This applies to those of you who put “social media expert, “social media guru”, “social media consultant” or “social media specialist” on your LinkedIn and other social media profiles. Who are you trying to fool?
There is no such thing as being an expert in social media. Just because you know how to tweet and create a Facebook account does not make you an expert.
My 14 year old sister knows how to do all of that, I guess she should drop out of school and start doing full time social media consulting, she is an expert after all, right?
Remember back in the day maybe late 90’s / early 00’s when you installed Windows automatic updates and you had to restart your PC after they were done? It’s 2011 and yet I still have to restart my machine after some new Windows hotfix downloads, why?
I propose a soft reset instead. All your programs would close, you would be logged out and your machine would apply the updates and then you log back in. It’s a pain in the ass waiting for my PC to restart when it shouldn’t have too.
The Zune is finally dead.
After years of haemorrhaging money and trying to compete with the iPod, Microsoft are finally killing off the failed Zune media player.
Don’t cry too much my much loathed nerds, they’re going to incorporate the Zune media player software into Windows Phone 7.
In true Microsoft style, they just won’t let a product truly die. At the time of writing this a Zune HD 16gb will still set you back over $300 on eBay, a device that was released in 2009 still costs $300? No wonder the Zune failed.
Ever wanted to have plugin functionality in your Codeigniter applications similar to what WordPress has? I’ve started developing a plugin system that lets you define hooks with or without arguments, to modify certain parts of your application without your users having to edit core files.
Use is mostly: add_action(), remove_action() and do_action() – but I’ll go in depth later on.
Documentation is sparse for now, but if you’re a seasoned programmer you should understand how it works. There is a partial plugin example in the repo too.
Freedom of speech for the win. Sony are trying to remove this code from the internet because it effectively lets you sign any piece of software to run on the Playstation 3 console as if it were 100% legit without the use of firmware hacks and exploits. This is the equivalent of a master key, it unlocks the entire console allowing you to install anything.
The image below is a screenshot of someone tricking a faux representative of Sony into Tweeting the Playstation 3 security key for all to see on the internet.
Nobody uses IE7 any more (well 91% of people on the internet at least). Sure, your mother probably still uses Internet Explorer 7 because she’s stupid and doesn’t know anything about computers (you still have to show her where the power button is sometimes), but the market share of IE7 is currently sitting around 9% – I think it’s time we drop this archaic piece of shit.
Whoaaa, wait just a minute Dwayne. My mother uses IE7 and she thinks it’s great! if you were any smarter than your mother you would upgrade her browser while she was in the kitchen cooking your dinner. But the dramatic change of the icon for Internet Explorer might be too much for her, or perhaps you’re just making excuses.
WordPress has a genius and at the same time annoying feature that automatically wraps inline elements in “P” tags for you. The nerd that wrote the function “wpautop” forgot to provide us an option to populate the array of defined block level elements in-case we wanted an image or perhaps even a span tag treated as a block level element and not wrapped in a P tag automatically.
After much research and not find a single straight forward answer that worked, I devised my own little solution. Basically what we have to do is create a new function called “wpautop_forked” inside of your theme functions.php file and then remove the annoying wpautop filter function and specifying our own instead. Here is the code below, function taken from the wp-includes file formatting.php for the latest version of WordPress at the time of writing 3.0.4. View the file and function on WordPress Trac here.
I’ve found the solution if you have ever used the font face technique and encountered an issue where the text looks bold on a Mac yet looks perfectly fine on Windows. It’s almost like the font size or weight is wrong. But, as you’re going to learn, that is not the issue.
As of 2023, I still encounter this CSS issue, specifically in Chrome on Mac. It’s only with certain fonts, but this issue doesn’t appear to have gone away entirely.
Codeigniter is an awesome framework, it’s idea of a parser library that ships with it is not. I have written a simple library that extends Codeigniter’s native view loading to allow you to use Smarty 3 in your Codeigniter projects to render your views.
Requirements: Codeigniter 2.0 as this library uses the core and third_party folders, although with some changes it will work with 1.7.2 / 1.7.3 versions of Codeigniter. Features: Extends native Codeigniter view loading so you can still use $this->load->view() to load your templates. This also means that if your Codeigniter application is using $this->load->view() you won’t need to change any of your code to use this library. Allows you to use Smarty specific features including template inheritance inside of your views. Uses your views directory for loading templates but the location of views can be changed if you don’t use the standard CI views folder. Comes bundled with the latest version of Smarty already. Install: Copy all of the files from the download zip off the repo into your application directory. Then you should be able to just load Smarty views using the native $this->load->view() notation.
Did you upgrade to iTunes 10 and discover that when you connect to your AirTunes what once was normal volume levels are now non-existent? I spent days trying to find out the problem.
I would connect to my AirTunes like I normally would but I would have to turn the volume up on the amplifier all the way just to hear my music (well, barely hear it). Turns out Apple introduced some volume control panel in iTunes and by default the volume of AirTunes is almost all the way down, wtf?