DIY Girls Princess Bedroom Makeover and Playroom Makeover
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…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 7
By now in out Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API journey, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a Wordpress API using axios and…
Adding cordova to an existing vue app
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…
service-oriented architecture and frameworks – SOA frameworks
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…
Install php7 on centos7
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…
Mysql query to set a featured image on all wordpress posts without a featured image set
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: INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id,meta_key,meta_value)…
Osx console emulators
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…
Find new music with recommendations based on your itunes library
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…
How to delete messages history in osx iMessage
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…
How to fix cannot verify login with facetime
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…
How to fix itunes metadata in itunes match
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…
Show library folder in finder go menu
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…
Show home library folder by default
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…
How I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a macbook air 2012
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…
Access shared itunes library from ipad or iphone
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…
Disable reportcrash osx using launchctl – disable crash popups
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…
Viewing iphoto photo album on apple tv
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…
Fix missing or incorrect itunes song data with songgenie
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…
Force itunes to re-scan your library
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…
Fix missing album and song covers in itunes with coverscout
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…
Ripping a dvd to play on an ipad / iphone / appletv / ipod touch
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…
My first experience with linux – 1998 – tomsrtbt
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…
Sharing your itunes library over local network
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…
Quick roundup of my mac posts
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…
Transferring your itunes library from a windows box to a mac
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…
How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes
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…
Songbird 1.0 released – and I got an advanced copy =)
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…
Media players.
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…
Gigs inside your itunes
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.…