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Dec 9, 2021
The future is here, right now. If you weren’t aware of what AI is capable of regarding computational photography this clip will open up your mind to what’s possible, what’s happening, and what is coming. Interesting regardless of where you stand on...
Feb 10, 2020
When I’m developing a site that is not visible to the public yet, possibly hidden behind my favourite “Coming Soon” wordpress plug-in Coming Soon Page, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd I will send clients the link to the site to...
Apr 28, 2017
This may be pertinent for WordPress installs on InMotion web hosting only. I ran into an image upload error for a new WordPress install where the only message displayed was “HTTP error”. After following the usual actions of checking folder permissions, php...
Jan 3, 2017
When one of my phone handsets died a few weeks back it was time to get another set of rechargeable AAA’s. I say another because with three handsets in the house I’ve had to swap in new rechargeable batteries a few times—and I knew they were, pricey. At our...
Aug 16, 2016
Earlier today I was tasked with finding and fixing broken images on a retailer’s website, where there were of course thousands of images to go through. Here’s what I did to see and fix all the broken images (and the links pointing to them)… In this...
Jan 5, 2016
I had to accomplish a task today of exporting hundreds of image file names located in a few directories on my computer. Basically the client wanted a spreadsheet of the all the file names I had created. No problem I thought as I had remembered doing this a long time...
Jan 2, 2016
At times I have clients ask if they can pay me with their debit card. Well, yes, they can. And it’s really easy. You can send and receive money easily too. It’s called an e-Transfer and all you need is a bank account and the email address of who you want...
Dec 17, 2015
For many years I would hit the “Prt Scr” key on my keyboard and then paste the screen capture into Photoshop or whatever to play with. Even with multiple monitors the “Prt Scr” key captures everything displayed on all your monitors in one giant...
Dec 11, 2015
We’ve come to that point in time my friends that I’m posting a food tip on my site. A completely odd topic and non-tech related, though the blog sidebar does say “the odd life pro tip”—and this perfect rice recipe is a game changer! First off,...
Oct 2, 2015
Unless I’m mistaken and you don’t use the Internet much at all, YOU NEED a password manager. Here’s the gist. KeePass is free, open-source, cross-platform, light-weight password management program for Windows. If you aren’t using Windows but...
May 18, 2015
I was researching some web-work last night and embedded in the article was this presentation by Randy Pausch. I began to watch, realized it was an hour and a quarter, gasped… and proceeded to watch the whole thing intently. Randy’s talk had nothing to do...
May 5, 2015
Today I learned why Fiskars is an awesome brand. Here’s why: Bought a pair of pruning shears. After a day of use they stick closed after making a cut. I can work them loose and pop them open to be ready for the next cut. But after repeatedly doing this a blister...
Apr 17, 2015
Mathematical precision is awesome. Guessing or going by eye is not. For the years I’ve used Illustrator I never knew this following tip. Of course there are ways to accomplish wavy lines, but Illustrator contains an awesome feature for creating wavy lines (or...
