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  • Anagram Solver

    Calvin wants to solve anagrams. There are lots of great programs out there, but not much source. “Gtoal.com”:http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/anagrams.html has a good list of source code that is out there, but its hard to find a simple program. “Gtanag.mai”:http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/anagrams/gtanag.mai is perhaps the simplest program that is a C program. I’m sure you could use it in…

  • Zenphoto

    OK, finally flopped Nextgen Gallery for ZenPhoto even though I can’t get the widget to work. But, let’s try integration. First, you should see a “Photos”:https://richtong.net/zenphoto button now at the top. You do need a password to see anything though 🙂 But to get it to actually integrate into the blog is the trick. First…

  • WordPress Widgets

    Quick review of widgets and WordPress. BTW, does anyone think the WordPress 2.5 is confusing compared with 2.3? sticking the really important plugins and settings to the right to be confusing and there are so many entries under Manage it makes no sense to me. h2. Thumbs up: * WordPress Auto Update. Hey every program…

  • Rainy Maui

    What to do on a “rainy”:http://www.hawaiiweathertoday.com/?page_id=20 day in Maui, well thank goodness for the Internet: “Hawaii Show Time”:http://www.hawaiishowtime.com/Movies/index.asp?Isle=2. 10,000 BC looks good as does Nim’s Island. 1:30 and 1:45 shows or Horton hears a Who at 3:45, but the wind is picking up and “Beaufort scale”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale#The_modern_scale is 4-5. Snorkeling is lousy with the rain.

  • WordPress Automatic Upgrade

    Wow, this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/ is just so cool. Upgrades WordPress automatically. I had 2.3 and wanted to get to 2.5 and it just did it! It also upgrades automatically the plug ins that I have. WordPress does use lots and lots of plugins so this is really convenient. Should really be a part of WordPress IMHO

  • Twitter is cool…

    I don’t quite get where you are, but “http://twitter.com/richtong”:http://twitter.com/richtong is something I’ve started to use. It is great for two things, in case someone really wants to know where you are and doesn’t want to call I guess, but the really great thing is that with twitter IM and twitter texting, I can send URLs…

  • Fotki vs. Zenphoto vs. Nextgen Gallery

    I’ve been trying to figure out for quite a while what the best photo gallery is. Started with Picasa and some of the other ones, but they don’t allow original photos to be uploaded and have size limits. Last year, found “fotki.com”:http://fotki.com which is $30 per year and allows unlimited storage and also has password…

  • Canon Rebel XT 350D will not sync with MacBook

    I’ve had lots of problems with getting my Canon Rebel to work with my MacBook Air. First, the Compact Flash reader that I have works fine with Windows, but it was a cheap one from Targus and just refused to work with the MacBook Air. Then, after installing Canon’s software (why can’t the camera just…

  • Time Machine as a Windows file server

    Well, if you buy a Time Capsule, it works easily as an Apple network disk, but what about as a file server for Windows machines. This is a bit tricky, because of mapping, but basically, if you set it up to. By the way a *big limitation is that the Time Capsule name must be…

  • MacBook Air SuperDrive jam

    Hey watch out, I haven’t used the superdrive much, but when I left a DVD in there and on the airplane tried to play it, the DVD just grinded and stuck. I shook it like crazy, but it wasn’t till I got home that the drive seemed to actually start. Really recommend that you don’t…