I love my Apple TV. My kids love our Xbox. Okay…maybe I do too. But I recently thought that they were all breaking at the same time. The Apple TV was skipping like a scratched DVD. The Xbox wouldn’t work. Even my Blu-ray player wouldn’t play disks. It was like an entertainment Armageddon. My setup [...]
How Do I Turn Off My Apple TV?
How do you turn off an Apple TV? Sounds like a problem that you shouldn’t have to Google. But…I did. And if you’re reading this, then you probably did too. Since the Apple TV doesn’t have a power button, the solution, though simple, is not as intuitive as you might assume. So, how do you [...]
Stop Firebug From Converting Hex to RGB Color Values
As a web developer, I love the Firebug extension for Firefox. It’s one of my all-time favorite tools when making web pages. One of my favorite things about the extension is that you can update CSS directly on a page to preview what it will look like before officially uploading the change to your web [...]
Can I Put Google Adsense Ads In A Div With Position Fixed?
Can you put Google ads in a <div> with “position: fixed”? I was recently asking that question and found the answer rather hard to find. So, when I finally did find an official answer on the subject, I thought that I would pass it along. So, what’s the answer? The answer is: no. No, you [...]
Use Jetpack Comments with WooThemes Theme
I just spent the last hour or so trying to figure out how to use the new Jetpack commenting system instead of the version that is packaged with the WooThemes theme that I’m using (which is the Canvas theme). Sidenote: The Jetpack comments were working until I messed with the comments.php file in my theme. [...]
My Method For Organizing My iPhone Icons
I love my iPhone. I hate trying to organize the apps. I have tried laying the apps in a frequency-of-use order, which didn’t work for me because it was too subjective. I then tried to put as many as I could into conceptual folders…which I hated because I was constantly digging through similarly titled folders. [...]
How to Disable the WordPress Admin Toolbar
I don’t mind the WordPress admin bar when I’m working in the WordPress Dashboard, but current versions of WordPress also put the admin bar on the front-end of your actual blog…which is not always what I want. So, how do you get rid of this thing if you decide that you don’t want it there [...]
How Do I Find My Facebook ID?
Facebook is really easy to use. That is, until you get into the developer tools. I find these tools to be incredibly confusing and poorly linked to each other. So, the other day I needed to find my Facebook ID for an application that I was working on. And I realized, I had no idea [...]
Stop Facebook Birthday Announcements on Mac OSX
The other day I allowed my phone to sync to Facebook and update my contacts. It’s pretty nice, actually, because now my friends’ profile pics get loaded into my phone automatically. Sweet. The day after allowing it, however, I began getting really annoying birthday announcements on my Mac. In the upper right hand corner, these [...]
My Top 5 Color Tools for Web and Graphic Designers
Developing the color scheme for your next web or graphic design project is a key part of its potential success. Because of that, having some simple, go-to tools are imperative. In this post, I’m going to show you my five favorite tools for developing a killer color scheme for my projects. 1. ColorSnapper ColorSnapper is [...]