Tag: TUTORIAL

It's no secret that with a little elbow-grease and know-how, popular open source blogging tool WordPress is a pretty versatile platform for web publishing. To that end, writer Leon Kilat has written a nice guide called How to use WordPress to run a mazine, news website. He describes the process of building Cebu Living, an attractive webzine powered by WordPress. Like I said, a little elbow grease ...

The other day I mentioned Engadget's blog backup guide, which works great but may be too Linux-centric for some. Reader Matt wrote in to point us to an alternative for Wordpress users, a tutorial at davebgimp.com that describes how to set up Wordpress to automatically e-mail a backup of your whole Wordpress blog to you every day. The tutorial requires you to install two Woirdpress plugins, ...

I'll admit it, I used to be a Winamp snob. For years Winamp was by far the best Windows audio player available, and not too long ago the sight of any other app-usually Windows Media Player-on a friend's desktop would send me into a fugue. Okay, not really, but you get the idea. Nowadays Winamp's competitors have brought up the rear, but there are still things Winamp can do that the major players ...

While many have been satisfied with Portable Gaim for their take-it-with-you IM needs, some people are stuck on Trillian (and not without reason). What are those people to do if they want to be able to take a complete Trillian install with them on a USB drive? Trillian Anywhere poses a solution. It's not a portable version of Trillian you download, but rather an "online wizard" that will guide you ...

Though I hate to admit it, my "poor man's TiVo" solution consists of me checking CAT every morning to see what's new and then hitting the BitTorrent trackers to start my downloads. I know there are better ways to go about it, but what can I say, I'm a creature of habit. But speaking of better ways, Lifehacker's Adam Pash has written a brand new guide to automatically downloading your favorite TV ...

Free cross-platform screencast creator Wink hit version 2.0 today, at least for Windows users. Wink lets you make software tutorial or demonstration movies by recording whatever's happening on your screen, adding text boxes, buttons, and so on, and saving it as a Flash file. The new version features unlimited text boxes and buttons, image and shape objects, audio recording and editing, undo and ...

I have to wonder what it's like at Apple right now, what with everybody and their grandma installing Windows XP on their Intel Macs. Are heads rolling? Are doves being released into the sky? Do they even care? Well, if one thing's sure, it's that installing XP on your Mac is only going to get easier, ergo this video tutorial from UNEASYsilence, which donated $500 to the cause. The tutorial is ...

Have a bunch of spare bandwidth and an extra computer or two? Ever think of using them to start your own web hosting company? HowtoForge has a tidy how-to on setting up shared web hosting using Ubuntu Linux. It's pretty straightforward and naturally uses only free software, but as with most Linux tutorials there's a fair amount of editing config files and typing into terminals. It will, however, ...