Or, “When Zap2It Disappoints”. I’ve been frustrated by Windows 7 Media Center not finding listings for the broadcast stations in my zip code. I have an antenna and Comcast cable, and would like to be able to record from both. When I program Media Center with my zip code, the broadcast listings show 3 channels [...]
Thanks to some people on the DNN Forums, I discovered that the Windows login error “Login Failed. Please remember that passwords are case sensitive” can also mean “you typed your Windows password correctly, but it’s shorter than the DNN default minimum password length of 7″. The situation was confusing, because some people could log in [...]
Awesome Drop is cool. You want to copy some files to your Android phone, but don’ t have a cable handy. Browse for the Awesome Drop app in the Android Market. Install it an run it. It tells you the URL and code to enter in Chrome on your computer (it uses some HTML 5 [...]
I didn’t realize until this week that you can’t use the Amazon S3 web console to transfer files larger than about 300 MB into S3. In fact, sometimes files less than 300 MB will fail to transfer. CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a free tool that lets you transfer files to and from S3, and it [...]
I’ve been wanting to change some things about how our DotNetNuke Intranet site’s login page works, so here’s my record of what I did. I’m mainly writing this so that I’ll be able to reproduce it when I need to. The default login page is shown at left. I don’t like how the buttons are [...]
I’m still on the Windows 7 Media Center journey that I started describing earlier. With the addition of an IR Blaster I can now get through the channel setup and record from cable. I don’t see the listings again for my antenna, but that will have to wait. The latest issue is that it appeared [...]
[update: JW Player has some nice instructions on how to use the player with CloudFront. But it doesn't clarify the interaction with playlists...] I have some flv videos that I need to make available to our staff, and I don’t want to put them on a public site like YouTube. I’m new at hosting streaming [...]
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products
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Here’s a great video from Jonathan Stark, showing how you can turn a web app into a native iPhone app with the free tool PhoneGap. When combined with jQTouch, the jQuery plugin for mobile web development, you have a complete system for building native apps for various mobile platforms, all from html, css, and javascript. [...]
