First let me mention my current setup. 15″ 2012 Macbook Pro running MacOS Catalina on a 2.6Ghz Quad-Core i7 cpu with 8GB ram and 256 SSD. The superdrive is replaced a 1Tb HDD for storage. An old Kensington USB-3 dock drives one 23″ LG IPS monitor. A second 23″ LG IPS monitor connects directly to the laptop over mini-display port. …
While maintaining one of my websites today, I noticed when I submit the contact form, that the ajax icon at the button would just spin and spin with no real indication that the form was being sent. It was however – every time I clicked submit. The WordPress site uses the very popular Contact Form 7 plugin in its latest …
Recently I acquired an Apple TV 2, in all it’s Apple glory – well, actually that’s where this story begins because if you have an Apple TV, you know it’s rather limited out of the box. So that’s where a little afternoon hacking comes in. In only a few short hours with this amazing device, I successfully installed XBMC on …
Mac Users: I don’t really use the Dashboard anymore. Let’s face it- it use to be cool right? Ya, I don’t know. So as it goes, even if you don’t use the dashboard or any widgets, it still takes up your precious memory – resources that could be better used updating your MAMP wordpress site, or ripping DVDs with handbrake. …
The default theme for Firefox has made some nice improvements over the years but it may still seem a little drab in today’s advancing Web 2.0 world. If you haven’t got your theme on, then click over to Firefox’s Addon Site where you can add a million different appearance tweaks or utilities. But if you’re an avid Firefox user, even …
There are a million different articles out there for optimizing your blog for seo by changing wordpress’s default permalink structure to something other than the default. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks http://wphacks.com/how-to-switch-your-wordpress-blogs-permalink-structure/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1523689/how-can-i-update-my-permalink-structure-in-wordpress http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-friendly-url-structure/4556/ After reading and realizing the risk of breaking all my links and having search engines reject me if I did it wrong, I decided anyway to change the default structure …
UPDATE: Because of the new theme, I have removed the “About” page to which this post refers and am using the default About page, but have decided to keep this post as a tutorial on how it can be done. Click on “About” in the menu bar and you’ll be taken to the new static about me page. About Me …
I always come up with lame titles for posts. Personally, there should be no need for a title. However lame they may be, fonts should not be. That’s why you can make and have sweet personalized fonts in a matter of minutes. Yourfonts.com is the place to go to simply create a font in your own handwriting or maybe something you …
In my last post I covered how to manage Firefox profiles. Well, now we need to extend on that topic. I created a new profile for Work, but my default profile, I believe, was garbled up a bit from customizing that it was actually running slower than my newly created profile. So, I deleted it and created a new default …
Today, over sips of Yuban Coffee and set up in a small closet-like office, I decided that my life would be a tad more organized had I created different profiles for my favorite browser, mr. Firefox3. Reasons being… In my default profile, there are good quality sites I have in my bookmarks which I cannot access at work (cause of …
Sometimes you just need to see everything. Luckily, you don’t need a special pair of hi-tech glasses to see every file on your computer. Viewing hidden files on Windows is easy. Open a folder, go to Tools, Folder Options, View tab, Under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders. Viewing hidden files under Mac OSx Leopard, is …
I feel bad. I’m sorry I’ve let you down. I’ve been a Mac enthusist since this past April (but wanted to be much earlier than that.) And since then, I’ve been writing on all things Mac. But what recent readers (or skimmers) may not realize is that most of this blog actually is full of windows tips, tricks, and software. …
This article assumes you’re using Firefox 3 and that you know how to save a bookmark. Some lousy webpages won’t save your passwords, like hotmail, their related sites like Windows Live Skydrive (file storage), sometimes blogger, and there are others. Maybe you frequent a site and you have to type in your obscure username and password each and every time. …
Reviewed here are two of my favorite Mac Additions: GimmeSomeTune (for iTunes) and Lab Tick.
If you didn’t join the other 8 million citizens of earth on Firefox 3’s HUGE download day this last Tuesday, don’t worry. It’s not too late to click over and download it now. Besides excellent internet security, pop-up blocker, themes, addins, and tabbed browsing farrrr more superior to that of IE or the like, FF3 brings to the browsing world …
I was thinking the other day how I have come across some really useful information over the past months that this website has been live, and I wanted to list a few things that I have found the most useful. How to Hide or Remove Spam (&Spam Count) in Gmail Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 to find any business on the spot, for …
ROCKETDOCK brings windows users what other programs bring to the table, except they bring this “taskbar” application with some huge steps up. From their website, its main features are as follows: Features: Minimize windows to the dock Real-time window previews in Vista Running application indicators Simple drag-n-drop interface Multi-monitor support Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons Icons zoom and transition …
A poor endorsement, if you will, and yet another blog on igoogle’s homepage experience, igoogle offers a collection of web & computer information all in one place. There are many & countless gadgets one can add to their homepage such as clocks, CPU usage gauges, horoscopes, news headlines, and loads of super geeky add-ons, but in simplicity, I have added …
Apple computer systems are built with a super cool Album Art Screen Saver which utilizes your own iTunes album art work. When the screen saver builds, artwork is gathered at random and displayed on your screen in a grid of boxes, as it were. Every few seconds, one box of artwork flips to reveal another piece of album cover. So …
I can’t stay with the same look for long, so I have, over the years, collected wallpaper for my desktop. Every now and then a family photo will be sported on my screen, and thus, for various reasons, unless stated otherwise, I have not posted those below in my FAVORITE WALLPAPERS OF THE YEAR POST (no particular order) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ …