I find myself on Google searching for “color picker“s a lot more often than I ever thought I would; you really never anticipate how often you want to double-check how a color looks, or what it’s hex code is when you are messing with CSS.
Dion Almaer tweeted a link to a great JavaScript color picker [...]
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Slick JavaScript Color Picker Utility
How to Add Page-Link Tag (Multiple Page Post / nextpage) Support to WordPress
If you have been trying to figure out how to add support for multi-page posts in WordPress that have pagination buttons at the end of each page that look like this:
then look no further than this post!
The screenshot you see above is actually the exact pagination style we use for long posts that we break [...]
How to Stop Windows HTPC From Powering off While Media Center Extender is Streaming
Do you have a Windows 7 Media Center HTPC that you are streaming content from to additional Media Center Extender devices (e.g. Xbox 360 somewhere else in the house) and want to find out a way to have the HTPC not turn itself off when you hit the power button if it’s still in-use by [...]
Native MMS Enabled on iPhone 2G Kills Battery Life
We wrote a “How to Enable MMS on your 2G iPhone w/ 3.1.2 Firmware” guide a few weeks ago when reader SEA-LegS popped into the comments that he had been running the Native MMS app after following the guide and his battery life had been cut in half or a third of what it used [...]
How to Center WordPress Captioned Images in a WooThemes Theme
We are very happy WooThemes customers; have been for years. About 2 years ago WordPress added support for “captions” with images inserted into posts, they end up getting a nice grayed border with the caption right under the image; it looks nice.
Unfortunately for us, 3 of the WooThemes we went through in the last 2 [...]
Cooking Times are Past Their Prime!
When I was younger, I was always fascinated with cooking. In particular, baking. Being from South Carolina, originally, I was surrounded by tons of women who just KNEW how to cook, if you follow me. Hands down, they were Paula Deen before she was even a concept.
One of these great cooks was my grandmother. She [...]
How to Enable MMS on 2G iPhone with 3.1.2 Firmware and Native MMS
If you have the original “2G” iPhone (EDGE-only) and have the 3.1.2 firmware installed on it and want to get MMS working, this is the guide for you. Alternatively, if you have the original 2G iPhone and don’t have the iPhone 3.1.2 firmware on it yet, but want to know how to get it on [...]
Windows 7 Window Size/Position Keyboard Shortcuts
I ran across this feature in Windows 7 totally by chance this morning even though we wrote about it a year ago (doh!) and wanted to share.
In Windows 7 you can position and resize windows on your desktop in a few very slick ways. The most well-known ones are clicking on the title-bar and dragging the window [...]
Odd ReadyNAS NV+ Performance Boost Tip: Disable Jumbo Frames
A real quick tip for folks experiencing abysmal Read/Write performance on their ReadyNAS devices: Try disabling Jumbo Frames.
Jumb Frames only benefit you if your client supports it, any switches or routers you are connecting through support it, and the ReadyNAS you are ultimately communicating with support it.
If any links in that chain do not support [...]
MongoDB (Single-Server) Data Durability Guide
If you are a MongoDB user or just interested in NoSQL databases in general, you may have seen the excellent “MongoDB has poor data durability by default!” (I am paraphrasing) conversation started by Mikeal Rogers.
It is an excellent topic to bring up and regardless of Mikeal’s association (he’s a CouchDB developer) I never once got [...]
@Override Compiler Errors in Play! Framework “Must Override a Superclass Method”
If you are working with the Play! Framework and have run into exceptions that read like “The file <MyFile>.java could not be compiled. Error raised is : The method <MethodName> of type <ClassName> must override a superclass method” then you might be wondering if there is a compiler bug in Play! – worry not, it’s [...]
How to Update iPhone 2G with Firmware 3.1.2, Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide
REMINDER: This guide is for folks with the original “2G” or EDGE-only iPhone (pictured above). If you have an iPhone 3G, try our iOS 4 guide to get updated to the latest iPhone OS!
Introduction
If you are like me and own an original 2G/EDGE iPhone and feel sad that you can’t install iOS 4 on your [...]
iPhone 3G iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide
Welcome to the world’s first iPhone iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier unlock guide. Let’s just dig right in!
