Christmas Theme: Moving RSS & Mail Icons

Friday: January 09, 2009    
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Christmas ThemeI recently changed my WordPress theme to a free theme called WordPress Christmas v1.1, designed by the benevolent and creative folks at InstantShift.com. You might be thinking … hmm … doesn’t look too Christmas-like. Yes with some basic Photoshop & CSS skills it was easy to change the design to make it work for me. With a little skill & help from me … you can too.

This little tutorial will help you change the images used for the RSS icon & the Mail icon and their position on your page. It’s up to you whether you work with the file live. It’s not brain surgery, but as always … back up any files you may alter before you start.

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Update: QuicKeys X 3.2

Wednesday: October 07, 2007    
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Startly Technologies has released an update to its venerable macro utility QuicKeys X. With this upgrade comes new features and OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility. It’s a free update for QuicKeys X 3.x users.

I’ve use this automation utility since Mac OS 7. It’s sounds cliché, but I don’t know how I’d get along without it. If you are not a programmer or fluent in AppleScript, or using Apple Automator … or even if you are … QuicKeys can help you automate repetitive tasks. Something that would normally require … five … six … twenty or more steps can be turned into a simple one step shortcut. Automate anything from launching programs, mounting servers, selecting menus, and running UNIX commands to typing text or shutting down your Classic environment or your computer all with a single key combination.

If you own an earlier version of QuicKeys the upgrade pricing is:

  • Upgrade from v2.x $29.95
  • Upgrade from v1.5 $39.95
  • Upgrade from v1.0 $49.95

If you’d like to learn more about QuicKeys or take it for a ”test drive” visit the Startly website. It’s certainly worth a look.

The new { go2jo.com }

Saturday: October 07, 2007    
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go2jo

Yes it is true. It’s been a while since I posted last. But isn’t that nature of blogging? Or is it the nature of my laziness? I’m going with … nature of blogging. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! :)

I guess I could say ‘Oh … I wasn’t doing anything because my hands hurt.’ Or … the steroids they put me on to decrease the inflammation in my hands, which it did, had me very depressed, which I was. Yeah two weeks of tapering steroids will do that to you. And to me too. Oh yeah. THANKS Harriet for correcting my perceived dosage plan. I’m glad you read my little pill calendar/chart. The steroids did help. Now that I’m off the steroids, the pain is back. :( Not as bad, but I’m still having ‘issues’ with picking up objects, or grasping. Yippy! Continue Reading > > >

What to do with a new cat.

Saturday: October 07, 2007    
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As you may or may not know, Apple has a new cat waiting to pounce on us all. Leopard (a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.5) arrives at your local Apple store on Friday October 26th at 6:00 PM. Apple stores will be open until Midnight that night.

This new cat will be sporting some new spots …. over 300 of them. These new feature will cost you $129.00 US. Or if you bought a new Mac on or After October 1, 2007 you can get a free upgrade disk for $9.95. The cost of shipping.

System requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 are:
Intel Mac, Power PC G5 or a Power PC G4 with an 867MHz processor or higher, 512MB RAM and a DVD drive for installation.

As I tell all my clients when a new Mac OS is ready to be released … wait. If your computer use is mission critical, then don’t be an early adopter. As always, there will be applications that will “blow up” in a new OS … and an update can be weeks to months away. If you must be bleeding edge, load the new OS on a separate HD & ‘play’ with it. Add in a few of the apps you need. See how that goes. But whatever you do … don’t just blithely do an install on top of you older version of OS X. You are just begging for trouble!

You may have heard this a billion times, but here it goes once again. Back up your computer before doing any major install. If you have a second internal drive or an external hard drive use a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner and clone (make a copy) your current HD to an image file on your second drive. Or if the drive is empty just create a “bootable clone.” This way if disaster strikes while upgrading, you can boot from the clone & get back to work restoring the original drive.

I’m sure I’ll be writing more as time goes on. But I’ve already had two clients ask about the new OS. Apple had made the announcement today, but also did a supporting mailing to their mailing list.

So if you plan to be bleeding edge … back up … and be prepared. Oh… and don’t forget the virtual band-aids. Ouch!

To Hack Or Not To Hack

Wednesday: September 07, 2007    
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TurboSim

I’ve been back with T-mobile for almost a month now. I’m a happy camper once again. Who wouldn’t be with an employee plan, compliments of my partner Chris and T-mobiles Domestic Partner benefits. My iPhone has been lying fallow for that long too. I did bring it back to NJ with me, for my Mom’s surprise 80th birthday party. But it was odd to pack the iPhone, which I loaded with pictures to show all my long lost relatives moments of their lives … and my Motorola Product(Red) SLVR. I knew there would be much “shock and awe” from the iPhone. Most of them never saw the mythical iPhone in person before. But most of them were amazed that I could have these old picture on such a newfangled device. I got a lot of … “how did you do that?” Continue Reading > > >

My So-Called Life WITH iPhone • Day 1

Friday: July 07, 2007    
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Joe With iPhoneOkay. It only took seven days for me to break down & bite the silverish bullet that is the iPhone. I ranted. I raved. I kvetched. Then I broke down and bought one. Told you I was only human!

Dale from Crow’s Nest has that ‘extra’ one still kicking around … and I convinced myself … with a little help from Edie. She’s the office manager at the Seattle office. It had gotten to the point where so many people were asking me how to do ‘something’ on the iPhone that I figured it was ‘my duty’ as an informed Apple consultant to have one of these babies to call my own. Of course I made this purchase solely in the name of research. Yeah research. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

So yes …. Mr eMac Consulting now HAS an iPhone. Woo hoo! :)

Now that I have one let the research begin!