Archive for February, 2007

onAirNow Widget Now Available

I’ve written before about a plugin called onAirNow. It’s a WordPress plugin that displays information about the song you are currently listening to on your computer into you blog. In my time using onAirNow I’ve had an opportunity to communicate with it’s writer and develop some of my own functionality to add to the plugin. [...]


Police Reunion at the Grammys

It was nice to see The Police on the Grammys last night. I had anticipated their appearance since I first read about it a few weeks ago. They did a good rendition of “Roxanne”. They fooled around with one of the verses to make it a bridge and it worked for the most part. “Roxanne” [...]


Google Toolbar Button Plugin Updated Again

I just updated the Google Toolbar Button Plugin again. I found a flaw in the way that the plugin outputs the XML file that the toolbar uses to create the button. This flaw caused the toolbar to output an error when someone would click on your link to install your button on their toolbar. This [...]


Livingston Off Base On Vista Upgrade Use

Brian Livingston wrote a very controversial article in his Windows Secrets newsletter last week. The article was titled “Get Vista upgrade, never pay full price” and discusses how you can use an upgrade version of Vista to do a clean install of Microsoft’s new version of Windows. Upgrades are meant to install over Windows XP [...]


Flaw in Windows Vista Speech Recognition?

A story on Engadget discusses how a malicious website can take over your Windows Vista computer with speech recognition enabled. Also, you have to see this video on YouTube.