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WordPress Event Calendar PlugIn?
So, I’ve been looking for a WordPress event calendar plugin, and while I found the Event Calendar 3 plug-in, I wasn’t happy with it. It does not support multiple day events, recurring events, etc. I found PHPiCalendar, but that only reads in iCal files, and is not integrated into WordPress, except through a plugin which
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Click to activate and use this control. Ughh!
Have users who are seeing the message “Click to activate and use this control” on some web sites? Microsoft’s most recent Windows Update including a “patch” to Internet Explorer, that disabled some of the functionality it had for automatically running embedded controls (ActiveX, Flash, etc.). This is due to a patent dispute that Microsoft lost
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XnView – Free graphics and photo viewer
XnView is a great utility that will open about 400 different graphic file formats and export to about 50 different formats. This tool is perfect for opening files that you do not have the original program to open and are not your standard file types. Best of all, it’s free.
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Open Source CRM Software
I’ve been looking into open source CRM software, and originally found and installed SugarCRM. It seems to be a great product, but requires license fees for additional modules such as the Outlook plug-in (which would be very useful). At this point, as we try to figure out how to best use CRM, we do not want
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Automated web site testing
Just started looking at automated web site testing tools and found this one: AdventNet QEngine AdventNet QEngine is a 100% web-based test automation tool for Web application functional testing, Web application performance testing, Web service functional testing and Web service performance testing of web applications and web services. All you need is just a browser
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WordPress
The WordPress software is pretty impressive. So far, I have been able to do everything I have wanted to either with the sofware itself, or with a plug-in. These are the plugins that this site is currently using: WP-Stats: statistics page Front Page Categories: only show certain categories on the front page Search Pages: advanced
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Great new video technology
This week I was given a presentation by Micronets on their patented video streaming technology and I have to say I was impressed. Micronets is a B-to-B-to-C company that provides companies with a YouTube like interface for hosting their user’s videos. They provide a completely hosted, skinnable web interface for Flash video streaming and hosting. Ok,
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My Tech Blog (Geek Out)
As CIO of Track Entertainment, I see a lot of great new technologies and get to investigate a number of both open source and commercial software packages. Every day I am presented with the challenge of maintaining and updating existing systems, investigating new technologies, launching a web site, or solving general IT issues. I do
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What am I listening to? The Sounds – Dying to Say This To You
The Sounds – Dying To Say This To You (Released 3/21/06) Another Swedish rock group on my favorites list (along with Shout Out Louds, Sahara Hotnights,  and others), I was first turned on to them by the single “Song With A Mission” on Sirius Alt Nation, and have to say the entire album is very strong. We had
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Music? Nightlife? What do I know?
Well, as the President and founder of Clubplanet.com, I’d have to say that I know a thing or two about nightlife. As for music, I’m just an avid fan and frequent concert goer. (Headed to Coachella next weekend!) This section of my blog will contain some of my top new music picks and nightlife updates,