Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

When I first began to host my own blogs, learning about FTP and phpMyAdmin, I was extremely intimidated. But I am more comfortable tinkering in the database files, and have discovered how powerful the phpMyAdmin software truly is. It is important, if you are going to be a blog owner hosting your websites on your [...]

The illustrious Content Gallery Plugin for WordPress blogs has recently issued an update. The plugin is now named Featured Content Gallery Plugin. That’s a very nice name, but with the name change comes a little scare if you are unprepared– updating to the new name knocks out the plugin’s effectiveness on your blog. In other [...]

I haven’t seen too much of this circulating the Internet, despite it being pretty big news: Google is using sponsored posts to promote it’s search engine website in Asia. Story at TechCrunch. Google is undoubtedly the dominant search engine globally, but in a few countries such as Korea (Naver), Russia (Yandex) or Japan, local competitors [...]

I have tried a good number of web hosts in my day. Many of them were “cheap” web hosting– not the name-brand, most-popular hosting companies, but the smaller, “mom-and-pop” kind of companies. And I have had great experiences with the smaller companies, even more than some of the Big Box, name-brand companies. Web hosting is [...]

Hands down, one of the best places to get tech gear is Buy.com. I’ve shopped around a lot, and I think Buy.com has the best prices and the most reliable brands. I’ve seen a sharp rise in costs at the other tech stores, but Buy.com has been offering sale upon sale. And their customer service [...]

There’s a terrific tutorial on how to speed up your Windows Vista on your computer at the India Times InfoTech. Last year, I splurged and got myself a very beefy computer with triple-core processor and 4GB RAM, so my Vista runs pretty smoothly, anyway. But I’m always looking for tweaks, and these were great. The [...]