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WordPress Upload Size Max
Lately my wife has asked to have me help her with a blog. She wants to do a photoblog. The problem arises where some site have a limit on the file sizes you can upload to post. I have my own hosting so I set up a wordpress blog for her. In doing so, she also realized wordpress has a maximum file size as well. You can alter this setting by including a custom php.ini file of your own for that specific wordpress installation. You can google that to figure out how exactly you want to customize it: wordpress custom php.ini. The tough part for me was figuring out where to put that file. I finally figured it out after more research. The wp-admin directory is where the php.ini file goes. The reason for this is because the browser uploaded executes as you are in this directory to use the uploaded from the admin page.
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“I Want That”
So I recently have been introduced to Kynetx. If you haven’t heard, “This changes everything.”
I would like to paint a picture for you. Think about how the internet now is used. We shop, we find maps, we looks at our friend or family’s blog. Well, think about internet as you want it to be. You have all this information out there that has been seen by you and then some that hasn’t been seen by you. The internet can be the ultimate productivity tool for you. I would love to be able to use the infonet to help me find ways to shop better. I say the word better because everyone is different. Better for a lot of people can mean cheaper, but it also can mean healthier, greener, or even just plain better quality.
My grandpa hates Wal-Mart. In his mind, wal-mart stands for the worst quality product that is the cheapest thing imported from china. All of that may be true, so for him, when he shops online, he only shops from quality stores that he knows he will get a good product. If this information were being used and helped him make shopping decisions online, I guarantee he would have a better experience using the internet.
I am here to tell you this information can be used for your benefit.
I sat down for lunch with a good friend of mine and talked about this very thing. If the internet could be more useful in one way, it would be to give me BETTER information. I say better again because better is based upon the current baseline and ME. My better is different than my wife’s better.
Her better would be next to a recipe, have the total calories and saturated fat for that particular recipe before she prints it off to cook it to see if it meets her criteria. Better would be to only show the ones that are 0 grams of saturated fat. If she has made the goal not to eat any saturated fat, then why even show those recipes that have more than 0? This is called context automation. This is how fulfilling your internet experience can be.
So when I sat down with my friend, he told me about this idea, and I just realized that this has been the frustration of my internet browsing as far back as I can remember. I have to admit the human mind is very good at sifting through information to find what you really want but what if you didn’t have to sift? What if you could hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button every time and it was a direct hit every single time? I think it is possible. What about you?
Kynetx is making this happen.
http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!171.entry
I have started my Graduate program will Keller Graduate School of management. As I have done this, I needed to set up an email account with them. I decided to set up a completely separate account for all of my school work. Keller has emails provided from live.com. Formerly hotmail.com. As this is a microsoft product, it is not the easiest thing to set up for an apple product, say an iphone. So my solution was to use the above page and use those settings for all of my outgoing mail on whatever device, platform I chose. Iphone for one and my macbook for the second. I send all of my mail through those smtp settings but I pull all of my mail down to my devices with a specific gmail account since it supports Imap. Once the gmail has it, my macbook updates every 5 minutes and my phone updates every 15 minutes. Gmail will even support sending through live.com smtp server. That would make it so I don’t have those stingy mail headers saying this message is sent on behalf of so and so. I chose to use live.com smtp because it seems to be faster.
Taken from Microsoft’s website:
http://help.outlook.com/en-us/141/cc875899.aspx#
If the program you’re using isn’t listed above, use the following information to set it up to get your e-mail:
Note:
These instructions include the POP3, IMAP4, and SMTP server names for e-mail accounts accessed online using the outlook.com Web site. If you use a different address to access your e-mail on the Web, such as your organization’s Web address, you need to obtain the correct POP, IMAP, and SMTP server names from someone who manages your e-mail account.
User name Enter your user name (for example, tony@contoso.com).
Password Enter your password.
Authentication Use the same user name and password to authenticate with the incoming or outgoing (sending) e-mail server. Don’t use “Secure Password Authentication”.
POP server Enter the name of your POP server. If you access your e-mail account online using the outlook.com Web site, enter outlook.com.
IMAP server Enter the name of your IMAP server. If you access your e-mail account online using the outlook.com Web site, enter outlook.com.
SMTP server Enter the name of your SMTP server. If you access your e-mail account online using the outlook.com Web site, you can find the SMTP server name by signing in to the Outlook web application at the following address: https://pod51000.outlook.com/owa. After you sign in successfully, the address you entered will resolve to an address that contains the SMTP server name you need to use. For example, if the address resolves to https://pod51005.outlook.com/owa, enter pod51005.outlook.com for the SMTP server name.
