Apple

AT&T iPhone MMS

Imagine what service will be like on 9/25 as suddenly millions of iPhones go live with a feature every other cell carrier has had for years. You think you have problems with calls dropped regularly? Our anticipation is something like molasses powered 3G that makes the Edge Network look lightning fast, along with every other [...]


Snow Leopard First Impressions

So I finally decided to backup one of my iMacs and proceed with a clean install of Snow Leopard (I’ve heavily used the box for Development and Testing, so it needed to be wiped). Here are some of my initial thoughts on the install process:

I don’t like the fact that the “Erase and Install” and [...]


DHCP Lease…..Whooops!

So, if you’re like me and you love to mess around with all kinds of computer related things, you may have run into this scenario before:
You find some cool piece of software, and you spend a week or so fiddling around with it, but then you decide you like it, and later decide to use [...]


Category Mod for WP Loop

On several different occasions I’ve found the need to modify the WP Loop to produce a desired effect….such as  only retrieving posts from a certain category. You can find many examples of how to do this by simply doing a Google search. The most common mod I’ve found is this:

<?php query_posts(’category_name=special_cat&showposts=10′); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<!– Do [...]


Aqua Connect Terminal Server

Any Sys Admin over a Windows Terminal Server would be able to tell you how great a Terminal Services (TS) environment can be regarding Application Management, OS patches, Group Policy, etc. Having served suitable time as such, I can personally attest to the increased efficiency of centralized management. You need to install Photoshop for 50 users, install [...]