Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

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Dreamhost Hosting

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I have had a few people ask my why I like to use Dreamhost for my hosting needs, so I thought I would write a post listing some of the reasons.
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I am currently running 3 active blogs on my Dreamhost account, along with a few that are just there because I promise myself I [...]

Gmail Finally Adds Tasks

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Since Google launched its popular Gmail service, users have begged for some sort of to-do list. With the addition of the Gmail Labs a while back, many knew it was only a matter of time before some sort of t-do list was released. That time has come. Gmail has a task list.

The task list is [...]

YouTube Gets Wide

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

YouTube has finally caught up with the other video sites like Vimeo, Viddler, and Virb with support for widescreen formatted videos. They have also made their side wider, expanding it to 960 pixels.
If you have uploaded a video that is in the classic 4:3 ratio, it will still work fine and won’t be streatched. They [...]

WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 Released

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

WordPress has released Beta 2 of their upcoming 2.7 release. They have a big list of bug fixes that have been pushed out with this version.
If you have already installed Beta 1, you can easily update to Beta 2 using the Tools > Update panel in the admin area.
I have really been impressed with the [...]

Creating My WordPress Sandbox

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I am running through the WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 and everything looks great so far. I logged in to my Dreamhost
control panel and created a new subdomain for the site, wpbeta.jeremyfilnt.com. Then I created a new SQL database so that the installation was completely self contained.
I still had the problem of needing data in [...]

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