Local Disk Galore
My iPhone had an interesting issue after upgrading to iOS8 … Infinite virtual disks!? Unfortunately it was but an illusion, all gone after restarting the phone.
Zeppelin – Kashmir – Louisville Leopard Percussionists
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Basement tapes
I don’t pretend I know how to play, but I do have fun. We hang, we drink, we play. Songs are live improv, lyrics are developed on the fly, jamming is long, sometimes magic happens, sometimes not. The Flying EP – All flight videos are for The […]
Setup A LAMP Website on VPS Server
My photo website’s excellent software Gallery had gone end of life with no support. I used the opportunity to explore new photo gallery software, Koken, and move from shared hosting to my first VPS – Virtual Private Server. VPS is like going from renter to home […]
iPhone – Disable eMail Sound and Vibration Notifications
Are you suffering from notification overload? It can be a bit confusing as to where to change or disable notifications on iOS devices. “Notifications” would be the logical place to manage notifications and it does work, sometimes. Sounds is where we’ll be looking today, […]
Cortana – Disable Weather Alerts
Cortana is awesome until you know, there’s weather. And then you’re getting weather alerts from Cortana and your weather app (Blue Skies for me). Here’s how to disable the alerts. Disable Weather Alerts in Cortana – Windows Phone 8.1 Open Cortana Tap the three bars at […]
Disk Clone – Windows Activation Error 0xC004C008
I recently cloned Windows 8 with apps and data from a 500gb 5400RPM Hybrid disk to a 500gb SSD using “Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0“. The process went smoothly – install Paragon’s software and connect the new SSD with a USB to SATA cable. Launch the […]
Windows Phone – AutoPlay
When you first connect a Windows Phone an Explorer window will open to the phones folders and files. You’ll also be prompted to install Phone App for Desktop. After installing Phone App for Desktop management of options moves from AutoPlay to the Phone App […]
OneDrive – Stop Auto Importing Photos
After an update on 12/22/2014 OneDrive started magically importing photos and videos from my iPhone (my Windows Phone is managed by Phone App for Desktop). Microsoft refers to the process as “Auto Save”. This is the second OneDrive update in a row where the change has silently occurred […]
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Adrian Belew – Guitar Virtuoso
Adrian Belew was playing in bar & cover bands going seemingly nowhere and hitting thirty. Then Frank Zappa’s limo driver was asked for a live music destination in Nashville. They were covering the stones when Frank tuned in, stayed and made Adrian an offer. Playing […]
Phone Wars
This is my house – Nokia 1020 Windows Phone, iPhone 5, Moto X Android whatever version. The Moto-X is badass, Windows 8 on Nokia kinda cool and iPhone is awesome as always (but getting boring?!).
Remote Desktop – Black Screen Of Death
The Issue – When using Windows Remote Desktop client the remote screen turns black right after login and you have no control. The issue can affect workstations and servers, laptops or desktops. The apparent cause is Screen Caching and accessing a system with different display […]
How to take a Screenshot – Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 2 Adaptive Keyboard
Adaptive keyboard sounds cool right? It does make for a very clean, uncluttered and easy to use keyboard. But it also makes accessing some functions harder, more time consuming and without knowing the special commands you’d be forgiven for thinking several common keyboard functions were completely dropped. Welcome to […]
Create Database Model From Existing Database – MySQL Workbench
In case I’m not the only one who had trouble figuring out how to create a Database Model from an existing Database using MySQL WorkBench. Database – MySQL Database Tool – MySQL WorkBench v 6.1 Documentation – Database Modeling using MySQL Workbench Steps to […]
