For my daily computing activities, my MacBook does an excellent job. With the 250 GB hard drive and extra 2 GB RAM, it has enough power for me to edit websites, make movies, and play the occasional game. But every once in a while I find that I need more power, and I start to [...]

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When the iPhone arrived on the scene in 2007, it brought with it the ability to pinpoint your location to a fairly small area. This meant that if you were looking for, say, a local fish and chips restaurant, the iPhone would provide the closest matches. It did this by using the same techique as [...]

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If you run a home server, use file sharing on your network or use BitTorrent, you’ll know how inconvenient a dynamic IP address can be. Rather than memorizing a single address for each computer, you need to constantly look up each system. The solution is to set up your router to use static IP addresses. [...]

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UPDATE: This also works with WP 2.7.1. If editing wp-db.php is too daunting, you can download my version, which will work as long as the prefix of your main blog is wp_. While developing new themes for the blog, I needed a place to preview a theme that includes all the current posts, comments and [...]

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I’m working on a revamp to the blog, and in my search for excellence I was unable to find a widget to display a link to the most popular posts according to the number of comments — something I want to add to “wesg 2.0″. After finding an excellent tutorial on creating WP widget admin [...]

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