Productivity
Vancouver 2010 Olympics – as mind map
Jan 25th
Culling through listings of which Olympic events are happening when can be a bit tedious. To this end, I created this mind map to illustrate the flexibility of MindMeister’s mind mapping solution.
I’ll be keeping the schedule up to date and including a listing of winners, as well as any relevant/newsworthy notes. Let the Games begin!
How to fix the exhausted memory error in WordPress
Aug 12th
Today, like any other day a wordpress update comes out, is a relatively painless procedure thanks to Keith Dsouza of Techie Buzz’s awesome WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. If you don’t already have this one installed in your arsenal, stop reading this and go grab it. This is perhaps the best plugin for wordpress by far, as it saves countless headaches of backing up the db, exporting, installing the new wp version, etc. etc. Thanks Keith!
Right. Now that you’ve got Keith’s plugin installed, and upgrading you wordpress install is literally as easy as 6 or so clicks, you may or may not receive the dreaded ‘memory exhausted on line xyz…bla bla bla’ error. The error may refer to the kses.php file, class-simplepie.php file or any number of other variables. In your dashboard, you’ll most likely see something like this:
Snow Leopard: What to expect
Jul 21st
When the news of an OS update for Mac users hit the streets, many users (myself included) got pretty jazzed – only to find out that we were going to have to wait quite a while to get our hands on Apple’s newest creation. Dubbed Snow Leopard, a clear indication that this is more of an expansion pack for Leopard, rather than a whole new version, this OS upgrade release date is set for September. Planned improvements include speed and performance, as well as improvements to the architecture our beloved Mac apps run on, and improved Exchange support (I can haz Mac now, boss?).
Again, as this is more of an expansion pack rather than a completely new OS, Snow Leopard will be Apple’s cheapest OS upgrade to date – priced at around $29. And frankly, at that price, I’d be hard pressed to see why anyone wouldn’t want this update. The exhaustive list of planned features is available from Apple, but for this article, I’d like to present the highlights that do it for me.
Top 10 examples of Data Visualization
Jul 5th
With the tremendous amount of data circulating the internet at any given moment, it’d be nice to see some graphic representations of what’s actually happening, instead of just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.
Add to that the what would most certainly be a maddening exercise in trying to find related content to the mix, and data visualizations become all the more important. These data visualizations below represent to me the most meaningful and useful tools available. They cover everything from Digg activity to Network connectivity, to simply watching the world tweet the day away.
Music and Movies
DandyID
Facebook
Amazon Wish List
Blip.fm
Flickr
YouTube
Delicious
Digg
Friendfeed
Stumbleupon
Twitter
last.fm
Linkedin
Vimeo
identi.ca
Twitpic
Disqus
Dopplr
FourSquare
Google Profiles
gowalla
Raptr
