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Trying to restore my iPhone, I just encountered this error, I’m hoping somebody can shed some light on it:

iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone “Your iPhone Name”. Go to the Summary tab in the iphone preferences and click Restore to restore the iPhone to factory settings.

I guess this means I’m going to have to set everything up manually. So lame. I better be able to transfer my purchases still.


Most of us have seen many of the WordPress sites that are using highly custom, or even premium WordPress themes, and the one thing that most of these sites have in common is the fact that they all have highly customized homepages. The problem with most free themes is that the homepage is basically just a longer version of a post page, but that doesn’t have to be the case anymore

UnmatchedStyle.comoptical amplifier has put together a great tutorial on how to customize your homepage – 4 Quick Tweaks for Your WordPress Homepage.

I obviously haven’t applied any of these techniques on my homepage yet, but when my hosting contract runs up in November, I’ll be looking to revamp this website and modify a custom theme with the suggestions in the tutorial from Unmatched Style.

Take a look, if you happen to tweak your site using their techniques, post a link about it here, I’d love to see the results of some theme customizations.


It has been announced that the iPhone 3GS will support the Nike+ application and will allow workouts to be tracked and sent to Nike.com, but for some reason, Apple has decided to not allow this feature on the iPhone 3G, even with the 3.0 software update, Apple has decided to keep this functionality available only to the iPhone 3GS users.

It is my mission to find a way to enable the Nike+ application on my iPhone 3G, and when I find a solution, you can be sure that I’ll post it here. If anyone has any input, please feel free to comment.


I’ve successfully upgraded my WordPress blog, and the WordPress blogs of a few of my friends, but one of them gets the following error:

Call to undefined method WordPress_Module::_weak_escape()

Has anybody encountered this? I found one solution that suggested disabling redirection, but how do you do this when you can’t even access your blog?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.


As I mentioned on my previous post, I’m in the process of upgrading multiple WordPress blogs from WordPress 2.7.1 to WordPress 2.8. Typically, I’m able to just click on the bar that shows up at the top of the WordPress admin panel, but today, after upgrading 2 of the blogs, I noticed that the 3rd one that I got to did not have the upgrade bar available.

My guess is that the WordPress server tracks IP addresses to limit the amount of downloads, which makes sense, because before automatic upgrade, each user would download 1 zip file containing all necessary WordPress files, then once they had the file, those files would be uploaded to each and every server that they had a WordPress blog on, so all of the traffic and bandwidth usage would fall on the user and the hosting companies, not on the WordPress servers. But now, with the automatic upgrade option, each WordPress installation downloads the entire WordPress 2.8 zip file, unpacks it and installs it. That 1 file can’t be re-used between 5 different WordPress installations, causing the WordPress server to handle multiple downloads.

This is just a shot in the dark as to why the WordPress automatic upgrade option is available in some WordPress installations and not others, but if anybody has a definitive answer, please share it in the comments.


I was in the process of upgrading my WordPress blog and the blogs of some friends of mine, and I noticed something odd. Of the 5 blogs that I needed to upgrade, all of the were running WordPress version 2.7.1 but when logging into the control panel, only 2 of them notified me that there was a new version (WordPress 2.8) available.

Even when I went to the Tools > Upgrade page, I was presented with the following message:

You have the latest version of WordPress. You do not need to upgrade
You have the latest version of WordPress. You do not need to upgrade. However, if you want to re-install version 2.7.1, you can do so automatically or download the package and re-install manually:

Re-install Automatically
Download 2.7.1

The thing that is funny is that all of these WordPress blogs are hosted on the same server, so I don’t know what is allowing only 2 of the 5 to realize that there is an update available. Either way, I’m sure that by tomorrow, all will allow the automatic upgrade, but it’s funny that they currently aren’t showing the option.

If anybody has an experience with this and knows why this happens, I’d love to hear the explanation.


I’ve been using WordPress for just under 2 years now, and the changes that have been implemented from version to version have been absolutely amazing. 2.8 definitely doesn’t disappoint! It actually makes me want to consider changing the theme and widget layout of this blog because this one is really starting to get outdated.

If you’re a fan of WordPress (as most users undoubtedly are) I’d highly recommend that you update your system immediately. In addition the the theme and widget enhancements, WordPress 2.8 has many interface enhancements and also boasts improved speed in the admin interface.

Check it out today: WordPress 2.8


I’ve been a huge fan of MediaMonkey ever since it was released, I love the ease of management and the freedom that it gives you (over that of iTunes) is great! I now love the fact that it supports iPhones as well because it so nice being able to put songs onto the iPhone without using iTunes. Now the only thing I really use iTunes for is to download the podcasts that I’m subscribed to, and I’ll occassionally connect my phone to iTunes to remove some songs or to add some new ringtones. Other than that, iTunes is pretty much obsolete on my computer. Until recently.

I just upgraded my PC from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC1, and I’ve installed MediaMonkey 3.0.7.1191 and ever since I’ve upgraded iTunes to version 8.2, I am unable to connect my iPhone while running MediaMonkey. Connecting my iPhone causes MediaMonkey to immediately crash. It just gives me the following error message prior to shutting down:

MediaMonkey – Audio Library has stopped working

As of right now, it looks like I’m stuck using iTunes to manage all of the music on my iPhone until the next version of MediaMonkey comes out, or until iTunes changes… I think it’s going to be left up to the MediaMonkey developers to fix the problem.


When the iPhone came out, I was stoked, I picked one up (shortly after the lines subsided). When the 3G came out, again, I was stoked, the GPS feature made it a very useful accessory for me to have. The one problem with both of these was the fact that they were incompatible with the Nike+ running system. Nike+ is the one thing that makes me want to workout. Without some tech stuff or gadgetry involved, working out just isn’t fun for me, so I just don’t do it.

Now with all of the new iPhone 3GS press releases and announcements, I’ve learned that the iPhone 3.0 OS will support Nike+, but it sounds like it will only be available on the iPhone 3GS. Does this mean that I’m going to have to shell out a couple hundred bucks to get a brand new iPhone even though my iPhone 3G is only 6 months old? What a waste! Why wouldn’t you be able to use the Nike+ system with the iPhone 3G? It doesn’t make any sense.

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After hours of toiling with my new Windows 7 setup and my Xbox 360, I finally came to the conclusion that the simplest solution, that is typically right under our nose is the one that we should probably try first.

I had been unable to connect my Xbox 360 to my PC (which I had just installed Windows 7 on). I tried adjusting settings in my router, in my firewall, opening ports, changing network sharing settings, etc. and nothing seemed to work. After hours of failure, I simply went back to my Xbox and started over. Literally.

I selected the option so “Setup a new connection”. This basically searches the network for a PC that is running Windows Media Center, which my new Windows 7 RC1 machine is running. Immediately, the Xbox 360 found my PC and displayed the 8 digit code for me to input on my PC to link the two.

The problem was that my Xbox had previously been setup with another computer, so when I turned it on and tried to connect to Windows Media Center after upgrading my operating system, it needed to have a new connection setup.

Such an easy fix. No need to change port numbers or any of that fun stuff. I hope this info will help the others out there who may have a similar problem after upgrading to Windows 7.