According to some witnesses (sounds like a real news story, huh) Apple Stores and Best Buy stores are no longer accepting shipments of the old or current Mac keyboards. What does it all mean? Should we be expecting new Macs to hit the stores? Read the story here: Old Mac Keyboards No Longer Shipping, New …
The YouTube famed Gunecologist playing Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns N Roses… with fart sounds on his hands! This guy is really amazing. The first couple of minutes are a little boring, but at around three and a half minutes in it really picks up and makes it worth the wait. Check it out …
I just installed the WP-Syntax WordPress plugin for the last post. This was so I could have my sample Java code formatted and syntax highlighted in the post. Wow! I didn’t realize how bad it was going to be formatted. The plugin is nice and the syntax highlighting is good, but the code is formatted …
I use and love the WordPress platform for this and several other blogs that I maintain. One of the many cool features of WordPress is that it supports XML-RPC. What does that mean? Well XML is… XML. It’s the extensible markup language and is basically just a way of formatting data in some meaningful way. …
It appears that the software and operating system giant, Microsoft will be offering it’s next version of Microsoft Works as a free ad-supported software suite. For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. …
As if Apple didn’t have enough troubles with an idiotic class action suit. Now Eminem represented by Eight Mile Style LLC and Martin Affiliated LLC, his music publisher and copyright manager, is suing Apple for millions. Why? He says that he never gave Apple the right to distribute his tunes on iTunes. The funny thing …
I am no longer a “work from home” web geek. Still a web geek, yes, but I have accepted a full-time position with a company that requires me to be in the office. Sad But True. Of course this means that I have multiple machines that I am working on and more importantly reading RSS …
I have been doing some work with the XML-RPC functionality of WordPress and ran into a problem with the metWeblog.newPost() method. The problem? If you try to post a dateCreated value you actually get an error. At first I thought it was the format of the date/time that I was trying to post. So of …
I wrote a couple of days ago about a giveaway that Everybody Go To was doing for a USB Cooler and USB Desk Lamp. Well guess what? They just announced that I won! (w00t) This was a huge surprise as I believe myself to be one of the unluckiest people on the planet as far …
There has been a new trend in toys for the past couple of years that includes various forms of voice recognition software. Voice recognition technology has always, at least in my personal experience, been a hit or miss proposition. It has definitely gotten better in recent years, but how does it perform on a budget? …