Erlend Reigstad » Technology http://www.erlendreigstad.net Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:06:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Tip of the day http://www.erlendreigstad.net/2009/12/27/tip-of-the-day/ http://www.erlendreigstad.net/2009/12/27/tip-of-the-day/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:05:03 +0000 Erlend Reigstad http://www.erlendreigstad.net/2009/12/27/tip-of-the-day/ Lifehacker.com gives the advice that you should enable those who find your missing camera to find you. While the solution offered (including a set of photos of yourself showing messages on a whiteboard) might be over the top for most of us there should be no reason not to have a single text-file on your internal camera memory with your contact information.

http://lifehacker.com/5433329/get-your-camera-returned-with-a-great-photo-message

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Update 20/10-09: It seems the current theme om oekonomi.no is perfect in every way so we’re sticking to it ;)

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The only real obstacle was using the WP-phpMyAdmin plugin to do a database backup, this has been failing to load ever since it worked the first few times doing backups of http://www.oekonomi.no/ and http://oekonomi.no/ordliste/. Since there is not much content at this site* I took my chances just doing an export of the content before upgrading. The upgrade seems ok and now there is an automatic upgrade option, which is probably a good idea. I’m guessing quite a few people have found themselves deleting the wrong folders using ftp to replace old files, as well as losing their settings in wp-config.php.

(*) It never was meant to, neither, this is more of a playground and test-site.

As for new features and improvements I’m not sure yet. Just browsing through the wp-admin I don’t see many changes apart from a whole new layout and some minor additions. Under the hood is another chapter, one I’m not qualified to decipher :)

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First verdict:

  • Fast, especially Gmail
  • Seems to handle most sites and content, only exception thus far being Outlook Web Access in simple-mode (same as Opera)
  • Neat tracking of memory use (shift+esc)
  • Needs ad-blocking and (many) more options for customisation
  • The cartoon presenting Chrome implicitely takes the credit for a few functions well-known in Opera
  • Sleek graphics (good) but reminds me somewhat of Apple (not so good)
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