When you provide computer support for folks in your family or friends, you gain valuable insight to some of the frustrating issues new computer users face that you might take for granted. Recently while working with a new computer user to manage their PC and help them understand what is what, I watched them work with their PC. Here are some observations: 1. How Come My Continue Reading
Archives for January 2008
The Spinning Donut Program
I created this small program in VB.NET 2008 to further explain what The Spinning Donut is. If you run Microsoft Vista, you can download the program here (TSDSetup.msi) and have fun watching TheSpinningDonut. It only displays the rotating wait circle in Vista. Plus, you have to have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed. Both installs will ask you if you want to Continue Reading
Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using EasyPHP
Photo by cinefilo In my first article on Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP, I talked about how to install and start using the freely available xampplite to run WordPress on your local PC's hard drive. In this article I'll quickly walk through setting up another popular package of software that will do the same thing - EasyPHP. Initially, when I first discovered Continue Reading
Linkage for January 18
Apple Introduces MacBook Air by GIZMODO AWeber - A First Impression by Darren Rowse at Problogger Sun acquires MySql - The database engine used by WordPress Leo quits his day gig by Zen Habits Create Printer Friendly Blog Pages with Simple CSS by Amit at Digital Inspiration Get it here - How To Start A Business Blog by Michael Martine Microsoft Excel 2007 Continue Reading
Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP
Why would you want to setup WordPress on your PC? Well there are many reasons and it's pretty easy to do. One reason would be to test different themes out. Another would be to try different plugins. Yet another would be to see if you like this thing called blogging and test your wits at writing some blog posts. And yet another reason to run WordPress on your PC would be Continue Reading