Firefox 3 Released!

June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Downloads

Firefox 3 has finally been released today. If you have an older version upgrade now. If you still aren’t using Firefox as your web browser, why the heck not?

SpreadFirefox.com is trying to make the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period, so why not be part of that? Email your friends and family and tell them to download Firefox as well!

Still not convinced about Firefox? Tons of people have proclaimed the advantages of Firefox over browsers like Internet Explorer. Check out these links to find out what’s new about Firefox 3 and why you should switch if you haven’t already:

• Top 10 Firefox 3 features
• Power user’s guide to Firefox 3
• Why you should switch to Firefox
• Why upgrade to Firefox?
• Why you should dump Internet Explorer
• ConvinceMe - Firefox vs. Internet Explorer

Alternate links:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://download.mozilla.org

Inserting Images into WordPress 2.5

May 27, 2008 | Filed under: Tutorials

There are two ways to insert an image in to WordPress now. One is to upload an image from your hard drive. The other is to link to an image living on a server somewhere else (ie: flickr, a photo gallery, snapfish, a server, etc.) Here steps for each method.

Adding an image from your hard drive in to a page or post:

Step 1. Start a new post (or page) as usual Write > Post/Page.

Step 2. Go to the “Add Media” area and select the image button.

Step 3. Click on “Browse” to add an image from your computer.

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Notice to Hosting Customers - Server Issues

May 23, 2008 | Filed under: News

UPDATE: The server is back up!

The data center where the server is hosted is currently having issues, which is why the server is down. It is being worked on and should be back up soon. I’ll update here again if there’s more news.

Here’s the official update:

At approximately 8 A.M. EST a segment of our data center experienced a power outage. Shortly after that we realized the city had experienced a power outage as well which attributed to the loss we saw in the NOC. We immediately went into generator power and we are still currently running on generator.

What happens when there is power loss is that we immediately go into UPS for a few minutes meanwhile the generator powers up. The UPS ensures no service disruption meanwhile the generator turns on. This happened normally but approximately 40% of the servers tripped during this process. Power loss and going into UPS followed by generator power has happened a few times in the past. But we have never experienced what has happened today - the power surge during this outage was extremely high.

We are meeting with our electrical engineers as we speak to analyze the situation to learn exactly what happened. We still have the data center running on generator as the power in the city could still be unstable and we do not want to risk any further outages. As many of you know these kind of issues do not happen often and we are taking this incident very seriously. The data center is equipped with a high level of UPS and generators are in place to ensure maximum uptime. We apologize for the inconveniences as we know this has effected a lot of you and your clients. We will ensure we find out in detail what happened, resolve it completely and put measures in place so it doesn’t repeat again.

Adding ShareThis plugin to Advanced Typepad Templates

May 6, 2008 | Filed under: Tutorials

After looking for some answers and being very unsatisfied with the amount of information out there, I decided to share this.

What you need

1. You’ll need advanced template access in Typepad.
2. A Share This script for your registered blog.
3. Some HTML knowledge.

Basics

The Typepad foundation uses Moveable Type tags. You’ll see a tag called < MT Entries > that surrounds your posts. These tags are what list the posts on the page. There is an tag to close the post area. You’ll need to use these tags to place the ShareThis script in each post.

If you look in your Main Index Advanced Template, you will see a tag < $MTWeblogIncludeModule module=”entry-list-sticky”$ >. This is where your < MT Entries > ……. < /MT Entries > tag actually lives on the front page. In other pages (Individual, Date Archive, etc) we’ll be modifying a similar, but slightly different, entry list module. So it’s not going to be as obvious about where to place the script. We’ll need to do a teeny tiny hack to get it to display at each post.

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