Category Archives: Tech Tips

What is Twipsy?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by W
What is Twipsy?

Do you wonder what Twipsy is? Twipsy is mostly a plugin for jQuery having to do with creating tool tips, it is based on “Tipsy”, but the important thing about the Twipsy jQuery plugin for creating tooltips is that it is part of the Twitter Bootstrap kit – that is Twipsy is a plugin that works with the Boostrap framework. The tooltips can be custom styled via CSS and their behavior can be controlled via JS parameters. This includes position, animation type, offset, title, trigger, content templates, etc.. It was “ported” from tipsy. A demo is included with the download package, which can be found at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#tooltips To quote them Twipsy is A new take on the jQuery Tipsy plugin, Tooltips don’t rely on images—they use CSS3 for animations and data-attributes for local title storage.

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Facebook for Universities

Posted on April 16, 2012 by W
Facebook for Universities

Facebook has recently announced something it’s going to launch, called “Groups for Schools” targeted at the school crowd: Colleges and Universities Today we’re announcing Groups for Schools, which allow people with an active school email address to join groups at their college or university. Groups for Schools will gradually be rolling out to colleges and universities around the world. You can sign up to find out when it will be available at your school. To learn more about how to use Groups at Schools, visit the Help Center. Learn more at the facebook news room.

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Facebook Video Party

Posted on April 16, 2012 by W
Facebook Video Party

Facebook Video Party 12 Participants Moderation Controls HD Video Apparently you can mute the whole room for presentations, kick/ban trolls, and has two extra spots for presenters. I’ve heard the video and sound quality is absolutely unreal, plus you’ll be able to use a bluetooth headset with the iphone to participate via mobile. I’ll try to see if I can get a beta screen shot sometime tomorrow. via https://plus.google.com/115957092291818573863/posts/cAVySAw8icX

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fix “max_allowed_packet” on MySql

Posted on April 11, 2012 by W
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MySQL Error 1153 – Got a packet bigger than ‘maxallowedpacket’ bytes To fix this I ran these two commands in mySQL before executing the queries that were giving me the error message about the max allowed packet bytes. set global net_buffer_length=1000000; set global max_allowed_packet=1000000000;

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How to Watch USB Movies on Roku

Posted on April 3, 2012 by W
How to Watch USB Movies on Roku

The Roku 2 XS allows you to watch your own movies right from a USB stick. Here’s how you can get it working: Make sure you have a movie in an appropriate format, mainly H.264 or WMV/ASF Make sure the USB stick is formatted properly, FAT16, FAT32, HFS+, or NTFS file systems are noted to work. Install the USB Device “Channel” through the channel store – it is free. Visit the USB Channel on your Roku XS device If there is more than one USB device showing up check them both. Voila! Now you can watch movies directly from a USB jump drive / thumb drive on your Roku. Remember that the Micro SD card slot is only used as storage and you can’t watch movies from it.

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Roku 2 XS USB Video Formats

Posted on April 2, 2012 by W

The Roku 2 XS supports video, audio, and photo playback in the following formats: Video: MKV using H.264, MP4/M4V/MOV using H.264 (and MPEG4), WMV/ASF using WMV9 or VC-1. Audio: AAC, MP3, or Dolby Digital/DTS Passthru Photos: JPEG & PNG These have to be loaded using the USB port, as the Micro SD slot is only for additional storage. Of the Roku 2 series boxes only the Roku 2 XS supports media playback of your own external media. Also please note that for “security reasons” you can’t move a microSD card from one Roku 2 player to another without re-formatting it.

