From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Better Design or Better Tech?

by Benson Wong

I just updated the blog again, changing the theme to FreshPress. While the old theme was cool, XHTML compliant and really easy to tweak because of it’s BlueprintCSS based layout, it was kind of ugly. The trade off of using FreshPress is not having Blueprint.  I didn’t realize how nice it is to work with [...]

{ 0 comments }

Fixing the Macbook Pro’s slow wake up problem

by Benson Wong

Ever since I got my Macbook Pro I’ve experienced the slow wake up issue. It is by far the most annoying persistent problem with the MBP. Here’s the solution:    Install SmartSleep. This adds a new pane to your System preferences that allows you to tweak the underlying system settings.  Set the current sleep state [...]

{ 2 comments }

Adding reCAPTCHA to WordPress

by Benson Wong

reCAPTCHA is one of those amazing ideas that makes you say, “gee, why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?”. It accomplishes two objectives in one very clever way.  Provides a captcha to verify a real person is posting content Digitizes books one word at a time by leveraging people power Adding reCAPTCHA to WordPress is [...]

{ 1 comment }

Integrating Twitter Tools into WordPress

by Benson Wong

I updated MostlyGeek with the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King. Previously the site used Twitter’s JavaScript badge to display my latest tweets. There are a number of advantages to using Twitter Tools over the simple badge:  Automatically tweet a new blog entry Automatic downloading of my latest tweets Automatically blog tweets Also while adding the [...]

{ 0 comments }