Posts by Lynette Chandler
How To Move WordPress From Development To Live Site
A friend recently built her clients’ new WordPress site in a sub-folder so the old site would remain functional while they worked on the new one. Now that she’s ready to go live, she wasn’t sure how to move the new site to the main domain and asked if I would be available. I told…
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Password Protect External Hard Drive – Think Again
If you have one of those neat little portable drives hundreds of Gigabytes large, it’s only natural you begin to worry about losing it and having others get their hands on your data. So… is there a way to password protect your external hard drive? You can encrypt the drive and require a password to…
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Quickly Grab Color Codes Using Rainbow For Firefox
When I upgraded from Firefox from version 3 to 4 and now Firefox 5, I lost ColorZilla – an essential tool I rely on everyday to do my job. That was beyond disappointing. It is something I just couldn’t function well without. That and a few others things initially forced me to downgrade back to…
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The App That Got Me Reading RSS Subscriptions Again
This is embarrassing. As an early adopter of RSS both as a reader and a publisher, I lost interest in keeping up with my RSS subscriptions years ago. I still keep Google Reader ‘stocked’ and promise myself to read it regularly but the reality is, if I drop in there once every 6 months, I’m doing…
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Did Google Make It Easier To Report Content Thieves?
One of the things that sticks in my craw is finding my content on somebody else’s site because they were too lazy and un-original to write their own content and prefer to scrape from my RSS feed without my permission. Some of them are mild taking only snippets with a read further link. Still not…
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