Outgoing server (SMTP) port number Most Internet e-mail programs and e-mail servers are set up to send e-mail through port 25. This usually works just fine. But, in some cases, sending mail through port 25 may result in an error, or sending mail may just not work reliably. In those cases, you can try to change the outgoing port setting (also known as the sending port or SMTP port) in your Internet e-mail program from 25 to 587. If you still can’t send mail after trying both ports, contact the person who manages your e-mail account.
SSL and TLS for encryption Select Secure Sockets Layer for incoming POP and IMAP connections. You may need to edit the port numbers in your e-mail program. The correct port setting for SSL using IMAP is 993. The correct port setting for SSL using POP is 995.
For outgoing SMTP connections, select Transport Layer Security encryption.
SSL and TLS are methods to help secure communications between your computer and the e-mail server. Some e-mail programs refer to SSL or TLS as “encryption”.
In most e-mail programs, you need to open an “Advanced” setting or tab to set SSL for POP and IMAP connections and TLS for SMTP connections. Make sure you don’t confuse SSL with “authenticating connections”. Some e-mail programs include a check box for setting up authentication the first time you set up your account.
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Myscribe Bites
I found this blog: http://glitch-chaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/myscribe-equals-fail.html
Had some issues with myscribe. So I went here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?w3zzz2ziytg
This link is where I got the working copy of my scribe to be able to print pdf of the entire book.
you can also download it here.
This link also helped: http://www.vbgore.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8622
I have also tried version 3.7 setup as well – This didn’t work for me either.
here is version 3.6 setup – This did not work for me.
I recently came home for Christmas to visit family. From time to time I will help them out with computer advice. I say advice because it is free and can be subject to interpretation and I can be totally wrong sometimes. So, if in this post, you have suggestions or advice yourself, please don’t hesitate to correct me with comments and such.
We visited relatives and they had several connectivity issues for internet. We hooked up the router to their modem and secured the wireless and then ran powerline plugs to the basement and hooked up the second wireless router for their WII and XBox360 and whatever other Gaming systems had internet connectivity. One thing I found interesting was the different security protocols and compatibility issues. It seems the older wireless cards did not even detect the new WPA2 wireless protocol. When that protocol was active, SSID seemed to disappear for the older 11/B wireless card.
I then proceeded to download updates for the antivirus on the laptop. The connections was very slow. I then noticed some strange behavior with the system. I finally determined there were viruses present on the machine. I ran a scan and no viruses were detected. I figured this was due to the anti-virus being installed after the viruses were already present. I then decided to run a linux live CD with antivirus capabilities to remove them. I chose Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3. It worked like a charm. I loaded the live CD and then mounted the internal hard drive. I updated the virus definitions of ClamAV and ran it on the internal HD removing all infected files. The power of linux and the command line really was super handy and this all ran within an hour on 256 mb of ram is what amazed me.
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are you ready for winter
love the snow, this is last year, 2008.
crash and burn
So I was posed an interesting question this morning in email. My uncle has an ipod and my grandpa has the Ford Sync. So my uncle wanted to show my grandpa how to use the music play part of the sync. I wonder if he can put the music on a thumb drive and stick that right into the usb port on the Sync? This site says that AAC file format works great. Of course the music would need to be DRM free I would imagine. But the only inhibitor would be a password protected usb drive. like the U3 from sandisk i think. http://www.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/FaqManagement/FaqList.aspx?tagId=23#question57 this leads me to believe that a USB drive all by itself with just music files on it would work.
At one time I was told that it actually copies the files from the device to the Hard Drive of the Sync. After looking over the http://Syncmyride.com for a minute, and seeing bluetooth streaming, I think that rules out copying the music over. The Sync would have to have some sort of hard drive though to store the music information so voice commands could control and use those files on the device.
so the meat and potatoes came in this question i found on the Sync FAQ: http://www.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/FaqManagement/FaqList.aspx?tagId=131#question26
this question and the next one are the key to all the answers I had.
For some reason my hostname on my mac keeps changing. I first noticed it when I loaded bootcamp with windows XP. I have been bringing my computer to work and log onto their wireless and I start using synergy. This is when I actually notice that the hostname has changed. The reason I think it has something to do with windows or bootcamp is because the name of the windows machine name is what the hostname changes to. I wonder what is going on here?
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Gmail IMAP Spam
I guess I have a question about gmail imap and spam. So on all the web versions of gmail: mobile, igoogle, and the regular web; There is this little button to report spam. Well, with that being said, i want to take advantage of that particular feature with the imap protocol. I bring in gmail on my iPhone with imap. So I would like to know if I simply move a junk message to that folder with imap, does it actually report that message as spam? Does anyone know the answer to this? A little time on the google help page did not get me the answer. I would appreciate the help on this
subject.
found it:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78759