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Random full screen background image in your website

If you would like to get a random image for your websites's background every time you load a page this mini tutorial is for you. I'm assuming you're using the full screen background image method explained in this post first: Full screen background image in your wordpress website (or any website). If you aren't you'll need to implement it first so go ahead an read the post. Glad you're back, now lets get to business. We're going to use a rotator script by Dan Benjamin, it is explained in a [...]

Full screen background image in your WordPress website

This can be applied to any website or CMS if you place the code in the right places but for now we're going to learn hot to have a full screen background image in a WordPress website. If you're not comfortable editing some of your theme's code you should download this great plugin that will do all the work for you: Simple Full Screen Background Image. However, it is best to install as fewer plugins as posible and using this method is very easy. There are lots of ways to accomplish this, [...]
Keep MAMP running in the background at all times

Keep MAMP running in the background at all times

If you have a local production environment with MAMP you know how annoying is to start MAMP every time, type your password and have it running as another open application with a window and dock icon. To solve this you can make a little script that will open MAMP each time you log on to your account without requiring a password and keep it running invisible in the background. 1.- First open the Keychain Access application that is found in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. 2.- [...]

WordPress, let your readers save posts as PDF files

Some times saving an article as a PDF comes pretty useful, specially when doing research or saving reference documentation or tutorials. If you're running a WordPress website and want to let your readers save your posts as PDF files you'll find this little tutorial pretty useful. First an example: if you scroll all the way down to the end of this post you'll find a "SAVE THIS POST AS PDF" link, click it and this article will be downloaded as PDF for you. Thats exactly what we're going to achieve [...]

Highlighting text in Evernote for Mac

This is one of those obvious features that you just can't believe isn't included in a productivity app as powerful and popular as Evernote: highlighting text. Yup, the feature is missing, in the Mac app at least since the iOS apps have a highlighting tool in the rich text editor. I'm sure (hope) the highlighting tool will be coming to the Mac in a future update, but in the meantime how can we highlight text? Well I have a little trick for you that uses OS X's native fonts palette. Just select [...]
My favorite Apps, February 2013

My favorite Apps, February 2013

My favorite apps this month. Lots of new discoveries, Launch Center Pro is a gem and EverClip makes sending content to Evernote very fast and simple. KitCam is the new addition to my photography tools, very cool and fun to use, a little slow though. MindNode makes a come back since I'm trying to work my thoughts with mind maps again. All the images underneath were composed using Screenshot.         [...]
Launch Center Pro, save a website as a PDF in your iPhone

Launch Center Pro, save a website as a PDF in your iPhone

I recently started playing with a great app called Launch Center Pro for iPhone, basically the app lets you create shortcuts for your other apps and workflows using iOS URL schemes. A quick Google search will let you read a bunch of reviews of the app and what these iOS URL schemes are. Before you keep reading buy the app, and have some fun playing with it. Now that you're a Launch Center Pro user I want to share with you a shortcut I made for saving websites as PDFs within your iPhone using [...]

Locked out of your website by Wordfence, how to solve it

So you´re using the Wordfence plugin to secure your WordPress website and suddenly you were locked out. Probably you made the same mistake as I did and set the security level in the plugin options to "Level 4: Lockdown", the name should be a warning but I selected level 4. Unlocking your website is easy as long as you have access to the files (via FTP for example) and to the database (PHPMyAdmin in my case). 1.- Change the name of the Wordfence directory First access your plugins directory [...]

Personal wiki on your Mac…

I want to share with you my knowledge base system. I need one because there's a lot of new information every day about the topics I care about (web development, design, Mac, iOS...). For a long time I searched for a good tool to store all my links, notes and micro tutorials I write for myself. Usually for my notes I use nvALT synced with Elements for iPad/iPhone over Dropbox, this is a great combo but lacks the organic order and power of a wiki. So I started using a personal wiki and I want to share [...]

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