A few weeks back, I saw a posting on the MomPack looking for a web designer who would barter design services. It’s been so long since I’ve taken on any web design clients and even longer since I’ve donated or did design work pro-bono. The first websites I ever designed were back in 1996 (yes that means I’m old). lol! My first design clients came in 2000. And some of those I took on as pro-bono sites to help me build a portfolio. One of those sites (which is no longer up and running) was done for an older woman who created handmade floral craft items. I took her site on for free so I could learn more about shopping carts. In the end, I had created a very large ordering site for her that brought her a nice chunk of regular orders and income to supplement her retirement. It was a website that she could never have afforded. It was a great feeling. I’m not sure what spurred me to e-mail this particular lady back. I have no idea how I even caught the e-mail because I haven’t been actively reading the MomPack list in a long time. But … Read more
[ Continue ]For the past week, I’ve been working on swapping my front room with my back room. I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile – over a year – but I kept running into resistance from other family members (..ahem… DH). But after some more arm twisting, we agreed to swap the rooms. Before the move, my front room – the room people walked into when they came in the front door – housed my computer, the Wii and Dan’s toys. It was usually a big mess. It was not an easy room to walk into every day nor was it a room conducive to having people sit down when they came over. Typically people would stand around at the front door and stare at my big mess. lol! I was just tired of it. I took before photos – but I took them on my regular camera and for some reason my laptop isn’t reading my SD card this morning. The drive isn’t even coming up. The SD card is working because my camera recognizes it and usually my laptop recognizes it fine. Not going to be good if my SD reader is bad on my laptop. So I … Read more
[ Continue ]Just wanted to post a solution I found to the highly annoying problem of GMail crashing Firefox when you close a GMail tab or move away from GMail. If you google for this error, you’ll see most sites agree, including the Mozilla team, that the GMail Talk Plugin is causing this error. The solution is to disable Google Talk. Just look under your Add-ons and uninstall GoogleTalk. The only problem is I don’t have Google Talk installed. So now what? To find out that GoogleTalk is definitely the cause, you’ll first need to check the firefox crash report to make sure it is reporting GoogleTalk or UserCallWinProcCheckWOW. You need to report the error using the Mozilla Crash Reporter (the box that pops up on a crash that asks if you want to report the error). Report it and then look at the crash log. If you don’t report the error, it will not appear in your crash log.
[ Continue ]Yesterday after fighting with Thunderbird yet again, I decided to take the plunge and switch my email over to GMail. Jeanine has been using GMail exclusively for over two years (I think it’s been that long now) ever since her last Outlook crash. I wasn’t ready for GMail then and GMail wasn’t ready for me. It’s come a long way in the past two years. I don’t know if I like the idea of storing my personal emails on an online/public server. But I do like the idea of being able to access them wherever without having to know all my individual email passwords off the top of my head. I have always kept a folder of passwords to my various hosting accounts and clients hosting accounts in Thunderbird. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to move those emails over to GMail or not. I’m probably just being paranoid as everything is out there these days – much more bothersome than some hosting passwords. I spent a good chunk of time researching yesterday how to move my existing email over. I periodically remove old e-mails (like once a year) where I go through a serious purge. But on a … Read more
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