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Yes, its a cutsie name, but The Bug Genie is a PHP bug tracking system that is the opposite of Trac in the best possible ways. First of all you create a MySQL database and copy The Bug Genie files to your web server. Then you go to your website, where The Web Genie greets you [...]

I have just spent many hours of my life I will never get back trying to get the Trac bug tracking software set up. This software is truly junk. It’s not just that I can’t get it work, it’s that it is written as best it can to make users not be able to use it. [...]

Somehing scary happened with my Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts. I accidentally went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and checked “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar” Don’t do it! Once you turn it on, there’s no getting rid of it. It’s a bug, but unselecting the check box will no do it. At some point I [...]

Well, even though my Apache issues with Snow Leopard were a bit frustrating, Snow Leopard has redeemed itself. First of all, it is noticeably faster. But second, printing and scanning is awesome. When I bought a MacBook a while ago, I got an HP C4580 printer/scanner for free. I didn’t really need a printer, but the [...]

Now, in this case it isn’t really Apple’s fault. It’s sort of everyone’s fault. There’s a reason even complex things need to be simplified and it’s to avoid the situation I’m in right now. After installing Snow Leopard on my other machine and thinking I found all the kinks my MacBook still won’t connect to a [...]

I am using the Apache vhosts feature to run multiple websites on my machine, many of which are running WordPress and therefore also using MySQL. The Snow Leopard installation was almost as disastrous as it could be for this setup. Pre Snow Leopard Installation Warning Be sure to back up your /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file before you install Snow Leopard. It [...]

I know that while it will be nice, Snow Leopard probably won’t be that big of a deal. However, I just can’t wait. I’m practically counting the hours until it’s released. I feel a little nervous like there’s something I’m supposed to be doing. And I know what it is. Buying and installing Snow Leopard! I kind [...]

Intuit Website Creator 2009 is very popular on Amazon right now. I think this is for two reasons. One is that it is a sort of iWeb (part of iLife on the Mac) for the PC. It allows people to create websites without having to anything about HTML or CSS. The other reason is that, [...]

Firefox has released a security update. Firefox isn’t my primary browser, that’s Safari, so sometimes I feel like there’s a security update available every time I open Firefox or Opera. Of course I test on them, though. I like that there are multiple browsers now, it’s a much healthier community. And they’re all better than Internet [...]