The iPhone comes with probably the best email application on a mobile device. The problem is that if I read and delete an email on the iPhone, when I get to my laptop I need to do it all over again because my email uses the POP email protocol. And this is cramping my style. [...]
Here’s the proof of my new acquisition. I waited in line for an hour at a local AT&T store only to realize their sense of speed is not the same as Apple’s. So I broke off the line and headed out to the Apple Store in SOHO were it took only 10 minutes to go [...]
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I’m flying out tomorrow to San Francisco to speak at Apple’s WWDC conference. My session is titled Designing and Extending the Mac OS X Blog Experience and will be on Friday. I will be covering WordPress extensively, it should be fun. If you are at this year’s WWDC, please let me know, I would love to [...]
A year ago I did a tutorial on how to resolve the pesky outgoing mail issues that come up when traveling with a laptop. The problem comes from the fact that many ISPs do not allow you to send email unless you use their SMTP server. This is fine if your computer does not leave [...]
Keeping my iTunes music library properly tagged and with it’s corresponding album covers is not only necessary to me, it is borderline obsession. Of course, if I was to buy all my music from iTunes then I wouldn’t have this problem, since it all comes prepackaged with the track’s info and album cover. But I [...]
This is a quick tutorial on how to have WordPress show a custom error page when there’s a database connection error. This tutorial covers WordPress 2.0.1.
I got a frantic call from my wife who’s visiting my sister in NY. It seems her iBook has that forever spinning wheel we’ve all had to face at some point or another. After talking to her, I deducted it was a corrupt image in her iPhoto library. Probably from her last import. It’s happened [...]
12 years ago I acquired this old Macintosh from Otis, the Art School I was attending to at the time. I used to work part time at the computer lab there and this little machine was sitting in a closet collecting dust until I asked to take it home. Since then I have never been [...]