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I’ve been trying to work this out in my mind but it hasn’t been working out that well. As I do with anything I’m having trouble figuring out, I ask for help. Help me choose the BEST mobile device(s) to suit my needs. What am I missing? What other options do I have?

Right now I have an Apple iPhone 3G (not 3Gs). I pay about $90 a month with taxes for a basic phone and texting plan. That’s 450 min and 200 texts a month. Now after hearing about the iPad I jumped into the Apple Fan Club like a Grizzly Bear at an over stocked Salmon Resevoir. My original plan with the iPad was to get the 3G enabled version, get rid of my iPhone and get a simple phone plan.

The theory behind this was that I’d pay $30 a month for the iPad’s 3G plan and peanuts for the new phone plan. I’d get all the good stuff from the iPhone in the iPad with out the extra AT&T fees.

Now I found out that I can hop on a Verizon Family Plan with a family member and pay $9 a month for a ton of min and texts. Which means I can still get the iPad 3G and pay a total of $39 a month for both the phone and the iPad services. This sounds wonderful.

Now here’s the problem. There are some things that I LOVE about the iPhone. One being GPS Maps, which I would lose with the above plan, unless the iPad 3G comes with GPS which I’m not sure about. I’d also lose the ability to use a lot of the apps I’ve grown accustomed to in the iPhone when I’m out and about. I can’t justify carrying an iPad around the grocery store or sitting in a movie theater. (more…)

I have had a long and terrible relationship with GoDaddy. Until today I have never felt the need to address their misdeeds. However after a recent discovery of how GoDaddy handles 301 redirects I felt it was important to share.

A recently new client came to Neal Advertising asking for us to build them an event page. They had two url’s a .org and a .com which were purchased through GoDaddy. We determined the .com would be the main url and the .org would be permanetly redirected to the .com.

I created the redirect through Godaddy and assumed all was well. Below is a screenshot of the GoDaddy site where you setup the 301 redirect.
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I run into this problem with almost every installation of WordPress I do.  I want to limit the HTML in a post because I don’t assume my authors know HTML.  However, my pages are usually much more static and need better written HTML to be styled well. So how do I keep the auto adding of ‘p’ tags in posts but strip them on pages?

It’s a lot easier than you think.  Some people have gone with the super small plugin – “Disable WPAUTOP” but the problem with that plugin is that is strips the ‘p’ tags on all posts and pages.

To solve this problem all you have to do is add the below line of code into your Page Template (page.php).  From this point on WordPress will not add in all those unnecessary ‘p’ tags on your pages.

<?php
remove_filter ('the_content','wpautop');
?>


This is a simple fix to a problem that seems to cause a lot of havoc on WordPress blogs.

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Enough of that, lets get into the good stuff and see what’s going on with WordPress’s latest install of 2.7.

WordPress 2.7 Dashboard ScreenShot

Right away you can see the UI changes that were made to the dashboard and the overall backend of WordPress. There area several great changes that were made, most of which are discussed below.

Dashboard Show On Screen Options

You now have the ability to easily change what widgets or windows are available on your dashboard

Help Tab

The help tab is available on every screen. On the dashboard there is some helpful tips and a link to WordPress Documentation and Support Forums.

Left Navigation

The top navigation have been replaced with a left nav. You can see the left nav and all the available options in the images to the left.

New Post Drop Down

A “New Post” drop down has been created. Allowing quick and easy access to post new content on the fly.

Direct Plug-in Search & Install

GREAT NEWS!!! You can now search and install plug-ins directly from your wordpress backend. I found a bug though, if you have the WordPress Auto Update plugin you won’t be able to directly install plugins. You’ll be ok though, read below.

Direct WordPress Upgrading

MORE GREAT NEWS!!! You can now upgrade your wordpress install directly from the backend without the use of a 3rd party plug-in.

Bulk Editing

EVEN MORE GREAT NEWS!!! Now you can edit Posts, Pages and Comments as bulk items!

Posts Page Views

Two post views. The standard view we are all used to and an excerpt view that shows some content from your post
I hope this post was helpful in adjusting you to the new WordPress UI.