You should update your web.config now

Followed by this message below the ‘Save Changes’ button:

If the root directory of your site were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so this is the url rewrite rule you should have in your web.config file. Create a new file, called web.config in the root directory of your site. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all. Then insert this code into the web.config file.

All this means is that the root directory for your site is not writable, and WordPress has just attempted unsuccessfully to create the new file called web.config. This is a good thing, and means that the root folder permissions on your server are at a more secure setting.

To get permalinks working, follow the steps outlined above or:

1. Open notepad (windows)
2. Copy and paste the code block from WordPress into the new notepad document
3. Click File -> Save
4. Select ‘All Files (*.*) from the Save as type drop-down menu
5. Type in ‘web.config’ and remove the .txt
6. FTP this file to the root folder

One last thing, click on ‘Save Changes’ in WordPress after selecting the type of permalinks you want. A Second message will appear:

If your web.config file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so this is the url rewrite rule you should have in your web.config file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all. Then insert this rule inside of the /<configuration>/<system.webServer>/<rewrite>/<rules> element in web.config file.

Ignore this message, permalinks will already be working. Visit you blog and click on a post heading to see the permalinks in action!

This is current as of WordPress 3.3.1.

Here is the original code, first is the telephone number, second is the address:

<div id="call-portrait">555-123-4567</div>

<p>111-1234 Main Street Vancouver, BC</p>

A quick search for how to disable telephone number detection in mobile browsers offered me the following meta-tags (first one is for iOS/iPhone, second is for Blackberry):

After I applied this code addresses were no longer links, but neither was the clients’ telephone number. Further searching turned up an HTML method of inserting telephone numbers into code that I was not aware of which is similar to the mailto format:

555-123-4567

So wrapping text or an image inside to that tag turns the telephone number into a usable link. The one drawback, not that it seems to be a real problem as there are already telephone number harvesters out there, is that this method provides a more efficient way for said harvesters to obtain phone numbers from your website.

Sources:

http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/click-to-call-links-mobile-browsers

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/PhoneLinks.html

http://mobiforge.com/forum/starting/dotmobi-best-practices/risks-using-a-hreftelxxxxx-links-0

For a while I just avoided letting the laptop go to sleep, rather I would just put in the effort to shut it down instead of walking away and letting it put itself to sleep.

Being the type that is always looking to make life easier, I decided to search for a fix. Google basically turned up empty. There was a fix that involved device manager -> non-plug and play drivers (view -> show hidden devices), and changing the properties for the ‘beep’ link here. There was also a few brand specific fixes, but nothing worked.

About ready to give up hope, I decided that there must be a simple solution to this annoyance which must be built into Windows or my Asus laptop’s hardware for a reason. Well it took about 5 clicks and it was fixed. Here’s the solution:

Control Panel -> Sound -> Playback tab -> Right-Click Speakers -> Advanced tab -> Default Format drop-down -> selected a higher rate like 24 bit, 44100 Hz (Studio Quality)

Clicked on test = annoying beeping high pitched sound gone!

This is the third time I have come across frequencies playing a roll in squealing sounds from computers or monitors, so this is obviously something that should be investigated.

Hope this helps.