Actionscript Tip: PHP-style Variable Variables
Variable Variables may be a different concept for the need and result I came up with, but Variable Variables is what lead to my re-discovery of the powerfully dynamic set(); function in actionscript....
View ArticlePhotoshop Tip: Reverse Layers
I've come to use this nifty little keyboard shortcut combination for Reverse Layers within Adobe Photoshop CS or greater. And, it's a safe key-combination to use from the default set. Open up your...
View ArticlePreamble: Web-based control of X10 Home Automation (CM15A) on Ubuntu Linux
When I moved into my new place back in October last year, I couldn't figure out how to turn the lights off and on in the house as many of the switches in the house either didn't work or turned on the...
View ArticleGuide: Web-based control of X10 Home Automation (CM15A) on Ubuntu Linux
I have stopped using this home automation technique and can no longer support this guide. Here is a step-by-step guide to getting the X10 CM15A USB module to work under Ubuntu on a personal home...
View ArticleGet URLs, Captions & Titles for Images Attached to Posts in WordPress
I've been working on a new WordPress theme for my client that involves a billboard concept where certain posts are categorized as homepage billboard items, and those post items have images attached to...
View ArticleUnderstanding Flash Banner Advertising on Google
I am creating a unique set of banner advertisements for a client of mine and after quite an exhaustive search, without having to actually force myself or anyone into creating an AdWords account to...
View ArticleIllustrator Outline Problem
About a month ago, a classmate of mine had pointed out that illustrator sometimes had a mysterious hairline around shapes of objects, even when there wasn’t a border or outline defined on the shape....
View ArticleSeparate WordPress dashboard URLs for multisite domain mapped sites
I have multisite and domain mapping setup on my WordPress. I'm hosting one of my friends websites on it and want to have the experience as close to a separate install as possible. I have the main site...
View ArticleFont rendering issues on Google Chrome on OS X
There seems to be a small problem with many websites viewed in the latest version of Chrome on OS X as of recently (version 22.0.1229.79 on September 27, 2012).
View ArticleTime Machine Auto-mount/unmount Drive OS X
Here's a way to avoid having to manually mount and unmount (eject) a USB backup drive before and after a Time Machine backup on OS X Lion or later by using a shell script and creating a LaunchAgent.
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