Posts Tagged 'tech'

After what has been a rather long hiatus, bradpalmore.com is back in action.  Not only does it have a new theme, but the technology behind the blog is all new as well.  This blog is sitting on a fresh installation of WordPress 2.7.1 that was just upgraded to 2.8.  The database is fresh and free from all of the clutter left from the pre-WordPress 2.0 days.

My plugins are all new as well.  You’ll notice some of them right away, like the little “ShareThis” tag at the bottom of the post to let you easily share blog entries with others or the little “New” icon next to the blog entries you haven’t read yet.  The links in the sidebar area also nested to save space.  One thing I messed up in deleting the old blog was not copying my links before I did so.  If you want your link added, let me know in the comments.

The pages have been streamlined.  The “About Me” page has a new bio and the “Contact Me” page now has more contact options.  I’ll be adding pages on church health, mediation, and resources that I’ve produced in the coming weeks, so check back.

There are some additional things I’ll highlight as we go along.  Thanks for checking in with us again and for tolerating the shut down for as long as you did!

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a Mac snob. I love Apple computers. I love the Apple Store, especially the one in Clarendon, VA where I would frequently browse after grabbing a cup of coffee at the nearby bookstore. A little sidebar about the coffee shop: it was a prime example of Starbucks overbuilding. The Starbucks in the bookstore was about 300 ft east of the Apple Store. There was another stand alone Starbucks 300 ft west of the Apple Store. Very strange.

After being a Mac user for 5 years and running only Apple software, my wife brought me a piece of software that she has to use for a class she’s taking and basically said, “Make this work.” I tried partitioning my hard drive with Boot Camp and installing Windows on the partition, but my files were a little full to make it work. On the recommendation of Randy Wray, I installed a demo of Parallels, and it was AMAZING!

Basically, it lets you run Windows as a program on the Mac OS. The coherence mode is fully integrated, making moving between Windows and Mac almost seamless.

Here’s a couple of screen shots to show off the program:

Start menu in the dock

Windows control panel over Mac Finder