Macbook Pro – Make an external monitor your primary display

Recently, I got a mac laptop at work, which is sup[er sweet, but I wanted to hook it up to a real monitor, keyboard and mouse. All very easy things to do. The problem I had was that the laptop was acting as the primary monitor. Every application that I drug over to the secondary [...]

Here Is Why Web Developers Like Me Hate IE6

WordPress asking for FTP username/password?

Are you annoyed with your wordpress install asking you for your FTP cradentials everytime you try to upgrade a plugin? I know I was.  Thankfully, there’s a simple solution which will save the FTP login (username/password/server) so WordPress stops asking you for them.  Here’s how you do it. Locate your WordPress root diectory and find [...]

timthumb.php returns a 404 Error in WordPress

timthumb is a great little php script that helps create thumbnail images (http://code.google.com/p/timthumb). I’ve used it before, but recently I purchased a wordpress theme that used it, and it wasn’t working. I would get a 404 error when I tired to access the directly via a url like this: theDomain.com/wp-content/themes/theTheme/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/moose1.jpg&h=207&w=237&zc=1&q=80 After some digging around in [...]

SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Saving changes is not permitted”

Working in SQL Server 2008 I received this confusing error when editing the structure of a table: “Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving [...]

Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar. Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of [...]

SQL Server 2008: FIXED “Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved”

Today I was trying to edit the value in a table cell through the query browser in Microsoft SQL Server Management Itudio and I kept getting the following error: Data has changed since the Results pane was last retrieved. Do you want to save your changes now? (Optimistic Concurrency Control Error) Click Yes to commit [...]

follow up to my iPad predictions

So Apple has announced the iPad. This is a follow up to the predictions  I posted last week. Things I was right about: Apple will announce a tablet device new version of the iPhone OS, 3.2.2 iPad will run on the iPhone OS iPad will run iPhone applications The iPad will have a 10 inch [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 / iSlate Predictions

Create WordPress Thumbnails Automatically

WordPress has the ability to allow post authors to assign custom fields to a post. This arbitrary extra information is known as meta-data. This meta-data can be used by theme authors to do some pretty cool things. The theme I am currently using allows for a custom field named “thumb”. If you create the “thumb” [...]

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