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How to host and stream your own mp3s with JW media player

Note: this tutorial was for version 3.15 of JWPlayer. It is now up to v4.2. The customisation wizard may or may not work with v3.15. An older version of this post demonstrated the customisation by changing colors. However, that code … Continue reading

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How to stream mp3s with Yahoo Media Player

A nod of the head to Amit at Digital Inspiration for pointing me in the right direction for the Yahoo Media Player with his post “How to embed mp3 audio files in web pages”. There are two versions to the … Continue reading

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Stream your own mp3s with the Google Reader player

Many of you will, at some stage of your life, want to host and stream your own mp3 file of some sort. Some of you will want to host a podcast (egads! don’t do that on your own sever! Use … Continue reading

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Local Development: How to install Joomla on your local Windows machine

Joomla! is a free and open source content management system with just about everything a webmaster could ask for.  Originally created as a fork of the Mambo content management system (see how to install Mambo on Windows for more information … Continue reading

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Local Development: Installing Mambo

Mambo is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that was originally developed in Australia as a commercial application in 2000 and was subsequently released to the open source community.  It takes advantage of the traditional Apache/MySQL/PHP stack which makes … Continue reading

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Local Development: How to install Movable Type 4 on your local machine

Movable Type is a blogging engine developed by Six Apart (other notable Six Apart products are the hosted blog solutions Typepad and Vox).  The latest version, MT 4.1, is available under a range of licenses including free for personal use, … Continue reading

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Local Development: Installing WordPress

WordPress is a free (as in beer and speech) open source blogging engine originally built upon the code of the b2 blogging engine.  In time it has become one of the most well known and used platforms in the blogosphere … Continue reading

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Local Development: Installing XAMPP

There will come a time when the beginner blogger wants to take more control and choose to host their own blog. When it comes to development, testing design tweaks, different templates, plug-in compatibility and overall usability, nothing beats having a … Continue reading

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Fixing Hibernate Problems in Windows Vista

One of the most regularly reported problems with Windows Vista is that the hibernate function – one of the power-saving modes – does not work. I have been using Vista daily since February 2007 and although the experience has been … Continue reading

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Opening ODT and DOCX – are they human readable?

One of the supposed benefits of XML is that documents produced in this format are able to be opened as a text file and read by normal people, allowing the content to be recovered, even if the formatting was unavailable … Continue reading

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