Phases 1 and 2 of the ‘big changes’ are already or nearly completed. Earlier this week, we did move over the Wiki, the main site, The Email Mafiia blog and sites and a handful of other sites to the new sever. Surprisingly, the migration went a lot smoother than I was expecting. Did some have minor issues with the Wiki, but was able to get those resolved very quickly. As for the main site, just have a little more tweaking and adjusting to do before we launch the new main site. So far, I am very impressed with the flexibility…
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I’ve been wanting to make the move to the self hosted WordPress for a while now. Unfortunately, the hosting service which is included in my reseller package at my current provider is not optimized to handle WordPress. This was kind the reason I was keeping the package with them was the hosting and some other ‘freebies’ I was getting. Towards the end of last year I noticed I really wasn’t using these free items anymore. I happened to get a hold of a very good discount which allowed me to get a new 3-years hosting package for less than I…
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 250,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 11 days for that many people to see it. In 2010, there were 174 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1312 posts. The…
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.17 – February 8th Firefox 3.6.14 – February 8th Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – TBA Firefox 4.0 – TBA
Happy New Year’s Eve! It is that time again, time for our annual look back at the Firefox releases of this year. In 2010 we saw with retirement of the Firefox 3.0 branch which had been active since the first Alpha release back in December 2006. Development continued on the Firefox 3.5 branch which Mozilla still warns ‘will be maintained with security and stability updates until August 2010’ even though there has been several releases since and more planned in 2011. In early 2010, the final release candidates along with the opening release of Firefox 3.6 in January. Finally, the…
Just Released Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 – December 21, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 – Early January, 2011 Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – January 2011 Firefox 4.0 – Early 2011
After more delays, Mozilla has released the eighth beta for Firefox 4.0 on December 21st. This is a regular beta release and is being made available for testing purposes only. New stuff in this Beta 8 release: The Firefox Sync setup experience has been greatly improved across desktop and mobile devices Speed, functionality, and compatibility improvements to WebGL Additional polish for the Firefox Add-ons Manager See the complete changelist from the previous beta For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 Beta 8. The next planned release is the Beta 9.
Just Released None Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 – December 21, 2010 Future Release Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 – TBA Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 – Early January, 2011 Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate 1 – January 2011 Firefox 4.0 – Early 2011
It has been a long while since we’ve done an extension review. I came across the Photobucket Uploader Extension a week or two ago while I was in my Photobucket account. I use Photobucket for both management and storage of images I use on the three blogs (FF Extension Guru, Email Mafia and El Guru’s) and their associated websites. I just find it easier to work with images this way, especially when incorporating them into the WordPress environments (WordPress.com & WordPress.org/self-hosted). This extension is a major time saver. Once installed and link to your Photobucket account, simply right-click on any…
In the beginning of November after being in the same location for over 7-years I moved to a different part of the community. I am further east and north now with a view to the south and west from my balcony. Here a couple photos of this evening’s sunset.