go ahead and open up your FTP program, login to your server and get ready to indulge in an intense coding stint. Some of the things discussed in here might get a bit tricky, but no need to fear my contact page is only a click away.

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2006, Here I Come

December 31, 2005 · 9 comments

2005 is just wrapping up and it has been a great year. Notable events such as the quiet launch of this blog and my first digg to surpassing of over 350,000 hits (leave comments/vote there if you wish). I have published countless how to articles, picked up a Nano, was featured on commandN, met the Digg guys, partnered up with (mt) was accepted into the 9rules network and finally got my hands on that 20″ Apple Cinema Display. [click to continue…]

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K2 Beta Two

December 30, 2005 · 18 comments

Michael and Chris have released K2 Beta Two, the next installment of the WordPress theme that powers this blog. That being said, I am going to start the upgrade process which may be rather time consuming as I have modified just about every K2 file. So if you spot any weird things happening around here, you’ll know why. I also plan on finishing up Part 2 of Customizing K2 sometime tonight, but it might have to wait until tomorrow to get published.

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Unified Feed Theory

December 30, 2005 · 6 comments

Colin from TheUberGeeks.net has a great article discussing and more importantly explaining what feeds are in a way that everyone can understand. This article is a great companion for my highly-acclaimed Getting Started with RSS how to. David Brunelle also has a good tutorial for displaying various RSS feeds on your site. So now that you know what feeds are, try grabbing my feed.

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Speed Up OS X

December 29, 2005 · 4 comments

The Mac Rumors wiki is at it again. This time they’ve set up a brief guide on squeezing some extra speed out of your Apple rig. Check it out here. I strongly agree with their points about system memory, using widgets sparingly and repairing disk permissions.

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Customizing K2: Part 1

December 28, 2005

With the long-awaited final version of the K2 theme for WordPress coming out before the New Year it is a good time to catch up on some tips and tricks to get your blog looking its best. I am trying to make this post be the definitive guide for helping beginners and amateurs out. [...]

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Intel Launches First 65nm Processor

December 27, 2005

Intel has launched the first processor based on the 65nm core. The Pentium D 955 boasts a significantly smaller core from the current 90nm and more common 130nm cores. It supports a frontside bus speed of 1066MHz, similar to the old 3.46GHz EE Prescott chip that wasn’t too popular. The Pentium D [...]

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WordPress.org Redesign, WP2 Released

December 26, 2005

Along with a new version of WordPress, WordPress.org now sports a much needed, redesigned layout.

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HOW TO Quickie: Disable XP Admin Account, Reset Passwords

December 26, 2005

By default, Windows XP creates an Administrator account that is usually hidden from fast user switching unless you go to Safe Mode (F8 on boot). If your computer came preinstalled with XP, this admin account likely has no password, making it easy for someone to boot your computer into safe mode and wreak havok. [...]

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10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0

December 25, 2005

With the major release of the widely used blog publishing platform, WordPress, very near there are some things you should know before getting rough and tumble with the new features. Aaron Brazell posted a great list of the 10 most important things a blogger should know about WordPress 2.0 over at problogger.net. Heresay [...]

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HOW TO Quickie: Image Reflections

December 24, 2005

Reflection.js is a simple piece of javascript that can add some slick looking reflections to any image on your site. All you need to do is add class=”reflect” to the image. If you are using the K2 WordPress theme you can call reflection.js and the requisite prototype.js (assuming you have uploaded it into [...]

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Daily Reads

December 23, 2005

A few people have asked me which sites I visit daily so I thought I might as well share this information with everyone else. Most of my reads are tech related and oriented so you might find something you like as well.

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RSS Icons

December 22, 2005

Spice up your blog with some of Matt Brett’s RSS icons. Replace those unsightly orange RSS or XML buttons with the increasingly official Mozilla RSS icon that Microsoft recently adopted. Matt has created a nice package in various photoshop and illustrator formats so you can get it just how you want it. [...]

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Happy Holidays Contest

December 20, 2005

This is the one you’ve all been waiting for; a chance to win a domain name and a year of excellent hosting from my good friends at Media Temple. This year has been good to me and what better way to celebrate the success of this website than give back to the community that [...]

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10 Ways To Speed Up Windows

December 19, 2005

I recently found a fantastic article that listed some great ways of speeding up your Windows installation. Many of the fixes were registry edits and got a bit involved. For those people that probably shouldn’t be messing around in the Windows registry, I have compiled all of the registry edits listed in the [...]

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