Blog, Halo, Programming..
In certain scenarios you may wish to exclude everything and only include files that you specify. Git does allow this however it’s a bit tricky and the terminology of the gitignore file doesn’t help matters. » Read more…
The Xbox 360 by default lacks the ability to play MKV container video files, which presents a problem if you want to watch those videos in your library that are in the MKV file format using the ‘System Video Player’.
After searching online, I found that there were varying solutions to this problem. Some suggested setting up Windows Media Center while others suggested converting your videos to the MP4 format which the Xbox supports. » Read more…
WordPress for some ridiculous reason does not make it easy to implement a nav separator between each of your custom menu nav items. After searching around there were couple of good suggestions that I came across, some CSS based and others that hook in to the wp_nav_menu call.
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“The first egg appeared on Tombstone yesterday morning – descriptions of the item were followed quickly by pictures of it in use; we should be clear that modding is required to hold this item, and it’s not actually usable (in the form it appears).” » Read more…
People You May Know / Suggested Friends
I’ve found Facebook’s People you may know ‘Feature’ a tad annoying to say the least, suggesting people I dont want to befriend because let’s face it, if I had wanted them as friends they would already be friends right? Facebook you’re not that smart yet I’m afraid! Plus you may just get fed up staring at the same old faces!
After searching for a while on Google I found a couple of groups on Facebook (Ironic) and read a few blog articles, however it soon became obvious that most of the workarounds don’t work anymore, so I had a think and here’s my little hack to disable this feature.
Struggled with this for a few hours today, trying to get the awesome FirePHP working with a custom CMS based on Kohana 2.3 but was getting the following cryptic error message:
Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
I recently updated my Foxit Reader installation to the latest version (4.3) now during the install it crashed my running version of Google Chrome (10.0.648.114 beta). Then when I tried to re-launch Chrome it crashed instantly, both on launch and if I tried to restore a session.
I recently installed the Geolocation WordPress Plugin on one of my private blogs to allow me to Geotag my posts with a location from wherever I might have been at the time of posting. The main feature that really stood out for me was the ability to Geotag posts using the WordPress iOS app, when writing a post from my iPhone I could Geo tag that post accurately using my phones built in GPS capabilities.
Want to hide certain Dreamweaver CS4 / CS5 file view columns? For example the columns ‘local files’, ‘size’, ‘type’, ‘modified’ and ‘checked out by’? I couldn’t find anything on the net about this so thought I’d stick a blog post up.
The ability to do this is hidden away, not in the preferences and may not be immediately obvious.