You want free email for your domain (you@yourdomain.com), don’t you? Of course you do. And chances are your shared hosting provider has this service available to you. However, as we know for my recent article Firing Bluehost–How I Doubled My Site Speed Using AWS and Other FREE Services Your shared hosting provider is most likely […]
Tech Cafe of the Digital Nomad
Technology is what makes this site possible. I'm an IT Consultant and WordPress Geek. When I'm not gallivanting about the far reaches of the globe, whitewater rafting or flying airplanes I'm building computer networks and Nerding out on WordPress. You'll find tons of great tutorials and technical brain storming in this section. Happy reading!
Converting WordPress to HTTPS (SSL) – AND – Preserving Social Share Button Counts
I’ve been thinking for some time about converting freewheelings to https using an SSL certificate. However, the major problem that has kept me from doing it (until now) is that all of your share counts will be reset. There is something to be said for social proof. You see, in the eyes Google Plus, Twitter, […]
Windows Live Writer – Genesis Pro (HTML5) Themes Problem
If you’re anything like me you just finished upgrading your site or setting up a new site using Genesis and a Studio Press Pro child theme. In this case News Pro. And I suspect that this will apply to many new HTML5 sites as well. You fired up Windows Live Writer, told it to download […]
Firing Bluehost–How I Doubled My Site Speed Using AWS and Other FREE Services
After over two years with Bluehost a very sad thing had happened to me and I didn’t even know it. I lowered my expectations of webhosting. It happened slowly, a gradual change that I didn’t even notice until one day this site taking 10-15 seconds to load was normal. Even worse, I almost let my […]
Google Translate Update – The World Just Got a Little Smaller
I brought a Spanish-English dictionary along to Columbia and I’ve opened it once, not for lack of need to find Spanish translations, but for the death of my smartphone battery. Travel hack advisory – Google Translate, even before the latest update, offered downloadable packages to allow for the use of translate services offline. However, the […]
How to Get Moving with WordPress
A couple times a month or so I get an email or a message from someone interested in building with WordPress. They ask some similar questions and I thought I’d add it to our library here at freewheelings. I’m not going to try and sell you anything here. There won’t even be a single affiliate […]
Motorcycle to South America – Interactive Map
Want to know where in the world we are? Check out this Google map of our 2013-14 transcontinental motorcycle trip. This is Google’s newish map engine lite. If you’re familiar with any of the areas that we are in or in the vicinity of please feel free to use the comments section to make […]
Preparing Your Computer for Travel
I think most of the world now travels with their personal computing devices. Traveling to and through Mexico, Central America and South America significantly increases your chances of loss or theft. There are things that you can do to protect your information and your identity should this occur. I think just about everyone’s computer contains […]
What are Travel Bloggers Talking About?
This is a tag cloud generated off of the RSS Feeds of 71 Lonely Planet blogsherpa travel bloggers. I went through and removed as many of the common words as I could to clean it up. These keywords are generated from the posts in my consolidated travel blogger RSS feed bundle Monday through Wednesday of […]
Five Things Japan has Taught Me About Blogging and Social Media
Let me first start by saying that my heart goes out to everyone in Japan this week. It’s going to be a long way from your current situation to the stability of economy and Country you are used to. I’ve put the Red Cross donation banner up here on freewheelings and I hope if you’re […]