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New Apple Photos app - location of photos on disk

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:37:00 +0000

We can barely call it new, but in a way it is, at least newer than the dreaded iPhoto (that I'm pretty sure will slowly die), Apple's Photos app is definitely one application worth having a look if you are using one of Apple's computers (like I do). I actually stopped working iPhoto and went over to Google's Picasa, but since Photos is around, I learned to like it; so far no real complaints. However, you might be the kind of guy who doesn't just like to see those images inside the app, but time to time you may want to just be sure you have it somewhere on the disk, and be able to manipulate it, copying or whatnot. Well, I have good news to you: those images you imported into the Photos app can be retrieved on the disk, and here is their location (of course, replace your_username with yours):

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/Users/your_username/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters

The ordering is a little awkward, but I'm sure you'll find your way, otherwise use the comments below, and I'll be happy to help. Have fun!

The best webhosting service ever, I mean, really!

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:06:00 +0000

Well, I'm kinda taking business away from myself, but not really. I do provide hosting services, but to be honest, for now, on a very small scale; business hasn't picked up the pace I would like it to, although, to be very honest, I haven't had much time making it work for me (too busy with daytime job, and other stuff in life, let me not go into that...). Either way, obviously, until my time comes, I also need a reliable webhosting service, and mine, the best of the best, with amazing, no bullsh*t support, a small but extremely professional business (I like "small but great" businesses, did I tell you that already?) that is called... wait for it (rolling drums)... Lithium Hosting.

All of my web data, all of my domains, simply everything of the stack is hosted, registered... etc with them, and I really have absolutely nothing to complain about, moreover, I have never had the experience I had with LI with any other support team ever in my life before - wow, how nice does it feel that I can honestly say that without any hesitation or doubt!

So guys, if you're looking for your best web hosting (or domain registrar... etc) experience ever, I can only recommend connecting with Lithium Hosting, so go ahead and create your account. Just don't forget to come back here often, and as soon as my webhosting business starts to pick up, to transition to me. :)

p.s.: do I get a referral bonus if you join? Sure I do, but why would you not want to help me with that, right? :) Thanks!

Simple things: how to center horizontally Glyphicons using Twitter Bootstrap

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:24:00 +0000

One of my simplest answers is performing best on StackOverflow.com, would you believe it? It's a simple question: How do I center Glyphicons horizontally using Twitter Bootstrap? Here is my answer to it:

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<span class="text-center">
    <i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-5x></i>
</span>

That's it, super simple, isn't it?

Source: webeno's answer to horizontally centering glyphicons in Twitter Bootstrap on StackOverflow.com.

MAC US Wi-Fi card doesn't support channel 12

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 11 May 2015 18:49:00 +0000

At one stage in my home network admin guru self exploration ride, I wanted to use channel 12 on my router, as somewhere I read it's best to use a channel that isn't overcrowded (since then I learned it isn't all that simple as just picking a channel that no other router around me uses, but a little more than that like overlapping wifi channels, and ways to avoid them [recommended read!]). So I set my router to channel 12 and was happy to acknowledge my (temporary) success. Shortly after that, my wife started to complain that she sometimes loses connection, and cannot get it back only after a couple of tries, potentially a restart or not even (well, the first few symptoms I realized are unfortunately quite common issues with an MBA, but that's a wholly different story). It disconnected so often, that I started to work on fixing it somehow, even though I had no idea what the issue could be. Finally I found it: apparently a lot depends on the Wi-Fi card used in the device; although it has been bought in Europe, it's card was a US one, which does not support channel 12. To find out the locale of your Wi-Fi card, you just have to click the Apple logo on any OSX based computer / laptop, then choose 'About This Mac', and click 'System Report...'. In the new window that opens, click 'Wi-Fi' under the 'Network' folder. Below 'Interfaces:' you'll find your card information, among others its Locale, and (recently) a section called 'Supported Channels'.

WordPress: disable password reset

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:13:00 +0000

So you would like to take full control of your WordPress blog's / website's user management, and thus want to disable the password reset function (maybe you only want to allow specific users to access it), and thought it's just one simple function in your functions.php file, and that's it?

Well, it turns out it's a little more than that, otherwise you'll miss the important bits and pieces, and will end up keeping a backdoor open.

So let me share with you the full code that is needed to ensure password reset is disabled completely in your WordPress blog or website:

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add_filter ( 'allow_password_reset', 'disable_password_reset' );
function disable_password_reset() { 
 return false; 
}

add_action ( 'login_head', 'remove_password_reset' );
function remove_password_reset() { 
 add_filter( 'gettext', 'remove_password_reset_text' ); 
}

function remove_password_reset_text ( $text ) { 
 if ( $text == 'Lost your password?' ) { 
  $text = ''; 
 } 
 return $text; 
}

add_filter ( 'login_errors', 'remove_password_reset_text_in');
function remove_password_reset_text_in ( $text ) { 
 return str_replace( 'Lost your password</a>?', '</a>', $text ); 
}

Official webeno hosting packages are about to be born!

