I just learned the coolest thing: You can send text messages to Appalachian Wireless customers using plain ol’ email. The email address to send the text to is: <tenDigitPhoneNumber>@awsms.com So,… Read More »Sending a Text Message to an Appalachian Wireless Customer Through Email
Today, I found 150 really awesome free vector icons that were in AI format. The problem was, they were in one file on the same layer! The icons were laid… Read More »Use Points as Your Measurement When You Create Web Slices from Guides in Illustrator CS 5
The other day, I was trying to print some Excel 2007 worksheets that had my data at the top of the sheet followed by charts made from the data below.… Read More »Fix for Excel 2007 Not Printing Embedded Chart Titles
I used Universal USB Installer to put a copy of Debian 6 on an old 2GB flash drive so I could install it on my Asus Eee PC 1015PE netbook.… Read More »Installing Debian 6 on an Asus Eee PC 1015PE from a USB Flash Drive
It turns out that some time ago, Microsoft released a free command line utility called the File Checksum Integrity Verifier for generating MD5 and SHA1 checksums. Best of all, it’s… Read More »Free Utility to Generate MD5 and SHA1 Checksums in Windows XP/Vista/7/8
I got up bright and early this morning to update my Android SDKs (during HughesNet’s all-you-can-eat bandwidth time between 2am-7am). Much to my dismay, the Android Tools wouldn’t update from… Read More »What to do if you can’t update your Android SDK Tools because “folder failed to be renamed or moved”
I love my Kindle Fire, with one big exception: It does not support proxy servers. I use my fire in environments all the time (i.e. public schools) that require proxy… Read More »Use Opera Mobile to Add Proxy Supported Web Browsing to a Kindle Fire without Having to Jailbreak
I work with file paths a lot, since I email co-workers locations to stuff on our file servers. And even though I try to avoid it, sometimes it’s absolutely necessary… Read More »Easy Way to Copy a File Path in Windows Vista and Windows 7
If you have migrated your WordPress blog from another blogging platform but the post slugs weren’t generated, you can my Generate Post Slugs Plugin to have the slugs generated from… Read More »WordPress Plugin to Generate Post Slugs
The Fire has one thing that an iPad has never had: A comfortable price. I’m not the first person to posit this, but I think Amazon’s new Kindle Fire is… Read More »For $200, the Kindle Fire should scare Apple (and delight most everyone else who doesn’t have an iPad)