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About Dustin Patterson
Posts by Dustin Patterson
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How To Enable The Telnet Client In Windows 7
26 Jul 2010 by Dustin Patterson
As a system administrator, having all of your software utilities quickly accessible can make your job easier. One piece of software often used by admins is the Microsoft Telnet Client. Unlike previous versions of the Windows operating system, Windows 7 does not have the Microsoft Telnet client installed by default. System administrators can quickly see this when typing ‘telnet‘ on ...
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How To Take Screenshots On An iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad
22 Jul 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
Writing guides like we do here at Techerator often involves screenshots of software, settings, or anything else pertinent to the article at hand. We’ve previously covered taking screenshots of your Android device, but what about your iOS device? Fear not, for that’s what I’m about to show you. Taking a screenshot of your iOS device is quite easy and doesn’t involve the ...
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New Evernote Feature: The Evernote Trunk
21 Jul 2010 by Dustin Patterson
The popular note taking software Evernote has announced a new feature called The Evernote Trunk. The Evernote Trunk is a collection of Evernote integrated applications that make use of the Evernote Developer API. The Evernote Trunk makes these 3rd party applications easily available to you in the Evernote interface on your desktop, web, and soon the iPad. To get started using The Evernote Trunk,...
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How to Let Your WordPress Blog Visitors Upload Files To Your Dropbox
19 Jul 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 21 Comments
Dropbox is one of our favorite pieces of software here at Techerator. Every day, people are coming up with new ways to use the free online file backup and syncing service. When used with other software, Dropbox can be utilized for just about anything. The Dropbox Upload Form plugin for WordPress is a small plugin that adds a file upload form to a WordPress Post or Page and adds the uploaded fi...
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How To Change The Default File Opening and Saving Location For Microsoft Office
29 Jun 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 7 Comments
If you’re a big Word and Excel user, you may open and save several documents in a day. Word and Excel are set by default to save in your My Documents folder on Windows XP or Documents library on Windows Vista/7. This default location is OK if you’re a home user but may not be ideal if you’re in a work environment where mapped drives and other network shares are common. In thi...
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Google Voice – Now Available For Everyone!
23 Jun 2010 by Dustin Patterson and Evan Wondrasek
Google Voice, the popular communication service originally known as GrandCentral before it was acquired by Google in 2007, has been invite-only for the past year. Demand for these hard-to-come-by invites was high – so high that they were being sold on eBay for as much as $200 – but Google just opened the service to the public, no invite necessary. So what is Google Voice? Many thi...
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Make Upgrading Your Fedora System Easier with PreUpgrade
01 Jun 2010 by Dustin Patterson
Keeping with their six-month release cycle, Fedora 13 – codename Goddard – was released on Tuesday. Upgrading your Fedora installs can be a time-consuming process if you’re using the downloaded DVD. Reinstalling can also take time considering you will need to backup and restore your system. PreUpgrade is a utility that simplifies the Fedora upgrade process by only downloading t...
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Significantly Reduce Website Spam with the ‘Bad Behavior’ Plugin
27 May 2010 by Dustin Patterson
Spam is everywhere and can easily overrun a website. If not controlled, it is possible for spam comments to infiltrate your WordPress blog, forum, guestbook or other content-management system, redirecting your readers to malicious websites. The graph below shows the distribution of comments on a site. As you can see, spam comments make up the largest majority, with just over 97% of the total c...
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Resolve Missing DLL Errors in Windows with Dependency Walker
25 May 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
Anyone working in the PC technical support field knows all too well the problems associated with missing DLL files. Dependency Walker is a free utility that can help you find missing DLL files. Below is an error message commonly seen when trying to register a DLL file with the Windows utility regsvr32. Due to the vast number of DLL files, finding the correct one could take a lot of time. To use...
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Seesmic Desktop 2 Preview: A Quick Overview
20 May 2010 by Dustin Patterson
As part of the Google I/O conference, Seesmic has released Seesmic Desktop 2 Preview which offers support for Twitter, Facebook, and even Google Buzz. Seesmic Desktop 2 is built on Silverlight and is available for both Windows and Mac. To get started with Seesmic Desktop 2, visit the Seesmic download page. You will be prompted to download and install Silverlight if you don’t have it already....
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