Entries from July 2007

Ultimate file synchronization between multiple computers

Date July 20, 2007

My Problem
Here is the problem, I want to synchronize files between:

Home Desktop (Vista)
Home Media Center PC (Vista)
Laptop (Vista)
Mac Mini (OS X)

Some folders I want synced between all computers like My Pictures. Other Folders, I want synced between some machines and have access to from other machines. For example I want my music collection [...]

Windows Live Writer Image Upload and WordPress (WPMU)

Date July 19, 2007

My previous post http://emad.blogstogo.com/2007/07/19/window-live-writer-and-pictures/ didn’t work right away.  When I tried to post it, I received the error message 
Luckily, I found the fix.  The problem was in the wp-includes/class-IXR.php.  At line 138 in function parse, I replaced:
$this->message = preg_replace(’/<\?xml(.*)?\?’.’>/’, ”, $this->message);if (trim($this->message) == ”) {    return false;}

with:
$rx = ‘/<?xml.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*?>/m’;if (preg_match($rx, $this->message, $m)) {       $encoding = [...]

Window Live Writer and Pictures

Date July 19, 2007

This is a test of WLW and its image/picture capabilities.

I ran the snipping tool.
Drew a box around the area I want to snip
Pasted the results into Windows Live Writer
It pasted this picture
I then selected the picture in WLW and selected the Effects tab
And added a Watermark “emad.blogstogo.com”

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to set [...]

Windows Live Writer And Wordpress Mu (WPMU)

Date July 19, 2007

I finally was able to add my blog on WPMU to windows live writer.  I searched and searched and searched and finally found the answer.
Change these lines in xmlrpc.php:
    foreach ( $blogs as $blog ) {        $blog_id = $blog->userblog_id;         switch_to_blog($blog_id);         $is_admin = current_user_can(’level_8′);         $struct[] = array(            ‘isAdmin’  => $is_admin,            ‘url’      => get_option(’home’) . ‘/’,            ‘blogid’   [...]

Updates to my blog

Date July 18, 2007

After reading Andrew’s post (http://www.anchorite.org/blog/2007/07/11/updates-to-anchoriteorg/) I decided to update my blog too. I copied most of his updates and did some of my own as well.

Add Meta Tags - Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives.
Akismet [...]