Author Archives: Dave
Moving posts between blogs
I have a multisite setup running here but I largely use one blog for just about everything, ranging from (things like this) WordPress, to applications and shortcuts, through to personal posts about travel, and my family and children. In the multisite setup I have several blogs. Mostly the are concepts or ideas that never really …
Clean Installs for OSX Upgrades
I have a few Mac Minis floating around and some time ago I upgraded one of them to Mavericks. It did have an older version of Snow Leopard on it (pre 10.6.8) and after connecting it to the Internet and upgrading it to 10.6.8, I was able to download and install Mavericks. But I didn’t …
Screen Capture an Active Application Window in OSX
Here’s a handy little feature I didn’t know about it OSX. To take a screen capture of an application window use COMMAND + SHIFT + 4 then SPACE then move the cursor to the area to be captured and CLICK. This is very handy. I use COMMAND + SHIFT + 3 and COMMAND + SHIFT …
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What can I see on a 5K display?
Ok, that SHOULD read, “What can I see on an Apple 5K display?” Because, as you’ll see, depending on what you’re looking at, it looks like 5K, or it could be as little as 2.5K. Which, using the “K” vernacular, 2.5K is only 600 more pixels wider than 1080P (1920×1080 vs 2560×1440). I can hear …
screen saver inside synergy
I have used Synergy before (a software based KVM—without the V), but I haven’t used it for ages. It has moved on (after a period of inactive development) and appears to have at least two forks. I’ve since re-installed it, and it was a LOT easier this time. But the screen saver wasn’t synchronising. The …
wordpress 3.6, blockui.js problem and sidebar login
I upgraded to WordPress 3.6 the other day and immediately got the flowing error: “error 3.6 blockUI requires jQuery v1.2.3 or later!” Actually, that’s not the exact error I got, the exact error included version numbers of the current and the required versions. The odd thing being the current version was higher than the required …
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my raspberry pi
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disable serial port login on raspberry pi
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Jason’s 1st Birthday
Jason’s first birthday yesterday, and what better way to celebrate than to letting him go home on an ice cream cake.