Michael P. Web Solutions

Everyone has some kind of talent (although, I admit, some people’s talents aren’t always useful or appreciated, without going into specific details). One of my talents is working with the Mambo and Joomla content managment systems, and the Simple Machines Forum package. But what good is a talent if nobody knows about it? In this […]

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Useful Guide to Running a Forum

My good friend Ryan, who runs Forumize (I posted about the site earlier), wrote a nice little article on how to choose mods for your forum, and in general how to keep your forum running smooth. I think that it would be appropriate for any forum administrator to read the article (stale link removed after […]

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Finally Found a New Theme

Browsing a gallery of 700 something themes was not easy or particularly exciting work, but that’s what it took to give my blog a facelift after almost a year with one theme. I spent some time browsing the gallery at Themebot.com, and came across a nice theme. Actually, I didn’t find this one at Themebot, […]

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Windows Media Player 11

For once, Microsoft made a product that [everyone says] is so good that PC World gave it a product rating of 90, which not many products get. The player got a major facelift in just about all aspects, and sports many new and useful features.
The library has new views and layouts, and searching is both […]

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Present Collection Almost Complete

The delivery of my iriver accessory kit today (Saturday; which surprises me, since I haven’t seen UPS deliver on Saturday before) marks yet another item on my present list for this holiday season. So far I have received or bought the following items with money I received:

iriver Clix / U10 Accessory kit (includes a pretty […]

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Need WordPress Themes

I’ve used the trusty Regulus theme for many months, and liked it (still do), but it’s time for a new theme. I peeked around, and found the Anaconda theme (very nice three-column layout, supports widgets and many other plugins right out of the box), but even that doesn’t satisfy my desire for a nice theme. […]

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If I Die, Who Gets My (AdSense) Site?

I stumbled across a post on the blog of Eric Giguere (who writes about advertising with Google’s AdSense) where he discusses what would happen to someone’s sites (and AdSense account, more importantly) when he dies. It’s such a profound topic to write about, but is defenitely worth discussion. In short, he says that you should […]

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Windows Live Writer

Microsoft has expanded on their Live idea by developing various applications that connect with the Web in some way or another. One of their best ones is, in my opinion, the Windows Live Writer application, which lets you post to your blog from your desktop.
Upon the first launch of the program, you will be asked […]

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