jim arnold

Chinese Buffet

jim — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:55:17 +0000

Huber Heights, Ohio: Chinese Buffet

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Free For The Holidays

jim — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:53:42 +0000

Blank icons in Mac Dock?

jim — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:00:09 +0000

Try his command via the terminal. It fixed two missing icons in my dock.

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/ \
Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/ \
A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Enable TRIM on a Mac Third-Party SSD Drive

jim — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:13:37 +0000

See this link for instructions. Trim Enabler is an app to enable TRIM, but a feud is ongoing between these two camps.

Remove title from WordPress Home page

jim — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:00:58 +0000

To remove the page title in Twenty Eleven theme on front page only, add the following ‘if’ code to file ‘content_page.php’:

View the page in edit mode to see the code.

Then on your front page you can make your own header title with the proper css style like this:

Welcome to my homepage

You should of course make a child theme with those changes.

Kitchen help

jim — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:43:12 +0000

Remove “protected” from a protected post

jim — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:34:03 +0000

Add this code to functions.php

function the_title_trim($title) {
$title = attribute_escape($title);
$findthese = array(
‘#Protected:#’,
‘#Private:#’
);
$replacewith = array(
”, // What to replace “Protected:” with
” // What to replace “Private:” with
);
$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
return $title;
}
add_filter(‘the_title’, ‘the_title_trim’);

Add a Custom URL to your WordPress Gallery Images

jim — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:30:41 +0000

Great hack

add link=”custom_url” to the gallery code on the page.

Rhododendrons – Akron, Ohio

jim — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:13:02 +0000

Rhododendron 7473 - Akron, Ohio

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Track a stolen laptop or cell phone with the Prey Project

jim — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:40:41 +0000

The Prey Project software is insanely great. Once installed on a laptop or Android phone (iPhone and iPad is yet to come) you can track the device if it’s stolen. The service is free for registering up to three devices. For $5 a month a pro account will unlock more feature. Plans scale to $400 a month for tracking up to 500 devices.

To activate the service log into your control panel at the Prey site and mark the phone or laptop as missing. A SMS text to your phone with a phrase of your choosing will turn on the service.

I tested my phone and laptop by marking them as missing. The free account will keep the last ten reports, allowing the frequency interval to be set from 10 to 40 minutes between reports, before overwriting the oldest report.

Within a minute of activating the service on the phone I had an email with a link pinpointing my house on a Google map. The laptop report pinpointed the house two doors down, but it had information even more valuable: there I was captured by my own web camera along with the screen shot of what was on my computer screen at the time. That’s not all. The laptop report included the active connections, the wifi connection device and a complete traceroute to the computer.

Prey’s website is simple to use. The software is also open source and lightweight. On the Mac (and Linux) Prey doesn’t use any memory-resident agents so it uses no memory until the program is actually run. Windows requires around 5 megs of RAM.

Below is a short intro video. Watch it and then install Prey. It’s insanely great.

Prey Project introduction from Carlos Yaconi on Vimeo.