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Its fairly easy to merge Microsoft Excel fields together but you have to be aware of formulas and then with how to pull that data out of the formula to save it on its own. I used this to merge title, first name, and last name together. Follow the directions below and you should have…
Use lftp for Linux command line FTP with explicit TLS/SSL. I was still having trouble though with lftp and implicit TLS/SSL. Below is the command to use lftp to connect to an FTP server that requires an explicit TLS/SSL. Command: lftp -du user,password ftp.example.com You should see the below after connecting. Type ls to see…
There are a bunch of WordPress plugins that claim to make your blog mobile friendly but after looking through a couple of them the WP-PDA plugin is the best. This plugin support multiple themes such as an iPhone theme and a PDA theme. The cool thing about this is the iPhone and Touch display things…
It is fairly easy to add Google Adsense ads to the WP-PDA plugin for WordPress. If you follow the easy steps below you will have Google ads showing up in no time with WP-PDA. You will be required to edit the source code for the WP-PDA WordPress plugin so make sure to back things up…
I had to rebuild a few of these notebooks over the past few weeks and from my experience tearing down a notebook, especially an ultracompact notebook, can sometimes be a pain. I came across this site in my research and found some very detailed teardown guides, complete with technical diagrams. This should be a help…
Below I will provide instructions on how to update the My Location setting for both an IPhone and an iPod Touch and while the iPod Touch requires a bit more work both are fairly simple considering all of the functionality that will be available to you again through the My Location setting.
When I first started researching this it appeared the iPhone and iPod Touch might not be able to run multiple processes, but I was starting to wonder how in the world could that be. This does not appear to be the case though and instead it appears that Apple has set forth some fairly strict…
Nagios is a great solution for monitoring hosts, networks, and services on one or more networks. Nagios will monitor as many services as needed per device and then will send an alarm if one or more services has an issue. By default Nagios monitors a bunch of services such as ICMP, HTTP, etc. but can…
This article describes how to add a link to the Information sidebox that links to a new page in the defined pages section. You will be required to create files, modify files, and insert SQL code into the MySQL database. In the instructions below yourpage or YOURPAGE is the title of the page you are…