After having wireless issues with my old Mac Book Pro (2006) I decided to get an Airport Express to see if that would solve my problems. My Mac Book pro has had problems connecting to my BTHome-Hub (first gen white one), I then order a new HomeHub 3 the black one to see if that would make any difference. It worked for all of ten minutes about 20 foot away from the wireless router. Even …
MacBook Pro and BT Home Hub 1.0 Wireless issues
I have had a running problem with my MacBook Pro (2006) not connecting to my wifi for months now. It always connected fine until I think BT either reset the hub of it reset itself. Originally I had renamed my wireless connection and set the channel manually, when it reset itself to the factory settings the macbook pro wouldn’t connected at all, it did try but no usable connection was available. My iPad, iPhone and …
TimThumb Exploit
Update: all seems to be fine now, we were affected by the TimThumb exploit which affected thousands of wordpress blogs. You can find out more about it here and what to do to fix it or prevent it from happening to you. Download the update to the TimThumb.php it goes in your theme’s root folder, and is sometimes called just thumbs.php http://www.webrevised.com/130-timthumb-php-vulnerability-thousands-of-templates-affected/
Nootes for Mac, replace your stickies
Found this great little app on the Mac app store, if you use stickies then you will find this a great update. You can create, print and email your nootes you can also password protect any of the nootes you create. I have already switched my Stickies to Nootes. Open Nootes in the Mac app Store Or visit there site for more apps, although at the time of writing I couldn’t actually find Nootes …
Moleskin Luggage Tags
If you like the design and style of the Moleskin Notebooks why not travel in style too with the luggage tags www.moleskineus.com
NAS for Macs, all you need to know
Was just thinking about my back up procedures for my iMac and should I get a nas system up a running. Searching the web came up with a very helpful blog describing just what you need and how to do it. macsynology.wordpress.com
Paper iPad app
As soon as Paper came out I purchased it for my iPad, it doesn’t have everything I need like Brushes or Penultimate does but it has a great water brush. Last weekend we went to see David Hockneys exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, he had these large prints in one room from work he had created on an iPad, so when we got back found out he had used an app called Brushes. …
Fantastical – calendar app for mac
Fantastical is great app for your mac, it’s a calendar app that works out from your menu bar. You can add and edit calendars items straight from the menu bar. It also works out what your trying to add as you type, so typing the day and time and name of event all gets added automatically. This has for me been a game changer, you can quickly add events using it’s natural language engine, …
Updating PHP for Latest WordPress on 1and1 account
I have numerous blogs running WordPress and with the latest release it stated I needed to be running PHP5.0 or better and my current dedicated server was running 4.99, or at least that’s what WordPress was telling me when trying to update. WordPress actually wouldn’t update until I had a newer version of PHP running. So here is what I had to do to get the latest version of WordPress to self update to 3.2.1. …
Camera + – info-graphic
This is a great info-graphic relating to the success of the iPhone app Camera +. I use this app for all my photos from my iPhone4 and recently had a canvas done of all the images taken on a recent holiday. taptaptap.com