I love the Magic Trackpad with all of it’s cool gestures but wasn’t excited about the $69 price tag. So I tried some apps to turn iOS devices into a trackpad. I learned those apps weren’t a real solution.

I’ve been dealing with a slight bit of carpal tunnel and figured if the trackpad would help with that situation it would be worth the $69. A week later I haven’t seen much relief, but it’s been very nice to use my left hand to do things when my right hand begins to ache. It seems much easier to be ambidextrous with the trackpad than it is with a mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

Hard drive space getting tight? You may not be aware that you are storing large quantities of mail on your hard drive. I found out that I was using 12 GB of space for the sake of offline viewing which virtually never happens. If you’d like to reclaim that space you can go to mail preferences then to accounts and select “Don’t keep copies of any messages” under “Keep copies of messages for offline viewing”. You may choose to take a more conservative approach and select one of the other options. I ended up opting for the option of keeping all the messages but not keeping the attachments. That cut the footprint in half.

Ever upload new modules to Drupal but you don’t see the new module files taking effect? Chances are that you have more than one of the same module. You can check to see what the path is for a specific module using the pattern below and inserting it into a page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php file:

<?php print drupal_get_path(‘module’, ‘views’); ?> Read the rest of this entry »

The Keyboard covers the splash screen so you can't use the program if you accidentally exit.

I was wanting to find an app that could turn my iPod into a trackpad as the magic track pad goes for $68. Apps that turn your iOS device into a trackpad are much cheaper, starting free and topping out around $5.

In the end I found that while it’s cool to use your iPhone or iPod as a mouse, the screen size and iOS features limit the trackpad functionality and an iOS device can’t be used as a replacement for the magic trackpad. Read the rest of this entry »

Dropbox is a fantastic tool for cloud services that allows you to keep files in sync across multiple computer & devices or to share large files. The files are encrypted and so the service is supposedly very secure. For free plans they only start you off at 2GB but you can gain an extra 250mb for each person you refer.

In case you don’t think your life could be any better by using dropbox here are a few things I use it for every day, some that you’ve probably thought of and some that are thinking “outside the box”.

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There may not be a food I love more than Lomo Saltado so I’m posting the Lomo Saltado Recipie for everyone who’s also a fan.

I was surprised that when using the Drupal jCarousel module with Galleria that the Galleria plugin didn’t apply a jCarousel theme in it’s implementation so it doesn’t work right out of the box. So I modified this CSS file (the default jCarousel CSS) to work with Galleria. All you have to do is replace the plugin file with this one. It should work for files that are around 70px wide. Read the rest of this entry »

Your productivity drops dramatically when Firefox keeps crashing so I was determined to find a fix.

UPDATE: In my case the problem was firebug. When a update for firebug came out my problem was fixed. I still recommend taking a look at your profile if your Firefox install keeps crashing even after reinstalling as everything pertaining to your computer is stored in your profile.

The solution lies within your profile. Did you know you had a profile? It’s a folder that stores everything unique to your browser and you can access it by going to the help menu then to “Troubleshooting information”. From there you’ll see a link under Application Basics to show your profile in the Finder. Read the rest of this entry »

As a web designer I’ve been able to have experience with a with a wide variety of hosting providers and found it’s hard to find good value hosting. I’ve read all the articles about ***Sucks, Company X VS Company & written some too. After all my good an bad experiences with hosting I’ve come to the conclusion that good web hosting doesn’t come cheap! In fact, if you’re paying under $7/mo for your hosting and spend anytime on your own website, at some point you’re probably going to think to yourself, or more likley out loud, “My Hosting Sucks!”. And chances are you’ll be right. Read the rest of this entry »