New Orleans – Frenchmen Street – Bourbon Street
Pics from two quick two night trips to New Orleans. I’d never visited, now twice in month for the NCTM and IRA conferences at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. One over a weekend that had me missing my daughters return from School and Mothers day. Bourbon Street […]
Windows Phone – Stop Facebook Birthday Reminders
Social Media integration on Windows Phone is excellent but can have some downsides. One issue I’ve experienced and heard others note is due to Facebook integration. During installation of the Facebook app you’re asked to connect FB with your phone. This integrates Facebook with your People hub, […]
Ghost Drop Down Menus – stuck on screen
Ghost drop down menu’s that stay on your screen until you reset your resolution, logout or reboot. At first you think – no problem, I’ll just ignore that. Then like a dripping tap on a quiet evening you find you’ve suddenly lost all focus […]
Windows 8.1 Update 1
The mighty keyboard and mouse have roared and Microsoft has listened. Windows 8.1 Update 1 is out and has some (some!) nice changes for content creators and other non touch screen users. Most notable is that instead of forking the OS into mobile/touch & […]
CS-Cart – Page Speed and Optimization
Some simple steps to reduce CS-Cart page load times. Prep Steps Optimization references Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site – Yahoo Optimize caching – Google Increasing Application Performance with HTTP Cache Headers – heroku Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching – Ask Apache Image […]
SPF records for Office 365
Some excellent resources if you’re hosting your own domain with Office 365. When doing so you’ll need to create a TXT SPF record for email. The SPF Generator Framework Wizard below was very helpful generating an SPF record that accounted for my webhost generated […]
The most beautiful Derny Race you may ever see
The Legendary Lightness – World Full Of You (Official Videoclip) Music by The Legendary Lightness Directed and edited by Adrian Winkler Photographed by Simon Huber and Mario Winkler Color Grading by Christian Müller Production: PiXiU Films, Laurin Merz Supported by Migros-Kulturprozent
Windows Phone – Not Recognized by Windows 7
Using the wonderful Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone 8 my computer has on several occasions been unable to recognize the device using the standard Nokia USB cable connecting to Windows 7.
Worlds First Digital Camera
From PetaPixel – “If you’re a digital photography buff, here’s some required trivia knowledge: what you see above is a photograph of the first digital camera ever built. It was created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson…” Read […]
Hosted email – Microsoft Exchange
Do you own your own domain and have a personal or small business website hosted along with email? If so you know the importance of email in day to day business and personal communications. Web hosts… not so much. I’ve actually had a couple […]
OneDrive – Sync My Documents
Here’s a quick and easy way to sync your My Documents folder and make it available to other computers and mobile devices via Microsoft OneDrive. This is the same process you can use to move your My Documents to any location of your choosing – a […]
Nokia Lumia 1020 High Res Camera Phone Test
New smartphone day! First let me say that I have an iPhone 5 for work and love it, great OS, the best ecosystem, pretty much flawless functionality, we can talk about iTunes and lack of storage access another time. Camera wise the iPhone 5 […]
Microsoft Surface Tablet capabilities
Excellent user video highlighting capabilities of the Surface 2. Expandable storage via microSDXC and USB3, massive multitasking, voice navigation and application control, full gaming…
Website – Ed Rudolph Northbrook Veldrome
Weekend launch party! I started this website in 1996, wow time flies. This current iteration based on WordPress with a customized HTML5 theme.
