Ever wish OS X’s screenshots ended up somewhere other than your desktop? Or you would prefer them to be jpg’s instead of png files? No shadow on the captured image? A little terminal trickery can change all that. Read on to find out how. Change the screenshot image type By default, OS X saves screenshots in the .png format... Read more ➤
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Cannot turn on iTunes Match on iOS 7
The problem According to the instructions from Apple, to turn on iTunes Match on your iOS device (iPhone or iPad): On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Settings > Music. Turn on iTunes Match. However, there seems to be a bug in iOS 7 whereby once you have subscribed to iTunes Match on your computer (you can’t subscribe from your iOS device, despite... Read more ➤
CSS: changing the box-sizing property
What is it? The standard CSS box model works in the following manner (ignoring early versions of Internet Explorer). Total width of the box = declared width + padding + border (please refer to the diagram below). So in our CSS code for example, we would have something like this: div.our-box { width: 100px; padding: 20px; ... Read more ➤
WordPress: Trackbacks and Pingbacks
Are you constantly getting notifications on your wordpress blog that you have received a trackback or pingback? Are you unsure about whether to approve them or trash them or spam them? In this article I will attempt to explain what trackbacks and pingbacks are, and point out that in the majority of cases they are used for spam... Read more ➤
WordPress: Adding shortcodes to themes
Overview WordPress and many of its plugins automatically add shortcodes to your theme which you can then use in your pages and posts. A shortcode looks something like [myshortcode]. In this blog post I will describe how to create your own (and show you how easy it is) as well as give examples for some more useful shortcodes that can make... Read more ➤
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