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Getting ExpressionEngine to ping useful sites

It isn’t difficult to setup ExpressionEngine to ping useful sites.  EE natively supports any XML-RPC service.  The three most useful to me are Bloglines, Google Reader & Feedburner.

Go to: 

CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Default Ping Servers

And enter the following URLs:

http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.feedburner.com

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Fixing Transmit favorites sync

Today, I noticed that my Transmit favorites were not properly syncing across computers.  Upon closer inspection, one machine did not have the “Transmit Favorites” entry in the MobileMe PrefPane. 

I fixed this by unregistering, then re-registering the sync client using the following two commands.

~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmit/TransmitSync.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitSync—unregisterClient

~/Library/Application\ Support/Transmit/TransmitSync.app/Contents/MacOS/TransmitSync—registerClient

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Solution to Quark 8.0 not able to print

Our team struggled for days on this one. We purchased Quark 8.0 and found that we were not able to print from the app under MacOSX 10.5.5.  Print jobs were submitted and just never came out of the printer.  No error messages whatsoever.

The solution was to download and install a Quark-supplied patch (intended for Quark 7 and MacOS 10.5.4).
After installation, restart your machine and try to print from QuarkXPress 8.

A few other troubleshooting tips (that actually weren’t necessary in our setup):

1)    Navigate to the File>>Print>>Printer window
2)    Go to the Tab at the center of the window and choose “Paper Handling”
3)    Check the “Scale to fit paper size” option.
4)    Now try printing and it would print.
Also, you can try going to file -> print in QuarkXPress and choose the “Advanced” option in the print window, then choose the post script level as 2 as well as 3 to print from QuarkXPress 8.

Thanks, Beth.

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Apple releases Tunes 8.0.1

Apple released iTunes 8.0.1 tonight.  This release “fixes bugs and improves stability.”  Big surprise there!

But, there is one great new feature- shifting from the current song to the Genius playlist is now seemless.  No more audio restart after hitting the Genius button.

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Viewing comments on Facebook for iPhone

To view status comments on the new Facebook 2.0 for iPhone, click on your profile, then scroll down (this is the traditional “wall”).  Nifty little icons show you how many comments there are.  The process works pretty much the same way in the “new” Facebook web application. 

Surprising how buried the “wall” is now.

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