Decades in the making, now the moment of truth. Plugs seated, power anchor dropped, and after a not-so-confident yielding press of a bloated candy-like teal button, and subsequent moment of silence, one thought remains: I need proof of life. But, suddenly the room is quiet no more. Ah yes, I remember that sound! An unsophisticated but satisfying reminiscent...
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This fix may work on other platforms, but I can only verify that it works on my 2013 MacBook Air running OS X El Capitan (10.11.6). Is your Google Chrome incredibly slow, especially when trying to scroll through a webpage? I know it is for me! Especially when scrolling through my timeline on Facebook. But it...
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If you ever find yourself in a situation where Windows Server 2012 R2 decides to spontaneously switch from regular GUI Windows to Windows Server Core, here’s how you switch it back. I was working with a vendor on a software sandbox installation and near the end of the day after hours of work, we rebooted...
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This is a bizarre issue that has happened on multiple occasions with Windows 2012 servers in a Remote Desktop Collection. Out of nowhere, the screen colors go haywire. It seems somehow the “Windows Basic” color scheme gets corrupted. Black text becomes yellow text. White backgrounds become black backgrounds. The right-hand scroll bar becomes black with...
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Here’s a quick way to rename a series of files in Windows Explorer (Windows 7 confirmed, but should work in Windows Vista and Windows 8). After renaming one file, instead of hitting Enter, simply hit the Tab key to start renaming the next file, and so on. It also works in reverse. Hit Shift +...
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If you need to exclude a specific category from your RSS feed, put the following code in your theme’s functions.php. Go to Appearance | Editor | Theme Functions (functions.php) // Excludes Category from RSS Feed function exclude_catid_feed( $query ) { if ( $query->is_feed ) { $query->set( 'cat', '-1' ); } return $query; } add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_catid_feed');...
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If you are running iOS 7 or higher, then yes, your iPhone is indeed tracking where you’ve been. But, it promises to only use that information for entirely benevolent reasons. Honest! Hidden deep within the Settings app is a gem of a feature called Frequent Locations, which is a beautifully generic way for your iPhone to say,...
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