Website – Lucia’s Imports v3.0
Lucia’s Imports update v3.0. Wholesale eCommerce site. Moved all products, images and users from CubeCart 5 to CS-Cart 4, new skin and layout. Database migration handled very well (mostly) by Cart2Cart which I had previously used for a Miva Merchant to CS-Cart migration
Install Linux from USB Drive
It couldn’t be easier for Microsoft Windows users to try, test or fully install Linux Mint using a “Hybrid” image which can boot to the full Operating System for testing or be installed alongside Windows for full time use. When you complete the steps […]
Asus Zenbook Crash After Sleep – Kernel Power Event ID 41
Issue: Asus Zenbook crashes, blue screens or unexpectedly shuts down shortly after waking up from sleep mode. This has been reported since the release of the Asus Zenbook and apparently Asus has yet to acknowledge the issue. My query to Asus Support after experiencing […]
FAST Race Products shopping cart launched
FAST Race Products shopping cart conversion and upgrade project. The customer liked the control and back-end functionality of CS-Cart over Miva for a prior site I’d done. Lets do it again! Existing Miva Merchant 5 shopping cart migrated to new host and CS-Cart 4. Convert […]
Migrate Miva Merchant 5 to CS-Cart 4
Had a customer who wanted to change from Miva Merchant 5 to CS-Cart 4. They really liked CS-Cart’s control and ability to makes changes quickly and wanted to make the move. So how to get this done without hundreds of man hours and downtime? Cart2Cart service to […]
2014 Dodge Dart SXT Rallye
Some fall pics of a days old 2014 Dodge Dart SXT Rallye – built and shipped October 13 2013. Engine: 2.4-Liter I4 Tigershark with MultiAir. 184hp, 171 lb-ft torque Mileage: Avg 24-25 mpg in the city, 31-35 on the highway (varies per wind and […]
Remove CS-Cart branding – CS-Cart v4
Locations to remove CS-Cart branding and links from your CS-Cart store (that I’ve found). Quite frustrating for the purchaser of a product to have to perform a mining expedition to remove branding and links for the company you’ve just paid. I hope Simbirsk Technologies will […]
All Brands Link – CS-Cart 4
So you’ve gone through the steps to create Brands for your CS-Cart 4 store. How do you link to them like the CS-Cart Demo store? http://demo.cs-cart.com/index.php?dispatch=product_features.view_all&filter_id=10 The key is to find the filter ID you wish to view and place it at the end […]
Move CS-Cart Installation to Another Directory
Posting here after finding the CS-Cart instructions for moving v4.0.2 to be frustratingly incomplete. http://kb.cs-cart.com/move-to-another-directory Full steps – in my case moving from /testcart to / Open config.local.php
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edit: $config['http_path'] = '/testcart'; edit: $config['https_path'] = '/testcart'; |
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$config['http_path'] = '/testcart'; > $config['http_path'] = ''; $config['https_path'] = '/testcart'; > $config['https_path'] = ''; |
— Now for the part not in the CS-Cart […]
Change Yahoo Search Engine – iPhone
Issue – Has your iPhone or iPad changed it’s default search engine to Yahoo? Is Safari loading the Yahoo search page on launch? How does this happen – Touch screen accidents… The iOS Weather app has a link to Yahoo Search at the lower left […]
No Sound After Update to iOS 7
Issue – No sounds after upgrading iPhone from iOS 6 to iOS 7 I lost all sound alerts after upgrading from iOS 6 to iOS 7 on an iPhone 5. Music and phone audio worked fine but I had no alert or notification sounds […]
Eddie Pepitone – Lincoln Lodge
Eddie Pepitone before going on stage at the Lincoln Lodge – “I hope I’m funny”. Oh he was,very. The Lincoln Lodge (Lincoln Restaurant) what an interestingly strange place to see a show. The nations longest running independent comedy club at 14yrs was in the back […]
Scattante – Good deal?
Yeah yeah, I scoffed too. Scattante? Performance Bike? But if you’re like me and not being paid to ride….. I’d been getting in shape and didn’t think my 25yr old PUCH steel SLX frame with components from anywhere and everywhere was properly motivating me. […]
How to fix Windows 8 – step 1
Do you create content as much or more than you consume it? i.e. do you use a computer for your job and your job isn’t posting pics of what you had for lunch? If so and your computer is running Windows 8 or Windows […]
Asus Zenbook UX32VD – Memory Upgrade
Upgrade memory on an Ultrabook!? Yes it’s true! You can also upgrade the 500gb 5400RPM SATA + 24gb onboard SSD hybrid hard disk as well. The Asus Zenbook UX32VD is one rockin little laptop. The build I purchased shipped with “4gb memory” but in […]
Asus Zenbook – BIOS Setup F2
Problem: The Asus Zenbook UX32VD manual states to press F2 at startup to access the BIOS Setup Utility – this will not work if your computer shipped with Windows 8. New computers shipping with Windows 8 use UEFI Firmware and the Asus instructions are written for pre Windows 8 legacy […]
Tour De France 2013 – Nairo Quintana
Every day the Tour De France generates a new story line, a new hero, a new winner, a new looser and someone who came just short of writing themselves into the history books with an epic ride. After 19 stages, 2,032 miles and two […]