Ok im fed up with seeing the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now” message on my wordpress dashboard so im going to take the plunge and upgrade. Lets hope that the blog doesnt get as messed up by this version as the 2.5 upgrade.
Im logged into dreamhost and have button the ready to click upgrade… its 10:38 AM ill post up with the damages if any once the upgrade is done!
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Hey guys, sorry for the lack of posts i have been slacking off :-s (spending tooo much time playing with my iphone)
Anyway thanks to the £100 pound off deal @ O2 i bagged my apple iphone for £169.
Since i have had it i have dones alot of searches and found quite a few cool “mobile” sites with apps on which i will share with you over the coming weeks.
Firstly appmarks.com. Its thanks to a youtube video by Chris Pirillio i found this site. Chris talks about it and other reasons why you SHOULDNT jail brake your iphone (google iphone unlock for info on this).
Its a greate little customisable site desiged to look like the home screen on your iphone. You can add remove and edit apps on the page. There is a directory of apps and you can also submit your own!
Anyway check it out @ http://appmarks.com on your iphone or goto http://www.appmarks.com on your pc to find out more info, check out their blog and developer pages. Alternativly have a look at the demo below!
I have also fallen foul as have many to the Latest Wordpress Upgrade, Ver 2.5.
I “One Click” installed the upgrade on the dreamhost control panel and boom 5ish mins later received an email saying upgrade complete. Checked the blog (with fear the theme was screwed as heard rumors elsewhere about 2.5 doing weird things) and all was fine! FEW…. or so i thought..
I went to login to have a look at the “New Improved” admin interface to find that i couldnt… I received…..
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /home/.zig/buzzinh/geekfreak.co.uk/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31
I then pooed myself then got to looking for some help… and found this site / post written by a guy called Tom Rafety.
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-wp_register_sidebar_widget-in/
I followed the steps and managed to get into the admin interface for Wordpress 2.5. But i am still getting weird code above the header and not being fluent in PHP like i would like to be i have few options…Look for a Wordpress 2.5 version of K2 (will later) or change the theme… which i don’t want to do!
If anyone has any ideas / knowlege of php send me an email. buzzinh [at] geekfreak dot co dot uk
Turn on and leave on your bluethooth and buy a 100m bluetooth dongle for your eee!!! I used it to locate my girlfriends phone at her college.
She called me @ 5:40 pm well after everyone had left college saying she could not find her phone. I went to her’s looked there in her car using the eee constanly scanning on blue tooth for her phone….
We went for a drive back to her college and for some reason the main doors were still open. We went inside and walked towards the last place she had it whilst i was still scaning on my eee. We got the the room it was in darkness and locked and my eee had put its self to sleep…. we turned around and someone was walking towards us… looked like a care taker so whe asked him if we could have alook in the room to see if it was in there… i woke up my eee and he let us in.. hit scan and glanced away for a second to look to see if her phone was on the floor…. it wasnt that i could see then i glanced down at the eee and here phone bluetooth name was on the screen next to mine! She ran over to a chair with an A3 piece of paper on it, lifted the paper and there was her phone!
Moral of this storey…. attach your phone to you! Never forget the feeling of loosing it and you will take more care of it…. BUY a bluetooth dongle for your eee!!!
This is the one i have… works best with XP… plug it in XP picks it up and off you go… no drivers or software needed you can just use built in XP software.
**UPDATE**
Ill be online from 7 PM GMT tonight. Will have my eee pc online streaming me as well as my main pc (Acer T180) streaming with my Xbox 360 live cam all on ustream.tv. Hit up http://live.geekfreak.co.uk/ for both live streams and chat.
Ok guys for some reason… im getting 50-60 spam comments each day and im fed up with trying to delete them every day so im closing comments.
Only registered users will be able to post and i would hope that if you read this blog on a regular basis you will register.
In other news i am intending to try and set a day where ill be online for a couple of hours to answer questions and talk about cool stuff. I will be posting my live link on twitter (www.twitter.com/buzzinh) and also posting a brief message at the top of my blog.
As to the day i will do this im not sure… im hoping to do this on tuesday night @ 7pm GMT
So keep your eyes on blog.geekfreak.co.uk for more info!
Looks like new version is coming v soon! with 12gb SSD and a lovely 8.9″ TFT display (1024×600 ) !
The EEEPC 900 will also feature 1gb of ram to help with XP. There is also an larger touch pad!
This model should be launched mid 2008.
Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
Well i have had my eee pc now for 2 weeks….i can’t be without it!
Last friday we were flashing firmware on switches where i work and even though we didnt use it to do this (we used a work laptop) it would have been ideal! You could just carry it up to the Cabinet where the switch it and work right there…. Yes most switches are software / web managed but sometimes (in our case because we have stacked netgear gig switches in our cabs we have to goto the cab physicaly!
Anyway my point is that i think every techi should have access to one of these because im sure there is atleast one thing in the eee pc’s neat little bundle that somone could find of use!
I love mine and my advice to anyone who is / has been thinking about getting one… PART WITH YOUR CASH !!! Its worth it (Provided you are preapaired to put xp on…) The eee xandros distro is nice, very tidy and VERY user friendly! But I need xp for what i do with work and with streaming video + audio stuff i use at home! Honestly for the little money it is its worth every penny!
BurnCDCC is a great little free app that you can use for burning iso images of anything from Linux to a backed up driver cd.
Download here BurnCDCC
You can place this in your portableapps menu on your usb thumb drive, or add it to your pstart menu or even just place on your desktop use once and then delete it.
When you run BurnCDCC you need to:
Choose the image iso file, read verify and SAO should be un-ticked and Finalise and eject cd should be ticked.
make sure your cd writer is selected put in the blank cd, and hit start!
Simple as that!
YAY… i finaly received my Asus eeepc 701 4gb! I will be doing a full “howto” on setting up and also one for installing windows! check back soon!
***Update*** Apparently Windows Vista SP1 will have a bug fix for this problem… I wait with baited breath (cheers dan)
I have this weird problem with windows mediaplayer on Vista home premium….. Sometime i will listen to a mp3 file and when i hit X to close it will stop, other times it won’t! The Music just keeps on playing! 
So then i have to go through the tedious task of opening task manager and then ending the process… This happened to me today and i thought hang on could i use a desktop shortcut, a batch file and sysinternals - pskill to just double click and kill it as a temp measure until there is a proper cure!?
So i got to work and made this. PSKillWMP
Install it then drag the shortcut to your desktop. Next time you close Windows Media Player 11 and it carrys on playing just double click and boom… wmplayer.exe process terminated!!!
Note: For vista and wmplayer 11. I expect you could extract files and have a play yourself… but the installer is taylored to Vista Home Premium and WMP11. If you want me to make an xp installer leave a comment with you email address and ill make you one.
