I like to use Firefox when authoring articles via Wordpress, but I experienced unexplainable slow-downs when typing in the editor. I thought that it might be Firefox’s built-in spell check, or some setting within Wordpress. Come to find out there are a few tweaks you can do to Firefox to restore the speed you once had.
Archive for Category: "Tech Tips"
Manage Electricity Costs During the Holidays
The same holds true with electricity, which are a bit like icebergs: it’s what you DON’T see that can kill you. Most people have no idea exactly how much electricity they use, even when the monthly bill comes.
Multipage Toolkit screwing up WordPress Permalinks FIXED!
OIOpublisher The Multipage Toolkit plugin is invaluable for many bloggers and webmasters, as it visually allows for page separations and page headers within the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. Unfortunately since WordPress 3.1, this great plugin screws up permalinks, if you have them set to use anything other than the default. Fortunately there is a fix for [...]
Symbolic Links: Easily Increase Your NAS’ uPNP Library
Many full-features Linux-based Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices support a plethora of multimedia features. Many have native support as an iTunes server, web server, ftp server, photo share, and Universal Plug n Play (UPNP) server. UPNP allows devices such as the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Squeezebox, and many other streaming clients to play your music [...]
Purchasing a DVD Recorder
DVD (“Digital Versatile Disk”) players and recorders have all but replaced the VCR (“Video Cassette Recorder”) and its associated analogue technology, at the heart of home entertainment systems. A DVD recorder, for example, allows you to record from standard definition, analogue television, as well as digital cable, satellite and “Freeview”, and you can, of course, [...]
Why Ethernet Needs Jumbo Frames
Whether or not Gigabit Ethernet (and beyond) should support frame sizes (i.e. packets) larger than 1500 bytes has been a topic of great debate. With the explosive growth of Gigabit ethernet, the impact of this decision is critically important and will affect Internet performance for years to come. Most of the debate about jumbo frames [...]
Where to Locate Your Personal Server Room
The decision is not clear cut about whether to keep your server room in house or to use a co-location. Some experts suggest that for an increased return on investment, that hosted systems are a better solution. However, if a company is interested in a long term IT growth strategy, it may be better to [...]
Overburning: An Intro to the Dark Side
We’ve all been there. You get that file that is just a little too big for the data disc you wish to back it up to. If it’s too big for a CD-R, you could simply stick it on a DVD-R - although I consider that an immense amount of wasted space. DVD-Rs are cheap now, [...]
Apps purchased on iPhone Won't Sync to iTunes
The issue I’m tackling today is the problem with apps that I’ve purchased directly on my iPhone. These apps do not appear in the Applications library, and there is no apparent way to sync them other than to purchase the applications again.
Linux Firewall Part 2: Determine Your Network Setup
Many firewalls make certain assumptions and use several standard conventions. Understand the standard terminologies and you’ll have an easier time when setting up your firewall. Nearly every firewall’s first level of protection is NAT, or Network Address Translation. This means that an external address is “translated” from external to internal addresses, so the public never has [...]
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