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I’ve had trouble lately with the voicemail “play” button not working in Google’s mobile web app for Google Voice.  Nor would it work from the native iPhone mail app or the Gmail web app.  Found the problem though. (continue reading…)

Earlier this month I described how to make an image of a drive in a new computer using Clonezilla.  Today, I reversed the process and restored that image onto a new drive.  This thing looks so dangerous, it might eat children. (continue reading…)

There’s a glitch in RocketDock that only shows itself in Windows 7 where stack docklets lose their settings when the computer is restarted.  The problem is related to Win7 security and is easily fixed.  Here’s how. (continue reading…)

I took the plunge and updated to Thunderbird 3  now that the Lightning Calendar (1.0b1) has been updated to work with it.  There are a few differences, both positive and negative, in the change. (continue reading…)

In a previous post, I described how to make custom iPhone and iTouch icons for web pages you host yourself.  That procedure couldn’t be done for web pages you didn’t control, such as a Google Spreadsheet.  Here’s an option for creating custom icons for that sort of situation as well. (continue reading…)

Lightboxed images on a website are those where when you click on a thumbnail image, they expand into a larger image, usually with a semi-transparent background so you can still see the page behind it.  The Lightbox 2 plugins work well and are popular, but don’t have the ability to scale or resize the image if it’s larger than the available screen size, which means that high res digital photos may require scrolling to get to their close or navigation buttons. (continue reading…)

LastPass is a secure online password vault that keeps track of all your various passwords automatically.  A vulnerability of LastPass and other similar programs has been from keyloggers and screen capture programs that could capture its single master password to allow a hacker access to all the other passwords.  For some time, LastPass has offered paying users what they refer to as multi-factor authentication systems which overcome these potential breaches.  They are now providing non-paying users the benefit of multi-factor authorization with their Grid system. (continue reading…)

Awhile back, I bought two Western Digital Mybook World Edition 1TB network drives.  The first lasted just over a year before it died.  The second one went today, taking down my office backup.  There’s a redundant backup, so I wasn’t really hurt by the failure but at least this time I was able to use some linux knowledge to recover all the data on it. (continue reading…)

The Daily Top 10 Posts plugin (v0.7) for Wordpress has a bug in it where it ignores its timezone setting, thus it starts counting a new day at the wrong time.  Its a simple fix that requires editing one line. (continue reading…)

Short URLs, those randomized web addresses used for space savings and common in Twitter posts, are a big convenience to the Twitter poster because they leave more characters available for the post itself. But where are you going to find yourself after clicking that short URL? Maybe its a Myspace page you have no interest in, or a link to some shady overseas site.  If you want to see where you’re going before you click, try the Long URLs Please add-on for Firefox. (continue reading…)