Category Archives: Software

WordPress 2.0.6 and FeedBurner Disconnects

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This article provides a workaroud for WordPress 2.0.6 and chronic FeedBurner disconnects. It’s essential that you upgrade to WordPress 2.0.6 immediately in order to prevent your blog from being taken over by hackers! Upgrade, then follow these instructions to get it to play nicely with FeedBurner afterwards.

The Problem

After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.6 or WordPress 2.1 Beta, your FeedBurner feed will, at times, give you an “invalid xml” error, and “FeedMedic” will show you something like this:

Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your blogging platform is TextPattern, this is a known bug, and a fix can be found here: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=11247

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How WordPress Spoils Developers

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When you’re done reading this article, check out our clarification for more info.

WordPress took the online world by surprise. Undoubtedly the single most influential tool in the blog-boom, WordPress has not only revolutionized the web as we (used to) know it, but also completely changed the daily ins and outs of web development forever. It’s not just about the power and perfection of the package, but also the coding standards, community benefits, and open source modeling. In short, WordPress has changed the face of web scripting for everyone.

The most obvious impact WordPress has had – on everyone – is that there really isn’t much room for another blogging platform. No matter how good of a competing product someone might make, it’s near impossible for anything to ever overtake WordPress as the tool of choice for the job – no matter what that might be. WordPress isn’t perfect, and we’re the first to admit it. It certainly isn’t the most lightweight blogging platform nor is it the ultimate CMS, but that most definitely hasn’t stopped it from conquering the market.

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EasyBCD: 100% Clean Award

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It takes bigger and more complex programs a little longer to be verified 100% clean, but EasyBCD has just been branded “100% Clean” by Softpedia’s product review team.

Not that anyone ever questioned the authenticity nor has it ever given anyone reason for concern, but it’s always good to have independant 3rd party verification from a trusted source.

You can download EasyBCD from Softpedia here — be sure to rate it while you’re there!

Opera is Good to Bloggers

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Generally speaking, the one sector of the online world where websites attract far more attention & traffic than money is the blogosphere. Whereas other websites stand to benefit quite a bit from the meager investments they put into their site in the first place, bloggers must work long and hard for their 15 minutes of fame. And let’s face it: it doesn’t usually pay off (money wise).

That’s not to say that all bloggers are necessarily poor and hungry (ok, well maybe that’s exaggerating it a bit, but you get the point), but if you were to do a survey, you can bet the sites that pay more to stay up than they get via AdSense or YPN are blogs and the bloggers that own them. Another fact of life is that, for most people, seeing a website 5 minutes out-of-date isn’t that big of a probelm – especially when you keep in mind that around 90% of the internet is static, more or less.

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Performancing and PayPerPost!?!

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OK, a bit late it may be, but it’s the holiday season – we shouldn’t even be posting at all! (Just kidding of course, we’re always here, and always hard at work). But anyway, why!? Why did Perfomancing, one of the very best online services for bloggers, have to be bought up by the nasty, cheating, and totally immoral PayPerPost!?

For those of you not in the know, PayPerPost accquired Performancing on December 25, 2006 (Welcome to 2007 everyone, btw!), and are making sure everyone knows about it. Performancing is a great, friendly, and honest company; PayPerPost made their money through dishonest, bribery, and deception. Whereas Performancing was an honest service that most bloggers were proud to be a part of, PayPerPost’s very essence involved shame and denial – what a match!

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EasyBCD 1.52 Re-Uploaded

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EasyBCD 1.52 has been re-published following a minor bug in the installer that would occasionally result in a failed install if TweakVI was queued to be downloaded & installed. The error has been corrected, and hopefully there aren’t any more issues that need immediate attending to until 1.6 comes out with quite a few new features.

(Re-)Download EasyBCD 1.52

How to Burn or Mount Almost Anything — For Free!

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Anyone that uses Peer-to-Peer networking software, beta-tests, or downloads more often than they brush their teeth, has (on one or more occasion) found the need to burn or mount a file. Sometimes the file is of a normal and commonly-used format, but not always. Everyone knows how to burn an ISO file, but knowing what to do with that mdf or pdi certainly might come handy one day – especially if you can do it for free and without having to waste a CD/DVD!!

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EasyBCD 1.52 Up for Download

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EasyBCD 1.52 has just been made available on the public servers for download. This is the primary reason for the relative lack of post activity here on The NeoSmart Files, we’ve been really busy with this build.

  • TweakVI Integration
  • Emergency bug fix for Vista/LH non-C: Entries
  • Nifty new section – “Useful Utilities”

Anyway, check it out for yourself, the only way to actually understand what “Useful Utilities” does is to see it at work firsthand. As always, should you feel compelled to say thank you: EasyBCD is a 100% free non-profit product and donations are accepted.

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VMware 6.0 Beta & Visual Studio 2005 SP1

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Just a quick warning to anyone officially beta testing VMware 6.0 Beta on a system with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (final) installed: it doesn’t work.

VMware 6 Beta will install OK, but if, during the setup, you opted to install the (much awaited) Visual Studio IDE plugin, you will no longer be able to use Visual Studio 2005. If you haven’t installed Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005, you’ll be OK. It seems VMware Inc. didn’t test their product out on the recently released SP1 update.

Current workaround is to explicitly set VMware setup to not install the Visual Studio plugin. If you already installed it, just use Add/Remove Programs to “modify” the VMware 6 install, and de-select the IDE plugin from the list of features to be installed.

EasyBCD & TweakVI Team-up for the Win!

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The two coolest companies have a gift for everybody: NeoSmart Technologies & Totalidea Software, publishers of the two highly-popular Vista tweaking utilities EasyBCD and TweakVI respectively, are proud to announce the partnership of both our award-winning softwares! TweakVI and EasyBCD have come together to offer our users the very best and complete control over practically every aspect of your Vista. It’s your PC, you control it the way you want!

Together EasyBCD and TweakVI allow users to completely setup and customize their Vista setups, from the bootmenu to the startup screen to the shutdown window: Complete Control! If you haven’t had the chance to experience either, now is the time! Here’s what they do:

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