Mac & HP – Can’t We All Be Friends?
I remember when I bought my iMac years ago, an HP PSC 1510was purchased along with it and I wrestled with the config to make the two hardware pieces see each other and play nice. Since then, the hard drive crashed and now it’s the whole thing all over again. Like most things these days, [...]
Complete Site Redesign in a Morning
Sometimes, I just have to escape into codeland. It’s my happy place. In this case, it was a redesign (again!) of my own site using a stock install of WordPress. It seems an odd thing for a developer to do, knowing this is my chance to impress you with killer graphics and bleeding-edge coding. Tell [...]
D.I.Y. Publishing Made Easy
When I was looking for my son’s Bar Mitzvah invitations online, all I saw was overpriced junk. Nothing was even close, so I dusted off the design tools and got busy. Type on a curve was fun old-school trick. Getting hebrew fonts was a bit of a grind, but there were some good ones out [...]
I hate to like Windows 7, but…
I have always had to maintain a PC on my mac network to run various business softwares and this has asways been a painful experience. Before getting this (sweet) new laptop, it sure was. Especially near the end there where the blue screen closed every session at some point. A perfect example is the pain from [...]
Using Technology to Pass Online Tests
The other day I had a chance to make a big chunk of change, but I discovered that my insurance license had expired TWO DAYS previously. Bummer. I went into hyper-renewal mode and powered out all my Continuing Education units in a morning. How was this amazing feat accomplished? My downloading the textbooks and using [...]
This Photo Gallery is Taking Over My Site
I’ve been pretty psyched with the default template bundled with the latest release of WordPress, not so much for its flexibility but because it’s easy to do what I want, then come back and apply some new trick. I’ve been using other systems too, but I always come back to the plugin universe. Granted, I don’t [...]
UberDrupal is Uber-Cool Open Source Software
Yesterday, I was ripping some CDs for a client‘s iPod and used the time wisely to do my first Drupal install. The idea is to use this robust open source platform for the content management of my bigger sites. I used another client‘s site as a model for an Ubercart implementation and realized right off [...]
Handbrake Gives The Power to the People!
It was like seeing an old friend for the first time in a long time when I saw this interface again. There was a period that I was active in converting DVDs to .avi files. I had my reasons (ratio) and gathered up a good set of tools that would let me play these files [...]
Sometimes, I have to just stand up and walk out
It seems like I never get a break in this business. Most of the codegaking and marketing I do has no hard deadline, so it doesn’t matter if it’s the middle of the day or the middle of the night. Another factor is that my $$$ is directly connected to the amount of hustle. Thus, [...]
Daddy Got Himself Some New Mac Software
I was adding in a new “print document” format to the order form at canceranswers.com and got pretty stoked by the functionality of Coda, another killer app from Panic Software. I picked up at the tip to use it during a Drupal open source content management system training conference last week. Coda edits text files locally [...]