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:33:00 +0000

As you can see from the title, I have been providing some level of web hosting already, but mostly using my own hosting account to host websites that I fully managed for others. Recently I decided to make a business of it, so watch out for announcements in the upcoming month, as soon I'll be out with a couple of packages you can pick from to help you even more with your web sire related endeavours.

Follow this blog to know more, or ContactMe directly.

Happy holidays! See you in 2015!

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:03:00 +0000

I know I haven't posted for long, but I have been extremely busy lately, and now I'm just enjoying the calm, so all I wanted to say here and now is happy holidays! :)

See you in 2015!

New website launch: N Jamal Design (njamaldesign.com)

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 06:40:00 +0000

Here it is, the website that I've been working on lately: njamaldesign.com. Design credits are 99.99% Nurain's, the photographer who asked me to do the web portion, I really only gave a few minor suggestions. ;)

Calculate / limit lines in textarea

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:53:00 +0000

I had to answer and interesting question on StackOverflow (SO): Can can you limit (well, first of all calculate, of course) the number of lines in a textarea?

Good question! One would say, maybe it isn't even possible. Well, it turns out, it's not only possible, but there are a few good ways of doing it. Here are the answers (watch out, one of them, though not the accepted one, has been posted by someone familiar): Max lines textarea.

No sound in Chrome for YouTube video

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:41:00 +0000

The other day I experienced an odd issue: there was no sound coming out of Google Chrome when I was trying to play a YouTube video.

I found this Google Support Forum thread about it; it may help you if you encounter a similar situation: No video, only audio in web video using Chrome browser.

The best answer says you may resolve the YouTube no sound issue in Chrome by disabling hardware acceleration. However this message within the same thread suggests that you may have 2 plugins enabled in Chrome; disabling one will get you the sound back on YouTube using Google Chrome. I think latter one was my issue, though it happened some time back, so not sure.

Give both a try and see if it resolves the problem for you. Good luck!

7vége az ég alatt 4. - 7vegeazegalatt.com 2014 ready!

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:15:00 +0000

I just finished the now very (extremely, even) minimalist "release" of 7vegeazegalatt.com, the website I created for the festival we're having every year at summer, organised by my bro's and myself; don't forget to check out the Archives for earlier versions of this yearly changing website. ;) http://www.7vegeazegalatt.com

SOLVED! iOS 7 (iPhone 4S) Reminders only syncing when editing

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:00:00 +0000

This time I have something for you that would be more practical in your everyday life, provided you have an iPhone of course. You may have experienced this too, but I realized that if I applied changes to my Reminder entries on my iMac (has to be OS X 10.7.2 or later), it only got synced on my iPhone 4S with iOS 7 once I started editing one of the entries there. What happened in this case was that my current editing got ignored, and the changes I applied on my iMac took over. This was very annoying and I have looked everywhere on the net but found no real solution.

One day I just tried something, and it appears it did the trick: when you open your Calendar on your iPhone with iOS 7, it immediately starts syncing, but it turns out it is not only syncing the calendar, but does it for iCloud as a whole, thus including Reminders too. Totally unaware of this and so without any specific attempt to solve the issue, I opened my calendar right after I changed a Reminder entry on my iMac, then I opened Reminders and, voilà, there they are, all my Reminder entries were updated on my iPhone 4S!

Hope this helps someone.

Calculating colour contrast from hex colour code (php, javascript)

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sun, 18 May 2014 09:35:00 +0000

This time I have a nice little snippet to offer you: there is an easy way of calculating contrast from hex colour codes. I needed this on one of my web apps where I wanted to display the background of certain buttons in one colour and wanted the app to automatically calculate if I should set black or white as foreground colour for the button so it's easy to read.

It is explained very nicely in the following article: Calculating Color Contrast.

Hope you'll like it and make good use of it, just like I did. ;)

New, temporary design for webeno - webdesign, webhosting

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:16:00 +0000

I decided to apply a little facelift to my blog as the previous one looked really outdated. I will move this blog (sooner or later) into a different domain, but until then, I just wanted it to look a little nicer (to my view at least). I may still change my mind, so come back later for more... ;)

What do VocalEyes, Yii, and StackOverflow have in common?

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:46:00 +0000

Well, me! :) Right now I spend most of my free time trying to help out an amazing team at VocalEyes, a community voting online app, working with Yii, the framework this one is built with, and the rest of the remaining little time I have in a day I am doing my best to answer questions on StackOverflow (link to my profile), a well known "question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers". So what else could I write about...?

Add a copyright notice to text copied on your website or blog

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:03:00 +0000

Here's a quite smart trick for today: Add a Copyright Notice to Copied Text.

