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Say No To Social Advertising

  • 11 Nov, 2013

Both Facebook and Google+ are using your profile pictures to tie into ads. This helps those ads seem more appealing to your friends since you Liked or +1ed those companies in the past. Social ads are easy enough to disable though. In Facebook go to Settings -> Ads and click the ‘Edit’ button for ‘Ads […]

Successfully Installed Mac OS 9

  • 9 Nov, 2013

After the success of getting Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks installed, I thought I’d get Mac OS 9 installed too. Why you ask? Because we got a preschool CD-ROM at a garage sale and we’d like to check it out and see if Lily would like it. She won’t care how old it is. Turns out, […]

Fixing Kernel Panics on Mavericks

  • 8 Nov, 2013

A few weeks ago I posted about my failure to install Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. It would only stay running for a few minutes before it’d kernel panic and restart. However, I’ve cracked the code and I’m now running Mavericks with no problems! If you’re running into this issues, take those few minutes before the […]

How To Use the Number Pad in Vim on iTerm2

  • 29 Oct, 2013

If you use iTerm2, a great alternative to Terminal on Mac, then you’ve probably tried to use the number pad and realized that it doesn’t type numbers. Good news, there is a setting you can change to make the keypad work. In iTerm2 go to preferences -> profiles -> keys -> load preset… and choose […]

Upgrade WordPress Admin & Make It Mobile Friendly

  • 18 Oct, 2013

If you want to upgrade your WordPress admin to look a lot cleaner and make it mobile friendly, download the MP6 plugin. The MP6 plugin is developed by many of the core WordPress developers and should appear in WordPress 3.8. It’s technically in beta, but looks pretty darn amazing. And yes, I’m aware that the […]

Free Unlimited Private GIT Code Repositories at Bitbucket

  • 13 Oct, 2013

As I learn more and more bout Git, I realize that I’d like to use it to manage all my sites. Sounds great, except GitHub wants $7 a month for private repositories. Bitbucket however seems to be exactly what I’m looking for. I can create as many Git repositories as I want and they are […]

WordPress Multisite 101 – WordUp Presentation

  • 12 Oct, 2013

Why have one blog when you can have 50!? Here is the presentation I gave at WordUp 2013 about WordPress Multisite. If you were there, it’ll be a good reminder of what we talked about. If you weren’t, it’ll give you some info but it may be out of context as my speaking notes aren’t […]

Am I the only one that doesn’t like auto updates?

  • 10 Oct, 2013

Are auto updates really a good thing? More and more software is opting into auto updating so that the user doesn’t have to worry about it. In some cases I think this is good, in others I’m worried about negative side effects. iOS 7 Auto Updates In iOS 7 Apple introduced auto updates for apps. […]

When you run out of Dropbox space, try Copy. A great alternative.

  • 7 Oct, 2013

I have Dropbox and I love it. It’s my goto for storing and syncing files to the cloud. Even though I’ve been able to rack up some additional free space on Dropbox, it’s still pretty lacking in the free space department. There are a lot of other options but Copy is quickly becoming one of […]