NOTE: This guide is continually updated based on conversations in the comments section as well as updated software like redsn0w coming out and fixing problems for people. Please let us know in the comments if there is something [...]
How to Make IntelliJ Re-combine Split Lines (Ignore Newline Characters)
If you are an IntelliJ user and were wondering how to have IntelliJ reformat an entire file – including throwing out newline characters that were splitting lines and re-combine them – you are in luck. As it turns out IntelliJ IDEA already supports this feature, unfortunately it is just hidden in an unexpected place (at [...]
IntelliJ IDEA Tip: source release 1.6 requires target release 1.6
If you are an IntelliJ IDEA user and you are using Maven in your project, chances are you may some day run into this incredibly cryptic and confusing message:
Error: javac: source release 1.6 requires target release 1.6
Googling it digs up a few approaches to solving the problem as well as some IntelliJ IDEA bug reports [...]
Git Tip: git config user.name and user.email for local (not global) config
Git is a source-control tool used by software developers.
As I’ve mentioned I’m just learning the ropes of Git and as someone doing that I’m going through a lot of tutorials that have a lot of similar-looking tips. One in particular is the use of:
git config –global user.name “Your Name”
git config –global user.email “you@example.com”
These are also [...]
How to Enable Apache Worker MPM in CentOS / RedHat / Debian
I am reposting this tip because it took me a few hours to Google for it (likely using the wrong terms or combination of terms to find it) and then had a huge “duh!” moment when I saw the answer.
If you are on CentOS / RedHat / Fedora and want to run Apache with the [...]
Optimizing WordPress Page-Load Pauses with PHP-CGI
For the last 6-months I’ve been trying to deal with mysterious “page load pause” issues with WordPress on my Apache/prefork/mod_php setup. Server load was low, hardware was a 4GB 2-core machine, spent 4 months of that time tweaking MaxClients and other Apache prefork settings until I finally gave up.
The behavior I was seeing is hitting the [...]
WordPress (PHP, Sendmail, Postfix) Keeps Sending Mail to Local Spool
Description of Problem
You are running WordPress (or some other PHP-application on Linux) and you host your email with Gmail or Google Apps hosted account. Unfortunately, every time you try and generate an email from WordPress and send it with Sendmail or Postfix (on CentOS, Debian, whatever) it always ends up going into your local mail [...]
Tip for TimThumb (thumb.php) not Generating Thumbnails
This tip is for anyone using TimThumb (aka “thumb.php”) either directly or indirectly via a WordPress theme (WooThemes uses it a lot) and is not having their thumbnails successfully generated.
I have run into this 3x in the last few years and ever time I forget the solution and have to re-find it, so I’m posting [...]
Use IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) to Avoid Duplicates
Apace Wicket Quick Tip
If you are working with multiple AjaxEventBehavior’s (like AjaxFormSubmitBehavior and AjaxFormValidatingBehavior) on similar components in a Page and you are using IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence) it’s possible you are contributing duplicate JavaScript over and over again to the header section of your Page unecessarily.
As it turns out, by simply changing to use the IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) method (providing [...]
How to Check if Apache is Running Prefork or Worker
For about the last week I’ve been trying to tweak the performance of a particular Apache server with varying degrees of success and failure. The biggest frustration is that I haven’t been able to find a way to determine which MPM mode Apache was running in: Prefork or Worker. Without that information I couldn’t tell [...]
How I Fixed the "Subversion Checksum Mismatch" Issue
From where I’m standing SVN seems to bring with it a lot of the issues that CVS had with regards to “too much” changing on your local disk and then that getting you into trouble when you went to check it into the repo.
I never figured out why exactly CVS would frequently balk at this [...]
How to Properly "Turn Off" Google Buzz
If you are currently stuck trying to turn off Google Buzz correctly you’ll want to check out Jessica Dolcourt’s 4-page article on CNET telling you how.
I think any time it takes 4 pages to figure out how to turn off a feature that effectively turns your inbox into Twitter and pulls words out of your [...]
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