What it does is that when someone copies text from your blog or website, this script ensures that once the text is pasted, it adds the URL of your post (on a blog) or page (on a website for example) and a copyright notice to the end of the pasted text. How awesome is that, right? :)

Transferwise pay button

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:14:00 +0000

I created a new button on this blog for donations. Scroll all the way to the bottom, you will find it in the right hand side pane: find the Donate button on this blog. If you're already there, why not click it and send me something, of course, if you like the information you're getting here. ;)

Happy holidays! :)

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:31:00 +0000

I'm already feeling the holiday vibe, so can't concentrate on writing up a post right now that would be more helpful than this one, so let me just wish you all the very best for the holidays! ;)

Widosub.com redesigned

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:43:00 +0000

This is just a quick one, again, on that, if you haven't realized until now, I redesigned widosub's website, widosub.com'. Enjoy! ;)

Get rid if annoying captcha!

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:52:00 +0000

If you followed this blog for a long time, you might have seen my post about introducing reCAPTCHA (Added reCAPTCHA to webeno contact forms). Let me tell you something: you don't need any sort of captcha trick at all in order to prevent SPAM! And believe me when I tell you this as I have this new way setup and working perfectly, and have received 0 automated SPAM through my forms since its introduction!

Here is what I did:
First off, as always, I found the article for it: http://blog.horizonweb.co.uk/2007/07/how-to-stop-spam-bots-with-formmail-and.html.

Basically what you're doing is fooling the automated SPAM creating systems using your forms by creating a form input element that you hide from humans but the machine is going to think it's a field to be filled, so will put data in it. Now, as the human cannot see it, they cannot fill it, so naturally, if the field is filled, you can be sure it's a machine and so you can just reject those submissions and, voilà, you got rid of automated SPAM! ;)

Prevent streching images in galleria

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:29:00 +0000

Here's another quickie: if you're using galleria and your pictures get stretched by it (you may be using an unusual aspect ratio), here's how you can correct that error (assuming your 'galleria' is actually called 'galleria' and you want to have it 662px wide - obviously you can change these easily):

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<script>
$('#galleria').galleria({
height: 662,
max_scale_ratio: 1
});
</script>

Source: How to show the original image in galleria jquery library.

Prevent form reload (login, shopping cart... etc).

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:56:00 +0000

Today I was looking through my draft posts and saw this one about preventing form reload, and this is the note I took at the time: "set session variable to empty at form load, set it to something at successful submit, if session variable set when submit clicked, throw error" - well, yes, that was the first thought about it I found on the net, however, after I continued to look, I found that there is a better, more efficient way to do this: the so called Post-Redirect-Get (PRG) method.

You'll find plenty of articles about it, but let me provide you with a very brief summary, a practical implementation of PRG:
1. You collect the user input on your website and send it to the server using the POST method, then do various things with it on server side depending on the type of form (ie. validate login info, update database with user input...etc).
2. Here on the server side, towards the end of your script, you setup a redirect to go to a different page and add attributes to the URL specified in the redirect, attributes that can later on be read using GET (ie. .../yourpage?attribute=1).
3. On the page where you redirected in point #2, use the GET method to read the attribute specified, something around the lines of...:
"if ($_GET['attribute'] == 1) { #do_something }" (assuming you use PHP, but other programming languages have their equivalents too, I'm sure).

Yes, it is that simple! Hope I'm helping someone with this ;)

EDITED: although I still believe PRG is the cleanest solution for this, let me still provide you with a practical solution of the other one, suppose you don't want to revamp your complicated form script. Simply set a session variable's value to some randomly generated meaningless token, add this as the value of a hidden input in your form, then after submitting, when you check for things that have been posted on the next page (or the section of the same page where you do these stuff) to decide what to do next, check first if the session variable's value is the same as the hidden input's. If it is, you can empty the session variable, else throw an error or redirect to whatever script you activate when no change was applied.

The logic behind this is that if you do your first post, the session variable will be the same as the hidden input's, and with the above check, in this case, you'd then empty the session variable. At this stage, you have a still existing hidden input post value, which is that meaningless token, but your session is already empty. This means that the above check will fail when you reload, as while your post values are kept, the session won't be the same anymore. At a new, valid form request however, the session variable's value will be reset to the token, so the request can go through as expected.

Mentions in Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:11:00 +0000

Guess what, you can do this too in Blogger, not only in facebook: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2884006&iph=2893014.

Is it so obvious that I'm in holiday mode right now...? :)

Dynamic copyright notice to always display the current year

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:53:00 +0000

Another quickie, but it will be very helpful in making sure you won't seem to have forgotten about another important detail: Always Display the Current Year in your © Copyright Notice.

Getting rid of flashing white page on your website

noreply@blogger.com (webeno) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:00 +0000

Today it's going to be a quick one, and I actually don't have a link this time, I just remember I had to deal with a flashing white page appearing for a split second on a black background website that obviously didn't look very good. Reading through a couple of articles, I learned that the cause of the issue is that I have used javascript on my website but the script itself was in the header. This could be anything, even your Google Analytics code. The solution: put your javascript code into the footer section (towards the end of your page)! Easy-peasy! Have fun! ;)