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Remove Dock on Mac OS X Lion

Posted on March 26, 2012 by W
Remove Dock on Mac OS X Lion

I use Quicksilver for almost everything and really hate that the dock always seems to be getting in my way. I was looking for a way to remove it, and found the following lines of code. There are some apps, like DockKiller, which can be a little buggy, but what I’ve found is that using the following commands will (for me) make the Dock small enough and move it into a place where it doesn’t pop up, and so this solution was the one that worked best for me. To implement this solution, open a terminal and run the following commands: // makes the dock icon size really really small defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 1 // puts the dock on the bottom of the screen // other values are left and right defaults write com.apple.dock orientation -string bottom // puts the dock on the left side // other values are center and end defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start // restarts the dock so the changes take effect killall Dock Here is a screenshot of the dock – this is actual size, a crop from the bottom left corner of my screen :)

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How to Reset WP to Twitter

Posted on March 23, 2012 by W

The WordPress plugin WP to Twitter “posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your chosen URL shortening service. Rich in features for customizing and promoting your Tweets.” You can activate the plugin and then set all the options, but if you are having trouble the plugin offers no way to unset all of the options associated with it. You can use the following sql / mySQL command to remove all of the options generated by this plugin. Use this at your own risk, and of course create a backup of your database before attempting this. delete from wp_options where option_name in (‘app_consumer_key’, ‘app_consumer_secret’, ‘bitlyapi’, ‘bitlylogin’, ‘comment-published-text’, ‘comment-published-update’, ‘disable_oauth_notice’, ‘disable_twitter_failure’, ‘disable_url_failure’, ‘jd_date_format’, ‘jd_donations’, ‘jd_dynamic_analytics’, ‘jd_individual_twitter_users’, ‘jd_keyword_format’, ‘jd_last_tweet’, ‘jd_max_characters’, ‘jd_max_tags’, ‘jd_post_excerpt’, ‘jd_replace_character’, ‘jd_shortener’, ‘jd_status_message’, ‘jd_strip_nonan’, ‘jd_tweet_default’, ‘jd_twit_append’, ‘jd_twit_blogroll’, ‘jd_twit_custom_url’, ‘jd_twit_prepend’, ‘jd_twit_remote’, ‘limit_categories’, ‘newlink-published-text’, ‘oauth_token’, ‘oauth_token_secret’, ‘suprapi’, ‘suprlogin’, ‘tweet_categories’, ‘twitter-analytics-campaign’, ‘twitterInitialised’, ‘use-twitter-analytics’, ‘use_dynamic_analytics’, ‘use_tags_as_hashtags’, ‘wp_bitly_error’, ‘wp_debug_oauth’, ‘wp_supr_error’, ‘wp_to_twitter_version’, ‘wp_twitter_failure’, ‘wp_url_failure’, ‘wpt_inline_edits’, ‘wpt_post_types’, ‘wtt_oauth_hash’, ‘wtt_twitter_username’, ‘wtt_user_permissions’, ‘yourlsapi’, ‘yourlslogin’, ‘yourlspath’, ‘yourlsurl’)

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Add Coupon To Coupon Cabin

Posted on March 21, 2012 by W

If you are a merchant or contributing individual and want to submit a coupon to the couponcabin.com webiste, follow these instructions: Visit couponcabin.com Click on account Log in Click on submit coupon Voila! Alternatively you can visit the page at http://www.couponcabin.com/stores/submit-coupon/

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Remove WooCommerce Generator Tag

Posted on March 8, 2012 by W
Remove WooCommerce Generator Tag

If you would like to remove the Remove WooCommerce Generator Tag from the <head> section of your WordPress installation, you can add the following line somewhere, perhaps in your wordpress functions.php file: remove_action(‘wp_head’, array($GLOBALS['woocommerce'],’generator’)); I’ve updated the code to work with the most recent version of Woo Commerce, try adding this to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme: function remove_woo_commerce_generator_tag() { remove_action(‘wp_head’,array($GLOBALS['woocommerce'], ‘generator’)); } add_action(‘get_header’,'remove_woo_commerce_generator_tag’); That will prevent the following line from being shown in your HTML code: <!– WooCommerce Version –> <meta name=”generator” content=”WooCommerce 1.5″ />

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