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WordPress Security

This is a WordPress Security mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years10 months ago
Iphone and ipad

How to lock focus on iPhone camera

This post will show you how to lock the auto-focus on your iPhone camera (or your iPad camera). The camera is great, and you can get to the camera in an instant, even from the lock-screen so you never have to miss a potential photograph. But sometimes the autofocus goes Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years7 years ago
Walking around Glasgow

Milngavie to Partick

Woke up this morning and had bramley apple and pork sausages and freshly ground coffee. We decided that we were going to walk from milngavie to partick along the kelvin walkway so that we could complete the bit we havent done yet which meant getting the train from partick to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years7 years ago
Osx

Shutdown sleep lock screen keyboard shortcuts mac osx

This post lists all the shutdown / sleep / lock screen keyboard shortcuts mac osx that I have found on my macbook air. (I haven’t discovered the combos myself – I just run across them on the ‘net and sometimes they stick, these are the keyboard shortcuts I’ve learned) 1) Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years6 years ago
Walking around Glasgow

Kelvin Walkway

Last weekend we walked along the Kelvin Walkway, from the riverside museum, through kelvingrove park, along the river kelvin up to the fourth and clyde canal at Lock 27. 5.5 miles in total, it was a beautiful, sunny day.

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years4 years ago
Security

Best practice for mac security

This post is a collection of things to form a best practice for mac security. 1) enable password after sleep or screensaver. settings > security > require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver. This will stop anyone who sneaks up on your machine when your not there from using Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Osx

Application can€™t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer osx mountain lion

Application can€™t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer: On mac osx, if you download an application that isnt from the app store, or from an arbitrary list that apple has put together, then you will get an error when you try to run that app. the error Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to enable caps lock on an iphone or an ipad

This post will show you how to enable the setting for capslock on an iphone or an ipad and it will show you how to turn capslock on and off once the setting is enabled. the setting for capslock is disabled by default, so you have to turn it on Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Restore a closed tab in safari on ipad

How to restore a closed tab in safari on the ipad simply press and hold the + icon that you use to open a new tab. you will see a drop down menu with your recently closed tabs in it.

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Iphone and ipad

IPhone camera zoom

This page will show you how to zoom in with your iPhone camera when you take photos. You will also find out how to view the zoom bar so that you can zoom in and out using that. Every iPhone and iPad that have a camera have the same feature. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years2 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen

Enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen instructions for ios11 instructions for ios10 instructions for ios7 instructions for ios5.1 and ios6 instructions for pre ios5 How to enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen in ios11. In iOS 11 the camera is part of your control center – to show Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years10 months ago
Mission control

Adding virtual desktops in mac mission control

Adding virtual desktops in mac osx This is a short blog post about adding virtual desktops in mac osx – virtual desktops are a cool feature that let you have lots of ‘fake’ monitors that you can use to organise your programs, and you can access them with a mouse Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years2 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Ipad side switch screen rotating lock

iPad side switch screen rotating lock. One of the things that I find frustrating when reading on my iPad is the screen orientation reacting to the orientation of the iPad. When you rotate your iPad the screen tries to change to keep the screen content vertical. It can be frustrating Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Finder

Finder hints – resize column view

This one is good if you use the finder ‘column view’ if you find the file names always being truncated then you can resize column view width. you can do it a few different ways 1 ) drag the || icon at the bottom of the column 2 ) right Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

The best jailbreak apps for iphone

jailbreaking your iphone isnt to everyones liking. but if it is then here are my recomendations for the best jailbreak apps to get: mywi it turns your iphone into a mobile wifi router. excellent if you have a laptop or the like and need some access when you are out Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Itunes

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 the same itunes store account. then: open itunes on the machine where your library is [ill call it the main Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years7 years ago
Iphone and ipad

IPhone stop screen rotating with orientation lock

This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years3 years ago
Hardware hacking

Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod

I have a little hp mini 210 that I decided to mount an external wifi antenna on. here are some pics of the Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod and some little descriptions to go with it. The main aim of the mod was to get an rp-sma connector Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years5 years ago
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