Since moving to our new house we have been doing a number of DIY jobs, including this makeover of our little girls bedroom, and turning the spare room into a permanent playroom so that she had somewhere to draw, play and read. Her upcoming 4th birthday was the perfect excuse Read more…
By now, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a WordPress API using axios and can display the data.The aim of this series, however is to build an app and get it on the app stores. To achieve this, we are going to use cordova. Cordova Read more…
It turns out that adding cordova to an existing vue app is pretty easy – if only I’d known this before trying at least 10 different ways: First, make sure your environment is setup npm install -g cordovanpm install -g @vue/cli clone your existing repo and cd to its folder Read more…
A comparison of service-oriented architecture and frameworks IntroductionPapazoglou, (2003) organised SOA in four architectural layers: Service Foundations, Service Composition, Service Management and Service Engineering and outlined a host of technologies that could be utilised when developing and deploying an SOA system to overcome the challenges of a distributed enterprise system, Read more…
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 – Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to have a couple or yum repo’s enabled for this to work properly: webtactic and epel rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh Read more…
If you want to set a featured image on all wordpress posts that dont already have a featured image set, then this mysql query can help: # please note that this query will fail; you have to replace ‘id_of_image_from_upload_table’ with the id of the image you uploaded. To find that Read more…
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment System [ NES ] Super Nintendo Entertainment System [ SNES ] Nintendo 64 playstation psx link to another post on Read more…
Beathound.com is a cool service that will send you recommendations on what music is missing from your collection. it analyses your itunes xml file and emails you recommendations based on the artists and albums that you have in your collection. if it finds new releases by artists that you already Read more…
This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick Read more…
When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…
Itunes match is excellent. it scans your library, and matches the songs it knows against apples massive database. once thats done you can then download high quality DRM free versions of the matched tracks you can also listen to your entire library on your iphone, ipad and appletv but if Read more…
This post will show you how to see the home library folder ~/Library in the ‘go’ menu in finder. if you click on the go menu while holding alt, then you will see the library folder. if you let go alt, then the library folder goes away!
In osx lion and mountain lion the ~/Library folder is hidden. this terminal command will un-hide it for you. open terminal type chflags nohidden ~/Library you will now be able to see your ~/Library folder in finder
I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as I installed mountain lion I instantly noticed that the battery life was terrible. Instead of 8-9 hours I was getting Read more…
This will show you how to use itunes home sharing to view and play your entire itunes library from your mac or pc on your ipad or iphone in your mac or pc turn on ‘home sharing’ itunes > preferences > sharing turn on ‘share my itunes library on my Read more…
Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes! How to disable reportcrash osx launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting: launchctl unload Read more…
Viewing iphoto photo album on apple tv : This will show you how to view an iphoto photo album on apple tv2. This also works with Yosemite and El-Capitan with the new ‘photos’ app. To view photos on the Apple TV, you need to have Home Sharing turned on in Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them in iTunes. If you have used an external program to change data and you don’t want to have to play Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the Read more…
Ripping a dvd to play on an ipad / iphone / appletv / ipod touch this will show you how to turn your dvd movie into a playable file for an ipad, apple tv2, ipod touch or iphone download and install handbreak open up handbreak insert your dvd in handbreak Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
this one will show you how to share your itunes library over a network [a local network, like your home wifi network =] first thing: authorise all your machines with the same itunes store account. then: open itunes on the machine where your library is [ill call it the main Read more…
This is just a quick roundup of some of my mac posts. how to transfer your itunes library from an xp or vista pc to a mac this one is for moving your itunes library from a pc with xp, vista, windows 7, windows 2000, or anything else that itunes Read more…
This one is simple. copy it across. intact. it just works. a few things to do before you copy it across though – consolodate it so that all the music is in the itunes folder. you might want to let itunes sort all the songs into folders – just goto Read more…
How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes. new method: Select a track in itunes. Right click > get info > options > set “media kind” to “audiobook”. The selected track is now an audiobook! How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes the old way I was looking Read more…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…