I saw this in an email titled Why You Must Avoid Nulled WordPress Themes & Plugins (9 Reasons). Now, I in my heyday did my share of downloading pirated stuff for use on my web page and other uses like music (remember Napster? Oh, I’m the old person here?) and software. Not so much anymore, for several reasons.…
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Category: Other Techie Shit
Other tech stuff not necessarily related to the site but worth hanging onto for later reference; generic computer stuff, be it app or hardware. You know like “Oh f*** so that’s where the telnet command in Windows went”…
Excel: Stop font size/face from Changing in URL
This has been quite an annoyance for the longest time, but it never got to the point of wanting to look up an answer ’till now.
When I’m entering info into a spreadsheet I’ll have a default font size, color, face, etc.. When I add a hyperlink to data in a cell, it always changes the font size and face of that cell data, which irks me.…
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Common WordPress Errors & Fixes
After happening to browse thru a site called MyThemeShop for WP themes, I got this email about common WP errors and fixes that’s on their site. I thought this may come in handy in the (near?) future as I fiddle more and more with this WP platform.
CD to directories with spaces in the DIR name
I wonder why I never came across this before, but I learned today!!! This was when I CLI’d into the server and was wanting to CD and tree contents of directories, and from the CLI it wouldn’t recognize the directory while it was listing in the ls-la output and clearly accessible via FTP.
To be able to get into the directories and do tree listing of them, I had to enclose the directory names in quotes.…
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10 Ways to Protect Your Personal Data
Things to keep in mind…
Compress PDF Files Online
Neevia Online PDFcompress
makes it possible for anyone to reduce the size of large PDF documents without the need of installing special software.
Every so often I capoture, save, or otherwise grab a .PDF from somewhere and it’s large in filesize. And there is a need to shrink it.
How to run Whatsapp from PC
Sometimes I just like to run WhatsApp from my PC to get a bigger screen and, more practically, when I’m on the PC and don’t want to keep picking up my phone to chat.
To get started with WhatsApp Web
1. Visit web.whatsapp.com on your computer.
2. Open WhatsApp on your phone.
3. On Android: in the Chats screen Menu WhatsApp Web.…
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Periodic Speed test from router
I found this handy tool for the PC and router connection, which is good since I always have buffering issues on WiFi in the house…
Login to router and run speed test…
… HTML Escape entities
This is a good tool to get escape codes. I gotta remember to refer to this as needed….
Okay, re-installed the OS
I got up early this morning, and Dell called at 8am. We did a re-install of Windows7, and the Dell tech (Jared) updated drivers, etc.. We were done by about 9:45am or so. Bare install…
The rest of the day was pretty much spent installing email and all my apps again. I lost my emails from 4/11 to today… another goof up in preserving and transferring/copying the data back to my harddrive without checking each copy to make sure it went before deleting the backed up copy… shit!!!