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Custom WordPress login and registration page

My client wanted to have extra forms on their user registration page on their WordPress site so they could capture more information about the visitors who signed up for their website. In the past I had used a plugin called Register Plus Redux, but unfortunately it’s not supported any more. Because of the popularity of […]

How McDonalds ripped me off for Christmas

My wife bought me a $25 gift card from McDonalds for Christmas. When I tried to use it the day after Christmas for a coffee they told me it had a $0 balance. When I looked it up online, it activated on Dec 20th with $5 & was used up on the 23rd (My wife […]

Holiday gifts for shut-ins with MS

My wife Nancy is on the board of the National MS Society WPa chapter. She is also someone who lives with this disease. As the holiday season approaches, the local MS chapter is kicking-off their Annual Holiday Gift Program! Each year the NMSS coordinates this program to provide gifts to people living with MS who […]

NetTalk is a failed experiment

I wrote a while back about trying the NetTalk device for my home phone. At first I thought it was working well and wrote a good review, but more and more people that I spoke to were telling me that they had a hard time hearing me. I discovered WiFi didn’t work well in either […]

Don’t plug in that Flash Drive

I’m usually not the kind of alarmist that tells you there is this horrible new malware out there that will eat your children if you open this attachment, but…. I am reading more and more about folks finding flash drives, plugging them in and getting bad stuff in their machines from them. Sometimes it’s done […]

Everyone wants to optimize their website

People ask me all the time what the best way to “Optimize” their website. To be found by the search engines. When I think of the word “optimize”, I don’t think of the search engines, I think of my human visitors. What’s the best and easiest way for them to get what they want. This […]

Non sharable video embeds

A customer of mine wants to have a video site for lessons. Video is in a state of flux these days. Up until recently you could just embed a Flash stream. Then, Apple decided not to support Flash and now your iThingy won’t play it. It’s not such a bad thing. The web is much […]

NetTalk porting

I’ve been writing about my new NetTalk box for local and long distance calls. As I mentioned I got the box and it worked well, so I put it away and waited for them to port over my existing phone number to my NetTalk box (for free). Yesterday was the day and about 10PM my […]

netTALK DUO WiFi, so far so good

Last week I wrote about the MagicJack and the poor experience that I had with it. While researching a way online to get it to work I found a competitor called netTALK. I sent back the MagicJack and ordered the netTALK DUO WiFi. Unlike the MagicJack the netTALK setup was a breeze. The box arrived […]

Not too keen on MagicJack

I am expecting my beta invitation from Republic Wireless very soon. In case you don’t know Republic is a new cell phone company. They want to pass off most of your wireless services to WiFi. I think that’s a great idea and I’m mostly close to a WiFi signal when I’m using my phone. In […]

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