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well it finally happened after what seems like a rather long wait, WordPress 2.5 with its completely re-designed admin system is hot off the presses and ready to install.  I have done the upgrade on a handful of blogs and sites so far and it’s been seamless.  I am very impressed with the new admin – all in all it’s taken a product that I think is great and only made it better.

Great Job!

If you’re one of the lucky growing number of Mac owners out there you can now send free SMS text from your Mac. There has long been a widget allowing Mac users to send sms text cleverly named SMS Mac the problem with this application (as well as Skype and others) is that you must purchase credits that are deducted every time you send a text message. The rates are right around $.10 each which makes it no cheaper (and often more expensive) to send from your Mac than it is to send from your mobile phone. Using these “solutions” you gain nothing, other than the ease of sending with a full keyboard.

I was talking with another geek friend today and we (mostly he) figured out how to send free SMS messages using Adium.

With Adium open go to File -> New Chat in the window that opens, type “+1″ (the country code – if you’re in the US) then the 10 digit phone number so +13334445555 then type your message. Once you’ve successfully sent a message your new “buddy” (phone number) will be displayed on your Adium friend’s screen. From here you can CTRL -> Click and change the number to the person’s name ie “Steve Cell”.

Hope this helps some of you.  Leave me a note if it does.

So i installed WordPress 2.5 release candidate 1 on this site so that i can familiarize myself with the new features, and I have to say, my first reaction is WOW!  The new admin is a much cleaner look and feel.  The new functionality is amazing.  There is integrated support for video, all I can say is I can’t wait until this is available as a full release.  It’s going to knock people’s socks off!

Way to go WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/25-sneak-peek/

sounds cool – i can hardly wait.

wow this brewery is awesome…i highly recommend going out and getting some http://www.ommegang.com

At Invisible Window we have been hosting our client sites in addition to our own with Media Temple for quite some time. Media Temple’s service and support has been top-notch. There are a few things that we’ve had to figure out along the way and I hope that these links help someone else out there.

1. Disable root ssh access: instructions for disabling the root user and allowing another user to assume the root users permissions. This adds a layer of security requiring an additional username and password to be entered before gaining root user privileges.
   Media Temple Knowledge Base Article
2. Performance Tuning: This article summarizes ways to optimize your (dv) to run with less memory / resources, increase stability, and to ensure higher availability under heavier loads.
   Media Temple Knowledge Base Article
3. Raise Courier-IMAP Connections: Seeing this message when accessing your email? “Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server.”By default, Plesk and the Courier-IMAP e-mail server drastically limit the number of inbound connections to prevent users from opening up too many concurrent sessions. Unfortunately, this restriction can impact legitimate users who have multiple computers connecting to the Courier-IMAP server.
   Media Temple Knowledge Base Article

I have absolutely no idea what this means. No more trash?  Less trash?  Two o’s, maybe it’s got nothing to do with trash.  No moore signs?  People please be more (moore?) specific with your requests.

by George it works…now i just need to figure out how to upload a photo…anyone know?

i love this commercial