Sergi Castillo

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Firts post from iPhone

July 24th, 2008 by sergi

I’m writing this post from my iPhone and I’m using the new application from the AppStore, Wordpress.

This new app let’s you write a post from a simple interface, you just put your blog address and username and password and start writing.

Writing is easy too, you select the category and tags and just write the post.

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Mac mini as second mac

July 20th, 2008 by sergi

Mac Mini

Recently I’ve purchased an used mac mini, this is the last mini with PPC architecture, see below the specs:

Processor: PowerPC @ 1,5 Ghz
RAM: 1Gb (originally 512Mb)
HardDrive: 80Gb
Misc: SuperDrive, WiFi, BlueTooth…

The reason of the buy is basically have a second mac for continuous tasks like downloading security copies of my DVDs. Another utillity I want to put on him is like media center, I know this model can’t handle the HD movies but can do streaming to my xbox360 for example.

So we could get the conclusion this mac are going to be online 24/7 but how can I connect to it? How can I control the status? We’ll cover this questions from now.

First of all, as you may know this model comes with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and I have a macbook with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the last version of the Apple’s OS comes with a very useful characteristic which is that all the Macs in the same network will discover each other automatically activating a simple option in System Preferences.

Go to “Sharing” in System Preferences and activate “File Sharing” and “Remote Management”. With the first activated, you can see the other mac on your finder, if you don’t see it at first, open a finder and press cmd+shift+k and you may see it, in my case I get a window like this:

Network Finder

As you can see Leopard recognizes automatically what kind of mac you have and puts an entry on sidebar :)

The option “Remote Management” helps to control the mac when you aren’t around and includes the “Screen Sharing” option, if you open mac in your mini you will see something like this:

Mac Mini Finder

Now you have a part of finder an option in top of the window called “Share screen” which lets you to see in a new window the mac you pretend to control.

In the next post I’ll write about how to share only one mouse and keyboard with two or more macs in the same network.

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Blog is iPhone approved

May 26th, 2008 by sergi

Thanks to Alexliam and his post (in spanish) about the compatibility of the blog with the navigation with an iPhone, I realized this blog isn’t compatible!

Oh my God, this blog which main topic is iPhone and Apple, can’t be no iPhone friendly, so I’ve ran to install the plugin that let’s you make your blog compatible with it, the plugin is called WPTouch.

Once the plugin is installed as the rest of the plugins, you can configure it through Settings->WPTouch, if you pay attention at the bottom of the configuration page, you will see a few recommendations of a plugins you may install and some pages you could make to explode all the features of WPTouch, for the time being, I have only installed a pair of plugins, Blip.it to visualize the embedded videos in the posts, and flickrRRS to show photos on my flickr account.

The other recommendations are making some pages called ‘Links’, ‘Archives’ and ‘Photos’ but I think I won’t make it.

And to show you (if you haven’t an iPhone :P) how the blog looks…

Blog @ iPhone

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We’re back

May 10th, 2008 by admin

After a week of changes seems the migration to the new hosting is ok.

Main page, blog and eMail works fine for now and I hope it continues like this for a long time.

Thank you for your patience and another time, if you find something wrong, contact me.

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We are moving

May 7th, 2008 by admin

I’ve just purchased a hosting with namecheap, the same domain provider of visualDelusions.

Since now, the domain was ubicated on my own personal server but I’m tired and I don’t have time to maintain the server, so I’ve decided move the domain to a professional hosting. The package I’ve purchased is the basic and offers the following services at $2,91 per month or $39,95 per year:

  • 5 GB space
  • 250 GB transfer
  • 50 email accounts
  • 15 MySQL databases
  • 1 domain
  • 15 subdomains
  • 5 FTP users
  • and some email features like: 2000MB, unlimited aliases, webmail…

I pray a little of patience and if you find something wrong, please contact me via email. I’ll notice when the migration is complete.

Thank you all my readers :)

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CSS Naked Day

April 9th, 2008 by sergi

Today is the CSS naked day. This day pretends to become a day without CSS which means the webpages should disable their stylesheets and present the webpage without them. The reason of this movement is to claim the importance of the CSS in our webpages and alert our readers of it.

As you see I have joined to this day. I have done it through a wordpress plugin which disables automatically the CSS at April 9th, you can download it here. As here, I’ll do it on my main webpage, visualDelusions.

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Best Web Gallery

March 11th, 2008 by sergi

Best Web Gallery is a website shich recopiles the best webs around net.

As they say, collect a wide range of quality design websites which means websites with visual, technical and creativity.

I’ve just submitted my website visualDelusions, I hope it like they but I know this is only a hobbie and maybe my homepage needs more work. I have some ideas to improve it like show the lastest post.

If finally they select my homepage as “Best Web” I’ll notice you.

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Meme: My workspace

March 2nd, 2008 by sergi

Hi, answering Ancude’s meme I’m showing my workspace:

My workspace #1

You can see more photos at my flickr.

All questions/comments are welcome and if you want to answer the meme be free to do it ;)

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403 day

February 25th, 2008 by sergi

From minid and other blogs, the 403 day has began.

It’s an iniciative to go against Internet Explorer, in 4th March all the users will get a 403 error code if they try to access your site with Internet Explorer.

There are different methods to do this:

  • Modify your .htaccess file in your server. Download
  • Install the WordPress plugin. Download

And more you can find in the official web.

I’m supporting the iniciative, so if you try to access this blog in 4th March with Internet Explorer you will get a 403 error ;)

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Creating an account of Technorati

February 20th, 2008 by sergi

I’m creating just now a new account of Technorati to get in touch with the other blogs and increase the visits here. Hope this works :)
Technorati Profile

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