The perl module DateTime could not be installed

14 April 2010 by brant, Comments

For those of you experiencing the sporadic error “[checkperlmodules] The perl module DateTime could not be installed”, there is hope for you! Over at the cpanel forums they have a simple suggested fix that seemed to work for me.
SSH to your server and type in:

/scripts/perlinstaller –force List::MoreUtils

Reply back with your comments if it did [...]

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jQuery 1.3+ Autocomplete, The Newbie Guide

14 April 2010 by brant, Comments

This is my first jQuery guide specifically for newbies who either don’t have much experience with jQuery or just need to see an example to understand it. The more examples you read, the better off you are at developing your own stuff.
For those of you hoping to see jQuery UI 1.8’s autocomplete, sorry to [...]

jQuery vs Prototype, a newbies perspective

13 April 2010 by brant, Comments
jQuery vs Prototype, a newbies perspective

When I first started to dabble with javascript and ajax, Prototype was the only game in town that was making any headlines. So of course I used prototype with script.aculo.us .  I was able to make some simple stuff, but my coding with Prototype wasn’t very elegant and it certainly wasn’t the best way to code [...]

Thank you for DRM free music Scott Ambrose Reilly

11 April 2010 by brant, Comments

I read a post today at c|net saying that Scott Ambrose Reilly is moving on from Amazon.com’s music division. I of course had no idea who he was until I read the article. Now that I know who it is, I have to say thanks for all he has done.
3+ years ago, 98% [...]

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Change Google Chrome’s UserAgent

4 April 2010 by brant, Comments
Change Google Chrome’s UserAgent

Many of us heard of the iPad’s new Gmail interface and want to check it out themselves.  The good news is that it’s extremely easy to change Chrome’s user agent for Windows users without an extension or anything too complicated.  Click properties on your chrome shortcut and add the following:
-user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 [...]

X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing

23 March 2010 by brant, Comments
X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing

You just started to play your game (possibly Metro 2033) and saw the error pop up about X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing.  This error is about Microsoft’s DirectX missing a few required files. All you need is a simple update, so let’s get straight to the fix.
Head over to Microsoft’s website to download DirectX End-User Runtime.  This file [...]

Free Google Search Keyword Tracking

21 March 2010 by brant, Comments
Free Google Search Keyword Tracking

Finally an advanced Google keyword ranking checker that is free.  The site is aptly named KeywordRankings and is geared towards SEO people looking to save a history of where their keywords rank in Google.
Feature List:

Entire Service is free
Add unlimited domains
Add unlimited keywords
Each keyword ranking is checked once per day
Each domain is checked for index’d pages [...]

Lost is a Travesty

10 March 2010 by brant, Comments

I was doing my daily rounds of sites that I visit and noticed that The Big Lead had a post about Lost.  My hope was that they were going to make fun of the nonsense and explain how many times they laughed out loud.  Like when Hurley was doing yet another slow-motion scene.  But of course not.
Much [...]

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SEO, To Hyphen or Underscore URLs Revisited

5 March 2010 by brant, Comments

I’ve seen a lot of SEO Experts and many SEO tools recommend that you should be using hyphens in URLs rather than underscores, one example was Ann Smarty over at SearchEngineJournal.  For the disadvantages of the underscore in URLs she says:
Traditionally it isn’t seen by search engines as a word separator (this is slowly changing now)
Slowly [...]

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Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching

2 March 2010 by brant, Comments
Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching

My previous post talked about how to switch from outlook to gmail because of speed and ease of use.  From my experience, I noticed that Gmail’s POP fetching for email accounts that I added were not as fast as I would have liked.
The solution is called GSpeed, which speeds up gmail pop fetching.  I have created [...]