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IM on the Mac
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Continue reading â: IM on the MacNow that things are reasonably stable, time to get IM working again. It is super useful to have IM. Need to get all our Macs connected to it. With Bonjour, it is easy to do local IM, so just need the folks to start using iChat. Also iChat allows you…
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Continue reading â: WordPress rewrites broken
Arrgh. Something is broken in my WordPress installation. I can’t see any .php files that were created previously with MovableType. I can’t figure out what is wrong, so I’m deinstalling all the plugins. Interesting, I can’t even use “Internal Rewrite Viewer”:http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/wordpress-internal-rewrite-viewer-plugin/ which is itself does a rewrite I get 404…
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Arrgh Sync problems from Address Book to iPhone
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Continue reading â: Arrgh Sync problems from Address Book to iPhoneSo at least I got Entourage to suck down vCards. When you have 7,000 of them, you take address Book, highlight all the cards and then choose File/Export/vCards. This creates a massive 2MB vCard file. Open Entourage and drag and drop it into the contacts window. Be careful though, Entourage…
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Lost my old site…
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Continue reading â: Lost my old site…WordPress seems to hide old files of mine, so although I have my complete MovableType site, when I type for instance “http://tongfamily.com/mt.index.php”:http://tongfamily.com/mt.index.php, even though the file is there, I get a 404 not found. This seems to a problem with rewrite rules as changing thename to mt.index.html lets you see…
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Cool State Facts
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Continue reading â: Cool State Facts50states.com – States and Capitals Did you know the state song of Washington is Washington my home? On this site you can even find out the state tools of any one of the 50 states and much more
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arrghh Plaxo really didn’t work!
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Continue reading â: arrghh Plaxo really didn’t work!OK, I thought I was back in business. I synced my Mac Address Book to Plaxo and then had Plaxo create an Outlook Express CSV format file which I imported into Outlook. Bad news. It shorn off all the mobile phone numbers. So back to the drawing board. Also, Plaxo…
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TomTom POIs
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Continue reading â: TomTom POIsWhile TomTom has a bunch of these points of interest in their TomTom Home, it takes forever to download them. “TomTom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33 makes it way easier, just download the file and then copy the files onto your TomTom into the directory /North America. There should be a .ov2 file and…
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Blackberry Rebuild and TomTom 720 Rebuild
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Continue reading â: Blackberry Rebuild and TomTom 720 RebuildBeen torqueing lots of hardware lately. After my sync catastrophe, my Blackberry refused to sync more than 3800 or the 7100 contacts on Exchange. So I had to wipe and rebuild it. Forgot a bunch of lessons, but to review, if you have to do this: # Download the latest…
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Downgrading from Mac Office 2008 to Office 2004
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Continue reading â: Downgrading from Mac Office 2008 to Office 2004This isn’t as straightforward as it seems, you first have to run Office 2008 uninstall. Then install Office 2004. However, you then have to go to Auto Update as the libraries uses by Office 2008 are newer and you will get the “Error when loading Microsoft Framework Library”:http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Board=OfficeX&Number=745129 message. You…
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