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What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? MAMP, VirtualHostX, AMPPS?

  • 17 Mar, 2014

What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? Mamp, VirtualHostX, AMPPS? Something else? I asked around and everyone does it a bit differently. I’m looking for quick and easy and mainly for WordPress development. Nothing complicated. So far, Mamp is winning both the Twitter vote and other channels. What do you use for […]

Valleyfair Construction 1974

  • 14 Mar, 2014
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Back in 1974 there wasn’t much to Valleyfair. In fact, two local businessmen were just starting to build it. When Valleyfair opened in 1976, it had 20 attractions that included the Antique Cars, Bumper Cars, Ferris Wheel, High Roller roller coaster, Scrambler, SuperCat, and Wheel of Fortune. Amazingly enough, most of those are still there today!

How to reduce the size of your WordPress database.

  • 12 Mar, 2014

What’s in your WordPress database that you don’t need? Have you ever ran through it and cleaned it up? Probably not. I recently did and it found 8.338 MB of unused stuff. It’s easy to do too. I use the Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions plugin. Most of my cleanup came from removing post revisions. By […]

Nerd Memories – Zip Disks

  • 9 Mar, 2014

When I was in college we had Iomega Zip and Jazz disks! I still have some around here with files on them. I keep thinking that someday I’ll get those files off them. However, that someday will never come. image via nataliedee.com

Spice up Safari, Evernote, iTunes, Finder & more with emoji icons.

  • 6 Mar, 2014

Since 10.8 Apple has had emoji icons built into the OS. Until recently, I used these for Twitter and IM, but not much else. Turns out, they’re actually really handy other places too. In Evernote I use them to easily identify some of my notes. In calendar, I can add palm trees to my vacation. […]