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Working With PHPMotion: Update

Unfortunately, the project that I was working on with PHPMotion has been derailed!

I was really looking forward to carrying through with it and getting pretty deep into the PHPMotion product. I guess I’ll need to look for another opportunity. Bummer.

Working With PHPMotion

I’ve begun working with a video website content management system called PHPMotion. It’s considered to be a YouTube clone, is 100% template-based,  is “easily” skinnable via HTML and CSS and is FREE.

So how does PHPMotion stack up as a free CMS/Web Application?
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Alternative To Running An Application As A Windows Service

Here’s a situation that I recently encountered that presented an interesting challenge…

I was working with a Windows Server on which I needed to run a Java application as a Windows Service so that the app would not shut down as I logged off of my Remote Desktop Connection session. The kicker was that my user account for that server does not have sufficient permissions to set up a Windows Service for it.

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Mac OS X Screen Capture, Default Location and Default File Name

On my post titled “Mac OS X Screen Capture, Default Image Format and How To Change It“, a user called “frz” asks:

Anyone know how to change the default filename to the date and time the capture is made? Example: “10-12-09 10:53.png” instead of “Picture 1.png” as it is saved as default today.

That’s a really great question!

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