Adding a Link to a PDF Document in WordPress
WordPress is wonderful to create blogs or web sites, but what if you need to add a PDF document? Here's a quick video that shows how you can add a…
Apple Stumbles After Steve Jobs
Today the one-time brilliant marketing department at Apple made a major stumble. What was it you ask? Well, for the past 9 years I've enjoyed using a 17" laptop every…
Airport WiFi Done Right and Wrong
This week I traveled from Portland to San Francisco on Sunday, then returned last night. In the air travel lingo we call Portland by its airport code of PDX and…
Spotting Email Phishing Scams
I receive at least a dozen bogus emails per week that are phishing scams designed by thieves to steal my identity. Here's one that came in today: Here are…
Mac OS X 10.7.4 update, iOS 5.1.1 update
Mac OS X 10.7.4 Wow, two updates from Apple in the same week. I was a little leary about the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update for my MacBook Pro simply…
Frictionless Purchasing
I just attended a Meetup in Portland tonight called Frictionless Purchasing where Stephen Grieco, Senior Account Manager of Struck (Digital Branding and Advertising agency) presented about the concept of frictionless purchasing…
Microsoft Updates Can Help
99.9% of the time that I install yet another Microsoft update I really don't see or notice any change or improvement, because they are just security updates however yesterday my…
Windows 8, My First Impressions
Today I read an article about Nokia, the one-time world leader in cellphones and how they are now rated as "Junk" by the financial world, and it got me interested…
Windows 7 Update – 10 of Them Today
Every day I use both Windows 7 and Mac OS X, side-by-side to get my web development work done, they both are capable, so no bashing going on here. Today…
HTML with No Errors
Last night I attended a Meetup in Portland where the topic was, "How to choose a web developer". One point struck me about how web developers should be detail oriented…