Jane Talks Tech!

So, as you might've guessed, I got "lucky" on Swoopo.com and won a kickass HP dv7-3080us laptop (which is being used in the making of this post). Here is the Windows experience index (WEI) score of this bad girl out-of-the-bot (OOB):...

So, in the past week, I've spent under $200 on Swoopo.com and Haggle.com. Why is this news you should care about or what's my point? I'll start off with Haggle.com (Update: Please see a Haggle employee's commentary on the points I raise in this article. )...

This is one of the several posts I've made since I obtained the Nokia e71x phone. As you know, connecting the Nokia E71x phone to your computer via USB is a piece of cake. Pairing this same E71x via bluetooth to your computer is also very easy. However, due to reasons I'll expatiate on in this post, installing the correct bluetooth drivers for the E71x phone was a headache. If the services offered by your computer and phone look like this image below, the chances are you don't have anything to worry about: For proper context, my laptop was running ...

So, I finally got around to re-downloading Windows Live Writer which IS the dominant desktop software for creating/editing blog posts. Setting up a Wordpress blog is very easy in Windows Live Writer. In Habari, there's just a little more work that needs to be done to simplify things. For starters, the metaweblogAPI method for posting is not enabled by default in Habari. A plugin does that trick and unfortunately, the documentation of that plugin does little to help you set it up through blogging clients like Windows Live Writer (WLW). Thankfully, andyc has a good post on setting up ...