Blogging Tips: How to change Gmail login for Blogger
If you, like me, upgraded to New Blogger and realised you attached the wrong Gmail account to your Blogger account, don’t worry. Here’s a solution. 1. Create a new Blogger account with your preferred Gmail account and give it the same profile name as your original one. 2. Go to Settings -> Permissions. 3. Add [...]
Read MoreSoftware Review: 4 Offline Browsers
Currently I have installed 4 programs on my laptop which is on Windows Vista Business, with one program running for each of the 4 blogs I have (to test them and to ensure there’s some redundancy in case there’s a bug in one of them, plus I like testing new programs). CONTROLS: Expectation: Programs should [...]
Read MoreBlogging Tips: Use Offline Browsers to Backup your Blog
With every move, invariably one thinks of (or rather remembers to) backing up one’s blog. I have been tardy in this respect but now I set my mind to backing up all the years of blogging to my rather trusty Lenovo v100 laptop. Unfortunately, HTTrack, which I’d used successfully before, does not like Vista. It [...]
Read MoreTips for Uploading to Flickr on the Nokia N82
Yup! I got it! After all the discounts I bought the newly released black Nokia N82 at S$393. Among the wonders of the pretty much perfect phone, the function to seamlessly upload pictures to your Flickr account is no doubt one of the coolest and most useful. Unfortunately for me, I am not a frequent [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures: Common XP Problems
Yes, I’ve tons of complaints about Vista but XP has driven me up the wall before. It is always the case that when you have something new to complain about, the old gets forgotten. It is convenient I have forgotten the number of reformats I had had to do and the many restarts. This article [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures: SP1
After much consideration, I decided my time is better spent not trying to downgrade to XP – I hate reformatting and all the work that it involves unless the computer isn’t mine. Instead, I should look towards SP1 with hope that it can solve the numerous problems Vista has inflicted me with. Okay, I confess [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures: Autorestart after Updates when Sleeping
So I am online intermittently at night and have to tend to my baby when he cries. What I didn’t expect when I decided to run Windows Update was that it would, against my wishes when I stepped away from the computer to nurse baby, restart the computer after it finished installing the updates (this [...]
Read MoreWordPress Coding Tips: Alignment around Images
In WordPress, you’ll need to find an alternative to the usual hspace and vspace tags. Here’s a great suggestion from the WordPress Codex. In the stylesheet, paste this: img.left { padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0; display: inline; } And in your markup code in whichever file you’re editing, e.g. About, in my case, [...]
Read MoreVista Adventures: The Holy Grail of Vista
Recently the idea of watching DVDs at night enticed me to get Vista to actually run them. Previously futile attempts ended in jumpy DVDs, black screens with alien sounds, and a wadful of hair that mysteriously found itself in my hand. Finally, my friend Jason whispered the solution to me: Vista Codecs… almost like it [...]
Read MoreWordPress Adventures: Theme Template Edits Saved Permanently
I must compliment the developers of WordPress for a logical and immensely intuitive user interface addition. I have consulted no manuals or codexes. Just good old-fashioned tinkering around with, like how people in the 1950s loved to tinker with their cars. Understanding the compulsion of people to test theme after theme, they have made it [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
